On 07/03/2013 10:58 AM, jmcquown wrote:

>> As it turned out, I got the time off. The woman who is a JH and who does
>> not celebrate Christmas and who tried to cause a conflict over vacation
>> times..... she took the week off too.
>>
> Managers can be such assholes. No JH need be involved. I'd been
> working for this company for years and had seniority. I'd save up my
> vacation time and take an extended holiday, Christmas through New Years.
> I'd been doing it for years. We were asked to plan out our vacation
> for the year in January, by March if possible. Okay.
>
> One year my then manager called me aside and asked me if I'd switch my
> vacation days. Would you take off over July 4th (American Independence
> Day) instead of Christmas?
>
> The reason she gave me was, in reviewing the requests, "This guy has
> kids, you don't. He might prefr Christmas." (Man, did that tick my
> father off when I told him about it!) She made it sound like Kevin had
> complained about the vacation schedule.
>
> He and I were friends. I said hey, if you want your vacation over
> Christmas off I have no problem switching. He said no! He'd scheduled
> his vacation around a family camping trip in July. We didn't know why
> she was trying to micro-manage our time off.

That's part of the problem with the corporate world. There are a lot of
middle management jobs that don't really need to be there. They don't do
much for productivity and in many cases they actually interfere with it.
Many of the people in those positions are filled by people who really
don't know that much about the job. They just want to be in charge.

I was lucky in my career with the government. Most of my bosses were
pretty good. I worked hard for them and most of them appreciated it and
recommended me for promotion. A couple were jerks. When I first
transferred to enforcement the local supervisor was a jerk. Pick pick
pick pick pick all the time. He was always looking for the negative. It
was a good thing for me that I had access to the district productivity
stats because the year he tried to give me a negative appraisal I stood
up to him and pointed out that I was the top producer in the district by
far. He ended up having to re-write my appraisal before I would sign it.
What a weasel to give negative that he could not defend.

This guy was negative about all suggestions.Instead of giving them
consideration he would automatically think only of the negatives. It
was easy to deal with. Whenever we wanted to do something one way we
always suggested the opposite. He was such a fool that it easy to trick
him.

I did screw up once. I knew that I was going to be in trouble. I went
in early the next day to face the music. I went up to his office, told
him I had to explain what had happened, told him that I had made a bad
decision, told him I screwed up. Negative idiot that he was he
disagreed and told me not to worry about it. At the end of the year I
got a good appraisal but he mentioned that incident and said that he
should have raked me over the coals for that. Of course my response was
to agree and say he was right. I did screw up. Once again the idiot
went negative. He could not agree with me that I had screwed up ;-)


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