I love how you said he’d be feeling like shit after all that… absolutely, if that were me I would feel like the biggest gronk and that I wasn’t doing my job correctly
they always claim it's SUPER important and there is no other way and then they cave in immideatly never finding another solution, but just accepting that it takes an extra day. so it wasnt that important to begin with
The worst boss I ever had once gave me five different projects and an impossible deadline. I asked him which one had priority, and he told me "they all do." Many beers were drunk the day he got fired.
Bosses like this are why Employees have the CYOA Standard... (Cover Your Own A**). because you know a Jerk like this will forget he chose one over the other and Write him up for not doing both Tomorrow. Then you turn in this Chain at your HR Hearing, and have Him Written up for doing as ORDERED.
Ive had more than one job where this was an issue. I literally had to drag one project manager to another project manager to face each other and explaind both their crises and tokd them ti decide who goes first as i was only onerson cannot do both at the same time. That's when I learned there was no real emergency on either side.
The alternative for the employee is to lie and not care about disappointing the manager/company. The employee is deterred from reporting to the management to the companies detriment.
I once got offered a holiday in India for free (my wife was to go with work and somehow they agreed to pay for me to go.) I asked my manager 'Listen, it's three weeks away and I know it's short notice - it's a long shot, any chance you could authorize this?' My manager - "Sure thing. Authorized." Me - 'Really?' Manager - "Yup" Me - 'How you going to manage?' Manager - "Listen, you've always been there when I've needed you. I'm a manager, my job is to manage. Tell you're wife you're going to India with her." Got the guy a statuette of Ganesh (the remover of obstacles).
My uncle has been a boss to many people for a long long time, and one thing he told me once that always stuck with me was that as a manager, his job was to make it as easy as possible for his people to do their jobs well
Next review: “I have to micromanage you because otherwise you can’t complete your work on time. I have my own work to do, I don’t have time to constantly monitor you. Why can’t you be more like {insert name of boss’s special direct report who has half the workload and gets public praise for doing up their shoelaces}”
Remind me of when I was running a warehouse. We would start at 7:00. The boss would get there earlier. And one day he saw the truck was waiting at 6:30. So he decided to unload the entire truck and bragged about moving 16 pallets out by himself. He said "You weren't here so I unloaded it. " Of course I don't start until 7:00 a.m. and I was on time. I proceeded to thank him and say "Great. Well you just buried the 14 pallets that we still have from yesterday because you cut back on warehouse employees. So now I have to find a way to move these 18 pallets out of the way so I can pull the 14 lb to the front, so I can put the 18th behind them! All this with the limited amount of space I have in the warehouse because you keep allowing people to dump stuff in the warehouse that doesn't belong here. This is why when we're backed up with yesterday's pallets in the warehouse we don't unload a truck until we've made space for the pallets first. Thanks to you, you just wasted about 2 hours of my time because you wouldn't wait 15 minutes." I always found this typical behavior of managers that did not work their way up but came straight from college or Business School. We had one guy who would regularly clean his department of all the open packages and broken items by dumping them in a shopping cart and throwing it into the warehouse. He did this multiple times and multiple times I complain to management and they did nothing. You know what solved the problem? Play one of the days that I knew corporate was going to be there in a short period of time I took the shopping cart out dumped it in the middle of the department and took the shopping cart away leaving a pile of broken items and garbage in the middle of his department! That's something they don't teach you in Business School!
1st rule of being in management is manage the work so it can get done. if you need to delegate it, delegate it. if you can’t delegate it do it yourself. If you’re not able to fit it in with your other priorities then tell the ppl above you that you can’t get it done within the allotted time bc your task load is overloaded as it is.
This happened to me. My boss, my older brother, wanted me to do Security and cook lunch for like 80 people at the same time. I refused. He fired me. I was happy to be free.
