Disclaimer: This post is filled with vulgarity due to super high venting mode.
Out in the working world, it’s almost always essential to command a certain degree of respect from your colleagues, be it if they’re your juniors, your peers or your superiors. You do not necessarily have to like one another but you do have to respect them to a certain degree.
I have a problem respecting my own divisional manager at the moment. And it’s not because I am not trying at all in my part, rather, she has done nothing at all to try to gain my respect. I may be alone in the way I feel about this issue but to me, even when one is a superior or of a higher rank than everybody, one should ALWAYS try to gain the respect out of one’s subordinates. Not come in to work and start pissing around the place to mark one’s territory and assert one’s power before getting to know one’s subordinates.
If she’s really the best manager around, I would have respected her somewhat despite doing it begrudgingly. But she’s not the best manager around, in fact, she’s not even good. Yes, she may be able to execute tasks at a short period of time, but in a very disorganised way without stopping to think about the impact and end result. For me, when one is in a managerial role, one should be able to do all that, even if it’s within a limited area.
Months before she came in, I was adviced and asked repeatedly not to benchmark her against the previous manager and I’m proud to say I have never did anything like that before. Not once. But she came in with her nose held up high, going about doing things without even keeping her subordinates in the loop, can’t even write properly, credit MY work as her own without any mentions of me or my colleagues at all, doesn’t even bother to understand what the company, the product and the processes of how things work in the company and the biggest no-no of all things, she always, always points her finger at me when things go wrong.
I do not hate her for hate is a terrible word to use. However, I do dislike her intensely and it’s slowly making its way into the core of my soul. I have dreams of wanting to slap her around for being such a bitch. And mind you, she’s ditzy. And she’s only good at giving instructions to people and not executing certain things herself, even when it falls within her job scope! Oh yeah, speaking of giving instructions, sure she can give instructions, but she’s lousy at them! And when something doesn’t go the way she expected it to be, she actually had the nerve to say that I don’t understand her instructions at all?! She tried to put the blame on me again and I’m pissed off, I really am! Things that she never instructed at all, she said she did. F**k her! If she’s so good at everything, then do everything herself! Don’t freaking get me to do it and then take credit for my freaking work!
Sure, she’s the manager and all, but one should always give due credit to people who deserved it! Not grab all the credit from other people! If she’s such a good freaking manager, then she doesn’t even need to bank on my work and passed it off as her own! BITCH!!
Frankly, I’ve tried so hard to work with her and not take all those bad attitudes into account. I really try so hard on my side, working to make sure that things at work will go on smoothly. But you know what, she’s not doing anything to try to get me to respect her and as long as she continues the way she does, sorry la, I won’t be able to ever find it in me to respect her in the professional sense.
I really do hope that things will work out for me at the other place where a position was tabled out for me. If everything goes well, I’ll start work at the new place on 1st August. The bitch will just have to write her own pieces and can “credit” for her own shit.
