Random Opinions/Rants

The Psychotic Bossman

I’ve been trying my best to deal with my over-excitable boss for the last few months. I used to be his poster child when I first started working with him, but after about a year or so, I started disagreeing with a few of his “facts”, proved him wrong (with paperwork too) and since then he’s gone nuts and makes me go through hell every single week, all the time breathing down my neck. He normally gossips with his fellow lunchtime colleagues about his employees, so now this gossip about me is a series of bitching sessions. He’s even gone as far as to file a formal complaint against me to another boss. Is this abuse of power or what?!! I guess I really can’t do much since he’s my boss, but its frikkin’ annoying! I might quit and look elsewhere for a job.

I should’ve seen the signs in the beginning, he was always going through some emotional extreme – either he was way too excited about some random crap, or he was mighty pissed, also at some random insignificant crap that would’t really perturb a normal person. He’s always making excuses about why he didn’t finish something, while on the other hand, if one of his employees slips up even once, they have to hear about it for the rest of their days with him. He still has pending work that he should have finished a year ago, sitting on his desk! Why is it that he can do that and us, his little “minions” have to keep reminding him several times a week what we’ve been up to, what we’ll do the following week, etc.

So, what do I do? How can I calm this guy down and reason with him, without him going berserk after every conversation, and then a day later pretending like nothing happened?!