My boss has his moments of decency but far too often he gets on my ass about stupid petty bullshit that doesn’t matter.
I’ve been at this job for 4 months now, as a Quality Tech; I’ve been in similar roles for 10 years now. I know what I’m doing.
I had a product that was out of spec, and 2 co workers confirmed my findings, however, the longest tenured one decided to measure at a different spot and got better results. My boss got angry at this lone problem in 4 months and wrote me up and expects me to have monthly meetings to determine if I know what I’m doing.
I got invited by the company director to eat lunch with him and his group. My boss saw me eating with them and didn’t say anything. However, after lunch, he called me into his office to berate me for eating lunch with them and accused me of not being invited, which I informed him I was.
He got mad I eat lunch by myself in the conference room even though it’s not being used for anything at the time, cuz, ya know, it’s lunch time. I found this out cuz an office person saw me and thought it was a heinous transgression that had to be reported to my boss.
Last week there was an employee lunch. So I go to the lunch room at the designated time and see that the food isn’t there but it’s being set up by an office person. He sees me, I stick around for a minute or so to get a drink, and then leave to go back to work. Me going to the lunch room was so terrible that that also had to be reported to my boss who bitched at me, even though I was back working. Because of this I said fuck it and decided not to have the food with everyone else. By the time I could get around to it it was stale and cold.
Yesterday we got a big snowstorm and under our bad weather policy we’re allowed to leave work early/not come in without punishment. I went in but knew the roads would be worse so I informed the boss I would be leaving early. He told me to fill out the PTO request in the system. Because I can’t do it in the computer I had to do it at the time clock and when he saw me about to request off he bitched at me for standing around. I had to point out I was doing what he asked me to do.
I wrote a review of the place on GlassDoor crucifying these guys. I’m fucking almost 40 and I’ve never worked anywhere where I get treated like this. I’m currently looking for a new job. I might try and stick it out another 2 months for my employment bonus but we’ll see.
Sorry for the rant. Just had to get this off my chest.