What’s the Point
By JoeBruin88. Filed in Career |Tags: Career, work
Of asking for my opinion and my input if it’s just going to be disregarded and condescended?
The Asshole asked me to write up my concerns regarding the results of a meeting yesterday. Basically, the impact of the meeting was to redo work that we had already done and to expand on some ideas that we had not done. My main concern in my write up was to say that to extend the depth of the work would require extra time and money.
So what’s the point of asking for my fucking opinion if it’s just going to be disregarded? The Asshole said: “We are going to do the work in a timely manner.”
I’m thinking to myself: “No shit, dumbass. Why the fuck did you ask for my input if you don’t respect my professional opinion anyways?”
“Oh yeah, you don’t know how to manage professionally. That’s why you treat your employees like shit and talk to them condescendingly. It’s because all of our department’s fucking projects are all late and operating at a loss for more than half a year. Gee, I wonder why. Could it be that you’re an incompetent manager, incapable of managing work relationships in an effective way so that your employees are motivated to work for you instead of against you? Could it be that you always pass on your leadership responsibilities to other regular employees instead of being the leader and actually doing some time management? Could it be that you have no idea what each person actually needs to do in order to get their job done? Could it be that you pay lip service to the idea of working cooperatively in teams, but in reality, everybody just does their own thing? Could it be that you never have department meetings so that everybody knows what everyone else is doing and can learn how to work together better and support each other’s deadlines?”
Basically, Asshole, you suck the big one. I’m not even done with business school and I can manage better than you. But I’m not going to do your fucking job for you, Asshole. Pay me more and jump off a cliff, then I might consider it.