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not enough concern This morning did not end well for me. A half hour chat with my boss very seldom makes my day a good one and today was no exception for that rule. Sigh. For a week I had known that this was going to happen and as a result I had created many scenarios in my head as to what would be said by the two of us. None of these imaginary conversations were positive. Some of these talks in my head even included shouting on my part. Thankfully that one didn't come true. Basically my boss says that I do just enough at work and that is it. Naturally this does not make him happy. Plus he does not want to hear stories of me reading during my down time. My reading is something that really irritated him. From his point of view it looked as though I didn't have enough to do while I was there. Instead of reading I should have come to him and asked for a project. Personally I think that second point annoyed him more than it should considering the fact that other members of the department regularly browse the web and or talk a good part of their shift. I chose to do something more productive with my time. Sadly he didn't see it that way. As for the first point, I will not dispute it. When I am at work I do what is required of me and little else. However, that is a result of his doing and not mine. I told him that there is little incentive to try harder, because he never tells us what is happening. New projects come unannounced and new procedure are generally flawed. From my perspective there is no advantage to being concerned about the job. Nor is there any reason to put forth that much effort. Hard work is not rewarded. Returning to the second point once again, I must stress that the nature of our job is one of fluctuation. There will be extremely busy times and then there will be times when there isn't much to do. A T3 outage doesn't happen every day of the week, nor do storms roll through the United States on a daily basis. As hard as it might be to believe, sometimes the network will be stable. In the end I told him that he continually breaks his promises or at the very least mentions things that never seem to happen. I've heard him talk about upcoming projects for over a year and they still haven't surfaced within the department. How am I supposed to care when nothing new ever appears? I should have used the word stagnant, but I didn't. Plus I should have told him that he shouldn't listen to what people from other departments say to him. If they feel the need to tattle on someone else then they need to grow up. I find that behavior to be far more appalling than my reading at work. I didn't mention the tattling part, but thankfully a good friend of mine from the department did when he spoke with our boss for an over an hour. Our boss needs to listen to us and not to people who have yet to rise above a high school mentality. If that starts to happen then morale would probably improve. |