Cogito ergo scribo

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Hate is a strong word and i always do my best to refrain from using it on anyone. Perhaps it is inappropriate for me to say "i hate my boss". After all, people always say that hatred sprung from love. I've never loved him (yucks, NEVER!) so where does the hatred come from? Nevertheless, the negative feeling that i have towards my boss is so bad that it does resemble hatred. Sometimes the sight of him annoys me so much that i can hear myself saying in my heart, "why don't you just drop dead and disappear forever?" See what a terrible person i am, or rather, what a horrible person i've become because of him?! He is the very first boss who actually elicits such strong dislike from me, so much so that i'm now even dedicating a post to him.

Initially when i took up this job, i never expected him to be such a stupid ass. I even thought that he was a good person as he was willing to go through all the troubles with the IDA contract to employ me. Only after a while then i knew from colleagues that he did it because he was desperate to have me over for his own selfish reasons:

1. He needed to go to Wuxi, China for the implementation of the new plant and must have someone based in S'pore to take care of Navision



2. He wanted someone who has knowledge of Navision and didn't need his guidance (or rather, as i suspected, it might be because he doesn't know much himself so how could he guide the new person at all). His criteria of "knowledge of Navision" is merely based on the answer to his question of "what is the limitation of Navision", which in his mind there isn't any limitation except the system's inability to print out "x pages of y" in reports. No other interviewees gave him the answer he wanted but me (i've mentioned several limitations but he only focused on this particular one)



3. He needed someone who knows Navision to cover his ass of not knowing much

Of course, at that time i didn't know about all these and thought that he was a person who really valued me and might be a good leader. Who would have guessed that he is actually an incompetent manager who sucks in his IT and managerial skills, and yet is so full of himself and thinks that he is smarter than any of us. He has the tendency to talk down to people and think of everyone else as idiot. He once said that the company was really fortunate to have him because he alone is doing the job of five IT staff; the company would be in trouble without him.

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Many people in the company has been wondering what is he doing everyday except chatting with his good friends, two other stupid-ass managers. Given the current situation of the company, everyone knows that there isn't much to do nowadays. However, when someone actually asked him for something, he still had the audacity to claim that he was way too busy to do what the person requested. This is one of the things i hate most about him -- instead of putting his mind to think of ways to improve the system for the users and to serve them better, he rather spends time wrestling with them and bluffed them into believing the system can't do anything. Microsoft really ought to sue him for damaging the image of Navision as people who left this company brought with them the bad experience they had in using Navision and would not recommend it for their next company.

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He likes to show off his authority to people as if he is so high and mighty while everyone else is just lesser human. The way he speaks to top management and normal users are so different that one can just tell he is a person who looks down on people lower in job position while sucks up to people at the top (见高就拜，见低就踩). The way he tries not to do any work as much as possible simply shows that he is a lazy ass who just wants to have a job that pays well without putting in effort. He doesn't even have a sense of responsibility that a manager should have; his main concern is just to push away responsibility that may bring problems and everything else is of no importance, even if it's at the expense of the company's well-being.

Why then this kind of person can be in such position? Well, he was initially employed as an IT Specialist but just so happened that there was a need to set up an IT department and he was conveniently chosen because he was the only one around. Of course, i also gotta give it to him for his talent in bluffing his way through the users and top management. I guess this once again proves that a person doesn't really need to be good in his work; all he needs are just be at the right place, at the right time and equipped with the bluffing skill, and then even people like my stupid-ass boss could become a manager.

So, why do i need to waste any more time and effort in polishing up my job skills? All i have to do is just to learn from him the ass-sucking (AS) and bull-shitting skills and pray extra hard for a chance to drop on my lap. After that, i can simply sit back and get paid with a few K's every month for just ordering people around and looking down on anyone who couldn't advance through the corporate ladder because he/she doesn't do the AS and BS as good as me.

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