Have any of you worked with someone or even worse, had to report to someone such personality attribute?
Specifically I'm referring to a person who's smart, successful, arrogant, an extreme control freak, a micro manager, a multi-tasker, and 24/7 full of energy whether it's 8:00am in the morning or midnight, and consistently expects optimal efficiency and judges any result that is not exceeding expectations to be considered a failure.
My ex-boss was like that. He wanted everything "yesterday", on top of that would create multi-page texts and booklets describing the teams' job description and function.
He's an intriguing character. Is very social. Earns a ridiculous pay package. He's an excellent talker, and of course very aggressive. Tall, well built, goes to the gym, rubs shoulders with the city's elite at parties. This guy is a 24/7 person, and by his own admittance, "I hate sleeping. It's a waste of time, I get 4~5 hours sleep a night then I'm off to the gym."
I'm not butt-hurt, or jealous, or envious, to each his own, but the underlying question I have in my head after having worked closely with him for 1 year, is...despite being so full-of-shit, how does someone like that become so "successful" and still manage to keep his sanity?
I have 10 years of experience in Consumer Electronics, I know the industry here in the region from the distributor, to warehouse, to salesmen, to inventory management, market analysis etc....this guy came from a Cosmetics and Makeup brand background, and was hired to manage us a year ago.
We quickly earned each others' trust, discovered we had many common friends in our circle, and things looked good. (plus he was Lebanese lol....)
We were good friends. And the relation was positive. I stayed late nights without complaining, delivered whatever he wanted (despite him always "re delivering" it back to me for changes, updates, comments, whatever...)
Then it all changed after his first three months (we're talking December 2014).
He put enormous pressure on the team members. He changed all our templates. He started preaching things for the sake of showing that he introduced some sort of change, so he could present to management. He micromanaged us right down to the very f*cking font we used, and the number of minutes late we were after a 1 hour lunch break.
He texted us at night as if we were the stock market or something.
When he traveled on business trips, he constantly monitored our wherabouts thru online messenger apps or SMS to see the progress on the pointless assignments he asked of us. Assignments that were homeworks to test our capability, rather than do the routine actual work that mattered.
His approach was leave no stone unturned.
Analysis Paralysis: Where you dissect something so much, in so much minute detail, that you get lost in all the data you're sifting thru.
He claims he has ADHD, by the way.
One year on with this "successful guy" who oozes confidence, and I'll give it to him, has an impressive previous track record:
Today
1.) His sales figures suck. Poor growth vs. last year. His hiring added nothing to the divisions business, and I am not exaggerating.
2.) He disbanded the team (I transfered out coz I couldn't handle his f*cking high tempo horsecrap, while he fired my other teammate, whom I admit handled him much better than I did, and forced another guy to transfer out from day one last year after he sensed this new boss was full of shit).
3.) He parades/trumpets his marketing campaigns like they're some big f*cking achievment. (I was solely responsible for marketing campaigns before he joined and handled them just fine with minimal fuss, and smooth streamlining)
4.) Never had team meetings or team lunches or team building. It was work work work. If you for a minute you so much as discussed the weather he'd get irritated and change the subject back to work. Even if was during lunch break on my desk.
Thankfully I am out...and in a much more "relaxed" yet challenging environment.
I gave him a shitty rating in an internal corporate employee survey that's anonymous which goes to our Global HQ. Seeing as I was the only one in the team who got to fill the survey, obviously he found out it was me who skewed his ratings to be so low. :D
The reason I did that, was because he was so butt-hurt at my request to transfer that he reported me to HR as being uncooperative and a poor performer. He even evaluated me poorly which didn't allow me to earn a bonus this year. Seriously, why would you want to screw someone over like that? If anything I was his biggest yes-man and complied with every task he wanted. Hell I was the only team member to SMS him while he was on his annual vacation on all project...:howler:
The corporate world is a cruel place. It is ruthless, and when you're in a senior position reporting to top Presidential/CEO level executives, then there's no such thing as "friendship" and what not.
It's cut-throat, and if you don't exceed expectations with these alpha males, he will get rid of you like garbage and not look back.
He passes by my cubicle every day, we make eye contact...no good morning, no hi, no how's your kid. Nothing.
End of 2014, and the first half of 2015 was one of the most difficult years of my working career and life in general, and I've worked with stubborn folk before but never like this one.
The Alpha Male boss (with ADHD :D ) is truly an enigma. Definitely a person you can learn from, yet will make your life miserable. The only "positive" of such a type? And I told him this in our final meeting, "If I had one positive trait to say about you, is that if I exceeded your already titanic/near-impossible requests and expectations, then I know for a fact you will go to top level management and not only nominate for my promotion, but actually fight for it."
/ End rant.
Prologue: I'm over it, but there is bitterness...I am upset I could not prove myself, and the fact that he made the entire team feel inadequate. That's where my "butt-hurt" lies.
