Going back to work
I was dreading going back to work before…now I am dreading it even more. My boss has always been a problem. We’ve been working with him for about 3 years and it has barely been bearable. He is rude, critisizes and is an outright bully. We are always being told how worthless we are, how we have the mentality of someone in a lower position and how we don’t deserve the salaries we get paid. Actually, he is abusive.
He has been working there for almost 14 years now. How he has managed this I don’t know. He can’t get a promotion because his reputation pre cedes him. He has been reported to our manager (he is a supervisor) and to HR, but nothing seems to come of it. No matter how well we do, we’re always doing something wrong. He constantly threatens to burn us in performance reviews to negatively impact our raises/bonuses.
The day we were sitting in the doctor’s office hearing the final verdict about our baby (he knew where I was) he started calling me to crap on me about something. It wasn’t pressing, urgent or even due. I was sitting crying my heart out, losing my child and he was calling me about something insignificant (left me a voicemail crapping me out too). I hate him.
Now I haven’t been at work for almost six months and a colleague calls me to tell me that he has said that she can tell me that I am ‘a negative person and he doesn’t want me in his team’. WTF?! Well, guess what? I don’t want to be in your team.
I want to get out of Customer Care. I don’t want to deal with customers anymore and I also don’t want to deal with him anymore. There is nowhere for me to move within our department without having to deal with customers that are even more unhappy than those I am already dealing with. More pressure and more rude customers. In other words, crappier work. He supervises some of these teams too.
I do not want to stop working for our company. I love working for them. They treat their staff very well, I am very fairly compensated and I trust them. When it comes down to the nitty gritty, however, this is a very small problem for them in the big scheme of things. We are a big corporate and this unhappy team of eight people goes unnoticed and gets swept under the carpet by management.
I don’t know what I am going to do. What I do know is that my boss and I have a common goal, to get rid of each other. I’m going to ask him to help me get into a different division. Employment equity doesn’t count much in my favour, but I reckon I need to do something…and fast. I also currently work weekends, which will most likely not be compulsory in another department. I’m going to have little enough time with my son as it is. I’m seriously going to have to get my ass into gear to do this and it might take some time.
Don’t let me give up. I NEED to do this. I can’t take it anymore. I have come home in tears more than once because of this man. One of us has got to go. Anybody know someone who can make him disappear? I’ll take up a collection 
Oh my friend. This is so horrid. We spend so much time at work it is imperative that we are happy there. Can the whole team not get together and put in a formal grievance against this guy? I’m pretty sure you have exhausted all your options though.
Tell you what, I have a spade, just tell me when and where and I’ll hide the body for you,ok
I have never heard of someone so rude or heartless, i hope my angel he gets fired and all of you can work happily ever after, thumbs up. I can actually feel your pain and no human being should work under these conditions. I’ll keep you in Prayer.
Joylene Mckay
Oh hunny. He sounds like a real ass. holding thumbs and crossing toes that you get the transfer you want! xx
I know exactly what you’re talking about. Beyond crappy boss and working with costumers on a daily basis just suck beyond. I myself is also trying to get something else where I do not work with costumers but it seems that all work opportunities to require some time spent working with costumers.
Good luck with starting work again
I hope it all works out.
I understand.
Beeg hugs. I am sure things can only get better! What a miserable person – imagine how awful his life is? geez.
Oh hunny! I know how it feels to work for a boss that brings out the worst in you. I hope things come right and you are able to move to a position that allows you to grow and be happier. *hugs*
my friend i know that feeling all too well (specially with working 4 a big company) just takes a couple of rotten eggs to spoil it for others i do enjoy what i do but sometimes also wish for greener pastures-holding thumbs and toes for you that u find that satisfaction with your job soon cos unhappy mommies make for unhappy babies as well and sometimes its our families that suffer from our frustration at work
Oh gosh, I feel for you.l
wow he sounds awful, what a horrible human being to be so heartless and cruel. Be brave and follow steps to change, not just for you, but for your boy too. You need the time you spend with him to be happy and not clouded by the horribleness from work.
I feel for you nothing worse than working for an ass-hole!
Darling, if you set your mind to it you will get the kind of position you want! If you trust the company, then I’m sure they will be able to make some kind of arrangement.