klmno
Active Member
I get what you all are saying, but there's a little more to it than I am comfortable putting here. When I worked at a company and we provided a service to clients as our job, I would never go to a client about internal issues, office politics, complaints or anything like that. This isn't that kind of situation. I just haven't figured out a way yet to explain it better without revealing more than I'm comfortable doing publicly.
I am happy keeping low key but it just doesn't work that way with boss. Really. He will be the one who stirs koi up and has an agenda already scripted. The only choice is how to react to it and I'm doing the ebst I can but a person can only take so much. How long could you sit there and listen to your boss bring up a subject a 3rd time after you have moved onto something else and go off on you? Do you cry, yell, walk out, or think you can sit there forever when you finally realize that he'll keep doing this until you do something? And the issue he keeps bringing up is something you were directed to do in the first place.
Yes, I would (and will) happily move on and put it behind me when/if I find another job. In the meantime, I have no choice but to work thru this as best I can because I'm simply in no position to quit. But, given the agency involved and the clearance process and my future career needs, I am expected to do something and not cover certain things up. That could come back to bite me bigger than getting a bad reference from this company.
I have found out, from this last person I interviewed with, that my 3 references (which are my 3 previous employers) are giving me really good praises so that helps.
Now as far as production- boss doesn't make the client any money. He is here to manage people who are working on a database. Many are questioning why, after several years, it is still in this bad of shape. They aren't doing this because he's given the client a good job. They are doing it because they have no one to replace him with and they have to have someone in that position to get the next contract.
I'm just trying to muddle thru a step at a time. If he thinks I'm going to be a doormat though, he'll stomp harder, I'm sure of that at this point. Really- we aren't just talking about a control freak or powerr trip- I think this guy honestly has some major psychiatric issues.
I am happy keeping low key but it just doesn't work that way with boss. Really. He will be the one who stirs koi up and has an agenda already scripted. The only choice is how to react to it and I'm doing the ebst I can but a person can only take so much. How long could you sit there and listen to your boss bring up a subject a 3rd time after you have moved onto something else and go off on you? Do you cry, yell, walk out, or think you can sit there forever when you finally realize that he'll keep doing this until you do something? And the issue he keeps bringing up is something you were directed to do in the first place.
Yes, I would (and will) happily move on and put it behind me when/if I find another job. In the meantime, I have no choice but to work thru this as best I can because I'm simply in no position to quit. But, given the agency involved and the clearance process and my future career needs, I am expected to do something and not cover certain things up. That could come back to bite me bigger than getting a bad reference from this company.
I have found out, from this last person I interviewed with, that my 3 references (which are my 3 previous employers) are giving me really good praises so that helps.
Now as far as production- boss doesn't make the client any money. He is here to manage people who are working on a database. Many are questioning why, after several years, it is still in this bad of shape. They aren't doing this because he's given the client a good job. They are doing it because they have no one to replace him with and they have to have someone in that position to get the next contract.
I'm just trying to muddle thru a step at a time. If he thinks I'm going to be a doormat though, he'll stomp harder, I'm sure of that at this point. Really- we aren't just talking about a control freak or powerr trip- I think this guy honestly has some major psychiatric issues.