Stupider and stupider

[graculus]

So, apparently my last post a month ago didn't quite capture the depths of stupidity I am dealing with on a regular basis - if you visualise my part of local government as the former Soviet Union, I am about to get shipped off to the gulag for re-education. ("And you might even enjoy it!" chirped my boss, to which my response was "I think that's asking a little much"). When even my fellow managers are saying "Resistance is futile" then you know you're not alone in thinking that...

Yes, apparently my previous unsullied record of 21 years in this line of work and almost 3 in this current post avails me nothing when I don't get as much as physically possible and then some out of not very much at all. In other words, I am crap at ticking boxes and excel at getting the best out of people except that my definition of 'the best' isn't 'wringing every last drop of work and then some' so I am therefore a Bad Manager. That's basically what it's about, though it's being couched as being infinitely more esoteric than that.

Anyway, I shall do my time though I'm not sure what I'm going to actually be doing (not much by initial accounts which seems a bit daft but if they want to carry on paying for my trip to Sri Lanka who am I to complain?), amount yet to be finalised (it started off as "three months minimum" and then became "but it could be less than that" - this word 'minimum' it does not mean what you seem to think it means...) and then start looking for jobs elsewhere in 2013. This rampant asshattery shall not stand!

Comments

[katyabaturinsky.livejournal.com]

Ah, so Good Manager = miracle worker. That's completely fair and not at all ridiculous or unreasonable.

Good luck with the "re-education," and more importantly, even better luck with the job search in 2013!

[khek.livejournal.com]

Your boss sounds horrible. Or maybe just threatened because you know more than he (she?) does? Twenty-one years is a long time...how much time does he have on the job?

You can't get blood from a stone, and yet there seems to be this push in human services for bigger and better results, even if it's not physically possible. Maybe the boss will be placated by making you follow orders, and things will get better for awhile? But in any event, good luck with this "retraining". And good luck with the job search!

[sg1scribe.livejournal.com]

I don't understand the logic behind a lot of managerial decisions. A friend of mine has just suffered a 'restructuring', the result is that she still has a job, but now she is expected to do the work of three people. The other two people have been judged as unnecessary. Oh yes, and of course she expected to output the work of three people to the same high standard.

Lunacy, sheer lunacy.

Beware the re-education. If you catch a glimpse of silver helmets run like hell.

[siluria]

After two goes I really don't think I'll be going back to public sector working. I just don't get how they can manage to get by!! You have my sympathies and I hope a wonderful new job comes your way.