I wonder if he's in this book

I remember a sign that was posted at a dry cleaner in my old neighborhood that said "boss spelled backwards is double s o b."

I was waiting for punches to be thrown

Multi-tasking, a skill that's highly admired in other firms, is forbidden at ILA. As a skilled professional, I have mastered the art of balancing multiple projects, varying deadlines, and simultaneous demands as well as keeping my cool in the process...I developed this skillset in other firms where I dealt with folks who knew that "I'll be with you with that in 5 minutes" meant that you were not being blown off, ignored, disregarded, etc. and that you will have my undivided attention as soon as I done with doing what I'm doing.

I guess that concept didn't apply to the head jackass at ILA. If he saw you working on something that wasn't directly related to him, then it was deemed an unimportant in his eyes.

This jackass was also disrespectful of the staff, what their workload was (for things that weren't his) or any other issues that they were facing. He never mastered the art of giving somebody some friggin notice when he needed something, as a result, there were a lot of last-minute requests with some bogus deadlines.

One incident, in particular, still stands out 11 months after it took place. I was informed of a very ambitious initiative for a package that the jackass wanted for a potential client. Mind you, there wasn't anybody in-house that possessed the skillset to prepare a quality package in the short timeframe that was allowed and the cheap fuck wasn't going to outsource it (the more money he spends on something, the less he has for himself). Now, I already had my set of stuff that I was working on and remember, I'm very skilled in balancing an enormous workload. With this ambitious undertaking, the number 3 guy has been tapped to work with me...quite frankly, it's the blind leading the blind but hey, you gotta roll with the punches.

The number 2 guy (who's a fucking snake but that's another story) has a blatent mistrust (or is simply dismissive of folk's capabilities) for what people can do so he wants me to help him out with something. OK...whatever because I've helped him out numerous times in the past with the task at hand.

Well...jackass comes to me to see what I am with his stuff and he see's #2's materials open on my screen. He asks me what I'm doing so I told him that #2 wanted my help with this thing. Without batting an eyelash, he screams in the middle of the office "fuck [#2]" and proceeds to yell for him. Now, #2, in order to save fave, flat out denies any knowledge of me working on his stuff...that bastard. The Jackass now has to bring #3 into the mix and yells at him for not being on my ass to work on Jackass's shit. Now, the three of them are yelling and cussing, doors are slamming, etc. Shit, at the rate things were going, I was waiting for somebody to start throwing a punch...it would've been interesting and if somebody had a videocamera, that craziness could've been psoted on YouTube.

Without getting into details about what the project involved, all I can say is that a whole bunch of people had to shitcan a Friday night of a holiday weekend to finish the damn thing. You know, it might've been cheaper to have an outside consultant to work on it considering the collective hourly rates that needed to be expended for that effort.

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