Ever work for someone that just does not listen to reality? No matter how patient you are, how many times you explain it, they listen, nod, say they understand and then carry on in their own little bubble.
For me it's like watching a plane crash in slow motion. You know what is happening, are powerless to stop it, and want to turn away as watching it is just too horrible. This person is a programme manager no less, yet still runs project plans and workshops. He is all over the place. I think he is running scared and his coping mechanism is micro managing. Although this also involves selling the customer on all sorts of impossible to deliver stuff in even more impossible time frames. It's embarrassing. Seriously.
At the moment I just have to play along, as I've tried honesty, bluntness, surreptitiousness, peer pressure, diversion, embarassment. None of which have worked. This guy is like an express train.
Worse yet, I have been in this gig for a while now and as soon as I make noises about wanting to leave I get the guilt trips.
End date is 31/03 although an extension has been offered. I think I have to pull the pin on this one now, and if they can't secure a successor in 8 weeks then it's their problem.
I for one am not going to chain myself to my desk for 14 hours a day to try and deliver against the rantings of a madman. Fook that. I went contracting for flexibility and freedom.
For me it's like watching a plane crash in slow motion. You know what is happening, are powerless to stop it, and want to turn away as watching it is just too horrible. This person is a programme manager no less, yet still runs project plans and workshops. He is all over the place. I think he is running scared and his coping mechanism is micro managing. Although this also involves selling the customer on all sorts of impossible to deliver stuff in even more impossible time frames. It's embarrassing. Seriously.
At the moment I just have to play along, as I've tried honesty, bluntness, surreptitiousness, peer pressure, diversion, embarassment. None of which have worked. This guy is like an express train.
Worse yet, I have been in this gig for a while now and as soon as I make noises about wanting to leave I get the guilt trips.
End date is 31/03 although an extension has been offered. I think I have to pull the pin on this one now, and if they can't secure a successor in 8 weeks then it's their problem.
I for one am not going to chain myself to my desk for 14 hours a day to try and deliver against the rantings of a madman. Fook that. I went contracting for flexibility and freedom.
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