The boss-employee relationship is already a difficult one. If you want to keep your job, you're already prohibited from any truly honest discourse with the head honcho, even if said honcho "really wants you to just be open with me so we all have a better environment." Like with friends and their love interests, the declared desire for honesty and the inevitable reaction any true honesty will bring are as far apart as can be.
But the passive-aggressive boss move makes things infinitely worse.
I'm already annoyed that I can't tell you off when YOU show up late, or leave way too many things on my plate, so that if I don't plow through at least half I look lazy, but half requires constant harried work, something I don't feel a part-time job at ridiculously-low an hour should demand of me, or block the internet so that half the time I can't do the things you ask of me with anything like effectiveness, and the other half I can't check an e-mail even though I haven't had anything particular to do for the last few hours.
But arriving and giving the "oh, you chose to do this? Because that means I don't get to finish the thing I had intended" speech, in a 'non-accusing' but obviously annoyed tone, or leaving a note that "next time, I really prefer you do the whole thing while walking on your hands" even though you didn't make that at all clear beforehand, or saying one day that I should do whatever I think is best and the next, when I've done that, second-guessing me and delivering the equivalent of an "i'm disappointed" speech with a little purse-lipped smile and a heaping helping of condescension -- doing any and all of those are enough to make a girl try sabotage.
Which you may not discover for a while, or ever, as your saboteur is just as P-A as you are...
-Posted by Jilly
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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