I don’t rant about work nearly as often as I used to, because for the most part I’m in a good place now. Unfortunately, I’m having to work fairly closely with an asshat who seems to think I’m his personal assistant and it’s driving me to drink and wanton acts of destruction. I can’t give him the obvious nickname I have for him because it would be painfully obvious about whom I speak, so I thought hard about what to call him.
Then I realized that I really don’t want to be talking about this guy at all. It’s not for the sake of keeping my feelings to myself – I don’t censor, even things I should – but it’s more this guy makes me so angry that the thought of writing about his nitpicking bitchy pain in the ass condescending ways makes me want to throw up. I don’t want to dedicate any time or energy to talking about how much I loathe this person (who shall be called ISoS – Insufferable Sack of Shit – for this post only) or how I’d like to stand on a chair and punch him in the neck or how I really, really want to respond to all his emails pointing out the idiocy of the shit he demands of me (except I kind of do this already, and have been told to play nice). It’s not worth my time. HE’S not worth my time. This will be the only post in which I rant about the ISoS and how angry he makes me; going forward I will .. pet some kittens, or something.
Seriously, “I tried to do this via email but the changes weren’t happening fast enough” ? FUCK YOU! You’re not the only person I do work for, you insufferable jackass – and I DON’T report to you, or work under you, or appreciate the fact that you’re demanding changes to things that were already agreed upon by YOUR MANAGER AND I last week, before he conveniently left on vacation. I see what you’re doing, and I think you suck. A lot. Fuck you.
Okay, I’m done now. I’m going to scoot across town to Mix Bakery and buy some bread, all because I hate the ISoS.
I posted a review of an iDevice Kama Sutra app on the other blog that is much more entertaining (and less angry) than this blog post.
Urge to kill: more or less in check.
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Once received some good advice about how to handle a hyper, micro-managing non-boss I was working with (not for) on a project: “Just say ‘sure'”.
– They get the satisfaction of feeling heard.
– You get the satisfaction of being left alone and actually NOT doing every little (non-important, irrelevant or downright wrong) task they think they made you do.
Hopefully down the road they’ll cool down and realize that you can handle everything without their “advice”.