Horrible Jargon Boss
I had a boss years ago that would never meet your eye.
He'd be looking up at the ceiling, down at your shoes,
over at the desk next to you, but never look at you
directly. You'd get dizzy talking to him.

He loved jargon, and used all sorts of manager speak in
meetings. But he didn't understand it and would misuse the
terms. In one meeting he once said "We need to
come together - we need to combine our synergies".

...Which means we need to combine our combined energies.
I snickered at that.

He also tasked me and another co-worker to do the same task
at the same time, so he could see who would finish quicker.
Obviously we clashed - I overwrote the co-workers code and
we went to the manager when we found we were working on
the same thing. He mumbled something about metrics and
then gave me the task to finish. Sigh.

I had enough and turned in my resignation. The only time
he looked at me directly and told me "You need to give me
a plan on how to accomplish everything we planned for you
to do for the next year".

Funny, I had no plan for my work for the year, and had no
idea what I was to accomplish. So I gave a list of my
skills and work I was doing and planning on finishing before
I left.

Wasn't good enough - the response "I need that plan -
how are we to accomplish all that work for the year when
everyone is busy on other tasks". I wanted to suggest he
get on a computer and code it himself, but didn't.

I left quietly without responding to that without issue.

Whew!
(potted plant, Wed 24 Jun 2009, 19:31, 2 replies)

I thought that was going to be a poem.
It wasn't, was it?
(TheColonel, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 9:50, closed)

me too *disappointed*
(twiceydrinker hmmm is it pint time?, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 10:22, closed)