Any stories with happy endings about shite managers?

[30yearsuntilretirement]

another rubbish day at work where my manager alienates the entire company and his team. Half of us are job hunting. The other half are depressed and dismayed.

HR and Directors have been conducting skip level reviews to “start the process” but I don’t know what they are hoping to achieve. They said it’ll take months to “sort out”

Working life is a misery. Nobody gets to enjoy their annual leave because of all the stress.

Anyone had a similarly shit manager who was ‘dealt with’ and the team had a happy ending?

I like my job and the job market is rubbish at the moment so while a new job is a good idea - it isn’t that easy right now.

I had a manager that was so critical of everyone on our team. Everyone was scared of her. Then she was in a car accident and had a minor head injury. She was off for a few weeks and when she came back she was much nicer and everyone grew to like and respect her. I'm not sure if the concussion actually changed her or if she had a new sense of what's important in life following the accident, but whatever it was made a big difference.

Evil manager left in January. Very quietly and under a cloud. Everyone is happy even though we're still finding out about the shit she covered up/left behind.
Previous one was also asked to leave. His heart was in the right place but he was an incompetent arsehole who tried to lie his way out of situations.

I had two nightmares.
One who was given some sort of OBE for what looked like spouting word salady bullshit and bragging themselves up despite not being able to keep hold of staff.
The other got managed out after years of issues all reported to HR and ignored, to be replaced with someone only slightly less unhinged. By which point everyone decided the writing was on the wall and we’d never get anyone decent out of higher management as it was the culture and left.
I have a lovely manager now, firm and expects work to a high standard but very fair and consistent.

Mine left for a promotion elsewhere. I heard on the grapevine they didn't like him there either. He now does a different role so I dont have to worry about ever having to work.with him again.
I now have a great manager so it does sometimes work out.

I wish I knew how to link a thread, I recently posted about how miserable I was. Applied to a role way out of my reach and got it.
OP control your own destiny, don't stay miserable wishing them to leave. Do something about it! Good luck !

I'd honestly just leave. Usually on the rare occasion a shite manager leaves, they're often replaced by someone worse (probably because their manager is also shite!)

I had a terrible manager - rude, belittling, made inappropriate comments to people within and outside the organisation - he eventually got a job in a different part of the country where I used to live. I warned him that people would not be nearly so easy going, and that he would need to be careful what he said, and he was very rude and said did I take him for an idiot? He was fired within six months…

@sesquipedalian hahahahahaha that made me smile! What a bellend

I have some good news! Things have somewhat escalated and i will be moved to a team where the manager is awesome 🤩 a new role and a more pay!

And original manager - well let’s just say he’ll be registering for an Indeed account very soon 🥳 😂 a client made a complaint!

Everyone is relieved! Happy endings!!

How did you manage that @30yearsuntilretirement I need some tips 😂

What are “skip level reviews”? Not a term I have come across before.

I had one who was bitchy. Half the team ended up leaving. We were given too much work and fewer staff so it was obviously behind. Tried to put one guy on pip but it was not his fault.

Id always had great reviews from several teams but the manager wouldnt sign off on a lateral job!
I still got the job..

I think my old manager did end up leaving.
She was very abruot and did make me nervous.

That moved on quickly, amazing outcome!

The one I had was escorted from the building by security one day without warning and done for several counts of harassment and bullying and one of fraud. It was a joyous day for pretty much everyone else in the office as he was an absolute nightmare.

I left about a year later anyway because I didn't want to commute to London any more but the company was a much nicer place to work without him at the helm.

Oh just seen your update OP - great news!

I got another job and left. I’ve never been so relieved. Micro-managed, inconsistent (would tell me and others off for something like children yet others were doing the exact same), anytime I spoke to her I got a belittling comment back, never had anything nice to say, martyr complex that only she cared, expected me to do all the shitty jobs no one else would do and she like to play staff off against on another. A truly nasty piece of work and I’ve never been so glad to leave a workplace.

I have the laziest manager ever. She also bullies the quiet staff, is rude, not very clean and behaves inappropriately.
Staff morale and MH on the floor, staff resigning etc.

After a year of this, several staff made written complaints to the higher ups.

Higher ups have come down on her so hard that she is a walking shell of the person she used to be. Totally cowed.
How she didn't get the boot I don't know.

She's not really accepting that she has done anything wrong and is blaming her extremely poor performance on her lack of induction and support at the beginning.

Time will tell.

Great news Op! Couldn’t have worked out better. Just shows people can be held to account and it can improve 👏