Get off my fvcking back!

[MaxDepth]

Jeebus, people!

I have done the work of four other people in this department to which I was merged into. I have been a developer, programmer, and manager in the IT field for 20 years. Let me just say:

• Let me have my own project. I am not some kid out of school or someone in their first IT project. Don't try to do half the work and then hand it to me when you get bored or way over head.

• Don't bean counter me to death. When I work on a project I don't need someone IM-ing me every time a new defect pops up. I can see the defect chart as well as you can.

• Don't promise something of me to others before asking me. And don't get all pissy when I say I won't meet your deadline. I don't get paid to take work home. i work 8 hours a day and 40 hours a week. You don't give me overtime so don't give me sh!t.

• When a defect isn't turned around in 24 hours it is because I am either working on something more important or there is more to the defect which needs more study. Just because you know nothing except being a self important middle manager, doesn't mean you have the right to either talk down to me or write silly petulant emails to me and BCC your boss.

• I was not hired by your boss. I was hired by someone else who expected me to work in a professional and expert manner. By giving me sh!t assignments, all you are doing is wasting my time and making me overpaid. When I worked for the other manager, I was a part of the team, not some red-headed stepchild. And I won awards for my work, so don't give me, "I don't know anything," sh!t.

• Your department architect and expert networking person cannot migrate a server and set up simple security. You all suck as information developers - You never, never use personal pronouns when describing inanimate objects.

• Yes, I beat you all in the departmental quiz game for correct presentation, company style guidelines, and general grammar. Yes, my score was more than half of all yours combined. I don't flaunt it, so get over it.

• To you there is the right way and your way. Too bad you only see one of them.

Thank God companies are starting to hire again in this region. (And in Austin where I'd like to move to.) I'll be professional and give a two weeks notice, but I'll never work for this group again.

/rant unistall.sh

EDIT:
Oops, spelling wasn't checked. But it is still grammatically correct.
And danke all for your comments, I really wouldn't be so upset if she hadn't slept with Lumbergh!

 

[Chumpman]

good story

 

[SP33Demon]

You should add Rant to the title.

 

[Adul]

good call

no be sure to send this email t them afterwards

 

[Adul]

Originally posted by: SP33Demon
You should add Rant to the title.

I miss windogg's rants
they where classic

 

[pyonir]

You look like you have a lot of work to do. You should get back to it.

 

[PanzerIV]

Max, are you able to express any of your feelings to these individuals in a subtle or not so subtle way or is it such a situation that you have to keep it bottled up? Anyway, good luck in your job search. It sounds like you need a change of scenery.

 

[MaxDepth]

Originally posted by: SP33Demon
You should add Rant to the title.

Hmm, I thought the expletive would be enough.

PanzerIV The department manager pulled me into a little private conversation last week, saying she wasn't getting a good feeling from her middle managers. (Which they should be managing at all, they don't have mgr level - they are really supposed to be my peers.)

I asked her for specific guidelines. I follow those guidelines until one of them howls that I am making them look bad. It really is messed up here. Half of the department can do the work, if they didn't have this lil' chiefs syndrome here. And yeah, I am not fitting in here. At first I thought it was all my fault until I described the work around here to some of the more astute people in the business. And trying to inculcate a real work ethic here just gets me into trouble. So I've quit trying to teach them how to be professional and just keep my head down. I grit my teeth when someone tells me to do something I know is wrong and I just do it. When I have to go back and fix that mistake I do inform the other person with copies of earlier messages where it puts me in the right.

Of course this probably irritates them and make them more pissy, but I do cover my ass with this paper trail so the only way the can let me go is to let my contract expire before I leave. And even if they do, it will be hard to sell another contractor to the larger company when I can show I did everything they asked me to do.

 

[Yossarian]

Look, if you would put cover sheets on your TPS reports I wouldn't have to have these little talks with you.

 

[GroundZero]

be a man, quit if you don't like it.

 

[KMurphy]

Yes, I beat you all in the departmental quiz game for correct presentation, company style guidelines, and general grammer. Yes, my score was more than half of all yours combined. I don't flaunt it, so get over it.

Someone had to

 

[OutHouse]

9+/10 nice rant.

 

[Howard]

Um, yeah, I'm gonna need you to come in Saturday...

 

[MaxDepth]

Originally posted by: GroundZero
be a man, quit if you don't like it.

That is easy to say. It is another to decide which will put something in already weak bank account, pride or money.

And could it viewed another way as being more of a man by sticking with it until something better comes along, instead of quiting when times get tough?

 

[Koing]

Originally posted by: PipBoy
Look, if you would put cover sheets on your TPS reports I wouldn't have to have these little talks with you.

muahahahah

9/10 for good rant. Don't see many of these now a days.

Koing

 

[wyvrn]

Nice rant!