Control Freak Boss

Did you ever work with control freak boss before?

I did!

Who are this control freak boss?

They are :

1. Micro Manager


2. Driver


3. controller


4. slave driver

Well, people in these days and age, jobs are not easy to knock the door upon and we might deal with it rather than just quitting!



I know its hard, let us try our best,ok?



I once worked with this boss who breathing behind my back 24 hours.

The control not just on your work but also on weekend which suppose to be our off day. No boss day! And would want to know who you eat with ,where you go, what you doing and more and more to report to.

 

During office hours is worst!

He even control on the way I answer call and the way I replied to phone calls. Every single thing need to be approved even the way you do thing. Sorry! basically I am just a puppet. That was on my 1st month working with him. Oppsss! forgot to mentioned when I am about to join him, one of person I met in industry had warned me about him. According to my friend, he is well known as slavery boss.OMG! What can I say??? Too late! I signed the offer letter and resigned from my current job.

I have no choice but to move forward and face whatever challenge coming towards me.

Hey! what and achievement, I survived him 3 1/2 year though! People in the industry totally salute me for being the longest survivor ever. hehehehe

Now I can sing that 'SURVIVOR' song???

 I really appreciate what I have learnt from him. He thought me a lot despite his torturing moment to me. I wish he back off a little then he will be a prefect boss! He is main contributor for I am now.

Thank you Boss!!!

How to manage control freak boss?

• Be proactive


• listen to what your boss wants


• build up trust to your boss and ensure he trust you


• Try to find good thing about him and try to see him as a human


• Most important - control your anger and be patient and more tolerance


• Self motivated and stay positive

Few note  I normally do when handling this kind of boss,

•  Inform my Boss even before he ask me


• Present to him before he even think about asking about it


• I always analyse thing and situation then giving proposal with pros and cons then conclude with recommendation.


• I try to think on behalf of my boss to ease his burden


• What ever I do , I will put all my effort and do the best. 


• aware about the market industry and try my best to update him on what the competitor are doing.

Try your best and good luck!

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Streetsmart or Booksmart

Today interviewed 2 candidates for accounts position.
Both are fair candidates with different quality.
If the position opens for 2 vacancies , I may offer them both.
However, I only need one person.
One a diploma holder with 2 years working experience and streetsmart character (more like my character). She only available after one month notice.
The other one fresh Bachelor Degree in Accountancy and still looking for 1st job. She is one ambitious girl and look professional and no doubt trainable. She available immediately.
although I need replacement immediately, but yet after discussion with my colleague, both of us agreed to wait for the streetsmart. Reason being , we need somebody who really can handle situation and strong to face the challenge.Deep in my heart hope we made the right decision.

Spoken to him again, ahhhh!!!! still can't let go.
My attitude is my biggest weakness! I also cannot let go. I wish I can just close both eyes or at least have guts to ignore and close one eye. I failed!
I have 2 week notice left and I still continue doing the job as usual. I just can't! Stupid me!

I was stuck in traffic jam for almost 2 hours just now. I was in KLCC tunnel for more than an hour. So damn bored. No radio to listen to. I was hoping the driver next or at least in front of me is one hot guy, but hey.... all of them are uncle or Ah Soh! ceh......no entertainment at all and the view are damn ugly.

I should believe in my gut feeling just now to just drop by at klcc for window shopping but I end up made a U turn to Jln Tun Razak. Stupid decision again!
blame myself for that!

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Monkey Story

Reading newspaper every morning is like stabbing knife straight to my heart. It is very painful to read Auditor's General Report. Every sentence you read your mind will think out aloud. Ah! thats all the money goes. Ah! this ah! that..... but can't write it in this blog or they will arrest me or something. I don't know. I am just an ordinary lady who mean no harm and just want to lead a normal life peacefully. Let God judge and punish what they are doing or did.

Why the title is monkey story?

Why is it that some managers are typically running out of time while their staffs are typically running out of work?
It seemed that everyone in the company needed something from you yesterday, things that might have been important to them but had little time to do with getting your job done.and when you are trying to focus on one matter here we goes you would be inevitably be interrupted to attend to another. By the time you took care of all the paperwork, meetings and interruptions there was no time left to implement some of ideas you had for improving you own operation.
Here you goes have to work extra hours everyday and almost every weekend too!
You dont have time to see your friends or family or even spend time for yourself.
Eat Sleep walk talk work work work work and work.

Isn't life is short?

If you are Manager , you may experience this.

When you talk to friend or others they may said this... its all about time management....

For me its all about monkeys.....

Why monkey?

You imagine this you are walking towards the pantry to get some nescafe to wake your brain up, then half way to your room one of your staff stop you and said,

Staff A : Miss , please help me to talk to Mr Tan our supplier they dont want to process our order if we dont make 50% payment upon confirmation. My problem is our accounts dept will be able to give us the cheque by end of next week but our marketing dept need the items urgently by this week for our event.

(While both your staff A and you were standing talking there are one monkey standing in between with one leg on your shoulder and the other one on your staff A shoulder.)

You : OK! I will try to talk to him and get to you soon.

(The moment you said OK, both of monkey leg were on your shoulder.and the monkey follow you back to your room)

Then when you are in your room one intercom came in , one of other head dept were saying he need help to do some of his urgent matter and your reply to him , ok I will see what I can do for you. Here goes another monkey on your shoulder.

By lunch time , more monkeys on your shoulder and you dont even have time to go out for lunch.

You can see most of your staff or other subbordinates happily out for lunch and here you are dont even have time to eat or even leave your station to pack your lunch.

when lunch time is over, you still stuck there in your room trying to finish deal with all the monkeys. suddenly , Staff A pop up in your room and ask

Staff A : Boss you talk to Mr Tan?

You : Ah! not yet dear. I will get back to you later.

Staff A : Hurry ar Boss! urgent la

Hello! are you working for them or they are working for you?
When you hire all these people they are suppose to lighten up your burden. Not give you more burden.

Remember this... All monkeys must be handled at the lowest organisational level consistent with their welfare!

The best way to develop responsibility in people is to give them more responsibility...

To educate the monkeys.... recommend, then act... act, then advise

Assigning involves a single monkey; delegation involves a family of monkeys... hahahaha can you imagine these monkeys???

and for your other lazy ass subbordinates....

Things not worth doing are not worth doing well!

Do you think you learn something from this monkey story?

Do a little of thinking and you will get what I am trying to say...it happens everyday in our life.

Try to relate to this monkey story and I believe you could be good and effective manager. Not just efficient but effective!!!!

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