Message #3354

[lioness70]

I wasn't around to see the boss from hell get his, but at least it happened.



This guy was a textbook example of bad managing, straight out of Joan Lloyd's "Your life isn't more impotrant than mine" column this week.  He was the KING of sarcastic comments and condescending comments, and he knew how to time these things.  He was great at embarrassing staff members in front of other people from other departments.  He would never tell you how your performance was-then he'd drop the bomb in your performance review.  He was a master at twisting things around to make him look good and everyone else look like sh*t-especially in front of big bosses.  And since he had no life (he was never married and middle aged), he tried to make sure everyone else had no life.  He would make people call in regularly on their vacations.  He wanted to have control over doctor's appointments, picking kids up from school, and other such life necessities.



In truth, he was a very insecure man who was afraid he couldn't do the job which he was hired for (administration manager-all that is is overseeing everyone else's jobs, while everyone else does the work).  Hell, his job was easier than mine!  But instead of being nice about it, he turned into a bully.  He was a classic bully type, an insecure person reveling in power.



He did not like me at all from the day he got there (I was hired before he was), and he launched an all-out campaign to get rid of me, using the divide-and-conquer methods I described above.  Without going into details, things got so bad that I almost went out on doctor-ordered stress leave.  I'd already complained to HR about this destructive behavior, but they told me he was free to run things as he saw fit, and if I didn't like it, I could leave.  Well, I did just that a couple of days after that meeting.



A little over a year later, my husband (who became UPS account exec for that company after I left it) told me how half the company was fired in a wholesale company cleanout.  The big boss didn't like the way things were being run.  Imagine how pleased I was when I found out they got rid of boss form hell.  Like I said, I wasn't around to see it, but it only proves that BULLYING DOESN'T PAY.  No one is going to go out of their way for you if you don't show them any respect.  No one was there for him to put in a good word for him when the ax fell.  Why would they?