bad managers
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- monkeyshine0
thanks for the advice. The Peter Principle is spot on. I'm relatively new and definitely get the sense that some of this is putting me in my place. "This is the way we do things round here" sorta vibe...though out the other side of his mouth is about how open he is. Talking has been painful...there has never been an instance where I couldn't defend my design decisions and his response is always...yeah, I hear you but I don't like it. Example: "I am not a fan of left aligned sites. We mostly do centered sites." Oh really? Have you ever tested your premise on users? "I don't believe in usability testing."
Oy.
- olli1010
"I don't believe in usability testing" - oh boy. That's usually not a good sign.
- emecks0
My old boss at mm (there are a good few threads about THAT particular cunt on here too) used to have all of the "management speak" buzzwords down to a tee: "drink our own champagne" etc etc etc but had less than no clue.
For example:
He quite seriously never wrote a word of ColdFusion in his life yet wandered around the office wearing a "CFUG Edinburgh" lanyard round his neck - the chancing fuck.Not a clue about glue and pretending he was King Uhu all day long.
Here's the gormless cunt in all his glory:
- bitter at all emecks?vespa
- CFUG = ColdFusionUserGroup, but in his case:
Cunt Fucken Utterly Gormless.
emecks - not really vespa - since the fall of mm that fucker is unemployable :Demecks
- also how the devil are ye? no seen you on these shores for ages.emecks
- hey emecks - yea all good! balancing music and dezine nicely at the mo, enjoying it :)vespa
- how about you? where are you?vespa
- freelance now, more or less - hopefully more in the months to come...emecks
- Point50
boss: "lets use a classy font... something like we used in [client names]'s ad"
me: "oh, porcelain? that's not really classy, it's a grunge font. I wouldn't recommend using that font based on the direction for this particular project"
boss: "that's not a grunge font, it's cursive!"
me: "uh, it's a script that's been de-constructed into a grunge font"
boss: "well, I don't think it's a grunge font, I like it! We're going to use it"
me: "..."- that sucks man. never show anyone it!studderine
- OMG we have the same manager!monkeyshine
- chossy0
Leave I did when I felt like this and have never been happier.
- bliznutty0
My manager, whom i helped interview btw, turned out to be a total douchebag. he totally sucks. he's totally coasting and avoids work. The only time he has taken any intitiative was when the coffee machine broke he got it fixed. anywayz i feelz ya mang!
- roundabout0
I had one fucker who made me work 2 week ahead of the deadline to cover his sad sorry ass, after the first month I told her to fuck right offffff.
- dan53820
I have a manager like this (currently taking over his department though and he keeps getting demoted!!). Just talk to him in complete designer jargon, then when he's really listening throw some terms in there that are completely wrong and when goes to explain his idea's to the boss call him out and provide references as to why he knows nothing about what he's doing.