#231 Office Drama ExploShawn

Well some serious poop hit the fan today in the office, and it was spectacular. 

Our main financial analyst gave her notice today, to her boss (the CFO) who was in to sign some docs (he's currently on vacation). Oh, to have been a fly on that wall!

It's a bitter sweet moment...

Bitter because she was one of my fav co-workers. A real sweetheart of a gal. Amazing at her job and a real asset to the company.

Sweet because her boss, like mine, is an A-list ass hat. And he deserves what he's getting.  The beauty to this is that he's only been here for about a year and a half, originally contacted as an assistant or some such to the General Manager (remember her...?  She's gone now) He's been the CFO for about 8 months, and he hasn't a clue what this company is about, far less any actual acumen for Finance. (It really amazes me how these people get upper management positions) Basically she's been carrying his sorry ass to get things done in the Finance dept. And all during that time he's treated her like crap. He really is a dick. Personally, my interactions are few but even I know more than he does about how this company runs.  He asked her to stay til the end of the first week of Sept to help him with the Month and Quarter End.  She flatly told him no. (GOD why couldn't I have been there for that?!?!)

Then for the next 45 minutes he was out pacing in the parking lot on his phone, constantly either rubbing his temples with his free hand, or flailing it about.

It was most entertaining to watch.

We'll survive this loss of a great employee, provided they are able to find a qualified replacement. I just hope it does not start an exodus. If  it does, I hope those in a position to nail it down and chuck the deadwood...

In the meantime seeing a useless cog in the wheel bouncing about is some entertaining consolation. 

#227 JubilaShawn

I am the envy of most of the office today.

While I do not go on Vacation for another week, my Boss  is now officially on his own vacation and is not in the office next week or the week after.

So my envious co-workers are happy they will not have to see or hear him for the next two weeks. But as I pointed out to them, I will not have to see or hear him for the next three weeks AND a day.

:-)

Check and Mate!

#119 Office Departure and RepercusShawns

I realize it's not nice to take solace in another person's misery, but sometimes karma is really on target...

I forgot to mention at the end of last week that the dumb-ass General Manager will be leaving (there's a selection of theories: let go, fired, gave notice yadda yadda yadda, ultimately what's important here is she's leaving) ... and with her hopefully a couple of other pieces of deadwood. Said deadwood is already scrambling about the office like chickens with their heads chopped off.

While I won't say I'm glad to see her gone, no, wait, I am; I do wish her well elsewhere... 

As for the deadwood...  many in the office are enjoying the most entertaining activity.  It's interesting, most in the office never gave them much credit, but clearly they *do* have a clue seeing as they realize just how tenuous their positions now are with their sole point of support now departing.

I've never been much for brown-nosers, but it's nice to see that they are the ones scrambling for a change.