Work GRRR!
Oct. 26th, 2009 06:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pinksoniaOne of my bosses yelled at me today. I try not to complain about him on here too much, because it is kind of a downer, but I've felt for a while that this boss like to willfully misinterpret it as part of the attitude problem only he thinks I have. Anyway, he was getting very agitated that we were not starting to survey to segment that we were at, and I said we needed water. Unfortunately at that point we both had only part of the information, and the part we each had mad our own positions more right.
He knew that we were starting at the other side of the field to the east of the vehicle and would therefor be back at the truck in about 20 minutes. In those 20 minutes he was planning to go get us water so it would be there when we got back -- not a great precedent, but perfectly safe. I did not know where exactly our start point was. I really thought that we were starting at the trucks and heading west -- in which case we would not have had any access to water until the end of the day -- not safe at all.
After he got back with water, I tried to clear the air, and was told to "stop the passive-aggressive shit," that I had "made him look bad in front of the client, and our new employees" and that "the next time I said anything similar he was writing me up for insubordination." I was rather upset although the new employee who thanked me, saying that if I hadn't spoken up about the water he was going to, really helped (not to mention the one who added that it made him feel that I really cared about their well being). I really hate being on anyone's bad side -- and I seem to constantly be on this man's bad side -- but if I'm going to be written up for insubordination I really hope it is over a similar safety issue, because I have no problem sticking to my guns when it deals with my safety or that of people around me.
He knew that we were starting at the other side of the field to the east of the vehicle and would therefor be back at the truck in about 20 minutes. In those 20 minutes he was planning to go get us water so it would be there when we got back -- not a great precedent, but perfectly safe. I did not know where exactly our start point was. I really thought that we were starting at the trucks and heading west -- in which case we would not have had any access to water until the end of the day -- not safe at all.
After he got back with water, I tried to clear the air, and was told to "stop the passive-aggressive shit," that I had "made him look bad in front of the client, and our new employees" and that "the next time I said anything similar he was writing me up for insubordination." I was rather upset although the new employee who thanked me, saying that if I hadn't spoken up about the water he was going to, really helped (not to mention the one who added that it made him feel that I really cared about their well being). I really hate being on anyone's bad side -- and I seem to constantly be on this man's bad side -- but if I'm going to be written up for insubordination I really hope it is over a similar safety issue, because I have no problem sticking to my guns when it deals with my safety or that of people around me.
