Former Employer Hell - Part I
I suppose now that I don’t work there, and can’t be fired for blogging about working there, I just wanted to take one last quick look at my former employer.
You might know of this place, you may have heard the name before.
Working for that company was like… well, like nothing I’ve ever seen before. Let’s break it down by division, and then by the cast of characters within the division.
Part I - The Controller
I’ll start with Finance, which was my “home” while I worked for the “family” organization. The Controller is the embodiment of narcissism itself. She happily surfs the internet all day, oblivious and clueless to how to do any of the actual work within the department. Ever one to take glory that is not owed to her nor ever earned by her by any measure, she will sooner turn over her staff to her boss should her blissful little bubble of self-important dating site perusal is ever threatened. She likes to bully those who work for her, using personal remarks of ridicule and degredation in meetings with other divisions as one of her favorite tactics. The higher ranking the other members of the meeting - the more elevated she feels by putting down others in front of them.
It’s not uncommon for her to share personal, private details of her employee’s work or personal life with her friends at their social gatherings - some of whom also work for the same organization.
She is adamant that she not be involved in the details of anything - particularly anything involving the department for which she is directly responsible. If I hear “high level overview” anymore, I physically cringe. A “high level overview” to her really means: “I don’t have the slightest clue what you’re talking about, but I don’t want anyone else to know so don’t make it obvious by involving details I should know about but have never heard of before and wouln’t know what to do with if I did.”
At one point, her lack of wanting to be involved in the “details” led to a shitstorm of write-ups from the external auditors during their annual audit. What did she do? Admit she was wrong and take the responsibility - since she was the one who gave the final sign-off of her review of the financials prior to the auditors coming in?
Nope. Not a chance. Instead she completely blamed the managers working for her, demoted one and then paraded the damning information about that manager’s “career shift” around her social circles well before any formal announcement had been released about the “organizational changes” she was making. Yes - all her girlfriends knew about it, many of them were co-workers, or colleagues, with the manager that was demoted.
She will openly admit that she won’t allow her employee’s advancement if it threatens her own “dominion” within the company.
When she isn’t roaming the internet looking for a man (any man) that will have her for longer than it takes to get her into bed, she is talking about it or crying into her glass of wine about it. Often times she would call me away from my work to have me sit and listen to her constant bullshit about men she was dating.
She goes to conferences and user group meetings under the guise of a work-related trip and then spends most of her time either shopping, drinking, recovering from her night out drinking, or meeting random conference attendees that she then “shags” and wonders why they never call again. To her that was a successful trip! I have heard her tell people how she as a “great track record” at conferences. This is her way of saying she meets and sleeps with men there. All on the company’s dime!
Stay tuned if you’re interested, the next installment: The _______: aka the one who we’re pretty sure doesn’t ever do any work, is completely incompetent, and super-sized ass-kisser to his boss!