That's how my last job was. That is until I was unjustly fired because the manager had a vendetta against me and others who were also eventually forced to transfer or quit. Unfortunately, due to being part-time, in an "at-will" state, and lots of nepotism, I don't have a wrongful termination suit I could win.🤬
As the boss your job is to make it possible for me to do my job. I'll tell you if there is a problem and if you don't get it solved 🤷 then I'll have done my bit. I've always got things to be getting on with, so if there is something I can't get on with I just forget about it and go do something else. It actually amuses me if I then get told off for not having done some task; "if you had done YOUR job I could have *and would have* done mine." I just got used to it ... so it really does not bother me. It just irritates me because I have a sort of schedule [for myself] 🤷 so I strike the task and coming up to shift end I'll see if I can do the task ... or I clear up (put the sample and equipment away, put a note in the log) and *tell the boss* I'm done for the day. That said task wasn't done because it was impossible for me to do it. And the boss knows that he'd better not say anything. I got used to it *and so did he.*
He originally said to focus on the pitch, now that it’s half done, he is switching gears completely and saying it’s not as important and to focus on the report instead. And businesses wonder why no one wants to work for them?
If you’re on location with them, this is the point you reply with: ‘I don’t think you’re comprehending what I’m saying, it’s best we discuss this face to face. I’m on my way.’ And then you confront them. They’re never as brave when they have to say it to your face.
I believe I can translate from Bad Boss to English here "I wanted you to work on the projects outside work hours without compensation."
Manager of mine....''Give me solutions not problems''..... I replied your the manager you sort it out not me, I'm just a worker.
I love how you said he’d be feeling like shit after all that… absolutely, if that were me I would feel like the biggest gronk and that I wasn’t doing my job correctly
Well technically there is a very simple solution to this. "You don't want to prioritise? Cool, then both jobs will be delayed".
When they start these antics, it's a sure sign that they cannot do their job, and is expecting everyone else to do it for them. Ludicrous.
Amen! Worked for a clueless boss who fits this scenario!
Not one of these bosses is out here saying what can I do to help get things done?!
Obviously an extremely lazy and wicked boss, probably getting off on the superiority complex.
This channel single handedly put me off office work for life
The same things can happen in any work environment when you are an employee.
I worked at a law firm. At times the pressure is unbelievable. Everything has due dates dictated by court rules.
"I'll be speaking to HR about your behavior, bossman"
they always claim it's SUPER important and there is no other way and then they cave in immideatly never finding another solution, but just accepting that it takes an extra day. so it wasnt that important to begin with
This boss is hilariously pathetic.
That chat alone prob takes 30 minute of worthy time to do the number crunch
The worst boss I ever had once gave me five different projects and an impossible deadline. I asked him which one had priority, and he told me "they all do." Many beers were drunk the day he got fired.
Bosses like this are why Employees have the CYOA Standard... (Cover Your Own A**). because you know a Jerk like this will forget he chose one over the other and Write him up for not doing both Tomorrow.
Then you turn in this Chain at your HR Hearing, and have Him Written up for doing as ORDERED.
Ive had more than one job where this was an issue. I literally had to drag one project manager to another project manager to face each other and explaind both their crises and tokd them ti decide who goes first as i was only onerson cannot do both at the same time. That's when I learned there was no real emergency on either side.
The alternative for the employee is to lie and not care about disappointing the manager/company. The employee is deterred from reporting to the management to the companies detriment.
"the pitch can wait till tomorrow" cool why did that suddenly become an option right this second?
I once got offered a holiday in India for free (my wife was to go with work and somehow they agreed to pay for me to go.) I asked my manager 'Listen, it's three weeks away and I know it's short notice - it's a long shot, any chance you could authorize this?'
My manager - "Sure thing. Authorized."
Me - 'Really?'
Manager - "Yup"
Me - 'How you going to manage?'
Manager - "Listen, you've always been there when I've needed you. I'm a manager, my job is to manage. Tell you're wife you're going to India with her."
Got the guy a statuette of Ganesh (the remover of obstacles).
My uncle has been a boss to many people for a long long time, and one thing he told me once that always stuck with me was that as a manager, his job was to make it as easy as possible for his people to do their jobs well
That boss is a walking book of Cliché,s.😂
"This conversation is a waste of time." Well, you started it, boss, so way to admit that you added nothing to the process of getting stuff done.
