09-06-2005 17:56									#1
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i started working somewhere in administation. needed money so fine. it is a easy job but very boring but the people i work with are very cool. the only problem is the person directly above is is the biggest **** i have ever met. constantly *****ing and whining to me to do this and that (which i shouldnt even be doing). well anyways they saw my potential and they moved me up the foodchain. well not really i am taking over a job of someone that is on pregancy leave. but they will not take a replacement for my simple job. so I have 2 jobs now. the new job is much more fun and interesting...and because of how the company works with my new job i have now practically the boss of the guy that was first boss....but in the mean time i still do the boring job and there he is my boss...it is a very strange situation...so what to do?

	09-06-2005 17:59									#2
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What would Dilbert do?




(Ask Dogbert for advice, and get ridiculed. Basically, you are substituting 'Poly for Dogbert, so expect ridicule. )

	09-06-2005 17:59									#3
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fire everyone beneath you before. (including yourself)

	09-06-2005 18:03									#4
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ridicule i can take...

the problem is that i cant fire him i am sort of a quality control and his department is one of the worse...(i know i did the administration there so i found out the problems) so i can be very strict

	09-06-2005 19:31									#5
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Depends on whether you want to make his life misrable or not...

	09-06-2005 19:31									#6
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wait for Ming to tell you how to exploit your old boss' weakness and successfully take his position from him at exactly the same time whatsherface comes back from maternity leave... and so you know, around here, many of the girls who go on maternity never come back.

	09-06-2005 19:36									#7
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I'd fire your old boss and promote yourself to his positon.

	09-06-2005 19:48									#8
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Document Document Document any quality issues. Just state facts without any personal observations. Make them as routine as possible. The larger a crap pile gets, the harder it is to ignore the smell.

	09-06-2005 19:50									#9
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With your new position eliminate your old position. Then create several new positions with fancy titles, like Administrator Admiral and Chief Executive Futurologist, which you re-hire yourself with at an increased pay and other perks. Then sell any of these new positions you don't want anymore on EBay for an additional profit. Finally, hold weekly meetings here on Apolyton discussing crucial questions like "Should we try to retailor this company on a Communist philosophy?" and "How would Jesus sell this?"

	09-06-2005 20:38									#10
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quote: Originally posted by rah Document Document Document any quality issues. Just state facts without any personal observations. Make them as routine as possible. The larger a crap pile gets, the harder it is to ignore the smell.

Oooohh, yessss. As a temp boss, you cannot fire your old boss, but as his current supervisor, you should be observing the quality of his work, and documenting it. Then let the guillotine blades fall where they may.

	10-06-2005 13:44									#11
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tnx for all the ideas...well next monday (i hate meeting ons monday) i have a meeting where i have to represent my finding of quality in certain area's per department...and his is again the worse...i am thinking about putting in a sly comment about this...or just make graphs with best departments on top and the worse on the bottom and make the letters of the departments names really big...or i just might do nothing

	10-06-2005 15:09									#12
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Screw him.

	10-06-2005 16:24									#13
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Literally?

	10-06-2005 16:25									#14
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not so in for office romances right now...except maybe that nice girl in accounting

	10-06-2005 16:27									#15
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When I worked in an office, I just grabbed the money and
did not even talk to most of the androids that worked there.

I cannot stand office squares and their meaningless lives.



(present company excluded, of course!)

	10-06-2005 16:31									#16
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i have a big ass office not worthy of my job, a way to small paycheck...but free beer on friday.......so i dont mind....and all the girls that work here that i like do exactly the same thing as me...earning money to pay the bills until college begins again...

but my problem is always that when i work somewhere i want to everything because i usually find out that other people do it shitty...so that is way i was promoted to fast...

	10-06-2005 16:34									#17
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If you are on the promotion ladder, you may as well keep climbing, dude!

When you have power, you can instill fear - And order any hot office gals to obey your whims!

PS
Start saving for that power suit!

	10-06-2005 16:37									#18
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quote: PS Start saving for that power suit!

the first day of work i came in a suit...i quickly found out that it is a very causal place and now go to works without shaving some times for a week and never in a suit anymore...causal workplaces rule

	10-06-2005 16:41									#19
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I used to wear my suit regardless, I only have Heavy Metal T-Shirts or my formal attire.



I once demanded the name of a rentacop in the office foyer, because he demanded my
ID, after I had walked by him every day for almost a year! The guy kacked it, my suit
must have made him think I was someone with authority...


He blabbered many apologies - What a goon!

	10-06-2005 19:06									#20
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quote: Originally posted by DeathByTheSword tnx for all the ideas...well next monday (i hate meeting ons monday) i have a meeting where i have to represent my finding of quality in certain area's per department...and his is again the worse...i am thinking about putting in a sly comment about this...or just make graphs with best departments on top and the worse on the bottom and make the letters of the departments names really big...or i just might do nothing

The graph is a good idea. But no sly comments, no big department labels. Facts are facts. Let people see the facts but now how you feel about them, unless it's your job to pass judgement. Not all management is incompetant, the do see facts.

	10-06-2005 19:22									#21
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no no no, just forget him do a good job and you'll move up the food chain further

	10-06-2005 19:44									#22
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quote: Originally posted by rah Document Document Document any quality issues. Just state facts without any personal observations. Make them as routine as possible. The larger a crap pile gets, the harder it is to ignore the smell.

Dammit, Rah got to say it first.

	10-06-2005 19:50									#23
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well i just got informed that i also have to put in recomendations about the general workings of 3 departments and report that to the big bobos upstairs...(1 of the 3 is the one the idiot is running) i am going to state the facts...but the problem is that i also have to make recommendations...and i dont want to get anyone fired...(i have no idea if my recommendations can have that effect but still)

	10-06-2005 19:53									#24
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two words: Fight Club

	10-06-2005 20:41									#25
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quote: Originally posted by DeathByTheSword well i just got informed that i also have to put in recomendations about the general workings of 3 departments and report that to the big bobos upstairs...(1 of the 3 is the one the idiot is running) i am going to state the facts...but the problem is that i also have to make recommendations...and i dont want to get anyone fired...(i have no idea if my recommendations can have that effect but still)

Identify improvement areas. (the facts should make them obvious) Once identified, possible solutions should be evident. Usually adding a new quality verification step in a process never hurts as long as it's not so elaborate that it costs way too much or adds too much time to the process cycle. The cost must be justified in terms of cost savings due to better quality.

People probably won't be fired, but their careers may not be helped.

	10-06-2005 20:43									#26
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use words like "streamline" and "robustness" and "synergy"...

	10-06-2005 20:45									#27
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DBtS, you are being tested to see if you are management worthy. You need to go for it.

	10-06-2005 20:48									#28
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Che, these past two weeks you have been a poor excuse for a Communist.

Urging somebody to leave the "working class" to join the "managing classes"?

	10-06-2005 21:03									#29
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rah

	10-06-2005 21:08									#30
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quote: Originally posted by JohnT Che, these past two weeks you have been a poor excuse for a Communist.

Maybe I'm getting more conservative in my old age.