My boss deserves to burn in hell for all eternity

[XemaSab]

So there's this project known to one and all as BFE Bridge, so called because we're building a big, fancy bridge in a rural corner of the county.

The environmental documents are three months late.

Yesterday we talked to the client and the client said they wanted the documents on Friday. My boss then asked the client which document was the NEPA document and which was the CEQA document, but I digress.

So today I was supposed to go to a wetlands workshop put on by the Army Corps. I'm the wetlands person in my group, so this is sort of important.

My boss decides that instead of me going to the wetlands workshop, I need to stay in the office and make sure the document is sent to the client. This involves checking the printed out copies to make sure all 5 figures are in the right place, and actually sending the email to the client with the PDFs.

This is 10 whole minutes of work that my boss is too ignorant/lazy to do herself.

I am really, really, really pissed.

[MorningGlow]

1. That sucks!

If it's any consolation, it's a pretty common rotten-boss trait. At my last job (the one I quit outright and damn the torpedoes full speed ahead into dinners of rice for the whole family every night), the manager of the design department would get a job from another department, let it rot on his desk for months, either ignore e-mails from the client asking where the job was or respond with really pessimistic e-mails at how hard the job was and how long it was going to take, and generally ignore it (and this guy did no actual design work at all--he spent all day, every day reminding people he was the MANAGER, though).

Then, if the client went over his head to the VP and the VP started asking questions, before going to meet with the VP, the manager would hand it off to one of his designers and tell them it had to be done RIGHT THEN, and in the meeting with the VP tell him that he didn't know what the problem was--he had given it to his designer and they were making it late.

One of the reasons I quit: I was being shifted from one department to another, and this asswipe was going to be my boss. I don't THINK so.

:puke:

On edit: Can't spel when multi-taksing.

[ThomCat]

2. I hope his boss knows that he's the bottleneck

that's risking the project.

:hug:

[BluePatriot]

3. Yeah, that's stupid

I am getting the "menial work only" treatment around here so I know how it feels. I have a hunch they will then accuse me of goofing around to get rid of me b/c the work has decreased so drastically. They are in for a fight though. They'll have to fire me to get rid of me, I don't care how uncomfortable or stupid they make it, and, internet usage isn't "interfering with my productivity" as per the company manual because I have no WORK.