Welcome to the first article in the freshly created “Work” category. 
The first question: have you ever been in a situation where your boss attempts to direct your career - probably in a different direction than that you yourself have chosen?
Continue reading ‘Work: When your boss wants to direct your career’
(this article was originally written for, and appeared in, one of my other blogs, Way of the Mind, but, being related to the kind of bosses us techs often have to put up with, it is also appropriate for this blog, IMO)
As a Unix/Linux sysadmin, I’ve worked at many places, compared to many people I know, who have been where they are for 5 years or more. I’ve done several kinds of jobs (thankfully, most of them related to my skills), and met many colleagues… and bosses.
And I tend to have a problem with the latter.
Not real “conflicts”, I don’t usually have them. But I’ve been in several places (and, indeed, am in one now) where everything would be almost perfect - colleagues, environment, the work itself - except for one imbecile who ruins everything - and who happens to be my boss.
For examples of what these bosses are like, see this entry in my wiki. But, in short, they take all the joy out of our work, because we quickly learn that, by being good, they don’t think they hired a good worker - instead, they see us as a threat. So they try to smother us with stupid, useless tasks, like making reports (and reports about reports - a colleague of mine is now doing one, and she surely is more pacient than I am).
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