How do you deal with your psycho boss?

[Nlighten1]

For the last 6 months I have been trying to figure out WTF is wrong with my new boss. I have come to the conclusion that she is just plain crazy. She stabs me in the back every chance she gets but smiles so pretty to my face.

This isn't a "feel sorry for me" thread. Let me tell you what I did. I documented all of the communication I have with this witch. If I have a verbal communication with her I always follow it up with an email so she can't say..."you didn't tell me"...(which she does)...I also created a daily diary where I record all her interaction with me. This includes her talking about me behind my back a fact that my co-workers have gleefully filled me in on...

All of it paid off today...she is cutting my hours to my clients and sending other consultants out. I called her on it and she told me a bald faced lie to try and cover her tracks.


Document, document, document...

What do you do?

[tridim]

1. I quit

My last boss got me in trouble dozens of times by lying to our clients. Unfortunately it took me 8 months to find a new job.

[Nlighten1]

2. I think that is where I am headed.

However, she found out today that this dog has teeth. I think I am going to rally everyone in my office to rebel against her.

[radwriter0555]

3. Find a new job.

Why stick around for that crap?

[Nlighten1]

5. Because I get paid well...

and before she came along everything was great...

[liberalnurse]

4. She has a boss too....

Go to the next level. You have documentation as your back-up if really needed.....but keep it on ice for as long as possible.

1. Address your concerns without bias...(thats going to be tough)

2. Keep it to the point, state facts; identify your attempts to
resolve the concerns with the initial boss and her
response...then share how she did not comply with her agreement.

3. What you expect from the meeting; your goals.

4. Then, you can add that she appears to of retaliated in response
to your addressing concerns of her mis-management.

Good Luck......

[Bertha Venation]

6. I can't win.

My boss is an attorney who excels at belittling her underlings. My best strategy is to realize that I can't win and act abject for her benefit. Little does she know that I am superior to her in many ways, and the things that she does that hurt me are temporary.

(Stupid woman doesn't even realize she causes harm. She is never wrong when she chastises; she never takes humanity or reality into consideration when giving me, her subordinate, a "talking to;" she refuses to acknowledge my initiative, my contributions....)

I have management on my side; they're used to reassigning secretaries whose attorneys treat them like shit. I can quit working for her without losing my job -- the law firm will post me as sec'y to w/ a different attorney -- so she just keeps digging her grave deeper. She just doesn't know it yet.

All I have to do is pick up the phone and she's up Shit's Creek -- will lose the best assistant she's ever had. I'm irreplacable unless she hires outside the firm and spends her own money. It's very empowering to a drone to know quitting is an option.

[HEyHEY]

7. I quit

YOu may remember the story, I'll break it down.

I don't need to be called a fuckhead just because I had a idea he didn't happen to like. The fucker is lucky I didn't punch him, instead I walked out.

[Deja Q]

8. Your post and the responses...

Are frightening.

A new boss that intimidates and lies and scares wants the employees to mosy on out. The new boss probably wants to bring in personal friends and/or outsource the work.

That is what my new boss (of 2 years and 6 fewer employees later, whose replacements are either half-time or trainee status so she pays out less money) is doing.

We're union and she's managed to make us disheartened of the union as well. A coworker got in big trouble for a non-issue and if he had gone to the union, they could have started the process to get the boss reprimanded, but then the new boss would find new ways to get after him... (indeed, the new boss is definitely targeting PC support staff with new policies that put us in a bad spot which, either way, means the end of us as employees because our users will hate us or we won't be following the rules. :mad: :grr: )

[Nlighten1]

9. Good grief...

this is the sort of thing that sends moral through the floor.

[banana republican]

10. FIRE YOUR BOSS

Get a new job; and tell him that he is fired.

If a boss is not worth working for he should be fired.