My boss is a Difficult Person. HR has a thick folder of complaints on her; she's driven several people to quit; every few years they send her to a how-to-be-nice class and she's better for a couple weeks. Why can't her superiors say, look, your behavior is causing us problems and costing us good people; get some therapy, we'll pay for it; work it out or hand in your resignation?
In brief, why is it impossible to do anything about toxic bosses?
I wish I knew. One of my old bosses was pretty high up in the organization. He fired an executive because the guy was bat-shit crazy--kept driving a lot of employees away and scaring away the board of trustees. So my boss told him to hit the road. Fired Guy appealed to my bosses' boss who actually gave him a second chance. On the basis that he get counseling and quit making the organization bleed good people.
I often wonder if it's worth more to a company to lose a lot of good low-level employees than to fire one incompetent executive. Because that wasn't the first time I saw something like that happen. My next boss had serious competency issues and he's still there, after causing a number of people to jump ship.
I just don't get it.
Huh, breaking news on MSNBC.com says Consumer Reports is retracting their infant car seat study. I wish they'd get the story up so I knew why.
Dude, you told me about
his feetsies. That's holding back?
Hostile-Aggressives, Complainers, Silent and Unresponsives, Super-Agreeables, Know-It-All Experts, Negativists and Indecisives
I'm a bit of an Unresponsive, a bit Negativist, and can be slandered by the completely wrong label of Know-it-All now and then. I used to have a coworker I called the Smarm King, who was what happens when Super-Agreeables have really truly bought into the corporate cult.
And then, there was my boss, the one who did things like disappear for three days without telling anybody where he would be, and then blame me for not intuiting his location when he returned. Good times, good times.
I told you that
in private! You're the one plastering it over the internet and making me look crazy. Perfectly sane devotion, I'm telling you.
You'll understand once you see it. And then I will laugh at you.
Okay, fine, I'll stop
mentioning that you mentioned it, because god knows you must have plenty of blackmail material in our ICQ history.
Grey's Anatomy cast at the Golden Globes
Clearly, Chandra Wilson heard everyone's comments earlier this month about the fugly purple silk pajamas and brought her A game Monday night.
Bwah! The shrift & Dana whitefont show is of the Laff!
Hostile-Aggressives, Complainers, Silent and Unresponsives, Super-Agreeables, Know-It-All Experts, Negativists and Indecisives
I think I'm all of those. Although that just might make me Indecisive.
But I'm not Indecisive. I'm Decisive. Just with caveats. And research.
Skipping to the end to thank Nora for the Audubon linky. After you first mentioned the site, I want about creating my own wallet card...Ah well...now I have one for the wallet and one for magneting to the fridge.
ION, Last night, I listed 50 books on Amazon Marketplace and, since 1am I've sold 10% of them. Yay! I make a bit o dough and the books go to people who might actually use them...plus, not shifting them from spot to spot in my house anymore. A world of excellent.
Grey's Anatomy cast at the Golden Globes
Gee, Isaiah Washington's not there. Wonder why?
