Even if I had stayed in bed all weekend instead of going bowling last night, this would rank as one of my best weekends in weeks. My harassing manager at work has been released!
Did something I write on my computer blog in April have anything to do with this? Here's some of that essay:
You should have heard our manager snap. "If this means you can't handle it, then you're going outside."... He's standing there doing nothing except observing the mess we're clearing up, and those are the only helpful words he can say? No motivation and no pick-me-up whatsoever. If you've got time to sit there, observe, and otherwise impede the operation, then there's plenty of time to offer a word of encouragement, as well as assistance to get our staff caught up.
(With regards to manager classifications) ... There are those who go strictly by the rulebook and never deviate; there are those who relate to their workers astonishingly well and never hesitate to help pick up the slack; there are those you never see; there are those that are not interested; and there are those who believe that adding pressure to an already filled pressure cooker makes workers work better.
"One hundred fifty percent effort is no longer acceptable here. We need 200%" is a saying he likes to bring up at inopportune times. Don't you think there should be a managerial declassification in the cards?
You pray for miracles, and sometimes you get them. I can only imagine that when I head into work tomorrow, you'd swear we work on a dance floor rather than an airline bagroom, with all the people bound to celebrate this elimination of a threat.
Sources say it was done to cut costs. Well, if there's a silver lining to Michigan's declining work opportunities & funding slashes... get my silver crayons now. "Good riddance" to the most non-people-person figure I've met in recent years!
