my superior is a fucking moron

[4.cerealz]

i came to work as an economics intern. i realise that the rest of the world believes that intern is just latin for "pithy slave bitch who will do whatever the fuck i tell them to," but i have more respect for myself. no, i won't go fetch coffee. no, i'm not going to play secretary for you. yes, i'll talk down to you if you say "good girl" after every completed task.

my job changed a couple months ago because a recently-fired accountant stole money from the company AND fudged production numbers by hundreds of thousands of percent off (you would think SOME dumb ass in the accounting department would have fucking noticed, but apparently everyone here is a goddamned monkey without the forethought to question whether numbers look right or not).

an affirmative answer to the question "do you know anything about accounting??" turned into me creating and setting up an entirely new accounting system that allows for business analytics and product assemblies. i have been working on this project for two months. they decided to pay me "out of the goodness of their hearts" - because paying an intern 12 bucks an hour is much cheaper than having to fork over millions to the government.

[4.cerealz]

of course, creating a new accounting system SHOULDN'T take 2 months. i created a new map of the chart of accounts and sent them to my superior, who in two weeks time could not find a spare moment to even look them over.

when i put the new accounts in the new system after being told to move forward, i had to erase all of the accounts because she was "unhappy" with my numbering system.

after the newly-numbered accounts went in, i was told to put in duplicate accounts that had been deleted in the VERY FIRST revision (guess she never opens her fucking emails) - when questioned "hey - if these duplicate accounts are different, wouldn't it stand to reason that they should be named differently?" my superior replied "oh, that's a good idea...."

inventory lists went in as specified by the factory manager, all 400-some records. yesterday, i was told that the assemblies (which i asked about) needed to be changed from stock items to assemblies (again, i asked about this before i even put them in). all of these records had to be erased and re-entered.

today the system is ready for launch. my boss will gleefully present the new system to the board and take all of the fucking credit for the project - after all, SHE'S the fucking hero for hiring an intern who actually gives a shit about her work.

at night i dream of stiffing her on my last day of internship where the owners will truly see just how incompetent she really is and fire her ass.

[True Blue]

My friend has an asshole of a boss too. Told him...

Next time your boss gets you to fetch, say, flat white no sugars...go get him soy and put two tsp of nutra-sweet in it...
After the first few times you "accidentally" get his order wrong, he"ll probably give up. LOL.

passive resistance.....i like it.................raze there are lessons here!

[True Blue]

4.C*....by-pass your immediate boss. (Can I call her Julia? It makes me feel better having other people complain about her). If the company has been victim to embezzlement, and it happened before your time, you are in the box seat. The board are going to be suspicious of every person in accounts, for some time, and Julia is under scrutiny. Hence she wants to make herself look good, and you are the makeover queen that airbrushes, and polishes her pearls for the Women's Weekly.
Liberty aside, it sounds like you are the project. So invent. Build an empire, while the organisation is in crisis. eg. "Julia, there's a lecturer at uni who consults, and who i would like to bring in for assitance" Suspiciously she will ask "what will it cost?" You say $150/hr and probably 6 rs consulting. She says not in budget, get back to it, slave. You say nothing. But you start to grumble around the watercooler, that Julia is being recalcitrant for some reason. You don't understand. A small cost of $900, with an outside consultant who specialises systems accounting, could save the coy thousands and reduce the risk of future embezzlement.

Two messages you want to spread. Julia is a self serving, incompetent, that may have something to hide, and that you have a solution to future proofing the coy. Pretty soon, someone will tap you on the shoulder and say "step into my office, lets talk"

[4.cerealz]

4.C*....by-pass your immediate boss. (Can I call her Julia? It makes me feel better having other people complain about her). If the company has been victim to embezzlement, and it happened before your time, you are in the box seat. The board are going to be suspicious of every person in accounts, for some time, and Julia is under scrutiny. Hence she wants to make herself look good, and you are the makeover queen that airbrushes, and polishes her pearls for the Women's Weekly.
Liberty aside, it sounds like you are the project. So invent. Build an empire, while the organisation is in crisis. eg. "Julia, there's a lecturer at uni who consults, and who i would like to bring in for assitance" Suspiciously she will ask "what will it cost?" You say $150/hr and probably 6 rs consulting. She says not in budget, get back to it, slave. You say nothing. But you start to grumble around the watercooler, that Julia is being recalcitrant for some reason. You don't understand. A small cost of $900, with an outside consultant who specialises systems accounting, could save the coy thousands and reduce the risk of future embezzlement.