Next review: “I have to micromanage you because otherwise you can’t complete your work on time. I have my own work to do, I don’t have time to constantly monitor you. Why can’t you be more like {insert name of boss’s special direct report who has half the workload and gets public praise for doing up their shoelaces}”
Pretty sure I worked for this bloke :D
"What if I helped?"
"Well then it'll take 3 days..."
Remind me of when I was running a warehouse.
We would start at 7:00. The boss would get there earlier. And one day he saw the truck was waiting at 6:30.
So he decided to unload the entire truck and bragged about moving 16 pallets out by himself.
He said "You weren't here so I unloaded it. "
Of course I don't start until 7:00 a.m. and I was on time.
I proceeded to thank him and say
"Great. Well you just buried the 14 pallets that we still have from yesterday because you cut back on warehouse employees.
So now I have to find a way to move these 18 pallets out of the way so I can pull the 14 lb to the front, so I can put the 18th behind them!
All this with the limited amount of space I have in the warehouse because you keep allowing people to dump stuff in the warehouse that doesn't belong here.
This is why when we're backed up with yesterday's pallets in the warehouse we don't unload a truck until we've made space for the pallets first. Thanks to you, you just wasted about 2 hours of my time because you wouldn't wait 15 minutes."
I always found this typical behavior of managers that did not work their way up but came straight from college or Business School.
We had one guy who would regularly clean his department of all the open packages and broken items by dumping them in a shopping cart and throwing it into the warehouse. He did this multiple times and multiple times I complain to management and they did nothing.
You know what solved the problem? Play one of the days that I knew corporate was going to be there in a short period of time I took the shopping cart out dumped it in the middle of the department and took the shopping cart away leaving a pile of broken items and garbage in the middle of his department!
That's something they don't teach you in Business School!
Some people have a compulsion to obstruct so they can feel like they're useful.
Passive aggressive Ego Massage. The employee will have his mental and physical health affected, the boss will feel elated.
Love your vids man!
1st rule of being in management is manage the work so it can get done. if you need to delegate it, delegate it. if you can’t delegate it do it yourself. If you’re not able to fit it in with your other priorities then tell the ppl above you that you can’t get it done within the allotted time bc your task load is overloaded as it is.
Honestly this. Managers are there to support the workers doing the work, not the other way around.
Their solution is always they themself do nothing and expect the employee to give them hours upon hours of unpaid labor. always, every time
Time does not have elastic sides
This happened to me. My boss, my older brother, wanted me to do Security and cook lunch for like 80 people at the same time. I refused. He fired me. I was happy to be free.
That's how my last job was. That is until I was unjustly fired because the manager had a vendetta against me and others who were also eventually forced to transfer or quit. Unfortunately, due to being part-time, in an "at-will" state, and lots of nepotism, I don't have a wrongful termination suit I could win.🤬
As the boss your job is to make it possible for me to do my job. I'll tell you if there is a problem and if you don't get it solved 🤷 then I'll have done my bit. I've always got things to be getting on with, so if there is something I can't get on with I just forget about it and go do something else.
It actually amuses me if I then get told off for not having done some task; "if you had done YOUR job I could have *and would have* done mine."
I just got used to it ... so it really does not bother me. It just irritates me because I have a sort of schedule [for myself] 🤷 so I strike the task and coming up to shift end I'll see if I can do the task ... or I clear up (put the sample and equipment away, put a note in the log) and *tell the boss* I'm done for the day. That said task wasn't done because it was impossible for me to do it.
And the boss knows that he'd better not say anything. I got used to it *and so did he.*
He originally said to focus on the pitch, now that it’s half done, he is switching gears completely and saying it’s not as important and to focus on the report instead.
And businesses wonder why no one wants to work for them?
If a boss is less manipulative then Ben he's not too bad.
Ugh
I can only assume Ben's parents are rich and he was spoiled. Why else would he be validating the entitled snowflake culture?
Because he has basic morals and ethics? It's not hard!
If you’re on location with them, this is the point you reply with: ‘I don’t think you’re comprehending what I’m saying, it’s best we discuss this face to face. I’m on my way.’ And then you confront them. They’re never as brave when they have to say it to your face.