I’m getting too old for this bullshit
I’m armpit deep in stupid at work- more so now than ever- and they’re putting more and more morons in charge. I’m tired of having to train fools to do their jobs right, especially when those fools are supposed to be my “Superiors” Hardly a one of them could find their ass with an atlas.
Monkeys. I love my work, and I used to love the people I did it for, but for the last month I dread getting out of bed.
Life was a good deal simpler when I just tuned up people who couldn’t act right.
10 comments Og | Uncategorized
Harder to do in the office. That is why many who are challenged skill wise tend towards that kind of work.
There are a few that need a generic tuning from time to time, but you can’t tune them as needed, or not at least and keep your job.
I’ve worked a lot of places and it seems they follow me around.
Just remember – You Can’t Fix Stupid”… , no matter how hard you try
quote credit to comedian Ron White
Welcome (?) to the club. In my case I think the boss is actually mentally unstable, which makes it worse in some ways.
In 8 years I can “retire”, for values thereof. I just hope it holds together that long.
yeah, Nate, I feel your pain. You get spoiled by having good managers. When they retire and you’re left with morons, it’s a giant pain.
it’s one of my favorite quotes…
comedian Ron White has said, “You can’t fix stupid. There’s not a pill you can take; there’s not a class you can go to. Stupid is forever.”
Rich in NC
A couple points; it wasn’t all that simpler in the old days, the consequences were just different. And, it used to be that you had to know how to manage a given business function, now it seems that qualifier isn’t considered so important.
As a now-former union rep, I’d much rather work for a complete asshole manager who knows what he’s doing job-wise than a sincere nice guy who doesn’t understand the functional metrics of the job. The second will always blame failure on his subordinates because he followed “corporate best practices” (or whatever the bizskool buzz phrase is this week), so he can’t be held at fault.
Personally, I’m going out the end of May, 2016.
I also prefer assholes who know what they’re doing. I have no tolerance for incompetent assholes, and that’s what I’m getting buckets of.
I have worked off and on for an auto repair facility since 1992. Two brothers run it now but Dad started it in 1946.
Both are decent managers in their own way, except one: they cannot deal with employee’s or customers that need to be knocked back into line.
When a customer is yelling and pounding on the counter they disappear. When an employee needs disciplined they pussy foot around til I handle it.
I will admit I handle things different now. 20 years ago I knocked a fellow employee out twice because he was dumb enough to stand back up. I have escorted more than one dipshit out the door on his tip-toes.
I figure if management knows my methods and disappears when I am going to employ them, they got nothing to complain about.
Roger
Like Og, I’ve got no problem with a competent asshole boss. I’ve worked for a number of them over the years.
My uber-competent asshole boss for whom I went to work 20 years ago is the same guy today — problem being, he has turned into a complete fucking loon in the intervening two decades.
Preach on it.
Every…fucking…day… I wake up and wonder if this is the first day that I don’t go to work again.
I never cease to be amazed how using my brain and another man’s hands and test equipment, I can, over the phone, diagnose and have him fix, sometimes in less than five minutes, a problem that he’s been working on for days. Some of these dudes have a couple decades of experience. And they never seem to be embarrassed by their own incompetence. They just give a shrug and an “Oh well” and pretend it never happened. Shit, I’d crawl under a table and hide if I got a case of the stupids that bad. But what REALLY gets my goat is more often than not they get pissed at ME for fixing it so fast. WTF?!?!?
When I occasionally boil over and start ranting and raving the wife tells me to be happy about it. It’s a “gift” I have she says. Sometimes I think it’s a fucking curse. Especially when it’s past my bedtime and a relative a couple states away wants my ideas on why his fifty year old John Deere won’t crank in sub-zero temperatures. DAMN. Just DAMN.
But I keep on keeping on. I have two nasty habits: eating and living indoors. Therefore, it’s off to work I go.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCJjJJRHA48&feature=youtu.be&t=1m30s
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