June 14, 2010
The Selfish Thing, Revisited
Oh, my God, the insanity just doesn't STOP! PhD Boss is a complete piece of FILTH! Just wait until the end of this post, my darlings -- you will feel the same way. I hope you're sitting down because your blood pressure is in for a roller coaster ride.
We remember when PhD Boss did The Selfish Thing, in the absence of a department head, a support person, and any sign of brain activity from Head Boss, right? Well, not long after that incident...
HE DID IT AGAIN!!!
Holy shit, it's like he was hatched from an alien egg without a soul! How does this asshole look at himself in the mirror every day?!
Sorry. Deep breaths, Wenchie. You need to get to the meat of the story before the flying monkeys' eyes glaze over and they start wondering what to have for lunch.
Okay. After Head Boss, PhD Boss, and my predecessor -- I'll call her Eden -- all got settled into their new positions, Alpha was finally free to take some personal leave for continuing education. (This is not only tolerated where I work, it is encouraged.)
Now, she knew that, with all new staff, and other bureaucratic changes, there needed to be a restructuring of the department. Job descriptions needed to be revamped, but Alpha had already put off her continuing ed. for a year. So Head Boss assured her that they would all sit down and figure it out when she came back to work in three months, and Alpha went merrily on her way to better herself and become a more valuable employee.
Well, as you may imagine, she needn't have bothered. Head Boss broke it to her on her first day back.
"You're not going to like this. We reworked all the positions while you were on leave."
Does that not make your blood run cold? What does PhD have on Head Boss to keep bending him to his will?! Nude photos? Gay porn? Nude photos with Bea Arthur?
Turns out that, with the new job descriptions, Alpha got more responsibilities, but less authority. Her position was also downgraded one level, essentially from Junior Executive to Executive Administrative Assistant.
They didn't actually take any salary away from her (this time!!!), but being at a diminished level, it lowers the amount at which her salary will cap out. Wait, so, yeah -- I guess they did take money away from her. They just did it in the future.
Look! A white woman! Get her! Make sure she can't rise beyond glorified secretary on the corporate ladder!
Fuckers.
And Eden's job? Well, instead of being support person to PhD Boss, Alpha and Head Boss, she became PhD's support person. Soley. Which was obviously the entire point of the restructuring -- to make Alpha into Head Boss' support person, so PhD could have a secretary all to himself.
And that's the job that I stepped into. No wonder Eden got the hell outta there as quickly as she could.
*sigh*
It scares me, frankly, that PhD has been so (relatively) nice to me so far. I wonder when the other shoe will drop and I'll find a letter opener tucked between my vertabrae. I also wonder if it's already happened and I just haven't discovered it, yet.
And it's funny that I use the word "nice" because I don't really mean thoughtful or kind, I just mean "nice" in that he has refrained from royally fucking me over. He sure as hell ain't thoughtful.
Who got me a card and treats for my birthday? Alpha.
Who gave me a card with some cash tucked into it for Christmas? Head Boss.
Who took me out to lunch on Administrative Professionals' Day? Head Boss. After I reminded him.
Who took me out to lunch on my one year anniversary in this shitty job? Alpha.
Who brings in fresh baked goodies once a month? Me!
Who doesn't know that my opinion of him has done a complete one-eighty and that he will soon be facing both his own comeuppance and an empty support staff cubicle?
Pee. Aich. Dee. Boss.
Comments
Thank goodness you're finding all this out before you left everything to go work for for PhD Boss - that would have SUCKED. You clearly have some good Karma on your side!
Posted by: Hope at June 14, 2010 12:23 PM