Dave’s Boss

After reading Dave’s blog, Weezil Breezes, I was inspired to use his boss as an example. No one, not even Dave should have to work for a guy like this.

Dave is a talented writer, devoted husband and father and a naturally funny guy. Here is his post with a few my annotations.

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Unreasonable: Adj. CheezWeezil’s boss

Let me set the scene for you. CheezWeezil has already spent the bulk of the day eye-ball deep in work goo, skipping half of lunch to get stuff done.

BB: (Employee has too much on his plate. Must skip half of lunch. Probably a regular occurence.)

Senor Boss creature arrives at 4:40 and asks me if a political candidate has given the information we need for his website.

BB: (Great time of the day to be asking questions like that.)

“uh… no.”

He leaves my office.

A minute later he is back and he tells me that we will be building a website and it needs to be up in the next few minutes, because the client is trying to see it.

“Oh, really?” CheezWeezil says. “Do you have any content for me?”

“They are saving it for you.”

Then he shows me the mailer that the new site is to be patterned from.

A few minutes later he hands me his cell phone. It is the client. The boss tells me to ask for whatever I need to get the site up. By the way, he has already told the client that we have the site done, and all we need is this info to get it launched. He told them that before I had even heard I would be building the website. SHEESH!

BB: (Boss doesn’t care about his employee. His employee exists to make him successful. There is no need to be considerate or communicate. The universe revolves around the boss.)

I set to work with no content, and a very vague description of what was wanted for the site. About 20 minutes later, I am still waiting for images, but have a format setup. Finally some images arrive, but wonder of wonders, they aren’t the ones I need.

BB: (Boss will continue to expect employee to meet the unreasonable demands, no matter how ludicrous they get.)

Another ten minutes passes until I finally get the right images. I go into hyper-drive and slam out 3 pages based on the mailer I was shown.

At about 5:20 I was wrapping up, and the boss walked by. I called him in to look at what I had.

“That’s all you have?” he asked. “We’ve been telling him what great things we can do. That’s not very great.”

BB: (After being insensitive, mouthing off demands like a monarch, not delivering on promised material, this boss now proceeds to insult his employee)

“And I haven’t had very much time to work on it either.” I replied.

BB: (Employee responds appropriately. Fires back at the ridiculous claim that the employee’s work wasn’t that good.)

I flipped through the pages.

He had me add another panel from the mailer which took about 10 minutes. I uploaded that and went home fuming.

BB: (Boss is unhappy, employee is unhappy. Another day in hell working for Dave’s boss.)

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Wouldn’t you like to work for Dave’s boss?

Do you work for Dave’s boss?