New Boss is an Arrogant Know-It-All
New Boss is an Arrogant Know-It-All
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Hi All,
My new boss is younger that me, has less experience, and has the biggest chip on his shoulder. What do you do in this situation?
Mad Dog McDurmott
My new boss is younger that me, has less experience, and has the biggest chip on his shoulder. What do you do in this situation?
Mad Dog McDurmott





RE: New Boss is an Arrogant Know-It-All
Why?
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The real question is "how does the chip manifist itself on his sholder"? Does he belittle staff to pump himself up? If so, get HR to sit in on staff meetings.
If he is smart enough to just push you around more or less in private, use the technique we used to call the "cotton covered rock". In short, yeild on all the small points, don't appear to resist the important stuff but don't budge either. When he asks you to do something stupid, just go off and start doing it, at the top of your priority list and don't worry about "important" deadlines (if the company is stupid enough to put this guy into your life how can their priorities be important?).
And if it sucks too much Oil & Gas is always looking for a few thousand good engineers.
David
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Sincerely
Your Boss.
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GREG!!!
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Stop goofing around on the internet, get back to work, and do it the way I told YOU.
Sincerely
YOUR Boss
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Just give your boss some time, he may turn out not to be as hopeless as you thought.
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how long have you had him?
Is this his first management role?
Maybe he is just a bit nervous in his new position; some one probably told him to "go in there, show 'em who's boss and don't take any bull***t." which means he comes across as arogant and a jerk.
Why don't you see how he "matures"...
You can always get rid of him later.
JMW
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GO BACK ALL TO WORK NOWWWWW!!!
McDurmott:
To the punishment room for distracting the others.
BIG BOSS
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But if the boss is genuinely abusive in a work environment, then you should complain about the **behavior** to the HR department (if it exists) in a professional manner. My experience is that tactic works very well, too.
I suppose that the bottom line is that we are all weak and stupid humans and we should try to deal with each other in a good way as much as possible. That goes for bosses and employees.
TygerDawg
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Ahhh I love that movie
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Your boss may be nervous or trying to put up a good front, or he might just be exactly what he seems. Time will tell. All you can do is the best you can with what you have, and don't take crap that you don't deserve.
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Shouldn't be a problem
" has less experience,"
yes, younger people are like that
" and has the biggest chip on his shoulder."
about what?
Cheers
Greg Locock
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RE: New Boss is an Arrogant Know-It-All
1. Your boss's age ?
2. His/her experience ?
3. His shoulder ?? :0(
Was he promoted ahead of you ? Or he came from elsewhere ?
HVAC68
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If you want to be a leader, quit and go somehwere else. The town isnt big enough for the two of you.
If you are just a whinging MBA managerial type leave anyhow and give the boss a chance.
If he is that bad your boss's boss appointed him so you have no chance of success so you have to quit.
All in all you are out of their with your own baggage.
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Got a few laughs from you all.
I probably was a bit rough, but when the only avenue for career advancement is removed (no fault on Boss's part), I feel a little frustrated.
Now what are all you slackers doing playing on the internet? Get back to the cube-farm!
MDM
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BTW, Boss! what are you doing here? Get back to the work.
RE: New Boss is an Arrogant Know-It-All
I know excatly what you are all doing, all of the time and here's how:
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I'm just waiting till I get a real bad day and want to fire someone before my first coffee.
It's so nice to fire people and feel good about it. Justified. You know?
But not as nice as firing people for no reason at all.
It's Khama, kids, you can work hard all day and stay off the internet and I might still fire you. Actually its all the sweeter because you'll feel all hurt and upset that I didn't fire Mr Brown-nose who is always looking at the porn sites and saying really nasty things about me behind my back, or Mr Sick-Note who never seems to do a days work.
No, too easy. No satisfaction.
One of you will do nicely. "Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life."
JMW
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I thought software engineers kept looking busy by deleting .dll files from their machine until a blue screen pops up.
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RE: New Boss is an Arrogant Know-It-All
"I should be in charge," said the brain, "because I run all the body's systems, so without me nothing would happen".
"I should be in charge," said the blood, "because I circulate oxygen all over so without me you'd all waste away."
"I should be in charge," said the stomach," because I process food and give all of you energy."
"I should be in charge," said the legs, "because I carry the body wherever it needs to go."
"I should be in charge," said the eyes, "because I allow the body to see where it goes."
"I should be in charge," said the rectum, "Because I'm responsible for waste removal."
All the other body parts laughed at the rectum and insulted him, so in a huff, he shut down tight.
Within a few days, the brain had a terrible headache, the stomach was bloated, the legs got wobbly, the eyes got watery, and the blood was toxic.
They all decided that the rectum should be the boss.
The Moral of the story?
The arse hole is usually in charge.
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It doesn't need a brain to run a business, just an @ssh..
(popular phrase among the craft)