What is your manager like?

[msp35]

Well I assume most of us here have jobs. I'll go first.
I've been working here for 2 weeks now @ a student dorm in Champaign, IL.
First of all my manager is gay, not that I care, but it makes me more than
uncomfortable @ times. He is very anal about things and criticizes my dress, when he has absolutely no room to talk. He looks like a character straight out of miami vice, obtrusive chest-air, open shirts....etc. He trys to comment on women but I know he is just trying to front. I'm supposed to get 2 15 minute breaks and a 30 minute lunch according to labor laws. I choose not to take any breaks cuz I sit and do virtually nothing all day. So I take 40 minutes instead of 30 @ lunch. He has not taken less than 80 minutes for his lunch since I've been here. All the R.A.'s here confirm that it is a normal occurence.
Today; I walk in after my usual 40 min. lunch and he says that I'm taking too long, (okay, i understand) Then he says "maybe it's time you start bringing your lunch". I'm like WTF?!?! you have no position to tell me this, and move on. He says, "i have a 1:30 appt so I'll be back for that, this was @ 12:25."
What a ******* hipocrit (sp?).

feel free to comment
Okay who's next.

 

[RXMmazdaspeed]

he sounds like an ass... i guess confront him about it and go from there.

my manager rules. im an intern at a pharamaceutical company, second summer working here now. i have my jobs to do and i get them done which makes him very lenient (sp?) on me. he knows i get my work done, and in turn i basically can take an hour lunch and he doesn't car if i put 30 min down on my time card. i can take breaks whenever i want to do basically whatever i want. as long as im in on time, dressed appropriately (busines casual), and i get my work done then i'm left alone. plus i'm getting some good resume props and really really really good contacts from higher up people for when i graduate college. im happy as hell. oh yeah, and all this for a decent $9.50 an hour. (dance)

 

[jurgs01]

I have two perspectives. Let me first say that I always believe a manager should lead by example. He should be the first one there in the morning, the last one to leave, and should never tell an employee to do something that he himself is not willing to do.

My first perspective is that managers are sometimes assholes. They are there because of tenure, maybe education, and have no idea how to run things. The crummy thing is that he IS your manager, so you either have to quit, talk with him directly about how you feel, or just deal with it.

The second perspective, having been in charge of people before, is that you sometimes have to be the bad guy to be a good manager. When the manager's boss tells him he needs something accomplished, it is difficult because you cannot just do it yourself. Relying on other people is very difficult because you are bound to have the lazy and incompetent that you know won't do it or will do it half-ass. Sometimes you have to be hard on these people, even if they don't like you for it.

 

[msp35]

The thing is I dress business casual every day. He just picks at things like not wearnig a belt which neither does he. I have no "list" of jobs, I answer the phone, sort mail, file....etc. When I'm done, I'm done and I sit for hours on end. Oh and he smokes, so there is another 1-2 hrs (~15 min/cig) he spends outside smoking while I do not.

 

[SubXer0]

well i kinda have 3 managers 2 are gay(not literally lol) and the other is kool
the way i see it is every job is gonna have sucky things about it i just try and do my job as fast as possible so i can get outta there and come home although i feel worse for you guys that have to be around your manager all day i install sattelite so i only see my manager twice aday i have to keep in contact thru a radio but that ain't as bad as having to be around them tho
peace
dante

 

[1sty]

Well I have 2 jobs so:

Job 1. Full time
- I really don't have one. The company was previously owned by my father and I am the most experienced one in it so even the new owner asks me what to do.

Job 2 Part Time
- The department manager is alright but has toolish tendancies. Hes royaly intimitaded by me even though I am hardly there to intimidate him and do most everything he asks. The store manager for the most part stays out of my way becuase I stay out of his. Cool guy.

 

[stdntDrvr]

manager #1. the owner is high-stressed all the freaking time. she'll pop in around 11:30...shoot off a list of stuff she "has to get done"...wtf ever...goes to lunch around 12:15...comes back around 1:30 and leaves around 4:30...yeah, if you're so ******* busy, work like everyone else...and then she'll dump all of her s*** work off on everyone else...even if we're busy as hell...but, it's her company.
manager #2. i'll just say this...his ring-tone is "barbie girl"...enough said.

 

[msp35]

Oh yeah, forgot my second job, yeah 2 jobs, it sucks! I work @ a mall selling gift certificates and customer service stuff. I work nights so I never see the boss. But she is super nice.

 

[Protege2K]

I have no manager. He was fired last week for stealing. I'm my own damn boss right now.

