Reason #262 to not work for someone else;
"The Miromanager"
So, it’s Friday again. Another week has passed and it’s time to start winding down. I’ve got my typical Friday-friendly t-shirt and jeans with Hard Rock Café hat on. It wouldn’t be Friday otherwise. The anticipation of next week’s short 3-day pre-Thanksgiving work week hangs in the air and has everyone feeling pretty good. When I got to the office, I started out with my normal prepare-for-the-day, and more importantly, prepare-for-the-weekend routine. Styrofoam cup full of steaming no-name brand instant hot chocolate to warm me up…check. Boot-up the computer…check. Open work email and check for company notices…check. Layout my first project folder…check. Make my list of things to do today…check. Open my “Brain Vomit” spreadsheet so I can jot down any random epiphanies I might have during the workday…ch… Suddenly, my boss, “Poptart” is standing behind me staring at my screen with paycheck in hand and smugly says, “That’s work-related, right?”
Hhhhhh…… Seriously??
After a very awkward few seconds, as I alt-tabbed my way back to a work-related screen, Poptart left and I resumed my now-interrupted workday. Not even two minutes later, through my peripheral vision, I noticed him walking towards my cubical again, and this time I didn’t even look up at him. In knew exactly what he was doing, and it really rubbed me the wrong way. Without stopping, he nonchalantly circumvented my work area. When he was no longer within my peripheral vision I knew he had to be behind me. Without moving my head, I looked up over my computer monitor at his reflection in the class partition that divided my space and the next just in time to see him look ever his shoulder at my screen.
As if this wasn’t’ bad enough, he did exactly the same thing AGAIN just 4 or 5 minutes later!! What the crap?? Why is he busting my chops today??? Did he think I wouldn’t notice? Don’t managers, supervisors and bosses know that a happy employee is a productive employee? His obvious attempts to catch me off-task only fueled my desire to NOT be productive!!
You know, normally, I’m a great worker. I consistently have some of the best numbers in the department. I’m always on time, I meet deadlines, and get along well with my co-workers. And yet somehow this retard feels the need to micromanage me based one single out-of-context moment when I was not looking at a work-related screen. I would actually have understood his suspicions had he at least caught me on an offensive or distasteful website (which I don’t do either). That, at least would seem validated. But a spreadsheet of randomly jotted ideas??
Please!!! This is like when retarded cops pull people over and ticket them for having one headlight out. Seriously? There aren’t enough drug users and domestic violence cases out there to focus on? Ugh…
Hhhhhh…… Seriously??
After a very awkward few seconds, as I alt-tabbed my way back to a work-related screen, Poptart left and I resumed my now-interrupted workday. Not even two minutes later, through my peripheral vision, I noticed him walking towards my cubical again, and this time I didn’t even look up at him. In knew exactly what he was doing, and it really rubbed me the wrong way. Without stopping, he nonchalantly circumvented my work area. When he was no longer within my peripheral vision I knew he had to be behind me. Without moving my head, I looked up over my computer monitor at his reflection in the class partition that divided my space and the next just in time to see him look ever his shoulder at my screen.
As if this wasn’t’ bad enough, he did exactly the same thing AGAIN just 4 or 5 minutes later!! What the crap?? Why is he busting my chops today??? Did he think I wouldn’t notice? Don’t managers, supervisors and bosses know that a happy employee is a productive employee? His obvious attempts to catch me off-task only fueled my desire to NOT be productive!!
You know, normally, I’m a great worker. I consistently have some of the best numbers in the department. I’m always on time, I meet deadlines, and get along well with my co-workers. And yet somehow this retard feels the need to micromanage me based one single out-of-context moment when I was not looking at a work-related screen. I would actually have understood his suspicions had he at least caught me on an offensive or distasteful website (which I don’t do either). That, at least would seem validated. But a spreadsheet of randomly jotted ideas??
Please!!! This is like when retarded cops pull people over and ticket them for having one headlight out. Seriously? There aren’t enough drug users and domestic violence cases out there to focus on? Ugh…
1 comment:
That is seriously lame. I actually have never worked in that kind of invironment, thank goodness. I usually am online shopping, or playing games... and the boss is right there. But that is only when it is slow. Poptart needs a new job. (or a raise)
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