Better no boss than a bad boss.
I work for a public transport company, selling tickets, helping people to get to places, and normally working in a one man office.

My boss, a bloke I liked and thought well of, strict but fair, had left. He wasn't to everyones taste, but then some people don't like having to do their jobs.

So the company promoted a woman, lets call her Sybil (nothing like her real name), into his job.
Problem number one: This woman had a clique of friends, most of whom worked in the station she had her office at. So from the day she was appointed, they would all find excuses to spend hours in her office going over figures...sorry, smoking their lungs out and drinking tea (requests for which would come through to the staff frantically trying to deal with customers.) Dare to comment on it, and your roster became earlies at the furthest point from your home she could manage.
Problem number two: Her people skills were barely noticeable. When the results of 'mystery shoppers' came out, her friend with 80% got more congratulations than her non-friend with 100%.
Problem three: She could be emotional. I worked a shift where the electricity went off. No trains, no internet, no tannoys, and very little info being passed on by phone. So I wrote an email later suggesting that if it happened again, it should be the job of somebody at her station to ring the outer stations and explain the problem. I wasn't nasty, I had a bit of a moan because I'd been moaned at by the passengers because I couldn't tell them what was happening. Ten minutes after I sent it, her deputy rang me to ask me to apologise to her because I'd upset her.
Problem four: She never responded to personal messages about matters concerning the job.

This went on for about two years, we'd get information when,and if, she could be bothered to send it.

Eventually, enough was enough. One of her friends had a month off 'sick' (we knew she was doing her garden), another one we worked out was having enough fag breaks to represent nearly a months paid leave over the course of a year, and the monthly 1-2-1 meetings we should have had with her hadn't happened at all.
I contacted our independant review body, about another matter but mentioned that our boss had shown no interest in a safety issue.
A couple of days later I got a phone call asking me a load of questions about her, and asking me to submit a written report.

Two months later, she was seen to be clearing her office out, under supervision, and was then escorted from the premises.
It turns out that there was quite a lot of the stations budget finding its way into personal objects, and several people had complained about her attitude.

We then got a great boss, the staff liked her, she treated everyone fairly, and really cared.
Then she got pregnant, and moved up the ladder.

And now we've got the original boss back, still pissing the lazy buggers off by making them work.
(paof2 Nude might not be rude, but rude could be nude..., Fri 19 Jun 2009, 14:46, 1 reply)

Nice to hear a happy ending :)

(Scritty Bakerman., Sun 21 Jun 2009, 10:17, closed)