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NatureBoy · 10-05-2003, 09:55 PM

Our CTO is an opinionated, misinformed, unpleasant man who is a very poor people manager, even though he is capable of seeing the 'big picture' when it comes to IT at our company. To be honest, I really don't think he does much work at all. He's very vague about what it is he expects from you and is very sharp-tounged when you don't do exactly what he wants. While one minute he will say that he wants IT to drive the income of our company, he will also say that he doesn't want to invest money into retooling our constantly breaking online store (an obvious money maker). I think he believes he's the greatest thing to IT since the transistor, but he also admits that he knows zilch about the languages that we use to develop in-house applications.

Unfortunately, his mannerisms have driven away two of our senior tech people already (one of which has been heard to say he'll never work IT again due to the trauma he experienced working under our CTO). One of those senior techs happened to be my boss, which now leaves me with the great pleasure of reporting directly to the CTO.

I have no desire to harm him and only a minimal desire to expose his substantial ineptitude and forward-thinking-ness to the CEO.

What sort of things do you do to deal with supervisors like this? What sort of things has your supervisor done to you? What can you do to combat this sort of egotistical idiocy?

10-05-2003, 09:55 PM	#1 (permalink)
NatureBoy Crazy	Dealing With a Difficult Boss/Supervisor Our CTO is an opinionated, misinformed, unpleasant man who is a very poor people manager, even though he is capable of seeing the 'big picture' when it comes to IT at our company. To be honest, I really don't think he does much work at all. He's very vague about what it is he expects from you and is very sharp-tounged when you don't do exactly what he wants. While one minute he will say that he wants IT to drive the income of our company, he will also say that he doesn't want to invest money into retooling our constantly breaking online store (an obvious money maker). I think he believes he's the greatest thing to IT since the transistor, but he also admits that he knows zilch about the languages that we use to develop in-house applications. Unfortunately, his mannerisms have driven away two of our senior tech people already (one of which has been heard to say he'll never work IT again due to the trauma he experienced working under our CTO). One of those senior techs happened to be my boss, which now leaves me with the great pleasure of reporting directly to the CTO. I have no desire to harm him and only a minimal desire to expose his substantial ineptitude and forward-thinking-ness to the CEO. What sort of things do you do to deal with supervisors like this? What sort of things has your supervisor done to you? What can you do to combat this sort of egotistical idiocy?