#WorkplaceDrama #RemoteWork #LeadershipIssues
Hey everyone, I could use some perspective on a situation I’m dealing with at work. So, here’s the lowdown:
- My boss is seriously underqualified for his position. 😒
- He’s got zero technical skills and struggles with even the most basic management tasks.
- Not to mention, he often takes credit for the work of others. 🤦♂️
Recently, he casually suggested that everyone should come back to the office full-time, claiming it’s better for teamwork. Keep in mind, we’ve only got one remote workday a week! 👀
But here’s the kicker: this guy constantly makes his own schedule. He often says, “Oh, I’ve got to work from home today because my kids have appointments.” And he usually drops this bomb right when he feels like it! 📅
- This happens multiple times a week, and honestly, he doesn’t even do much work when he’s remote.
- When he does come into the office, he strolls in late and leaves early. 🙄
He loves to brag about his fancy cars and big house, but let’s be real—most of that success is thanks to his wife’s wealthy family. Plus, he blames his remote days on needing to take care of the kids, even though his wife is a stay-at-home mom. It’s baffling! 🏠🚗
Honestly, I can’t help but think he’s just waiting for the day when everything catches up with him. 🙆♂️
What do you all think? Have you experienced anything similar with a boss who makes unfair rules? How did you handle it? Let’s share some tips and stories! 💬
If he doesn’t know what he’s doing, how did he get this job and keep it? Is he taking credit for other people’s work? Do the people above him know what a tool he is? Call him out on his bullshit. Make sure other don’t cover for him or do his work for him. Set him up to fail.
Give him an incentive: be less productive in office than you are when WFH.
Does he have a boss? If so go to his boss and explain to him he’s trying to add massive expenses to the company budget to justify his job and for his own ego.
Ugh sounds like our owner.
I cant be fully remote because they “REALLY NEED” me in office, like if I have a doctors appointment and need to leave 30 minutes early they feel I should make up the full day.
Meanwhile, they do nothing they claim they will, aren’t reachable when a question comes up, and on the rare occasion they do come in the office (usually to randomlycheck that we are) they go on about their next vacation, whether they should work that week from their beach house, mountain house, or city high rise, or which country they should visit next.
They inherited the business from their spouse and we have no retirement plan and shitty insurance, but of course the business funds their retirement and they are on a separate (and much better) insurance, also fully funded by the business.
Unfortunately, to get a business loan, you have to have collateral, and since my partner and I can’t afford a house around here, we can’t open our own business either.
Our raises this year didn’t even cover the rent hike, much less groceries, insurance, utilities…
It really makes me want to throw a monitor at my boss.
FWIW, not having a boss around is *almost* as good as not having a commute.
Why don’t you report the blatant time theft to his boss? As for him taking credit for stuff that he did not do. Find ways to put who made it into whatever. So that he can no longer take credit. It would be hard for him to take credit when everyone finds out how much of a lazy person he is and how much money they could save by getting rid of his lazy ass.
He probably assumes everyone abuses it as badly as he does, and *we can’t have that.*
i would just take over his office and say that he was permanently moved to remote due to his out of office time.
I don’t understand how these people get away with this and also I don’t understand how they don’t see their employees as humans with equal or more needs and equal demands on their time than they, themselves, have.
I worked for a woman like your boss and she was always “calling in remote,” while we were reduced to two remote days per week and then they took remote work away altogether. She kept her privileges though.
Another boss I had was always out for “appointments” or he’d call in from his car and not really be able to concentrate on the meetings, etc. At one point he took an extended leave of several weeks and mentioned he wasn’t using short term disability because he “had a lot of PTO banked.” He was only with the org for two years so he must never have taken one hour of sick or vacation time – even being off all of those afternoons.