The Alpha Male / Macho Man boss personality
Specifically I'm referring to a person who's smart, successful, arrogant, an extreme control freak, a micro manager, a multi-tasker, and 24/7 full of energy whether it's 8:00am in the morning or midnight, and consistently expects optimal efficiency and judges any result that is not exceeding expectations to be considered a failure.
My ex-boss was like that. He wanted everything "yesterday", on top of that would create multi-page texts and booklets describing the teams' job description and function.
He's an intriguing character. Is very social. Earns a ridiculous pay package. He's an excellent talker, and of course very aggressive. Tall, well built, goes to the gym, rubs shoulders with the city's elite at parties. This guy is a 24/7 person, and by his own admittance, "I hate sleeping. It's a waste of time, I get 4~5 hours sleep a night then I'm off to the gym."
I'm not butt-hurt, or jealous, or envious, to each his own, but the underlying question I have in my head after having worked closely with him for 1 year, is...despite being so full-of-shit, how does someone like that become so "successful" and still manage to keep his sanity?
I have 10 years of experience in Consumer Electronics, I know the industry here in the region from the distributor, to warehouse, to salesmen, to inventory management, market analysis etc....this guy came from a Cosmetics and Makeup brand background, and was hired to manage us a year ago.
We quickly earned each others' trust, discovered we had many common friends in our circle, and things looked good. (plus he was Lebanese lol....)
We were good friends. And the relation was positive. I stayed late nights without complaining, delivered whatever he wanted (despite him always "re delivering" it back to me for changes, updates, comments, whatever...)
Then it all changed after his first three months (we're talking December 2014).
He put enormous pressure on the team members. He changed all our templates. He started preaching things for the sake of showing that he introduced some sort of change, so he could present to management. He micromanaged us right down to the very f*cking font we used, and the number of minutes late we were after a 1 hour lunch break.
He texted us at night as if we were the stock market or something.
When he traveled on business trips, he constantly monitored our wherabouts thru online messenger apps or SMS to see the progress on the pointless assignments he asked of us. Assignments that were homeworks to test our capability, rather than do the routine actual work that mattered.
His approach was leave no stone unturned.
Analysis Paralysis: Where you dissect something so much, in so much minute detail, that you get lost in all the data you're sifting thru.
He claims he has ADHD, by the way.
One year on with this "successful guy" who oozes confidence, and I'll give it to him, has an impressive previous track record:
Today
1.) His sales figures suck. Poor growth vs. last year. His hiring added nothing to the divisions business, and I am not exaggerating.
2.) He disbanded the team (I transfered out coz I couldn't handle his f*cking high tempo horsecrap, while he fired my other teammate, whom I admit handled him much better than I did, and forced another guy to transfer out from day one last year after he sensed this new boss was full of shit).
3.) He parades/trumpets his marketing campaigns like they're some big f*cking achievment. (I was solely responsible for marketing campaigns before he joined and handled them just fine with minimal fuss, and smooth streamlining)
4.) Never had team meetings or team lunches or team building. It was work work work. If you for a minute you so much as discussed the weather he'd get irritated and change the subject back to work. Even if was during lunch break on my desk.
Thankfully I am out...and in a much more "relaxed" yet challenging environment.
I gave him a shitty rating in an internal corporate employee survey that's anonymous which goes to our Global HQ. Seeing as I was the only one in the team who got to fill the survey, obviously he found out it was me who skewed his ratings to be so low. :D
The reason I did that, was because he was so butt-hurt at my request to transfer that he reported me to HR as being uncooperative and a poor performer. He even evaluated me poorly which didn't allow me to earn a bonus this year. Seriously, why would you want to screw someone over like that? If anything I was his biggest yes-man and complied with every task he wanted. Hell I was the only team member to SMS him while he was on his annual vacation on all project...:howler:
The corporate world is a cruel place. It is ruthless, and when you're in a senior position reporting to top Presidential/CEO level executives, then there's no such thing as "friendship" and what not.
It's cut-throat, and if you don't exceed expectations with these alpha males, he will get rid of you like garbage and not look back.
He passes by my cubicle every day, we make eye contact...no good morning, no hi, no how's your kid. Nothing.
End of 2014, and the first half of 2015 was one of the most difficult years of my working career and life in general, and I've worked with stubborn folk before but never like this one.
The Alpha Male boss (with ADHD :D ) is truly an enigma. Definitely a person you can learn from, yet will make your life miserable. The only "positive" of such a type? And I told him this in our final meeting, "If I had one positive trait to say about you, is that if I exceeded your already titanic/near-impossible requests and expectations, then I know for a fact you will go to top level management and not only nominate for my promotion, but actually fight for it."
/ End rant.
Prologue: I'm over it, but there is bitterness...I am upset I could not prove myself, and the fact that he made the entire team feel inadequate. That's where my "butt-hurt" lies.
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