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Confederate · 10-31-2005, 06:05 PM

(I apologize in advance for this being so long)

First off a little background with my work. I have worked at this place for over 2 years, the first year and a half was great. I enjoyed my work, my boss and I got along great, never a complaint out of me. Over the past 6 months my boss has been increasingly hostile towards his workers. Coming into work in bad moods daily, taking it out on us, kicking us out of the office (we share an office space, 2 desks in a room) when he wants to be alone. Which takes me away from the computer, and my tasks come to me over Microsoft Outlook. Then he yells at us for not performing said tasks. He whores us out to other departments to pick up their slack, sometimes keeping us from our own work. He'll (out of the business account) buy fans, for people that are too hot; heaters for people that are too cold; desk lamps for people that don't like our flourescent office lights; but when we ask for something that will legitimately make our jobs/lives easier and more efficient he tells us to suck it up.

Today (monday) we completed all of our tasks well before the end of the day (we even all the tasks set to be done the next day completed, putting us a day ahead). So we are takin a well deserved break and he comes back from lunch all "fire and brimstone" and yells and scolds us for not making good use of our time and telling us we should have gotten more work done and didn't need to be taking a break. He then tell us what needs to be done, and I reassure him (and show him) that all the work is done for the day and the next. He then starts pulling out random stuff for us to do that we weren't previously told to do.

So at this point I am hot and pissed off cause I take my work seriously and don't like people crapping on it for no reason. And he has been making a lot of peoples lives a living hell. So my coworkers and I take our case to the Human Resources Director. She agrees that it has become a problem, and seeing people wanting to "mutiny" doesn't reflect highly upon the organization.

Well apparently he was listening at the door and heard some of what we said and called a meeting immediately afterwards. To paraphrase what he said to us:
"I don't know what you told (the HR director) and I don't care either but I will not quit. If you guys don't like the way I run things then you quit, or I will make you quit."

He then proceeded to ask us what we were going to do, work or quit. I told him I will do the work that is required of me by the company. He then sent me home early, and told another guy to not bother coming in tomorrow, and said he would call me on Wed. to tell me whether or not I was to ever come back to work.

So any advice on what I should do or how I should proceed?

10-31-2005, 06:05 PM	#1 (permalink)
Confederate Death Leprechaun Location: College Station, TX	Help with bad boss (I apologize in advance for this being so long) First off a little background with my work. I have worked at this place for over 2 years, the first year and a half was great. I enjoyed my work, my boss and I got along great, never a complaint out of me. Over the past 6 months my boss has been increasingly hostile towards his workers. Coming into work in bad moods daily, taking it out on us, kicking us out of the office (we share an office space, 2 desks in a room) when he wants to be alone. Which takes me away from the computer, and my tasks come to me over Microsoft Outlook. Then he yells at us for not performing said tasks. He whores us out to other departments to pick up their slack, sometimes keeping us from our own work. He'll (out of the business account) buy fans, for people that are too hot; heaters for people that are too cold; desk lamps for people that don't like our flourescent office lights; but when we ask for something that will legitimately make our jobs/lives easier and more efficient he tells us to suck it up. Today (monday) we completed all of our tasks well before the end of the day (we even all the tasks set to be done the next day completed, putting us a day ahead). So we are takin a well deserved break and he comes back from lunch all "fire and brimstone" and yells and scolds us for not making good use of our time and telling us we should have gotten more work done and didn't need to be taking a break. He then tell us what needs to be done, and I reassure him (and show him) that all the work is done for the day and the next. He then starts pulling out random stuff for us to do that we weren't previously told to do. So at this point I am hot and pissed off cause I take my work seriously and don't like people crapping on it for no reason. And he has been making a lot of peoples lives a living hell. So my coworkers and I take our case to the Human Resources Director. She agrees that it has become a problem, and seeing people wanting to "mutiny" doesn't reflect highly upon the organization. Well apparently he was listening at the door and heard some of what we said and called a meeting immediately afterwards. To paraphrase what he said to us: "I don't know what you told (the HR director) and I don't care either but I will not quit. If you guys don't like the way I run things then you quit, or I will make you quit." He then proceeded to ask us what we were going to do, work or quit. I told him I will do the work that is required of me by the company. He then sent me home early, and told another guy to not bother coming in tomorrow, and said he would call me on Wed. to tell me whether or not I was to ever come back to work. So any advice on what I should do or how I should proceed?