So, I've been at my latest job a little less than two years and the cracks are starting to show in my work relationships. I started this job after being fired from my other job for things like irritability, lack of focus on my specific tasks, I made everyone feel that they weren't doing a good job, and in general I just seemed like I wasn't happy to be working there. These were all said to me by my boss.
One of the things I've discovered since coming back from Iraq is that I'm extremely unforgiving of people that are "in charge". Be that my shop boss when I was still in the Guard or my civilian supervisor, they don't get a lot of mercy or forgiveness when they don't do their job like I feel they should. It is even worse when they are really young.
At my current job, the position that is suppose to supervise me has been vacant ever since I've started working here. So, I've been supervised by the head of the department who is older, wiser (at least some of the time), and more experienced. We butt heads some what, but she is fairly understanding and forgiving of me and I tend to withdraw somewhat from the battles we sometimes have. This person recognizes there is a trust issue at stake and is willing to be patient in working on it. However, in a month she will no longer be my supervisor. She will supervise my supervisor.
My new supervisor is going to be a 28 year old who has done a job similar to mine at another institution. He has never lived out on his own. He went straight from momma and daddy's house to college, where he lived on campus and has never lived off campus. His whole adult life has been spent in the college bubble. It is hard to feel like this person even knows what it is like to be a grown up. Now they are my boss.
My fear is I'm going to rip this guy a new one and he is going to be clamoring for my head on a platter.
One of the things I've discovered since coming back from Iraq is that I'm extremely unforgiving of people that are "in charge". Be that my shop boss when I was still in the Guard or my civilian supervisor, they don't get a lot of mercy or forgiveness when they don't do their job like I feel they should. It is even worse when they are really young.
At my current job, the position that is suppose to supervise me has been vacant ever since I've started working here. So, I've been supervised by the head of the department who is older, wiser (at least some of the time), and more experienced. We butt heads some what, but she is fairly understanding and forgiving of me and I tend to withdraw somewhat from the battles we sometimes have. This person recognizes there is a trust issue at stake and is willing to be patient in working on it. However, in a month she will no longer be my supervisor. She will supervise my supervisor.
My new supervisor is going to be a 28 year old who has done a job similar to mine at another institution. He has never lived out on his own. He went straight from momma and daddy's house to college, where he lived on campus and has never lived off campus. His whole adult life has been spent in the college bubble. It is hard to feel like this person even knows what it is like to be a grown up. Now they are my boss.
My fear is I'm going to rip this guy a new one and he is going to be clamoring for my head on a platter.
