So like I said earlier I was re-reading some of my old posts.
Man I recall in Nov 2007 being very excited to start that new job. Well 14 months later and I’m thinking I made a very large mistake.
The company is doing well and for the most part the people are great. My issue is with the CEO/President. He is truly the most unprofessional, manipulative person I’ve ever worked with and that’s how he treats his people. He constantly says that what we do is easy and can’t understand why things take to long to build. I can tell you. It’s because we don’t have a complete understanding of what needs to be built. Sure we have functional specs but they having huge holes in them every time (something is always missing or not elaborated on). He over commits to deadlines without checking with anyone. He breeds an atmosphere of “cover your ass”. And how dysfunctional is a company that is ecstatic that the CEO is out of the office? No one wants him there, we all walk on eggshells.
Sad thing is he thinks he’s this great motivator. His VPs don’t want to even manage people. How are you a VP and not able to manage people? I want that job.
Biggest issue I have with him is that he believes if he can’t understand it, then it has to be wrong. No!!! If you don’t understand then we need to make sure you do before saying it’s wrong. It’s not wrong by default. How this guy ever made it to this position I do not know. I could go on for days ranting about him. So suffice to say I think I made a mistake.
I know I should be lucky to have a job in this economy. My previous employer has done some layoffs and who knows if I would have been part of those. I’m really frustrated that I jumped at the first opportunity and didn’t see this coming. My friends tell me I couldn’t have seen it and not to beat myself up over it, but I can’t help myself in that regard. I’m also frustrated that I’m not in the financial position to just quit. I guess not many would be but again I think it’s something I did to myself.
Enough of that, I’m trying to maintain a positive outlook while I look for a new opportunity somewhere else.
Maybe I’ll get lucky and he’ll get hit by a bus.
Or I’ll get truly lucky and win the lottery.
