micromanager from the 7th level of HELL

I work for an extremely large multi-billion dollar company. I am not going to name the company but I will say that, Since Everything Always Relates to Something (read between the lines), micromanagement at this particular company is totally out of control. We, the technical staff, at this company are required (demanded) to call our technical manager for the most mundane problems. We are told to call our managers for everything, but are never able to reach them and only get the voicemail. If the subject of our calls comes up, which is hardly ever, we are chastised for not attempting more than the 4 or 5 times we tried to get in contact with them. We are regularly (all of the techs) threatened with our jobs, condesended to, written up, and reminded that we are the lowest of the low on the corporate food chain. After all of the abuse that we tolerate, just to make a paycheck to support our families, they expect us to to have the happy-happy joy-joy attitude and sell preventative maintenance contracts and additional merchandise to our customers.
It's hard enough to sell anything, but it's even harder to sell when your tech-managers insinuate that you are garbage and just lucky to have a job with their o-so-wonderful company.
There is a serious lack of training with this company and they will take anybody off the street-give them barely 2 months of training to do a job that deals with electricity, water, refrigerants, electronics, hazardous chemicals and the like. If you get hurt on the job, you'd better have a lawyer. Getting them to pay out for your injuries is like trying to talk Satan into teaching your Sunday school class.
They furnish the lowest costing, poorest class of tools to do the job and expect a 2-3 hour job to be accomplished in 30 minutes.
Their expectations of their employees is infinetely higher than the expectations they have for themselves.

Sears-u-later

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DEDEE (10/20/2005) unfortunatly many companies are like this. It starts at the top and trickles down to people like us. Society has to be almost uncaring anymore because we HAVE to work to survive. Inable to work we have to be tough and uncaring so we can walk all over our co-workers. We also have to be tough and uncaring in order to take others that walk all over us. Like robots!!! Stupid Bosses (03/30/2006) I had a boss who made us acall him for EVERYTHING (we even had to CALL him every morning when we got to work so he would know we were there) we weren't allowed to do anything in the computer we called him and he was supposed to come and do it. He wouldn't show up for WEEKS AT A TIME (who knew what he was really doing with his time???)to do anything so naturally our customers were pissed at us all the time. What a moron.