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My boss is one of a kind, sometimes he means well but gets it wrong, sometimes he is just stupid and when he is at his best he just leaves me alone (then I can do my job).
I work with transports, I deliver various consumer articles to people in rural areas for the most part but also to others in more densly populated areas, I like my job and I keep at it well enough despite my boss behaviour.
What of my boss? Well from the horror stories I red so far on this site my boss is not that bad but he still pisses me off and sometimes it really gets to me. This is a portion of him in a list, tell me what you think.
He does not seem to understand his function in my job, he is just supposed to sum up all the orders, organize them into reasonable areas of operation and hand them to me so I can pack the orders and deliver them.
What he does it an opposite, although he organizes orders into reasonable count (I work on commission, I get paid per stop no matter what I deliver).
Many times the stops are too widespread and pinned in locations that takes half an hour to navigate to, I do between 20 and 30 stops a day, do the math if only half of them are in what is called "hard spots" (rural roads and such) you can pin how stressed I can get, some even demand that I have to be in two places at once.
Seriously does he read the orders or just the area-codes to save time and hopes it all works out?
He does not take into account the time I need to organize the route, pack the orders, load and offload, diesel-stop and delays (traffic-lights, bad roads, car-jams), he actually assumes that I just drive and stop, like I am the only one on the road, that all roads are freeway, that the truck runs on air and that items just gets in and out of the truck in a heartbeat. He has zero experience and eduaction in transports, he is a manager and just a manager.
He constantly assignes me work that has no relevance to me nor my job (mostly cleaning and organizing our warehouse but also widespread customer contacts) that takes time to fullfill and still he expects me to carry out my delivery job at the same time!
He has an obvious obsessive–compulsive disorder, a former employee to him that I know well told me this and the co-workers agree, as do I.
He counts my orders, if he did it two or three times no problem, the orders are money on paper, but he counts them more them six times and go throughs them verbally with me each one and this takes two hours!
"Im stressed as it is. Give me the fu--ing paper slips and send me on my way already!"
Whats more, he does not keep a control on them, each order comes with a recipt and a bill that I must give the costumer upon delivery, I constantly ask him if I can come early so I can get a good load of time to organize the orders and go (this is a screen I want to come early because I know he will spend two hours going over the orders with me so I have to use this as a buffert) often he is fine with that, he verbally applauds me for my motivation constantly.
But the problems still come, the bills and recipts are never written out when I come, he makes a lame attempt to "educate me" in my work when he actually just covers up that his lazy assistant (wich is also his wife) has not taken the time to write ou the bills nor recipts. Two or three hours down the drain, when the orders are finally done and his little "education-hour" has ended (a three hour speech were he repeats himself five times atleast and asks me to read over our company flyer a couple of times). Then he speds another two hours counting and going over the orders, and I have to sit with him, joy.
Seriously this is my boss, one whos sheer will is impending my work with small lies, he does this exact same thing to my co-worker wich is starting to grow angry with him. The good thing is, I don't have to meet him very often, but his actions hinder my work, I could do over 40 stops a day and make a load of cash if he would just do his job and sit in his corner.
His small faults hinders my job on a great scale, one hour is all that stands between me and rush hour, he constantly calls me (even during my free time) to go over my schedule, he never inspects the werehouse though he tellls me to clean it even though it is always clean, he constantly tells me how to do my job even though he barley knows how my truck works and the list goes on.
How does one cope with a boss who does not understand he is just in the way?
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