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childish boss
Posted by: grinder
Date: 8/13/2004 6:36:27 AM
I was employed at a local truckstop as a mechanic. feeling that my skills were held back i found another job but was still waiting on paperwork to go thru, i informed my boss that i was looking at other employment because of the above reasons but it was not definate and as soon as it was i would give him a notice. he was very understanding of it and we talked about it for a while when he told me that he would help me in anyway with moving my toolbox and referance.after getting a green light with my new job i told my boss that in 2 weeks i would be resighning again he was understanding. i went ahead and worked my scheduled day, well the next day he was not there and had his assistant manager terminate me. when i came back to get my toolbox the boss had taken the keys to the forklift home with him so i could not use it to load my box and told the assistant that no one was to help me load my stuff nor to talk to me and that i only had 15 minutes to load my stuff after wich the cops were to be called to give me a criminal trespass warning. just had to vent and tell my wonderfull understanding boss thanks for all the help he offered
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mindym22 |
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8/13/2004 1:14:00 PM |
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sorry you had to go thru that, but be glad you are ot of that job. I went thru something similar when I gave 2 weeks notice at a waitressing job. The owner turned on me, calling me "stupid" in front of customers for a very small mistake. I had a better job lined up and did not show up for work the next day. |
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kamylienne |
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8/14/2004 11:07:00 AM |
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That sounds like a nightmare! I'm glad that you were fortunate enough to at least get out of that situation. Right now, I'm still seeking another job, but am dealing with a childish senior employee (she's not even my manager, though she tries to act like it); her most severe exhibition of childish behavior was two days ago: I work in banking, and our job is to capture images of checks; I was running one machine, she was running the other. I had no work on my side, and she was getting work for hers, and I offered to do some of the work on my side. She snapped at me, and said "You want all the work? Then knock yourself out!" She not only handed all the work to me, but set back her completed work to an incomplete status and handed that to me, too, all the while saying, "If you want it, knock yourself out!" I went to her and said "I believe you misunderstand me. I was only asking if you needed help. We're supposed to share the workload, so I figured I should help out." She replied, "Oh, I understand just fine, I'm not doing that anymore, I'm just going to sit here and key for the rest of the day." She told someone else to run her machine. Yesterday, while a co-worker was complaining about the same girl to a department manager, she asked my opinion, and I gave her every instance, day by day, from this week where she had acted inappropriately. I ended by saying "I don't think anything you do can honestly alleviate the matter, but it's not my problem anymore--I've got an interview next Friday for a wonderful opportunity, and I don't care what I have to do to get there--this job here is not worth it." She wants to hold a department meeting--Judging how the last one went, I'm curious about how this one will go. Probably entertaining, at the least. |
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