lol our crazy IT manager

[clamum]

Wow, he sounds like a real fucking moron. If I were you I'd be either trying to push him over the edge so he quits, or trying to find a new job. I couldn't deal with that kinda bullshit for too long.

 

[preslove]

Do you guys not have HR departments to handle these issues or are you too lazy use the appropriate channels?

The OP sounds like he works for a contracting company that has a contract with the company that employ's his "boss." So the HR department can't do jack shit & the OP's actual employer doesn't want to rock the boat too much for fear of loosing their current contract.

 

[Red Squirrel]

The OP sounds like he works for a contracting company that has a contract with the company that employ's his "boss." So the HR department can't do jack shit & the OP's actual employer doesn't want to rock the boat too much for fear of loosing their current contract.

Pretty much this. I've seriously thought of writing to HR (of the company the IT manager is employed by) just to let them know. We also got a new CEO and he's a really nice laid back kind of guy, I've even thought of scheduling a meeting with him so we can discuss everything.

Though if either of those were to fail it would backfire very badly. So we just learn to deal with this guy.

Oh and L1 = help desk, L2 = desktop support and L3 = server support. I'm L3. Sometimes server and desktop stuff can coincide, like a problem with an application could potentially be a server issue, or we may have to check the server for something, so we'll often work together to resolve an issue.

Sounds like my old boss. Honestly, he's a waste of human skin.

Cares only about himself, comes in to work an hour late wearing jeans, t-shirt, and a baseball hat. Often comes in smelling of booze. Openly tells people he doesn't care and wants projects to fail. Signs contracts with vendors based on his friendships with them or who gives him the best perks. Even when a project won't be completed on time or in a proper manner, tells his boss everything is A-OK. Tells his employees that he'll fire them on the spot if they tell his boss about this stuff.

Former co-worker told me the other week he told someone to undo something they've been working on for 2 weeks. They calmly asked him "before I do this I just want to make sure you understand that I'll be undoing XYZ and ABC will happen?" Boss stands up and yells "do I look like I'm ready to discuss this shit with you? I'm the boss you do what I fucking say!" He repeated the same feet of unprofessionalism to an 8 month pregnant co-worker the next day and then sent her home early for having the audacity to question him.

Meanwhile, he leaves work in the middle of the day to go golfing and get drunk.

His boss is the biggest tool in the world for allowing it to continue.

That's insane. Some people really should not be a manager or have any kind of authority.

That's very similar to ours except ours always dresses in a huge suit like a big shot. He has like 5 PHDs and always brags about them and how he's better then everyone. He always brings up "In my 35 years of experience...". It makes me laugh when he refers to that as far as It goes because, 35 years ago, things were WAY different then now as far as computers go. He's also the type of guy that if you "only" went to college, you're not that good, and you're probably a redneck. He was even trying to tell a doctor how to do his job once lol. That's pretty bad.

Another incident that makes me lol is when some raid 0 array failed and I was given the task of getting that server back up and running. It was a server we had no idea even existed let alone having to support it. There was zero documentation on what software was on there. He expected us to have the server fully up and running within a week exactly how it was before. I tried to explain to him countless times what raid 0 is, and why it was a bad idea. He was still "I don't care, I just want it fixed" attitude. We did end up getting it to work as my coworker has some data recovery tools and we were able to recover most of the data off the drive but not enough to make it bootable. The Dr who owned that server was laid back about it, he knew the extent of it, and that it was not our fault as it was not even us who set it up in first place.

Oh man, I could go on, what a crazy guy lol. I do think we should push him over the edge lol. He normally comes in our office at least 5 times a day to soap box us on w/e the topic of the day is, and he actually has not done it in over 3 days. There's totally something weird going on, I can feel it, and it's actually kind of fun. I like chaos, a bit. I hope he's about to get fired or something.

 

[PCTC2]

Oh man. This thread reminds me of my old job. We had three levels, Programmer/Analyst 1 through 3, the boss being a P/A4. The PA3 got his own office, but the PA2s worked with the PA1s (I was a PA1). The organization was not there and the PA4 was often on YouTube, but would complain when I brought in my own computer to work because the computer they gave me died and they wouldn't replace it. I often did work not in my job description and he would approach me whenever anything went wrong or overtime. I had to do a server set-up (the PA4 area) because he didn't know it and made me stumbled through it, probably thinking I'd fail miserably so he could fire me. Luckily I'm friends with the PA2s so they helped cover some other PA1 work for me while I finished the server perfectly. I had to do a few of those tasks. Finally quit because he gave me a 2 week vacation when he changed the hierarchy and put a PA2 as my supervisor and when he went on his 2 week honeymoon, the PA4 wouldn't let me work. So I took those 2 weeks as my 2 week notice and left. Everyone hated him but the department head liked him so he stayed, despite having multiple official complaints against him. When management left, he was the first to go. Then the entire IT department was fired.

 

[Fritzo]

My manager thinks that everything he reads in those "how to run your business better" emails and books is true and applies to our company. Every week he has a new gimmick to build efficiency and team building. I suggested once that we could increase efficiency by working instead of going to efficiency meetings.

He took it hard.

 

[FoBoT]

my co-worker just found this great article

http://www.computerworld.com/s/arti...n_truth_about_why_your_IT_sucks?taxonomyId=14

Everyone prefers competence. Everyone wants to do the right thing. But just as IT pros act and react logically according to their perceptions, so do the executives who employ them. Both approach IT with the same intention, but the outcome -- for lack of a better term -- sucks. And it sucks more as time goes on.

Don't take my word for it; ask your own IT pros or someone else's. Read any IT or CIO survey over the past couple of decades and you'll find that the same problems reported this year have been reported every year. Do a little more research and you'll find that IT morale is disturbingly low, stress is ridiculously high, and the best people are lost to burnout while the worst are rewarded. Project success rates are as comically low as the average term of a CIO is conveniently short. IT is assaulted by snake oil salesmen and extremists from the churches of IT outsourcing, insourcing or whatever-sourcing who promise that their latest buzzword will save everyone in tidy, graphable ways.

read the whole article it is spot on

 

[Ausm]

Send him a message to go fuck himself from another cubicle.

 

[bobross419]

Send him a message to go fuck himself from another cubicle.

This

 

[kalrith]

Send him a message to go fuck himself from another cubicle.

So now he has super powers and can be in two cubicles at once?

 

[ahurtt]

Have you ever heard of ass-pennies? Sounds like you need to give this guy some of those.

 

[Sea Moose]

Does redsquirel realise that his evil boss could be read these posts? Now that would be hilarious. Dude if he gives you shit, "trip" and head butt the fucker!

 

[zinfamous]

hmm, perhaps the only value of HR:

submit complaints detailing his lack of experience and knowledge regarding the department that he is expected to manage, his overall incompetence, and general shitiness as a manager.

The last thing that a manager wants is a review from HR.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Does redsquirel realise that his evil boss could be read these posts? Now that would be hilarious. Dude if he gives you shit, "trip" and head butt the fucker!

Haha yeah I thought of that, but it's too vague, and I highly doubt he even visits any tech sites. Now if I posted his name I'd probably ask for it as it would end up searchable on google lol. Maybe in the future when I'm working another job.

And yeah we've thought about a letter to HR and it's still not out of the question. We need to get the IS guys involved (they work FOR him, as opposed to us being contractors). They'er all fed up and stressed as well. A job has no reason to be stressful if the environment is proper, this guy ruins the environment and creates stress.

 

[Sea Moose]

Poor redsquirel. Perhaps you need to scare the fuck out of him.