Maetryx
Diamond Member
Maetryx here, 😎
My boss... man it's hard to even start. But I'll give it a go 😉
Him: an MBA
Me: a registered professional civil engineer
His job description: supposed to be a registered professional engineer
Him: may have once been a certified landfill manager, but let it lapse (or never had it... not sure)
Me: certified technical landfill associate
His job description: supposed to have the certification
Him: has a background in accounting/finance
Me: have a background in environmental engineering and land surveying'
His job description: supposed to have engineering experience
Him: paid as a Manager Level IV
Me: paid as a Manager Level II
Responsibilities and areas of operations that were assigned to me over the three years (they kept accumulating): hazardous waste, groundwater monitoring, landfill gas monitoring, leachate sampling, evaluating special waste for acceptability, junk car processing, heavy equipment purchasing including service contracts, landfill development surveying and reports, Community Right to Know Act Tier II Chemical Inventory reports, annual leachate reports, annual hazardous waste reports....
So basically I was doing darn near every technically challenging aspect of *his* job. He managed the contract for the transfer site haulers, which is worth a lot of money but is totally simple. He did most of the budget.... He let me do the hazardous waste facility budget so I quickly learned that this task is only moderately challenging... you reuse so much information from the previous years' budgets that it is simpler than it sounds.
He did most of the hiring. He did admin stuff. Basically he did a lot of things that would have been appropriate for the ASSISTANT MANAGER and I did a lot of stuff that would have been appropriate for the MANAGER. Our roles (and pay) were thus reversed.
Add to that the fact that he cannot manage people to save his life... he makes things confrontational, turns things into a cold war, treats grown men like children, jumps straight into a disciplinary action instead of just talking to someone about an issue...
Hell, he even likes to give all new hires a poor 6 month review and extend their probation. He did that to me(!) and several others that work there. I think he power trips a little.
Did I mention that he has no leadership skill? No vision? No committment to provide a professional solid waste program for the community. His management style is "How little can my department do?" and "How much can I get others to do for us?"
He plans on retiring from his position.... 17 years from now. It's nauseating. He'll never get a competent engineer to work for him for any length of time. I lasted 3 years. It was painful.
I also found out that he was just the wrong person in the right place to get that job. Back when he was assistant manager, they ELIMINATED HIS POSITION in the upcoming budget. But then the manager left and he became the acting manager.
They searched NATION-WIDE to find someone to become the manager, but for whatever reason no one stepped up to do it. I imagine location has a lot to do with it. So *poof*, they altered the job description to say that experience could substitute for being a licensed engineer and pretended that he was qualified.
They're still pretending. They'll be pretending all they way until they realize the MILLIONS of dollars he's going to cost them in landfill closure costs that they are OBLIGATED to set aside each year and he as failed to do so. Or when someone dies at one of his UNSTAFFED, UNCONTROLLED transfer sites that have become garbage toilets permanently swarmed by the dumpster diving vultures. Or maybe they'll stop pretending when they notice the turnover rate is rivaling McDonalds and Blockbuster... and it's a government job with unbelievably good benefits.
Well, I'm bailing. My ally/partner in the hazardous waste facility will probably bail in about 2 weeks. We lost an awesome senior secretary about a month ago. They'll keep hemmhoraging the good guys until they send the Manager on a permanent vacation.
-----side note stuff------
I inadvertently found the best week to leave a job with the local government: the first week of July. Here is why....
1) Monday was a Holiday, paid day off.
2) July 1st was the first day of the fiscal year so I accrued two personal holidays to use whenever I want. This is basically to appease people who are offended if they don't get holiday x off and they think they should (Martin Luther King's Birthday, Flag Day, Arbor Day, Groundhog Day... whatever).
3) Since this is MY LAST WEEK, I had to use my two personal holidays or lose them. I used them 🙂. So I only worked 2 days in my final week and get paid for five. Profit. 😀
My boss... man it's hard to even start. But I'll give it a go 😉
Him: an MBA
Me: a registered professional civil engineer
His job description: supposed to be a registered professional engineer
Him: may have once been a certified landfill manager, but let it lapse (or never had it... not sure)
Me: certified technical landfill associate
His job description: supposed to have the certification
Him: has a background in accounting/finance
Me: have a background in environmental engineering and land surveying'
His job description: supposed to have engineering experience
Him: paid as a Manager Level IV
Me: paid as a Manager Level II
Responsibilities and areas of operations that were assigned to me over the three years (they kept accumulating): hazardous waste, groundwater monitoring, landfill gas monitoring, leachate sampling, evaluating special waste for acceptability, junk car processing, heavy equipment purchasing including service contracts, landfill development surveying and reports, Community Right to Know Act Tier II Chemical Inventory reports, annual leachate reports, annual hazardous waste reports....
So basically I was doing darn near every technically challenging aspect of *his* job. He managed the contract for the transfer site haulers, which is worth a lot of money but is totally simple. He did most of the budget.... He let me do the hazardous waste facility budget so I quickly learned that this task is only moderately challenging... you reuse so much information from the previous years' budgets that it is simpler than it sounds.
He did most of the hiring. He did admin stuff. Basically he did a lot of things that would have been appropriate for the ASSISTANT MANAGER and I did a lot of stuff that would have been appropriate for the MANAGER. Our roles (and pay) were thus reversed.
Add to that the fact that he cannot manage people to save his life... he makes things confrontational, turns things into a cold war, treats grown men like children, jumps straight into a disciplinary action instead of just talking to someone about an issue...
Hell, he even likes to give all new hires a poor 6 month review and extend their probation. He did that to me(!) and several others that work there. I think he power trips a little.
Did I mention that he has no leadership skill? No vision? No committment to provide a professional solid waste program for the community. His management style is "How little can my department do?" and "How much can I get others to do for us?"
He plans on retiring from his position.... 17 years from now. It's nauseating. He'll never get a competent engineer to work for him for any length of time. I lasted 3 years. It was painful.
I also found out that he was just the wrong person in the right place to get that job. Back when he was assistant manager, they ELIMINATED HIS POSITION in the upcoming budget. But then the manager left and he became the acting manager.
They searched NATION-WIDE to find someone to become the manager, but for whatever reason no one stepped up to do it. I imagine location has a lot to do with it. So *poof*, they altered the job description to say that experience could substitute for being a licensed engineer and pretended that he was qualified.
They're still pretending. They'll be pretending all they way until they realize the MILLIONS of dollars he's going to cost them in landfill closure costs that they are OBLIGATED to set aside each year and he as failed to do so. Or when someone dies at one of his UNSTAFFED, UNCONTROLLED transfer sites that have become garbage toilets permanently swarmed by the dumpster diving vultures. Or maybe they'll stop pretending when they notice the turnover rate is rivaling McDonalds and Blockbuster... and it's a government job with unbelievably good benefits.
Well, I'm bailing. My ally/partner in the hazardous waste facility will probably bail in about 2 weeks. We lost an awesome senior secretary about a month ago. They'll keep hemmhoraging the good guys until they send the Manager on a permanent vacation.
-----side note stuff------
I inadvertently found the best week to leave a job with the local government: the first week of July. Here is why....
1) Monday was a Holiday, paid day off.
2) July 1st was the first day of the fiscal year so I accrued two personal holidays to use whenever I want. This is basically to appease people who are offended if they don't get holiday x off and they think they should (Martin Luther King's Birthday, Flag Day, Arbor Day, Groundhog Day... whatever).
3) Since this is MY LAST WEEK, I had to use my two personal holidays or lose them. I used them 🙂. So I only worked 2 days in my final week and get paid for five. Profit. 😀
