Once again I have been called on the carpet for being too loud plus other things.
Just had a meeting and my boss said that we can’t have a repeat of yesterday like that was all the info I needed. I had no idea what he was talking about and he seemed frustrated that he needed to spell it out.
Things had gotten better, he is trying, but man oh man, he just can’t deal with the extra that comes with The Gina. He values 70% of me and seems to really want the other 30% to be eliminated. And since he has told me what to stop, he is angry/frustrated that I am not doing it to his satisfaction. Quote: “I don’t care about better, I care about effective.” And he doesn’t feel he should have to tell me when I am only better but not completely to his satisfaction.
Admittedly, he has told I am too loud many times and I do what I can to keep it down, but other than never talking or only whispering, I don’t know what else I can do. And not talking or only whispering is not something I can survive.
There are worse bosses out there but I am not sure is this isn’t an area where it is extrememly bad for me because of who I am and what I need. In theory, I don’t have too much trouble with bosses other people can’t work for. I guess one of the hardest things is that he is a nice guy and it is right on the border of being workable. If he was truly and completely bad, I would already be out of here without any effort.
Guess that job hunt has gotten more important again. Damn.
Count down 11 days to go until I reach my 5 year mark and am fully vested. After that it is a toss.
I think the question is *who* is being bothered by your “loudness?” If he’s just a putz, and he’s the only one who notices, well, I guess you can guess my opinion – sometimes people just need SOMETHING to fixate on. Screw ‘em. If it’s legitimately bothering other people in the workplace then I suppose there’s something to be considered.
I am totally with you on this. The sad part is he is claiming that he has gotten many complaints about me. I have managed to track some of those complaints down (he does not like letting me know who made them) and found that he is full of it. It seems that he is projecting his issues onto other people and then counting it as a complaint against me by those people. Since he is the source of information, I can’t tell how many are valid complaints and how many are him having issues with me. I am now convinced that most of his issues are just issues he has with me and not actually gathered from many people. I can’t be annoying as many people as he says I am in the last 6 months when I didn’t in the previous four and a half years.
And I can’t just say Screw’em because he is my boss and he treats me poorly and rides my case about other things when he is not pleased with me. If it was others outside of my line of command, I would pat them on the head and not worry about them being fixated on something stupid.
Thanks for the support.
How about leaving his office supplies suspended in jello?
Yeah, get out ASAP. Does your work have an HR department?