SubJeff on 30/7/2014 at 20:00
Or the bossboss looks into it properly, because he's a good bossboss, and finds out that you were doing something really useful. He's heard stuff about your boss nixxing useful stuff like this for petty reasons before, you get your recognition and the boss gets told to cut out that dumb thinking and not to pick on you because you reported this.
Tony_Tarantula on 30/7/2014 at 20:32
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Or the bossboss looks into it properly, because he's a good bossboss, and finds out that you were doing something really useful. He's heard stuff about your boss nixxing useful stuff like this for petty reasons before, you get your recognition and the boss gets told to cut out that dumb thinking and not to pick on you because you reported this.
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http://files.doobybrain.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/disneyland-930x620.jpgShocked_ on 30/7/2014 at 22:06
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Not the intent. It's from a book that studied the way corporate America function in reality.
1988 is ancient history. I'm currently reading Daniel Goleman's book "Working with emotional intelligence." He claims that best companies have bosses that treat workers as humanbeings. Happier workers -> more profit. Well that makes sense right? It is true though that not all mid-level or even top-level bosses understand this.
I might be a bit swept away by this book, but I've felt this way even before reading it. I know that move like I described earlier might cost ones job and searching for a new one might be extremely difficult. In any case I wouldn't stand a bully like that and nor should any his superiors.
Tony_Tarantula on 31/7/2014 at 00:53
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1988 is ancient history. I'm currently reading Daniel Goleman's book "Working with emotional intelligence." He claims that best companies have bosses that treat workers as humanbeings. Happier workers -> more profit. Well that makes sense right? It is true though that not all mid-level or even top-level bosses understand this.
I might be a bit swept away by this book, but I've felt this way even before reading it. I know that move like I described earlier might cost ones job and searching for a new one might be extremely difficult. In any case I wouldn't stand a bully like that and nor should any his superiors.
The book was written in 1998, but was revised in 2009. Most of it still applies.
Shocked_ on 31/7/2014 at 10:08
Ah, OK. In your post you wrote it was released in 1988 but must have been a typo. Now that I checked Goleman's book is also published originally in 1998. I still don't think I'm being naive. Maybe it is because I'm studying (not to say I'm terribly young) to be an engineer in the IT. New startups (when does this buzzword just die?) in that field wouldn't succeed if founders were total assholes to their workers.
DDL on 31/7/2014 at 12:20
It's a fairly accurate description of the typical generic cubicle drone TPS-report style office hierarchy where drones do menial tasks with files, bigger drones do metamenial tasks with metafiles, and uberdrones play golf.
The kind of office everyone parodies in the movies, basically.
Not awfully reflective of many modern working conditions, but still probably appropriate for, say..banks. Or insurance companies.
Tony_Tarantula on 31/7/2014 at 13:13
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Not awfully reflective of many modern working conditions, but still probably appropriate for, say..banks. Or insurance companies.
Basically, that's how "big corporate" America functions.
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Here are some comments from the 2008 book Ahead of the Curve. That book was written by a member of the Harvard MBA Class of 2006 about being a student there.
[Carlyle Group founder David] Rubenstein looked like any other Wall Street elder statesman, in a blue pinstriped suit and owlish tortoiseshell glasses. But the moment he spoke, he revealed a droll, self-deprecating wit.
The difference between corporate leaders and those who start their own businesses, I had observed, was startling. The latter come across as so much smarter and independent-minded, so much less prone to platitudes, so much more comfortable in their own skins. There seems to be an anarchic streak in anyone who has taken a real risk in his life. And even when it has to burn its way through a pinstiped suit, it shows.
The entrepreneurs who came to campus...seemed to be both enamored of their own skills and hard work and appreciative of the luck it had taken for them to succeed. Despite being dogged Darwinian types, they were more understanding of the world and its insanity, somehow more forgiving. They reminded me more of generals who had expeienced war, while all the corporate stiffs and consultants and lawyers and bankers were like the politicians who sent men into battle, with no grasp of the consequences.
On a sidenote, here's a note by the website author who put that up
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With regard to the “generals who had experienced war,” they are rather rare. Those generals need to have experienced war as a lieutenant or captain because those are the ranks that go into battle. Few of today’s generals in the U.S. military experienced war as lieutenants and captains because there simply were no wars at that timSubJeff on 31/7/2014 at 19:41
What do you do for a living Tony?
Tony_Tarantula on 31/7/2014 at 20:23
Currently in the PM sector with previous experience as a GS employee.
SD on 31/7/2014 at 21:45
mxleader hasn't visited the forum since starting this thread.
His boss is probably wearing mx's testicles as earrings by now.
I haven't been in a situation like this before, but I know people who have, and once you are in this kind of conflict it inevitably seems to result with them or you getting the shaft. Usually you.
My advice would be to plant drugs in his office, followed by an anonymous tip off to the cops.
No, but seriously. You need to fix him. Preferably in a legal way. Welcome to the cutthroat world of business.
