Infects other managers with his “I only manage” work credo.
Right. So just to clarify, this sucktastic boss is my departmental head. I have a “real” boss that I report to, and who reports to this crappy boss. K? So, my actual boss used to do real work. He worked and he managed. Amazing. I mean, there were really just a couple of us under him anyway. Oh but wait.
Crap boss does not hold with the idea that a manager does more than send emails and reports to higher bosses. Look, this might work — and in fact be the only way — in big companies. But we’re small. Our department is small, less than 10, and crappy boss manages us. He has 3 guys under him, and those guys have 0-3 people under them each. Before crappy came in, we didn’t even have that kind of layering. We just all did our thing and reported to the departmental boss, then a good guy who actually worked with us. We were still the same size then, too.
Anyway. To get to the point, crappy has told my boss to not work. Don’t help. Just manage. So now our sub-department of 3 becomes 2 only. We actually had to get a temp to do some work because we couldn’t keep the pace up. Nice, huh? So, my real boss now helps us, but on weekends. Weekends!! And all because his (our) crappy boss doesn’t want him to work-work. But he still wants “measurable” results.
Measure this, jackass.
