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boss that needs prozac

Posted by: parisgirl
Date: 7/26/2004 1:18:52 AM

yes its me again with just a few incidents of just how bizarre my boss is. she has been in charge of our team for over 1 year now. i just recently got fed up with all her craziness, so i posted for another position w/i our company, so hope i get it.

for starters, the day she gets promoted to our manager, she brings us into her office & announces that "despite what i've heard about all of you, i am going to wipe the slate clean & start fresh & erase all those things from my memory". First point of obnoxiousness, which i chose to overlook.

another incident occured several months later when a fellow team member didn't want to renew her Notary stamp. This is something that the State grants you, you can't make anybody be a notary. When she found this out, instead of calmly stately that "we don't have a notary & is anyone interested in becoming one", she brought us into her lair & started screaming that we had 3 minutes to decide who was going to be a notary or she would decide for us. And how dare the other girl allow her notary to expire & not inform her. Again I thought that she had acted badly & chose to ignore it. There have been more bouts of extremely rude & unprofessional behavior, but this latest one takes the cake.

When I found that she was compromising customers accounts, I actually reported this anonomously, I received no help from the Securtiy Administrator (her boss). While he agreed that she should not have asked for the passwords, he was ok with her logging in as the customer, so long as the customer was on the phone with her (which of course they weren't which is why i was concerned in the first place! hello!!!!) this just solidifies my belief that all managers cover for each other

After she was called on the carpet ( a little carpet at that) she took us all to the executive board room & told us to sit down & that she was going to read from a statement that she had already prepared. she didn't want to hear any comments from us.

her statement was rambling & was about how upset she was that someone had gone behind her back because they didn't "like" the department policy. Excuse me but where is it written that someone has access to extremely sensitive data like that. She wants us to go to her first if we have a problem with something she is doing. that way she can cover her tracks & get to her bosses office before we do. in ordinary situations where i feel that she is just making a bad choice in her words, then i might go to her and make a suggestion that she change her ways. but when your boss is basically stealing secure information that can be used to liquidate accounts, then i felt that the appropriate thing was to inform her supervisor. i also concurred with my husband and he agreed that i shouldn't approach her because she would just have denied the involvement anyhow.

I new right then and there that i could no longer work for a nutcase like that one minute longer. I also felt that ethically i couldn't continue on in a department that condoned that type of behaviour.

Also as a conflict of interest might arise, we are not supposed to have "relationships, dates, sex etc" with any of our customers. she is currently living with a man that she met because she granted him a loan. while i think thats wrong & goes against the Employee Code of Conduct I have not said a word. i just decided the best thing was to get out, move on, keep my mouth shut about her & let her sink her own ship. eventually somebody has got to figure out that she is a rude, obnoxious, & stupid person & i think that she is doing quite well at presenting that on her own.

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