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grammarwomanThe husband just called me for the umpteenth time since he started working at his current job, emotionally strung out because his boss is a vicious asshole. Said boss chose to blame a tech's failure to show at a client site and a cascade of other departments' failure to notice it on my husband. Said boss forced my husband to fucking sign an HR complaint that he is insubordinate and derelict in his duties. This is the second such piece of bullshit the Boss has perpetrated on Husband in the past couple of weeks.
My husband just worked 16 hours over this weekend, frantically trying to juggle both oncall matters (that his boss blindly refuses to acknowledge, simply ignoring the mass of calls listed in the call log) and a recently assigned project for which the boss underestimated the hours. Zod only knows if we'll see overtime pay for half of that time.
Husband is working in a short-staffed department which has the highest turnover rate in the company. Average stay is less than a year.
Almost everyone else at the company loves my husband and thinks he is an outstanding, talented, motivated worker. We're pretty damned sure at this point that Boss is paranoid about his job and is looking for any trumped-up circumstance he can to get my husband to quit to eliminate the possible competition. With this latest event, my husband is more than ready to cede the field to the douchebag.
Job opportunities around here for my husband's skill set (tech support, network/computer installs and maintenance, but unfortunately no college degree or certifications) are pathetic. He really enjoys his job, all but the parts of dealing with the psychopathic boss.
I advised my husband to get the fuck out of there for today and go home, and tomorrow set up a meeting with Boss' Boss to talk about what Husband can do.
Anyone have any suggestions for framing the conversation in a productive (and hopefully job-retaining) way? I've already told him that I'm behind him quitting, but I don't know if that will be any kind of effective, for lack of a better word, threat to improving his immediate situation.
Any and all help would be appreciated.
My husband just worked 16 hours over this weekend, frantically trying to juggle both oncall matters (that his boss blindly refuses to acknowledge, simply ignoring the mass of calls listed in the call log) and a recently assigned project for which the boss underestimated the hours. Zod only knows if we'll see overtime pay for half of that time.
Husband is working in a short-staffed department which has the highest turnover rate in the company. Average stay is less than a year.
Almost everyone else at the company loves my husband and thinks he is an outstanding, talented, motivated worker. We're pretty damned sure at this point that Boss is paranoid about his job and is looking for any trumped-up circumstance he can to get my husband to quit to eliminate the possible competition. With this latest event, my husband is more than ready to cede the field to the douchebag.
Job opportunities around here for my husband's skill set (tech support, network/computer installs and maintenance, but unfortunately no college degree or certifications) are pathetic. He really enjoys his job, all but the parts of dealing with the psychopathic boss.
I advised my husband to get the fuck out of there for today and go home, and tomorrow set up a meeting with Boss' Boss to talk about what Husband can do.
Anyone have any suggestions for framing the conversation in a productive (and hopefully job-retaining) way? I've already told him that I'm behind him quitting, but I don't know if that will be any kind of effective, for lack of a better word, threat to improving his immediate situation.
Any and all help would be appreciated.
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Date: 2009-06-17 04:35 pm (UTC)The 'stick it out until something better comes along' part is the hardest part.