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Originally Posted by retmil46
Perhaps so. But I dare say they have few equals in thier open, brazen, application of that attitude towards their employees on a daily basis - IOW, they're not at all shy about telling you to your face you're an inferior POS, no matter the circumstances or how many people are around.
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During the long years I spent at BIG oil my section had two Managers like that. We never could figure out what their problem was.
One day we pointed out to the guy that people in our positions didn't just fall into them. Most of us were hand-picked from the teeming masses to make sure the entire refinery, pipeline and refined products system didn't just fall off the face of the Earth, and that if we were to be fired we would start work a few days later at another oil company.
So he told to start looking. We made a few phone calls and received a lot of offers. We put them all in a file folder and handed it to him.
When he discovered we had no fear of him he tried to scare us in other ways, but we would just pick up and folder and wave it at him.
He finally asked to be transferred to another area of the company. Fear was the only motivational tool he had and we had taken it from him.
Our new Boss put on all our reviews: Works GREAT without supervision.