Reply to: working for a complete idiot

[Bee]

advice?

So what!!

[northernladyuk]

possibly but most bullies are pretty stupid.

I'm not sure I agree with that. There are plenty of narcissistic, sociopathic and similar people out there who are highly intelligent and also manipulative bullies.

[vetran]

You have a record of you sending a bunch of emails to which you've never received a reply. In the event that it comes to a head, the manager can simply state that your emails were incorrect and you were told verbally about changes/acceptances (which can be subsequently "skewed" so as to make you like the one in the wrong).

possibly but most bullies are pretty stupid.

[billybiro]

send them a daily report with the list of priorities as agreed verbally with priority, completed and % complete.

a few weeks of that and you will have a record of him accepting them or changing them.

You have a record of you sending a bunch of emails to which you've never received a reply. In the event that it comes to a head, the manager can simply state that your emails were incorrect and you were told verbally about changes/acceptances (which can be subsequently "skewed" so as to make you like the one in the wrong).

[MrMarkyMark]

working for a complete idiot

You're working for scooterscot

[vetran]

Corollary:

How do you get someone to ensure such things are always provided in writing, without appearing to be incredibly awkward, when they insist on only communicating verbally?

send them a daily report with the list of priorities as agreed verbally with priority, completed and % complete.

a few weeks of that and you will have a record of him accepting them or changing them.

[billybiro]

make sure you get EVERYTHING written down, particularly when they ask you to do some tulip idea and you know it will blow up

Corollary:

How do you get someone to ensure such things are always provided in writing, without appearing to be incredibly awkward, when they insist on only communicating verbally?

[kaiser78]

Have look at your notice period. Seek another contract. Get other contract. Give notice. Leave.

Depending on how big an idiot, this --> Have look at your notice period. Give notice. Leave.

[LondonManc]

I wouldn't call half a line, and an immediately obvious implication, "laboured".

But then I guess people with limited intellects have to work a lot harder to understand simple jokes, or indeed read them

AssSnob still thinks the mantra "he who laughs last, laughs loudest applies". He doesn't realise that it's long since been "he who laughs last, thinks slowest".

[OwlHoot]

Ironically, for a Brexiter, your humour is almost Teutonic in its labouredness.

I wouldn't call half a line, and an immediately obvious implication, "laboured".

But then I guess people with limited intellects have to work a lot harder to understand simple jokes, or indeed read them

[LondonManc]

AssSnob always has an opinion, rarely is it valid.

But it's always correct, you should have realised that by now - even when it's wrong.

[vetran]

Ironically, for a Brexiter, your humour is almost Teutonic in its labouredness.

AssSnob always has an opinion, rarely is it valid.

[sasguru]

Coolcat you shouldn't tell your boss that you post here.

Ironically, for a Brexiter, your humour is almost Teutonic in its labouredness.

[LondonManc]

If they are an idiot but good at signing timesheets you could be there years.

[northernladyuk]

Seems to be a theme with you. Have you considered that you might be the idiot?

Funnily enough, I have had to reflect a little recently on how it is that my last five contracts have involved working with impossibly difficult people.