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> wHen do yOu say - "enOuGh boSs"?
Author: aLmich
As I was checking all my messages and new pictures my Boss posted, I received an email -
“I just had a knock down with my boss. Not sure what what will happen.”
After reading the e-mail from my friend, I immediately picked up my cell phone and punched in his number.
I completely disregarded the pleasantries: “What the heck happened?” I asked.
“I lost my patience,” she replied.
That made me laugh, since she has the patience of a saint. This is a woman who takes care of her aging mother, her aging husband and everyone else around her, including people not related by blood.
It took little coaxing to get the full story.
Her supervisor gave her a task, she made the assignment to a staff member and apparently it did not meet her supervisor’s standards. So she was sent an e-mail, badly worded and ill-timed, to share the displeasure.
At a time when workers in almost every industry are being asked to do more with less, this seems like a less than effective way to manage — much less lead — a company. But this is pretty routine for her boss.
My friend has had the same boss with the same “tone” for years. And I’d been listening to her complaints about it since she took the job.
So I asked again, “Really, what the heck happened?”
Long story short, after dealing with a manpower shortage, equipment failures and a series of personnel issues in her small department, my normally quiet, hyper-responsible friend decided to call her boss on the “tone” issue — and more.
The behind-closed-doors conversation degenerated from bad to worse, ending with both of them angrier than they started.
I must admit I was sympathetic, having had my own run-ins with that personality type before. You know the kind I’m talking about. In an article I’ve read, the author called them “naysayers”, because they find fault in everything you do. There was this insecure superior before who would make stories, do everything he could to stop my growth [promotion] or even simple endorsements so that I’ll have better position in the company. I don’t what was his problem. Di naman daw siya bading, or because burog burog mukha niya, or because feeling niya mas magaling kasi siya sa graphics or what? I really don’t know. He’s got what he deserved naman. Na-karma?
They’re like speeding trains careening wildly through the room waiting for something — or someone — to run over with their negativity. The words, “Thank you”, don’t exist in their vocabulary, because then they’d have to admit your work was valuable.And that just wouldn’t do.
But I still didn’t understand: “Why now?” I asked.
“I’ve just had enough,” she replied.
I didn’t know what else to say. She has a point, and apparently she’d reached it. And, having listened to her over the years, it made me wonder why it had taken so long.
I mean, in the workplace when you’re being shot down routinely by negativity, at what point do you say, “Enough is enough?”
Good thing I sooo love my Boss that I couldn’t even think of reasons to complain.
