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I am coming up on my 5 year anniversary with my boss and I am dismayed that it seems all my (male) bosses come out the same. The only answer is me but I am not sure how to resolve it.
When I get something for my boss I put it in an email for him. At first we didn't have a lot of problems but now... he is busy and gets a lot of e-mails. So he misses things. Ok no problem. I will just bring them to his attention.
But he resents me doing that and comes up with strained excuses why it was "my fault" he didn't get to them, at first it was funny and cute but now it is really getting on my nerves.
I sent him some items on Wednesday. He called me later and told me, he had taken care of them. Yesterday when I went to process them I found out 1/2 of them weren't done. I brought them back to his attention. He pretends this is the first he is hearing of it.
Now he has for a while played this game where I have to prove to him I had sent them to him in the first place. That used to be a pain but set up a macro to find my sent e-mails to him so they are easy to find. So each e-mail had the original at the bottom. So I am confused.
But then I find out, he is reading his e-mails on his phone via the summary. So he isn't even bothering to read the entire e-mail that I spend time giving to him.
I did tell him off with that but he still pretended like it doesn't matter.
So here is what I think... I think he resents me and that I am on top of things. I also think he doesn't like the work. And thus, he plays this stupid game of, you're at fault. To avoid the work and also take me down a few pegs.
I am getting sick of it. I always feel like my bosses are there just to take me down a few pegs. They come up with stupid busy work constantly to thwart me.
Another example... we are in charge of work. Certain bosses give us assignments and when we are done with those assignments we close them out. Doesn't matter what the customers think. He sent me an e-mail the other day asking if we had lost track of a case. No, clearly not. Everyone in my workgroup had brought it to his attention frequently. But we will pretend that .so I sent an e-mail back saying we had one thing open and once that was done I would close it out. He asks me to find out from the customers if they agreed that we were all done. That isn't the way it works!! To do that would add tons of time to my day. No, it is just a stall tactic. But, it makes work for me because it is difficult not only to get in touch with the customers but also get them to respond (as this isn't the way it is done).
All my bosses act like I am deceiving them when I take pains to make sure I am not.
I like to put everything in writing but eventually they like to pick up the phone because they realize they can lie more easily we have a phone conversation.
I am the person who schedules things and eventually the bosses take that over and pick poor times...
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