990μCecils (job stuff, rant)
Just one little push is all it takes now.
Fortunately, I might not have to quit, 'coz he hasn't been paying his fluffy bill (and is past-due to the tune of around $10,000) so the staffing agency is going to pull me from the project on Friday anyway if they don't have a check in hand by then.
I'm sick of the fear-based management.
I'm sick of how he never takes any responsibility for his mistakes.
I'm sick of how when his mistakes force him to take responsibility, he still assigns blame for other people "blowing up" at him.
I'm sick of being managed like a disposable resource.
I'm sick of being held to a time clock which I don't even have physical access to when he's not there.
I'm sick of being jerked around.
I'm sick of the way he treats other people.
I'm sick of the pride he takes in being deeply in debt to other companies but not enough debt for them to try to collect, because it's "not worth their time or money."
I'm sick of the way he props himself on the phone, making it sound like the company is big and well-funded and fully-staffed and has plenty of product and service already, when it's really just two people in a roach-infested stripmall office space, one always working on code which will probably never see production use and the other always talking on the phone and too busy to actually make sure that things are going in the right direction, spending all his time instead on making these forward-thinking business deals which rely on past events which will not actually happen.
I'm sick of having to be self-directed on an app module, only to spend 10 hours writing code which needs to be thrown out because 5 minutes before I go home one day he decides that I'm doing it all wrong and that NOW is suddenly the time to go over how to do it right.
I'm sick of his bullshit attitude that this is the only VoIP company doing what he's doing (it isn't) or that it'll change the world (it won't) or that it'll make telecommunications so much cheaper (it can't) and that it'll be the best value in VoIP service anywhere (it's not even close).
I'm sick of John.
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I learned that the hard way, but not doing that and getting screwed.
I had employers like that before, I know exactly how you feel. My favourite revenge was in being all calm and cool about it (as I usually am), and acting like I didn't need their filthy, small-time corporate (and pathetically meagre) money. They reacted like they'd just been slapped by me. It was priceless.
They need to understand that employees are people, not mere commodities. You know why they call it 'human resources'? We're just as disposable to these people as the environment ('natural resources') is to right-wing governement and big business.
Good luck finding something better. It's obvious that you can. You're intelligent and knowledgeable, with lots of good ideas, and drive. Someone is bound to recognise that soon...
Anyway. I have a feeling that since I"m not in the office, John is going to refuse to pay any of my hours today, since there won't be any 'proof' that I'm 'working' (though I'm doing more work from home than I usually do in the office, which is to say that my work ethic has seriously slipped, ugh).
Fine by me.