My manager is hilarious... he's like Michael Scott with -30 intelligence.

[Zeze]

Oh man... a perfect middle manager indeed. Let's call him, Chris. I have a good relationship with him, but man, the things he does are sure cringey. Chris is about 40 years old. Apparently he has an MBA.

• Chris just doesn't have it together. He has like 15 reports. I found out, it wasn't just me. He was always late or completely missing the 1:1s he set up every 2 weeks. He stiffed like 4-5 people on a consistent basis. One woman hasn't had a 1:1 with him for 4 months, WTF? How hard is it maintain your own simple 15 meetings and just show up? Why would you do things that's only hurt your rep?

• He's poor with words, and tone-deaf. This is not good when you have to lead basic team conference meetings. He mentioned how he got pulled over, and provided a proof of insurance, then there was some kind of a dispute, then he got cuffed. Then he eventually won or something when sergeant showed up. That was both TMI and... had nothing to do with the topic? Just something about enduring hardships. IF he were a good story teller, people would've at least laughed. We were just dead quiet.
• So our director reached out to 15 of us via email for manager Chris' review. The director also specifically asked to 'take off the filters and speak from your hearts! Few days later, Chris posts on this on our team chat to everyone:

I love people
who gossip
behind my back.
That's exactly where they belong.
Behind my back.

Yes, above is an internet picture text.... probably from Instagram or something. Then he wrote, "HA-HA I love this quote..." then rants on about don't gossip, say it to his/her face. That's right. He turned the director-requested review process into an 16 yo instagram girl drama about gossips & say-it-to-my-face finger snapping.

Look at that grammar:

- Does venting considered gossip?
- This reminders me[...]

Man, 1/3 of his reports are older than him at 40-50s.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Upward feedback is rarely a good idea. A little over a decade ago, I started at a place that had upward feedback and my coworkers told me NOT to submit it. Apparently, they had all ripped the manager, she found out, and retaliated against all of them.

 

[Zeze]

Upward feedback is rarely a good idea. A little over a decade ago, I started at a place that had upward feedback and my coworkers told me NOT to submit it. Apparently, they had all ripped the manager, she found out, and retaliated against all of them.

Yea, I typed everything positive. Not falling for that. Risk my family well-being for their management review?

 

[clamum]

He sounds pretty squirrely

 

[DigDog]

What Zeze said.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Upward feedback is rarely a good idea. A little over a decade ago, I started at a place that had upward feedback and my coworkers told me NOT to submit it. Apparently, they had all ripped the manager, she found out, and retaliated against all of them.

Yeah, that's a test. It's not meant to acquire feedback on management level, it's used to weed out employees who are too stupid to live. If you actually submit upward feedback without stopping to think about the ten thousand ways it's going to end badly for you then you're fair game for whatever tortures they want to heap upon your clueless ass.

 

[FeuerFrei]

People should start standing behind him, literally ... or squatting. When he asks why, say "it's where I belong."

 

[OverVolt]

The underlying cause is probably some kind of cluster b personality type. He will do himself in with his lack of impulse control anyway.

 

[ultimatebob]

Wait, you have actual scheduled one on one meetings with your boss? I thought that those were just theoretical. The last few places where I've worked were so chronically understaffed and overworked that actual scheduled one on one meetings with everyone are basically impossible.

Hell, even getting 15 minutes of their time to confirm a project plan can be impossible at times. It tends to lead to a lot of "Why are you working on project X, do project Y instead" type e-mails, often followed by a e-mail from his boss a day or two later asking why project X isn't done yet

 

[dave_the_nerd]

The underlying cause is probably some kind of cluster b personality type. He will do himself in with his lack of impulse control anyway.

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When they do self-destruct, it takes forever and they hurt everyone around them.