You know, it really sucks.
I like my job, usually. I love working in our downtown office, and the people I work with down here are great.
My boss is an ass though. He never calls me back, never replies to emails, and generally busts my balls about stuff I have under control (stuff like asking for status on something when I ALREADY EMAILED HIM ABOUT IT).
My boss basically told one of the clients I would be in Glenview at 7 pm on Friday to help him. So I called my boss and said, “So I got a call from R___ P____ about helping him rack a server on Friday night.”
My boss said “yup”.
I said “you expect me to do this?”
He said “No, he will do the work, I just need someone there to supervise, I don’t want him in the data center alone”
I said “uh, okay, I was just kind of blindsided by the Friday night thing”
He said “yeah, we all get that” and hung up.
I hate how he did it. If he’d ASKED, I would have totally done it. I would have bitched, because it’s a pain, but would have done it.
But the assumption…that is treating your people like resources, and not like people
And it’s very typical of his attitude since taking over.