Two messages you want to spread. Julia is a self serving, incompetent, that may have something to hide, and that you have a solution to future proofing the coy. Pretty soon, someone will tap you on the shoulder and say "step into my office, lets talk"

i have already taken the "oh, i don't want to talk behind anyone's back" attitude, and a couple of the owners have asked me to explain where i think some of the problems are. i maintained that there is a communication breakdown with "julia" and expanded upon some examples - not just mine - whereby showing that she's creating enmity in the office (which i'm certainly not the first nor the last calling her a bitch).

however, while they obviously appreciate my insight, they seem to think that "julia" is under a lot of stress and has a buttload to do. bottom line, our floor manager is far more incompetent than "julia," although he is genuinely stupid and doesn't do it on purpose or to stab anyone in the back like my superior does. in order for them to see "julia's" true incompetence, i have to figure out how to get rid of the floor manager. when people can no longer say that "julia" is bad but better than so-and-so, the nails will be in her coffin, and she will be the one hammering them in.

[True Blue]

the thing to remember is: office politics is a game. Everyone plays, but not everyone is good. Like anything, you get the full gamut. Huburous is always the the penultimate step before the fall. To be good at it you need to have support. Also you need excellent communication skills( these you have), next you need to be able to control your emotions (do you struggle with that?- do you let Julia know what you are feeling?) and the final ingredient is timing. Knowing when to play your cards, is more important than having good cards to play - sometimes.

[4.cerealz]

the thing to remember is: office politics is a game. Everyone plays, but not everyone is good. Like anything, you get the full gamut. Huburous is always the the penultimate step before the fall. To be good at it you need to have support. Also you need excellent communication skills( these you have), next you need to be able to control your emotions (do you struggle with that?- do you let Julia know what you are feeling?) and the final ingredient is timing. Knowing when to play your cards, is more important than having good cards to play - sometimes.

i honestly don't talk to "julia" if i can avoid it, and i can avoid it most of the time (if i don't have to speak with complete morons, i typically don't). i rarely express dissatisfaction with her work in front of her - in fact, the only time i did was this week, when she added duplicate accounts to the chart of accounts, and i had to go back through and change the new system. all i said to her was, "if these duplicate accounts are different, as you say they are, don't you think that they should have different names as to differentiate the accounts?"

her response: (hand to chin) "oh yeah, that would probably be a good idea...."

(idiotic bitch, right?)

she is under the false impression that she is like a mother figure to me, since my own mother was not there for me as a teenager/young adult. in addition to placing herself on a faux pedestal, which i allow her to believe, she also confides in me. i know what she thinks of every person in the office. i know who she's related to who got her the job. i know that if she doesn't get the raise she feels she deserves, she will go looking for other work. there is plenty to fuck her over with, i am just waiting for the golden opportunity - patience IS a virtue, and i can out-wait nearly any motherfucker on the planet just to screw a frigid self-serving bitch over.

[True Blue]

sounds like a plan.

[4.cerealz]

hate my boss. she's hopped up on too much caffeine every day its affecting her behaviourally. she talks and acts like shes on drugs. has a short fuse. zero patience. is stressed out all the time (which i reckon is caffeine-induced). abrupt. agressive. wired. SO DAMN INTOLERABLE!

first full-time job and im sitting next to a complete nutbag!

this sounds a lot like my superior. are you sure that we don't secretly work in the same office?

[Andeck]

My boss is an asshole. Every time he complains about me doing something wrong, that he could just as well have done himself anyways, I fantasize about snapping his neck, that bastard..

There also is this whore who is in charge of my shift, and I can't take a fucking piss without her running to the boss complaining.

I've been yelled at for going to the bathroom, I've been yelled at for listening to music wile doing inventory in the goddamn freezer, when there is no possible reason why anyone would need to talk to me, I've been yelled at for taking 2 minutes to eat a yogurt, and I've been yelled at for something SHE did wrong! Fuck, why the hell do I still work here? I've been working there for a year now, and I still get treated like the company bitch.