Day 148 - Work

My work annoys me because my boss and I have totally different approaches to... life, basically. I mean, I could say work but really her attitude is the same for everything. I like to be proactive and she's totally a reactive type of person. I make lists of things I need to do, prioritize them according to urgency and deal with the most urgent things first and so forth. She likes to waste her time doing totally unrelated non business things, panic when something comes due and then make everyone miserable by dragging them away from their own work to help her with the thing she should have done months ago.

I used to try and off set this by prompting her when things were coming up and putting things on her desk and basically trying to anticipate her needs. I've pretty much given that up because she ignores anything I tell her. If I leave stuff on her desk she just loses it. If I tell her so and so called, she doesn't call them back for days. It's just a lost cause. Needless to say, our different approaches conflict a great deal. I used to not understand why may you live in interesting times was considered a curse. After nine years working for her, I finally do.