So last month, I had this great new job.
Within 3 days, I knew there was going to be a serious problem at some point because my direct manager was a bundle of nerves, touchy as hell, and did NOT want to train me.
She left for vacation three days after I started for a week so I had to just figure things out. I didn't even have all my access codes for anything until last week so it was hard to do my job.
After she got back, I was told that I wasn't supposed to ask anything of anyone but her in any way ever because it made her look like she didn't know how to do her job.
She'd disappear for hours at a stretch without telling me where she was going or when she'd be back.
She told HR that I didn't know how to do a weekly report after being shown three times... yes that's because she would never let ME do it. She insisted she had to show me, without allowing me to actually do it once, and never let me actually do it. So no, I didn't know how to do it because SHE WOULD LET ME. You don't learn by being shown, you learn by DOING and making mistakes.
And oh make a mistake, and she's be making annoyed noises, groans, and growls, and mumbling under her breath about how stupid people are.
Then she complained that I wasn't doing certain reports right. You mean the one where I had a number one in the wrong column once? Oh its the end of the world. Or how about the ones where I'd do them according to what the contract stated, but she would have emails and the like in her email and not having given them to me and not printed them out to be put in the file, so when I filled out the form it was wrong and then she blamed me for it.
Or how about the one where I mistakenly altered a charge because I had been told that nothing was ever supposed to be posted as miscellaneous and it was posted as miscellaneous, then after I did it I was told that I was wrong and its ok to post to miscellaneous provided it was the hotels fault.
Or how about how every day she wanted me to go in to VIP people, then she'd go back to change them even though I was following the lost she gave me to VIP certain status' of guest. EVERY SINGLE DAY. So even though I was following the list she gave me, I was supposed to VIP only the ones she wanted even though those were sometimes on the list, and sometimes if they were in the list, they weren't supposed to be VIP'd.
Apparently I was supposed to be a mind reader.
I knew it. I just knew within the first three days that this bitch was going to be high maintenance hell.
Glad its over but I'm severely pissed right now.
HR said to me that I was overqualified for the job and they felt I was having a hard time taking orders from my manager. Bullshit. My manager was nuts. I did whatever she told me, and I did it without a face, without an annoyed voice. Very very carefully I kept my face and voice always polite no matter what it was.
Oh and did I mention that she seemed way overwhelmed all the time, very annoyed all the time, and outright told me that it was a mistake to be DOS because it was too much work?
And yes, I sent a nice long letter to HR detailing everything I told you in great attention to detail and more. Unfortunately this is a work at will state so I am screwed.
Let me add, last Monday I almost passed out from an anxiety attack from this place.
Within 3 days, I knew there was going to be a serious problem at some point because my direct manager was a bundle of nerves, touchy as hell, and did NOT want to train me.
She left for vacation three days after I started for a week so I had to just figure things out. I didn't even have all my access codes for anything until last week so it was hard to do my job.
After she got back, I was told that I wasn't supposed to ask anything of anyone but her in any way ever because it made her look like she didn't know how to do her job.
She'd disappear for hours at a stretch without telling me where she was going or when she'd be back.
She told HR that I didn't know how to do a weekly report after being shown three times... yes that's because she would never let ME do it. She insisted she had to show me, without allowing me to actually do it once, and never let me actually do it. So no, I didn't know how to do it because SHE WOULD LET ME. You don't learn by being shown, you learn by DOING and making mistakes.
And oh make a mistake, and she's be making annoyed noises, groans, and growls, and mumbling under her breath about how stupid people are.
Then she complained that I wasn't doing certain reports right. You mean the one where I had a number one in the wrong column once? Oh its the end of the world. Or how about the ones where I'd do them according to what the contract stated, but she would have emails and the like in her email and not having given them to me and not printed them out to be put in the file, so when I filled out the form it was wrong and then she blamed me for it.
Or how about the one where I mistakenly altered a charge because I had been told that nothing was ever supposed to be posted as miscellaneous and it was posted as miscellaneous, then after I did it I was told that I was wrong and its ok to post to miscellaneous provided it was the hotels fault.
Or how about how every day she wanted me to go in to VIP people, then she'd go back to change them even though I was following the lost she gave me to VIP certain status' of guest. EVERY SINGLE DAY. So even though I was following the list she gave me, I was supposed to VIP only the ones she wanted even though those were sometimes on the list, and sometimes if they were in the list, they weren't supposed to be VIP'd.
Apparently I was supposed to be a mind reader.
I knew it. I just knew within the first three days that this bitch was going to be high maintenance hell.
Glad its over but I'm severely pissed right now.
HR said to me that I was overqualified for the job and they felt I was having a hard time taking orders from my manager. Bullshit. My manager was nuts. I did whatever she told me, and I did it without a face, without an annoyed voice. Very very carefully I kept my face and voice always polite no matter what it was.
Oh and did I mention that she seemed way overwhelmed all the time, very annoyed all the time, and outright told me that it was a mistake to be DOS because it was too much work?
And yes, I sent a nice long letter to HR detailing everything I told you in great attention to detail and more. Unfortunately this is a work at will state so I am screwed.
Let me add, last Monday I almost passed out from an anxiety attack from this place.
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