Ok, I'm only here to have a whinge and a moan so look away now if you wish! (and sorry, this is going to be looooong) I HATE my boss, loathe her. I don't want to go to work tomorrow. I need a new job and can't find anthing. I'm nearly 40 FGS and for the first time in my life my stomach is churning at the thought of another day with her. I've even ruined my own evening with being so pissed off.
I've been with the company for nearly 10 years. Had maternity leave whilst there, went back part time. All fine and dandy. Interesting company to work for, I like what they do. Enjoying being a professional, well trained and supported, knowing what I'm doing, liked and respected - that kind of thing.
Until nice old boss leaves and new one was appointed two years ago. At first we hoped it was just teething problems. But she hasn't got any better. The problems, in short, are:
She's ineffective. May as well not be there.
Doesn't come up with any ideas of her own. Makes other people do all the work.
Hinders any real progress because she sits on things for so long.
Constant praise and smarm which become meaningless, and actually quite patronising.
Lies. Bare faced lies.
Technically incompetent with a computer to the stage where it's unprofessional.
She tried bullying but we've seen through that now and mostly she doesn't get away with it.
Works to the divide and conquer principle. Has complained about my colleagues to other members of the department.
Atmosphere in the office (small department) is truly hideous, bitchy, backstabbing.
No leadership skills.
No management, planning or strategic skills. Laughable really. She's supposed to be writing a strategy - has been doing it for the last five months and no-one's seen a draft yet. However, we've all been asked to contribute mini strategies for our own areas. So she can basically cut and paste it all.
Blames her own boss constantly for her problems. She's very sensitive where he's concerned. Very defensive.
Now, when she'd been there 8 or 9 months, it became clear there were problems and several members of the department spoke to HR about her. Just raised our concerns. Her boss is also in charge of HR and so is well aware of it. I've also talked to HR once since then, about 6 months ago. Nothing has happened, nothing has changed. In fact, it's getting worse, given the morale is getting steadily lower (even after I thought it couldn't get any worse). A couple of weeks ago we could hear raised voices between her and her boss, so he must know what she's like. I really like my colleagues and we all share a moan about her, just to get it off our chests. I know some of them are struggling as much as I am.
What really gets me is that there's just no light at the end of the tunnel. She's been there two years now and the company doesn't have a track record in getting rid of ineffctive people (there's a few of them around - it's quite a big place). The only way out is to get a new job, and there's not that much around in my field to apply for. I've considered taking a reduction in salary just to escape but don't see why she should have that kind of impact on me and my family.
So, whilst I have to sit tight in the hope that I'll get out in due course (that seems a long way off) what do I do? Really not confident in going to talk to her boss about it. He can give fairly short shrift to people he thinks are just moaning. Though sometimes he can be fine. Either way, they've not done anything about her so far, why would they now?
Ok, stopping now because I feel better just writing it all down. Stomach still churning a bit though. I don't know that there's anything can be done, other than get a new job. Feeling pretty fed up.