Yeah I think I’ve got enough things that could add up to a medical discharge.
Body is busted up, plenty of crap and now my back is cooked.
Mental Health is completely shot as you’d expect so I should be able to get out based on that alone.
Yeah I think I’ve got enough things that could add up to a medical discharge.
Body is busted up, plenty of crap and now my back is cooked.
Mental Health is completely shot as you’d expect so I should be able to get out based on that alone.
All the best mate, fingers crossed for you!
So we’re a weird company where we have internal customers and external customers. We have an internal team, who’s head, absolutely hates me, because I took an entire team away from her (I never wanted it, but the MD made it happen). The internal team is a decent enough sized customer, but the boss raises System Improvement Requests like there’s no tomorrow. She also bullshits her way through and never accepts any blame.
She once raised an SIR on my team, because her staff wrote down the wrong turn around request when submitting work to us, and then had a go at us for going for a coffee break and not getting her work out earlier.
She’s now raised another SIR on my team, because she wanted access to my lab on a Saturday, of which we’re closed. I’ve explained to her it’s not happening as I’ve got confidential info on my computers and they can’t be locked. The kicker, is she’s emailed all the senior people in our company, including my boss, complaining that I refused a request to assist her work and caused her to lose a minor bit of work. The irony is that she called my work phone on a Saturday, asking me access to the lab on the same day. I don’t carry my work phone on me on a Saturday, further to that, I would have had to go out and open the door for them, as the doors are padlocked. She knew about the work earlier, so I could have had someone on standby if she was organised.
I’ve honestly not met someone like her before and I just don’t get how she has an suppliers that are willing to work with her. She’s constantly picking fights with myself, but the thing is, she does it when her team are obviously at fault, so it ends up going back onto her in any case.
Sounds like she’s ready-made for a job in blame-shifting politics.
It’s honestly perplexing. She had a massive go at us a while back. She submitted samples for asbestos analysis that we said were negative. An auditor saw the report and queried it, claiming that it was from a known contaminated area. They gave two new samples to us, two new samples to another lab that all came back positive. She raised an SIR that went to the GM and MD, claiming we reported false negative reports. The thing is, when you read the SIR, it reads as though she took the first samples submitted to us and sent them to an external lab, that reported them positive.
My favourite part of that one, was she has staff that can analyse asbestos samples, as can our managing director. I suggested to her that her staff and the MD could come in to confirm whether the initial samples were negative or positive. There was no response at all to that one…
I feel like that is going to blow up sooner rather than later. Keep that all on record, in my opinion. That could be very necessary to bring up to show what she’s doing.
My boss is the MD and he generally backs up the lab which is good. The GM has a decent relationship with me as well. With the asbestos thing, he called me when he heard and when I explained what had happened, I was completely fine, which is good.
We did just have an ISO 9001 audit and the only section that passed with flying colours, was the labs. So I was definitely extremely proud of that.
Just sounds like your standard self-obsessed middle manager to be honest. Everyone else exists to serve her needs and be blamed for any of her mistakes. Only senior management can pull those types into line. Other than that everyone else has to suffer.
She’s senior in the structure which is scary… reports straight to the GM
I’m sure different industries have different cultures and approaches, but just play a straight bat, keep records of everything and ask the innocent but illuminating questions when you can. But don’t make it look too obvious/sarcastic, just the right amount.
If she is copying in the world, be the sane rational one in the chain.
Give her the opportunity to make a fool out of herself and keep yourself clean behaviourally
Just had a quick catchup with a few friends from my last job.
9 months later and they still haven’t adequately replaced me.
I told my old boss at some point he’d need two people two replace me!
Similar situation to me.
I left in January. Old employer is a small business and still haven’t suitably replaced me and did a not so subtle call out to the industry press trying to find someone.
No regrets on my end though, have increased my income by over 30% in the new role after my recent pay review and significantly better work life balance in the larger corporate.
Only issue has been the 2 trips to Melbourne this year.
Loyalty really doesn’t pay.
I go once or twice a month. You get used to it.
I’ve missed out on my first ever work trips and honestly I don’t care.
I’m currently the business manager for our Perth, Canberra and Hobart showrooms. In the next month trips have been arranged so we can go visit all our assigned dealerships. Whilst it would have been a little fun I guess, I don’t need the added stress of flying around the country.
Earlier this year before I decided to leave, I did "joke"with my manager to see ifxwe could line the Perth trip up with Sydney’s away day in Perth, but she didn’t understand the reasoning.
Either way, I start my new job on Wednesday and honestly looking forward to something fresh and less stressful.
I hate travelling for work and try and do it as little as possible, places like Telford, Macclesfield, Southend and Birmingham make Melbourne appealing to me. Although next trip is Munich and have done nice places like Amsterdam, Paris, Barcelona and Antwerp, I’d still much prefer to just stay at home, it’s not like you get to enjoy the places when you’re there for work (except for the time we did Oktoberfest).
Travel for work fucking blows. Glad I haven’t had to do it for the last 2.75 years.
Hiring someone in Melbourne so I’ll need to go down every couple of months moving forward, which is annoying but I’ll live. Schedule it with league games I think!
I’m on the same money, with less stress and a day that I can actually get everything done in.
And oddly enough I’m not gagging for a beer at 10am. I had one midday this afternoon and got a buzz from it I’m drinking so little atm.
My travel for work in China was the worst. CC wasnt accepted anywhere. Just stuck in the hotel in a dull industrial regional city
My travel this year for work to Japan was fucking ace. Centre of Kyoto, shinkansen to work, peak cherry blossom season etc.
Favourite though was my first ever international work trip as a 20-something yo: Paris and Prague on a boozy conference circuit.
Just about all domestic australian work trips have been a grind. I consider myself lucky I havent had to go interstate in past 2 roles and would actively avoid such a requirement in future jobs
Travel is always a hard one. I actually usually enjoy it, but then was hard with my first born as I felt I was missing a big part of her life when I was away. It’s a bit easier now with the kids, but I generally only do a two day trip.
The big one I find, is trying to organize a dinner with work friends or clients, so at least I can have something a bit nicer rather than just being stuck in a hotel room with takeaway. Otherwise it’s just airport-work-hotel-work-airport over the 2 days period.
I’ve only ever travelled once for work and while it was enjoyable enough at the start, by lunch on the first day i was over it.
Don’t know how people do it regularly.