Tale of a Crappy Boss

November 2009 I begin working for a company in which I will not name. They are so innovative, I thought. This company is definitely going places, I would say to myself. Crappy boss says, "Oh but we don't have a computer for you yet." I bring my own laptop. "Oh and your office still hasn't been cleaned out, but here is this table you can sit at." In the middle of the sister company accounting office. Okay. "Learn everything you can about the new software. We don't have it yet, no one knows anything about it, but learn everything you can." Apparently I was going to have to implement it and train everyone on it. Fantastic. I was going to have power. Things got better though. My office was cleaned out, I got a computer, and I had a $1000 budget to decorate my office. And I got to go shopping for it on work time. Wonderful. Fast Forward. I was on Christmas break in Utah, which I had reminded crappy boss about time and time again, and crappy boss told me that it was no big deal, the trip wouldn't be a big deal on our schedule. I come back to work on December 31. New Years Eve. Everyone goes home at half day. What a wonderful day of work to come back to. Then, my first real day back at work, crappy boss says, "You know, you going on vacation really screwed us." Hmmm. Don't know how I feel about that comment. Did crappy boss not tell me over and over again that me leaving was no big deal? That's what I thought. I work my butt off. I catch up with everything that I miss and I am on top of it all. Training procedures currently consist of me begging for a moment of time from the accountant at the sister company. He doesn't have much time for me. He is too busy with his own work. I understand. And crappy boss says he wants to train me himself. The end of January comes and goes. Time to prepare monthly financials. The final thing that I need to be trained on before I have a pretty good handle on my job. Wednesday February 10th: Finish up putting in all month end transactions. Good. Tell crappy boss. Crappy boss says that is great and that he didn't have time that day but he would be in my office early the next morning so that we could just bust out financials all day. Awesome. Early morning comes, early morning goes. I go to his office late afternoon. Crappy boss says, "Where were you at 9 am this morning?" I say, "I was in my office, where were you?" Crappy boss says, "Not in your office!" Clever. Then crappy boss says, "Well do you have a minute so that we can start on financials." Yes, crappy boss, I have been waiting for you all day. Crappy boss accompanies me to my office. Gives me 20 minutes of "where to begin" training. Crappy boss says, "If you have questions, I will be in my office." Not my ideal kind of training. Thursday February 11th. I email crappy boss and ask if we can pick up where we left off yesterday. Crappy boss replies, Yes, sorry, I will be over shortly. Awesome, we may be able to get these done by the end of the week. Shortly turned into never. Yes, crappy boss never showed. Friday February 12th. I put the ball in the crappy boss court. I don't hear from crappy boss all day. Loser. Monday February 15th. Crappy boss calls. Wow, I thought. Maybe crappy boss will actually try today. Crappy boss says that he is clearing his afternoon so that we can pick up on financials again. Oh good, I thought, because financials should be out by now. I don't hear from crappy boss, nor see crappy boss the rest of the day. Tuesday February 16. I sit at my desk on the Internet all day and leave early. Rebel. Once again, an entire day without hearing nor seeing crappy boss. Today.....I wonder what my approach should be.