Post by J. Hova on Nov 23, 2023 19:30:51 GMT -5
I actually will go with a tie.
Back in the former life when I was slinging drinks and serving tables at the country club, we lost the best boss I ever had. He decided to move away to be closer to his daughter, her husband, and their new baby. The board of directors was made up of members and they spent months scouring for a new manager, partially because this former boss gave them like months and months worth of notice.
I put in my notice sort of as well. I still agreed to work the off hand wedding reception or party on the weekends. This was all because I had accepted an offer to start an IT help desk contract. The new manager started and I didn't work there for a few weeks. I meet the guy on the next wedding reception and realize this guy doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground. I became aware they hired this guy since he was retired military and once ate at Tavern on the Green or something. He had the personality of a wet mop and thought he was still in the Army. He would bark nonsensical orders and go absolutely batshit if you didn't drop everything and do what he wanted right then. Also keep in mind, this guy couldn't make a vodka tonic. The longtime assistant manager who everyone loved quit because of him (she didn't want to manage the whole place and they did try to talk her into it).
Coincidentally, my IT contract was running out and the company I was contracted through said they didn't have anything immediately available, so I went back to country club full time. The manager got fired shortly thereafter, I might have worked for him full time for about a month but he was just in over his head and had about as much business running a food and beverage operation as I do running NASA. This also started the revolving door of managers and managerial candidates. We went from great boss to this guy to the golf pro trying to horn in and failing to a bartender running the place while he was opening his own bar with some friends and then the board firing him for daring to open his own place that he told them about before they even made him manager to the head groundskeeper to the manager they landed on some 18 months after this all started and who stayed there for about 12 years. While all of this happened, I went from bartending and waiting tables to moving to the business office since they fired someone there and needed a replacement. My first day I found evidence that person was embezzling cash payments. The office manager ended up quitting and suddenly I'm running the business office. I blame the bad boss for all of this.
The next boss wasn't a bad guy and I think was just a culture clash. It was my first job at my current company some 16 years ago. He spent his entire life in California and his former company closed up shop. He decided to move here for this job managing an IT help desk and I was one of the first hires since this was a new initiative for the company. We needed a strong manager who could help build processes and procedures. This guy was the most laid back, stereotypical Californian I've ever seen. Someone had a complaint? Shrug. Someone not taking calls and just surfing the web? Meh. We got 45 calls in the queue and 200 tickets in the hopper? Just transfer everything to the next level of support. He lasted about a year.
Back in the former life when I was slinging drinks and serving tables at the country club, we lost the best boss I ever had. He decided to move away to be closer to his daughter, her husband, and their new baby. The board of directors was made up of members and they spent months scouring for a new manager, partially because this former boss gave them like months and months worth of notice.
I put in my notice sort of as well. I still agreed to work the off hand wedding reception or party on the weekends. This was all because I had accepted an offer to start an IT help desk contract. The new manager started and I didn't work there for a few weeks. I meet the guy on the next wedding reception and realize this guy doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground. I became aware they hired this guy since he was retired military and once ate at Tavern on the Green or something. He had the personality of a wet mop and thought he was still in the Army. He would bark nonsensical orders and go absolutely batshit if you didn't drop everything and do what he wanted right then. Also keep in mind, this guy couldn't make a vodka tonic. The longtime assistant manager who everyone loved quit because of him (she didn't want to manage the whole place and they did try to talk her into it).
Coincidentally, my IT contract was running out and the company I was contracted through said they didn't have anything immediately available, so I went back to country club full time. The manager got fired shortly thereafter, I might have worked for him full time for about a month but he was just in over his head and had about as much business running a food and beverage operation as I do running NASA. This also started the revolving door of managers and managerial candidates. We went from great boss to this guy to the golf pro trying to horn in and failing to a bartender running the place while he was opening his own bar with some friends and then the board firing him for daring to open his own place that he told them about before they even made him manager to the head groundskeeper to the manager they landed on some 18 months after this all started and who stayed there for about 12 years. While all of this happened, I went from bartending and waiting tables to moving to the business office since they fired someone there and needed a replacement. My first day I found evidence that person was embezzling cash payments. The office manager ended up quitting and suddenly I'm running the business office. I blame the bad boss for all of this.
The next boss wasn't a bad guy and I think was just a culture clash. It was my first job at my current company some 16 years ago. He spent his entire life in California and his former company closed up shop. He decided to move here for this job managing an IT help desk and I was one of the first hires since this was a new initiative for the company. We needed a strong manager who could help build processes and procedures. This guy was the most laid back, stereotypical Californian I've ever seen. Someone had a complaint? Shrug. Someone not taking calls and just surfing the web? Meh. We got 45 calls in the queue and 200 tickets in the hopper? Just transfer everything to the next level of support. He lasted about a year.