middle management sucks

[stilleto]

not in a "woah is me" kind of way, and my job has some cool perks (not cool perkeles. those don't exist), but

everyone comes to me with their petty bullshit. They know it's too stupid to go to higher than me with complaints of "xxx is listening to me when i'm on the phone", "can you tell xxx not to leave his chair in the aisle?", "You know that xxx takes smoking breaks, right?"

Then MY boss gives me the stuff she doesn't want to do, and the ceo is giving me stuff to do because he doesn't want to burden my boss with it, but it's not appropriate for the other employees in my department to do.

whenever i check my email from home, there is some mini crisis that's given to me but when it comes time to get praise- the workers in my department get it and I have to ride the coattails of my manager to get recognition from the heads of my company, even though i did a lot of the work.

 

[the_clockwork]

who is this "xxx" character you have? what ethnicity are they?

 

[CrazyRussian]

that sucks dude? what position exactly are you, and in what kind of comapny? im very curious

 

[jh1]

Welcome to corporate life.

 

[Raptorex]

bump for Smuffy

 

[gotmilk]

I'd put your 180 degree taco lips in a middle management sammich

 

[stilleto]

who is this "xxx" character you have? what ethnicity are they?

asian. they have those funny names.

 

[stilleto]

that sucks dude? what position exactly are you, and in what kind of comapny? im very curious

i'm the assistant manager of the marketing department.
the manager is also the manager of tech support, outside sales, and the web team. The marketing department is made up of 4 graphic artists, 4 technical writers, and 3 assistants (only 1 is full time).

we make a lot of things- our catalog is as thick as a phone book, but it's physics equipment. lab equipment, supplies, microscopes, telescopes, clean room, lasers, and nano technology and everything that goes with all of that.

 

[stilleto]

Welcome to corporate life.

i'm not used to it.

i'm lucky that I have a good assistant/coworker who gets my sense of humor.

 

[Raptorex]

too complicated, I have a stomach and headache just reading it