 

[gapeachsp5]

my story:

for a while, i was what they call a "team leader" at a store, which is fine. the bad part....the owner's daughter was the other team leader, so she pretty much got to do whatever the hell she wanted and was praised for what hard work she did. Example: on Sundays, there are two 11:30-4:30 shifts, and one 2-6 shift that helps during the day and the two night shifts. well, the daughter opened, and decided she could leave at 2 when the 2-6 shift came in. problem: the two people left at the store were brand new and had no clue how to work the register, etc. the closer came in, called the owner to complain and his response: well, she's been there almost every day this week and she's really stressed. oh, so that makes it okay to leave two brand new people in charge of a busy store....hmmmm....i think not. real reason she left: she was hungover from that sat night. real management/team leader material.

but, the owners sold the store, so both our jobs as team leaders got taken away. not that she deserved it in the first place, but hell, i worked my ass off and got squat.

she also was paid at least $2 more than me an hour, and I made $.50 more than the "regular" workers. so, if everyone made $6, I made $6.50, and she made $8.50. It's gone up, but that was when we first started. No telling what she makes now.

pure crap. ahhh....rant over

 

[mountjonas]

one of my last supervisors had the worst case of short man complex. he'd blow up over the smallest things. and by small things, it would be small things. he was a micro manager that pushed communication, yet would fail to communicate really important issues to us.

one friday night we waited for three hours for a document to arrive. five phone calls later, "oh yeah, it's not coming until monday." this coming from a guy that would call you a cocksucker to your face and mean it. whatever. i don't work for him anymore. on to bigger and better things.

 

[ChopstickHero]

manager 1: laid back, chillin, doesn't care what i do as long as i do it. he's leaving soon and is going to have manager 2 lead the team.
manager 2: 100x more organized. very supportive and is a great resource for projects. doesn't bother me and knows that i'm more than capable of handling my job, although sometimes her view on large projects gets out of hand and thinks the team can handle the load she expects when it really can't. eventually scales back to a more reasonable level.

 

[Snacks McGee]

My manager decided to take a two week vacation during crunch time of a $250,000 ad campaign. I think that tells you a lot about her. (chair)

 

[JCell]

i have 2 managers, one of them sucks and tries to be da boss, he doesn't know s*** and is always proven wrong, but even then he still has to be right, freaking annoying


my second manager is the exact opposite, really cool to work with and understands that demanding stuff is not the way to go

 

[gboromsp]

Well being the manager at my job, I only have to answer to the general manager of our 3 locations, and the owner. They are fine, and really don't bother me. They know I get my job done and rarely get on me for anything.
Now as a manager I have to say I have some great employees and some that aren't so great. Most of my employees are uneducated or still in high school. Some of them just don't get it. I'm only 22, and some of these kids today make me want to pull my hair out. They will test you in every way possible. Recently I've been getting rid of my weakest people and looking for new stronger employees. It is sometimes stressful, but once I'm out of school in December I hope not to be there much longer.

 

[Notorious]

I guess I'm in the minority here. My manager is a cool guy and very competent. Same with the director of the division.

Other departments aren't so lucky.

 

[Dexter]

my manager is cool ,as far as i dont see him for months at a time.

 

[CommieSpeed]

Same here, I work Home office, so I see him once a month or so and he is nice as hell. I got lucky.

 

[Greg S]

I've got an interesting one. My manager is actually 6 years yonger than me and it's his first time being a manager, but he is still somewhat at the same level as everyone else in the store. BTW, I do high end home A/V sales. There are actually two Asst. Managers in the store but only one of them really tried to be a boss the other one just wanted the title and the extra control that comes with it so others would see how much crap he tries to pull. Back to the other guy, he's actually going to get a full manager title this month so he's the only one who counts. It's funning some times to watch him as he's relly is trying to be a manager but he still thinks the rules are for others and not him. Gradually he is learning that the boss has to toe the line more than anyone else, otherwise you will get no respect from your crew. I think a another year or two he'll actually make a good manager but right now he is really a kid who is slightly lost and trying to find his position. Some times I try to help him out, as I actually managed A/V sales for 9 years very sucsessfully but left for another company which has it's own pecking order that I'm not high enough on yet, but he really doesn't take suggestions wtoo well and likes to think he knows everything. It's just funny to watch him turn down a suggestion that I make on how to display product and then when I'm off for two days and come back it's done exactly how I said it should be.
I guess overall it's not bad but the management levels above him are so messed up with petty bickering and power struggles that I'm glad I'll be leaving in a few months to go back to running a different store for a friend who's starting up a home electronics side to match his car audio business he already has.

 

[warrier04]

i'm an intern at mirage networks (www.miragenetworks.com), and i don't really have a specific manager.

there are various guys that will ask me to do diff. tasks, but they're all real cool guys. there is my "supervisor" that i need to get my timesheet signed, but i don't really think of him as that. he's a middle-aged guy, but we always talk about chappelle show and women and all that cool s***.

my work is awesome. this is my second summer interning (last summer i was the only one - this is a startup-type company. this summer, i was able to bring 2-3 engineering and CS guys that i know from school in to intern also, so i get to hang with them. there's a pingpong table and foosball table in the office, so we play that alot. lunch isn't really some big thing - i usually just take off for an hour and then come back. no biggie. no clocking out or anything, my job requires someone to be at the phone between the hours of 7 and 7, so my friend and i take shifts, but i usually work 9 hour days and get paid for all 9 hours. 11/hr ain't to bad ..