Posted on 02/08/2006 by Lemongrass
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So I've read a few entries before, and you all warned me about the cheerleading manager...but I'd never seen one - until now! Okay, first she isn't a manager, she is my peer...but she thinks she manages everyone. She is a real piece of work. She keeps asking her boss for more and more tasks, and then deligates it to everyone else. She is secretly making herself a manager. In one aspect I'm finding it very interesting to watch - on the other hand I can't stand her anymore. She smiles way too much, comes into our cubes (personal space mind you) and says "hows it going" "are you almost done" "do you have time to do this" "what is your availability"... UHHHHH Just let us do our dang jobs! She stays at work late on purpose, brags that she can't sleep at midnight so logs on and works...but then complains that she is working too much! She also has this horrible habit of making tons of copies and stapling them right behind my ear...and when we get to the meeting the copies really have no meaning to our discussion and nobody looks at them! In the meeting yesterday she commented that she wanted our whole process documented so she can have it in a binder, and I said "well, not really a binder - I mean come on lets stick with the paperless office concept here. We'll put it in the doc management system so it is accessible through our portal", she zapped me with a look of evil and said "No, I want it in a binder so I can have it on my desk as a referece".
POST A COMMENTHaveADamnNiceDay(02/08/2006)
Ask her if she'd like to keep all the interoffice and extraoffice correspondence email on her desk as a reference as well. I'm sure she'll get tired of paper in a heartbeat. Has she heard of electronic documents? Does she know it's the 21st century?
Lemongrass(02/08/2006)
She knows it is the 21st century - I mean she is very sure to remind us all about the new 2006 Mercedes she drives. As far as the email... that is a great idea! I might just do that and see what happens. Maybe I'll design a nice binder with slots for incoming/outgoing mail!
HaveADamnNiceDay(02/08/2006)
I used to have a job where I had to file VOLUMES of email correspondence between my company and our clients and consultants. It was for an architecture firm. It sucked, because there was just so much of it. If you guys correspond that much, she'll be more than happy to discard that binder pretty darn quick! Another thing you can do is distribute in hard copy any memos you write to the office, or any that the bosses write, and give her three copies at a time, "just to make sure she gets it" ^_^. The idea is to inundate her with paper so she'll take advantage of the things modern technology has to offer. As for the mercedes, well... I also used to work for a doc who only drove lexuses.... Ugh. He was the kind of guy who told us how much everything he had cost, like his superbowl tickets, his down jackets for his family to watch the game, what kind of lexus he got his daughter for her 16th birthday...Ugh. We all got real tired of hearing about money. Next time Ms. Hard Copy talks about her car, frankly state, "And who in this office really gives a poop about your damn mercedes?" You'll get an evil look, but she'll stop telling you about her miserable shiny new car.
cnubelevit(02/08/2006)
This one definitely has the "Sneeky Bi__ch Syndrome". Just remember, those who brown nose their way to the top usually get crapped on coming back down.
SouthernProgrammer(02/09/2006)
Get your co-workers to agree that at the next meeting direct ALL questions to the cheerleader and NOT to address the boss. Your boss will see that he/she is in a power struggle and will slap the cheerleader down in a hurry!
BeenThere(02/11/2006)
Yep, we've got one of these in our office. Interesting the rest of us are actually truly busy and not having to make up faked work reports and document binders.
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