- Location
- Harrisburg, NC
So since my boss comes to bitch me out for stuff I didn't even play a role in on a daily basis, does that mean I can punch him in the face and blame you when I lose my job?
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- Thread starter bshaw
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So since my boss comes to bitch me out for stuff I didn't even play a role in on a daily basis, does that mean I can punch him in the face and blame you when I lose my job?
w_howey
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- The Mudwest
you can punch him in his face.
blaming me won't get you anything except fired still.
but you'll feel better I promise
- Location
- Harrisburg, NC
Thankfully he's not with me in the field. Otherwise one of us wouldn't have come back from a jobsite quite some time ago....and it wouldn't be me.
He "trained" me when I first started working in the field 2+ years ago. Wasn't much training done. It was a lot of me watching him completely over think the obvious and fiddle with tiny stuff until he made it worse.
95% of what I know for this job i've learned on my own.
- Location
- Harrisburg, NC
I'd feel better if I could turn in my notice with something else lined up before Christmas...
XJ&CHZ4ME
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Unionville, MO
We get a bit of office drama weekly. I get people up in a tizzy bc I dont respond to their BS and just tell them I am here to do a job, not be their friend. I could care less what their problem is. If it does not involve me, then dont tell me about it.....that then turns them to someone else to make me the new problem. Zero F*#Ks given to date.
Cheese "makes life so much ewasier" Man
Cheese "makes life so much ewasier" Man
- Location
- Bourbonnais IL.
My relationship with this particular manager is for the most part pretty decent. he has anger management issues but many years ago he learned that i will only take so much before my crazy shows it self.
since then, the moment he realizes that he has turned me from my normal, care free, laid back, kind of self, to an enraged chest puffing man, he backs off a bit.
im probably the best guy for my job because it takes a lot to get me pissed off and this guy is always yelling at people. i don't like being angry because i feel stupid decisions are made when angry. so he comes back here bitching and i usually blow it right off. unless he brings the crazy with him. then my eye starts to twitch.
not to long after he told me to grab a doughnut.
since then, the moment he realizes that he has turned me from my normal, care free, laid back, kind of self, to an enraged chest puffing man, he backs off a bit.
im probably the best guy for my job because it takes a lot to get me pissed off and this guy is always yelling at people. i don't like being angry because i feel stupid decisions are made when angry. so he comes back here bitching and i usually blow it right off. unless he brings the crazy with him. then my eye starts to twitch.
not to long after he told me to grab a doughnut.
RedHeep
NAXJA #1499
- Location
- Landenberg, PA
I got told to watch my attitude yesterday.
I asked him if it was going to do tricks or something.
Red 'they have to let me retire' heep
I asked him if it was going to do tricks or something.
Red 'they have to let me retire' heep
POLAR_JEEP_04
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Ohio
BRIANHO13
<- Yum Chocolate
- Location
- Spring, TX
I also leave work at work. I have never gone off on an hourly associate....I have however gone off on salary people that are not doing their job. Salary people all think they are better than hourly, but with out the hourly folks none of us would have jobs.
- Location
- Columbus, In
You need to have a talk with some management around here. My boss kicks ass and i'm thankful for that after spending two years working for a raging jackass!
Flexd 'has learned how to be an asshole to condescending jerks without getting into trouble over the years' XJ
- Location
- Harrisburg, NC
When i'm in the office, my giveaf*%kometer is broken, but starts working again in the field. Mainly because the majority of the people I work with in the field are cool and understanding. Plus they can't go home until i'm done, so they're a little more willing to do things my way and listen to what I have to say.
- Location
- Sheboygan, WI
You get a lot more accomplished if you treat everyone as equals. When I am at a customer I take the opinion of drivers/mechanics/techs as much as I do of the engineer in charge. Hell I take the hourly guys out to lunch, give them hats/work shirts/goodies, if they are happy with me then they work harder on the project that my engine is involved with.
- Location
- Harrisburg, NC
Agreed. If I run into a problem that kicks my ass on the job site i'm not afraid to ask for help from the crew or whoever else is on site. None of us can leave until it's done so there's no point in wasting time.
I wish I had the authority to take the guys out to lunch, but i'd get my ass chewed out when I got back to the office if I did. Funny part is...it's not even our money. We bill all the costs back to the customer anyways.
As for swag, I get asked by crews all the time if I have stuff to give them. Aside from a $5 t-shirt that's plain gray with a small logo on the chest I don't even have any swag to represent the company....
- Location
- NE Indiana
You guys should deal with my customers...
mac 'some days are better than others' gyvr
mac 'some days are better than others' gyvr
BRIANHO13
<- Yum Chocolate
- Location
- Spring, TX
Don't get me wrong, if people aren't pulling their weight they know it and if I have to have that talk too many times they don't get to stay around.
I have a really good group working for me now, took 5 years to weed out all the tards.
- Location
- Sheboygan, WI
The reason we do swag/lunch/etc is for sales, it helps when you spend a few bucks on lunch or a couple hundred on dinner for a group of guys in order to get a multi- million dollar sale. My job as an applications engineer is part sales not just engineering, have to be a people person and a suck up for the most part, haha
- Location
- Harrisburg, NC
I understand that completely. I've pitched that idea numerous times. Spend money to get money. They don't like doing that though....
It's kind of confusing what my title here is. Officially on my business card it states Project Engineer, but we're always introduced as Applications Engineers.
I try to stay away from the sales portion of it as much as possible. The engineering side of things here is screwed up enough as it is...I don't need the additional headache of sales.
POLAR_JEEP_04
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Ohio
This makes me wish I worked for you.
Polar "but we'd get too drunk to work on lunch" Jeep
- Location
- Bourbonnais IL.
here, ha! money.
we haven't gotten raises in years. they took Christmas bonuses away, snatched away a day we had off, and down graded the xmas party to a 7th grade pizza party in the showroom during work hours with customers in the waiting room.
****ing joke.
we haven't gotten raises in years. they took Christmas bonuses away, snatched away a day we had off, and down graded the xmas party to a 7th grade pizza party in the showroom during work hours with customers in the waiting room.
****ing joke.
