My boss has to seriously the worst leader I've ever worked with, which is astonishing because at first he was pretty cool. But when it comes to working on a critical project, he acts like he's completely insane.
He asks for things to be done in 1 hour that take like 2-4 hours, and when advised about using data sources prone to error, he doesn't care so we do things the wrong way then he wants to know why the data is inconsistent/incorrect.
Doesn't trust anyone on our team to do their job. I spend 3 hours cleaning/putting together a 500k dataset only to find out he had his own copy of the data that he took previously and made all these changes to without telling anyone, not even me, and then randomly brings us back in later and sends over his dataset he did who knows what with, and now we have to just start using his again. But we can't have our own file. Have to work off of his excel file.
Poor communicator. He chooses intentionally to leave key members of the team out of the loop, and only educate them/inform them at the exact time something is needed from them, but by that point, they have no idea what is going on. Who does that?
Has been repeatedly advised against using inaccurate data sources instead of our analytics export tool created by data engineering, but chooses to use inaccurate data tables anyway, and then acts incredibly shocked/surprised when data is not correct
When we identify data that is incorrect, he tells us not to fix it/remove it because even though lots of the data is flat out wrong, “we communicated this already so we have to leave it so the numbers look the same”. Since we communicated something wrong, we'll just leave it so the numbers look the same? Like, what? Wouldn't we want to cleanup the bad data and simply admit “We found some inconsistencies in the data from our data source, and cleaned this up”… um.. right
He gets stuck on figuring out who did something wrong to the point where it's completely obsessive. We're in the middle of a project and we need to deliver on the project/results, but he finds it more important to identify who did what wrong, and ensure they're at fault rather than fix it and get the project through to completion
Schedules meetings with other people/teams, and jumps into the call late, on their phone while driving. We're supposed to be reviewing and deep diving into data. The other manager has their camera on, you're driving in your car. Like how does he get away with that or think that's ok? You can't view data while driving. He arrives to every meeting at least 2-5 minutes late, often times driving somewhere during work hours while literally everyone else is at their desk on camera
Simply does not understand how data works, at all. Has no knowledge of anything past a vlookup, that's the extent of their data knowledge. Also doesn't keep formulas in any excel workbook, just repeatedly types formula as needed, copy and paste as values so we always have to re-do it over, and over, and over. I tried using Power Query to save time, and he told me not to do that, it can't be trusted, that's not as safe as using just excel, not even using tables, just static ranges
Calls people on their personal phones all the time because they're obviously not at their computer over half the time. Whenever they need anything done, there isn't a realistic expectation of time given. Nope. It's “i need it now” and if you provide a realistic estimate of how long it takes it's always “that's not fast enough. I need it at x time. thanks”. Literally the most unrealistic expectations ever
How do people manage? I don't get it.