So, my PG is going on vacation on Sunday to
I nicely sent him an email asking if he was coming back today and if so, explained that I needed to talk to him before he went on vacation. He responded back in the positive and even agreed that I could use his office while he is gone (yeah, some peace and quiet!). There are lots of things going on and since he has never allowed me to take decision making power, I wanted to get some direction on what I could say yes or no too. So things went on and he arrived back to the building. I was in the middle of getting our intranet back up (another side effect of the bad day yesterday) and I thought I had some time. He even came over to hand me this document that one of my coworkers was retyping because it was a 30 page table/grid thing that I say “NO” too. He wanted me to review it. That’s fine. I put it in my pile and continued to work on what I was doing.
So when I finally get myself ready to go talk to him, I walk to his office and find him ALREADY GONE! Now, what happened to me telling him that I needed to talk to him? What happened to me reminding him that I’m not here tomorrow and that I wanted to have some things in place for while he was on vacation? What happened to be a good boss and caring about what your employees do or do not do while you are on vacation?
I have it in my right mind to just cease doing anything and just study for my CCNA. In fact, other than Monday, I’m going to make it a point to do that each and every day while he is gone for at least ONE hour due to his lack of talking to me before his vacation. I might be compelled to do work instead, but if he can rudely stiff me the conversation that I nicely asked to have, then I can nicely decide that other things are less important than my CCNA.
But this has also put me in a jam. I’ve already had three emails since he disappeared silently that require decisions. Now, I guess I could wait for him to make the decision, but since he didn’t talk to me – I’m just going to make the decisions without him. He has left me no other options. Our support company wants to spend a couple days outlining a huge upgrade of our equipment. Two days isn’t that expensive – I’m going to improve it because I need this to get done so I can give our Fiscal Guru a budget number ASAP. The un-nicknamed Part Time Tech Staff person who finally spoke to me today for the first time EVER, really wants to know more of what I need him to do. I don’t know if the PG showed him the job description or not. I don’t know anything about if I’m to buy the full machine or not for this person. Well, what am I supposed to do? This position is to start less than 1 day after the PG returns from vacation. He is going to be swamped with Queen Medusa. I have to make the decision and just tell him what I’m going to do. I’m going to order the additional full machine and I’m going to show the job description to the un-nicknamed Part Time Tech Staff person because that is WHAT I NEED TO DO! This isn’t about what is best for my boss. If he can’t have the common courtesy to speak with me after I request the time to talk to him, then I feel that is a sign that he trusts me to make the decisions that need to be made.
Assertiveness. Boldness. Decision-maker. These aren’t really things that I think of when I think of myself, but screw it --- I’ve been screwed enough by not being these things that I’m just going to freaking do it. I’m sick of waiting for him to do these things and I would have been more than happy to let him feel like he was making the decisions if he would have talked to me. Seriously, if he has a gripe about this and how I’m going to handle this... I’ll let the battle cry ring out! DOWN WITH THE PG!
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