Rage

Why is it that people in positions of management, being paid I am sure ridiculously large salaries and bonuses and who can take 2 days a week “working from home” (he comes all the way from Kent, oh boo hoo) seem to be totally incompetent and lacking common sense? I mean simple things, like listening to people, reading emails, answering the phone, following simple instructions. I’m not talking anything necessitating a PHD or some training in world domination. Simple. Easy. Straight forward?

My supervisor is one such person. He loves to pass the buck, he doesn’t like to get involved, the little hassle as possible for him the better. He doesn’t like emails; he will actually take the time to respond to some emails to say “please don’t include me on these emails” even if he really should be. We’re in the 21st feckin’ century now so people tend to use email once in a while, especially when we’re all working in different countries and might need to swap a couple of bits of information. I understand the annoyance of people who sit 3 desks away sending an email instead of walking over to speak to you (I had one guy do that this morning to arrange a meeting that happened 10 minutes later, I ended up standing up and shouting across the room that I was available so please stop sending me Outlook invites) but lets be honest a lot of business nowadays rests on correspondence over emails.

He’s also good at saving everything up until about 15 minutes before he’s about to leave (and ‘work from home’ the next day) and then dumping it on your desk for you to find the next morning. Half done, hashed up, post it notes all over it and he’s not even in the office to question about it. This morning I had 3 such documents. One of which I had given him Tuesday to sign in 2 places. Both marked up. It comes back only signed in one place. I put a fat post it note on it saying PLEASE ALSO SIGN PAGE 2 and now it is sitting on my desk still not signed on page 2. Can he read? Maybe not, maybe I am being unfair in expecting him to follow straight forward requests? This is not a one off occurrence either, his stupidity and incompetence know no bounds and he’s the most pedantic man in the world. I have documents come back with commas and full stops circled but he’s missed the fact that I put in $45,500.00 rather than $4,500.00. Sometimes I do it on purpose just to see what happens.

Thank god it’s Friday and I am leaving early and not giving a shit about any of this for the next 2 days.

Happy weekends people.