I Hate Bosses

This picture makes me laugh, but it also makes me think about how ON Gary Cole was to totally nail the Bill Lumbergh character. I hate my bosses. I do. I don't do well with people telling me what to do, especially when 90% of the time they're telling you to do something you've already been instructed to do one way, and now in the 11th hour you're being asked (demanded) to do it a completely different way. Not such a big fan of management, because most of the time their true title should be mismanagement.When I look at my superiors sometimes I think, "I could do this so much better than them." More than likely, you can't. Responsibility and a accountability are overrated, but when you are at the top of the pecking order you have pee-ons (such as ME) to blame shit on. Shit rolls downhill, money moves up. And that's the fucking rub. At the end of the day, you have to do what they say, even if they're morons.

Because they are morons, right? The good bosses usually don't last, because they do things the right way. That would make sense, but for an office to run improperly, you need to have idiots climb the corporate ladder. Why are all bosses idiots? Because one day there were two people that started your company, and the chances are that one of them was completely incompetent, but had the money. That person didn't know what they were doing, but know that they liked suck ups, and brown-nosers. He couldn't tell what the hell kind of work they did, but one moron befriends another moron, and soon enough you're working for a bunch of morons.

"I knew it! I'm surrounded by Asshole's!" - Dark Helmet, Spaceballs, Rick Moranis

And wasn't he right! Nice guys finish last, and the assholes who run shit into the ground get moved up the ladder. Certain people get groomed, others are expected to pick up the slack for less compensation. That's where it's fucked up. We're all told that, "it's not what you know, but who you know." We are told that from an early age. Pee Wee football - High School Sports - College Applications - Job Hunting - Running for Office. You name it, this ridiculousness is everywhere.

Why does it surprise us then that our hard work is not rewarded? "The squeaky wheel gets the oil." On some level we all assume that our hard work will eventually be noticed and that we will get what we deserve. It sucks, but in order to get anything in this bullshit corporate world you need to ask for it.

So my official position is that a high percentage of bosses are there not because they earned the position, but because they sucked someones dick along the way, and now their sole mission is to ruin the foundations of whatever you are working on.

I will continue my series of Office Gripes as they come to me, but see my post on the evils of Human Resources if you liked my INTRO on Bosses. That's right - I'm just getting started. I haven't even gotten to office managers, this was just about inept project managers! How can you tell the difference? Project managers who don't know what they're doing ruin little things on a daily basis that add up to a large amount of errors. Poor office managers show up once a week or so, tell you do the exact opposite of the project manager, and either way you're fucked because they're both wrong, but what the office manager tells you to do will ruin all the forward progress you've made for the past month. Meet the upper management personnel that think they know about the day to day workings of the office, but should really stick to screwing up the office one expense report at a time.