We've all had those moments when we want to pound our heads against our desks because of an impossible boss. Right now, I'm pretty sure that I'd be in the ER if I had acted on the amount of skull pounding that I've wanted to do recently.
The "boss" that makes me want to turn my skull into powder was hired a couple of months ago (shortly before my 1 year anniversary at the company) to take over some of the work from my old boss because the old boss was being stretched too thin. Everything ran rather smoothly while the new boss was still terrified over stepping on the wrong toes, and I had no complaints. Sure, I'd sometimes look over my shoulder (our cubicles face each other) to see him watching Youtube videos or "working" while listening to stuff on his headphones, but it wasn't my problem to deal with.
However, now that said boss has gotten more comfortable with his position, he's been slowly morphing into a Bill Lumbergh type: ineffective, impossibly demanding, and rude while appearing to be friendly. He sends out "team" emails (that literally start with "Hey Team") whenever he has an "update" for us or a need for more information from us to "help" other departments "understand what we do" (quite frankly, I think he's just gathering the information in an effort to stage his own mental game of "Survivor"). He also likes to constantly remind us that we should be focusing on quality, not quantity. Recently, though, he bitched at me for not working fast enough. Then, when I did work faster, he bitched about the quality of the work. Before he was hired, there was no question of speed, only quality, which was fine with me because I'd rather take the time to do something right than turn out some half-assed shoddy work. This all just leaves me incredibly confused and with a strong desire to punch him in the face for confusing me.
In a way, it's good to have an asinine boss because it motivates me to find a new job somewhere else. I need a better job with a living wage (so I don't have to depend on my parents to pay my cell phone bill, health insurance, and other basic costs and I can start planning for retirement) and upward mobility. I'm also on the verge of needing to move too, but where depends on the metaphorical flip of a coin.
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