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i've become#4 on the 11 Workplace Personalities

Posted by: misryluvscompny
Date: 7/19/2005 1:21:30 PM

I have had to become the "thats not my job person" because my prevoius behaviour of being helpful has put my job in jeopardy. I have been with my company for 4yrs and got transferred to this location 16mos ago, having been assured at that time that i was "going to work for a nice lady". Actually, she is a manipulative, paranoid and inept & seems to have no accountability. I am the 3rd person in 2 years to hold this job. She has bullied the other 2 the same way I hear. Even 2 of the Unioned staff have transferred out in the last 4 months. I made my request 6 months ago because this transfer has doubled my commuting time and expenses, but there have been no openings.There no raise with the transfer to ofset my extra expense. I actually lost $110 a month because it was mandatory to join the pension plan. BUT i never complained. I was transferred in on the basis that not only am I experienced (14 yrs doing this type of work) I also have excellent computer skills-which was important in establishing the new Dbase that was being implemented at that time. My job required me to wear more hats than my previous position and some of these hats are not in my job description but i wear them anyway. No one here was at all computer literate & some even were "PC virgins"! I've often had to drop my work in order to rescue peoples lost files, Word glitches and the "my screen went blank..." moments, all of which were due to their inexperience. This even includes my boss herself!!! On some occasions this has left me behind on my work but i always catch up, and i don't miss deadlines.Any errors I made I have owned up to and corrected. I am proud to say that I have these people saving to floppy and making their own word templates and generally being effecient workers. BUT Somehow my boss has managed to paint me as a slacking incompetent, as based on her glomming on to the odd times that my work has been behind and i had to catch up,or mistakes i made and (foolishly) admitted to because thats what grown ups are supposed to do,oh & that I have had alot of sick days this year.Those were genuine sick days...not job hunting days.lol! They should have been.I am rarely sick, I think my stress level has left me vunerable. Last week I was actually called "incompetent to do my job" to my face by her Supervisor because of the stories she fed her.I was astounded! Any motion to defend myself looked like excuse making. I feel its a no win situation. She is the Teflon Boss, she is the Paranoid Boss, she is the Narcisstic Boss (man, she was brutally cold when my beloved dad passed from cancer it was a big inconvenience). Yet, despite the pattern of complaints & transfers..she still has her job. And mine gets threatened regularly. Where's the justice?

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