Well at least I am venting it. How many of you have had a "Supe" or "Boss" you just wanted to have it out with. The guy suddenly became boss and its gotten to your head. The trouble is everyone else does "The Emporer isn't naked" thing and say, yeah he's okay.

No he isn't, he's a micromanager, arrogant, black and white thinker and has the worst managerial skills and people skills in world...
and he thinks he's too good to talk to floor level technicians,or electricains or machinist, like he's some kind of new member of the aristocracy...It really weighs me down, because I love my job and I love hard work and I love being a team player....
OF COURSE THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED TO A PHELLOW DIESEHD!

Sounds like your boss is like a diaper, full of $h!t. I'd bet a diaper smells better though.

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84 300D Turbodiesel 190K with 4 speed manual sold in 03/2012

It comes down to deciding what you go to work for.

Do you go to work for money? Or do you go to work to have interpersonal relationships of love, joy and harmony?

If its the first, as it is for most people, you learn to shut up most of the time and take the paycheck home. There is often no reward offered or given for improving the business.

If its the second, you may be in the wrong job. Try the Peace Corp.



More seriously though, I know what you mean. As you get older, you develop an immunity to this and it does become a matter of deciding what your goals are (salary) rather than trying to make the world a better place.

Sorry, the illegitimi have worn me down.........

Ken300D

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1982 300D at 351K miles
1984 300SD at 217K miles
1987 300D at 370K miles

Yup, when my late grandfather was in charge. Seriously.

Every characteristic you listed (except being too good to talk to the warehouse guys-he was always meddling somehow) plus the mentality that that's not how things were done "back in the day". Nit-picked and rode my father incessantly about stupid $h!t, which in turn sent the wrath downstream.

I loved the man after hours, but he sucked as a "boss".

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1980 300TD-China Blue/Blue MBTex-2nd Owner, 107K (Alt Blau) OBK #15
'06 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (for the wife & 4 kids, current mule) '03 Honda Odyssey (son #1's ride, reluctantly) '99 GMC Suburban (255K+ miles, semi-retired mule) 21' SeaRay Seville (summer escape pod)

Yup, I decided just before my 40th birthday and quit my job. I've been self-employed ever since, and never looked back. Life's to short to work for other people, if you don't get out now you may never do it. Earning money is easy, finding what you really enjoy doing is more difficult.

+1

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'97 E300
'99 E300

Yep. Being self employed is nice you get to take crap from everyone insted of just your boss.

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

LOL. very true. But you can also decide when you've had enough and fire your client.

Yeah now THAT is great! I have only had to do it once but it felt GREAT!

They didn't want to be fired! They were like but wait dont we work well together! We can make it work!

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

I am Caught halfway between being stoic and patient and Punching him in the Nose.. I guess that means i should just pick my nose...but its better than what others do which is kiss his b___

You need your job, and your family needs you to have your job. So little piss-ants like your boss get to gum up the works for awhile. You will likely be there long after they run off the latest managerial flavor of the month...... {I've had a couple that finally seemed to "get it", so there is always hope I guess.}
I'm a worker bee, so I'll always have somebody I "have" to put up with......

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Jimmy L.
'05 Acura TL 6MT
2001 ML430 My Spare

Gone:
'95 E300 188K "Batmobile" Texas Unfriendly Black
'85 300TD 235K "The Wagon" Texas Friendly White
'80 240D 154K "China" Scar engine installed
'81 300TD 240K "Smash"
'80 240D 230K "The Squash"
'81 240D 293K"Scar" Rear ended harder than Elton John

I guess that is it. Anyway thats what DIESELTHERAPY is all about--go out and yank a motor...

Something I noticed long ago...

Take the word Boss, turn it around and you have

Double S O B

These things come and go. My boss's boss was new and insane in all the wrong ways, now 4 years latter I work for the insane man and he has finally broken in to one of the best I've had, never would have imagined that I would volunteer to work under him.

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1999 E300DT Obsydian Black Metallic, Heated Full Leather Parchment options, E2, K2, 136,000+, best 36.5 mpg - GP's 12-04 & 11-12 Zero Stuck
2010 Honda Odyssey - The BrideMobile - best 26.5
(2) 2005 Honday Accord- (1 -Corporate 1 - Personal) - 110,000 4-cyl 30mpg
2000 VW Golf GLS TDI, Upsolute Chip (sold to Brother, now 300+k on it) 48.5 mpg like clock work
1987 Honda CRX HF - Sold 87,000 always over 50 mpg Max 67 mpg

Is there a possibility of a lateral transfer to another department in your company?

Years ago I was working for a now defunct company. I was asked to be the department supervisor and decided the hassle wasn't worth the small pay increase. So the only employee out of 1200 in the company that I didn't get along with took the job and became my boss. It was like you said your situation is.

Fortunately, there was an opening in another department that was on the same level and I got the job. Funny thing was I got three promotions within two years in the other department and ended up being jerk-boss's supervisor.

In the company that I am working for now, I'm in the perfect spot. A very small department, I'm the only night shift person. Leave a smaller mess than I found and I'm golden.

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1983 300SD "Guderian"
1987 MR2
2015 Camry
2015 Chevy Spark
2006 Hyundai Tucson

Go out into the woods, mellow out, and really decided how important this character is compared to the rest of the world. Once you realize his insignificance, he shouldn't bother you as much. That, and it sounds like he is one of those people that like to suck the energy out of you...going to the woods will re-charge that loss, and give you more to boot.

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09 Jetta TDI
1985 300D