Boss Confusing Me

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I have a strange boss for my internship, she’s actually not my boss but my direct report to.

She’d been kind, and nurturing to me for part of the time.

At other times she’s been egotistical and an unclear communicator.
She also seems unreasonable and I don’t fully understand her motives nor her wishes.

Sometimes she’ll stand over my shoulder and pick at little ways I do things, very annoyingly, but overall except for those random occasions, she isn’t a micro-manager.

I began a project last Wednesday which has been unfinished for 3 years, I have taken it to 75% complete 5 days later.

Anyways, a day after starting the assignment, she asked me 3x in the same day, “When will it be done? The deadline?”

I told her, I have never done a project like this so I can’t say. She kept on asking despite me giving her the same answer. So I kind of blew a fuse and said, “I’d love to have it done by Friday, but that is an emotional response based on nothing, so I don’t know what to tell to you, that I haven’t already said. After completing this one, on a similar project I could give you a deadline.”

Anyways, I showed her the 3/4 point today, and she said, ‘I’m impressed but you said this would be done Friday.’ She kept on doing ttat over & over again.

We’re on a similar strange point where asked me if I was going to put a gui (visual computer menu) on the database, and I asked her, if she thought it would be needed, she said no but might be nice. Then she said it would be needed (as a similar project evolved from shared workbook to gui)… Then we found out we wouldn’t be able to get it approved if it weren’t made in a very short period, on top of that we don’t have the software license necessary to make such a gui… I asked her why we needed the gui and she responsed, “Well we don’t it just seems that you really wanted it.” When in all honestly, I thought it was a huge waste of time from my viewpoint.

The lady is very kind, but unattractive, overweight, and has extremely poor hygiene. She also was artificiually inseminated and has raisd a son from day 1 without a Fatherr. At the same time, she can be kind, generous, and honestly makes me feel relatively secure because I feel an unspoken bond with her and as if she is possessive of me, so therefore might give me shyt, but wouldn’t fire me in some kind of an egotrip. Not like I’m that worried about that.

What is the best way for me to deal with her? Does she want me to crumple before her magnificence? Or is she playing with me because she think I’m weak willed? Are these sorts of of confusing ‘set-ups’ to expose me to corporate life? Should I man up and face her like an ally but a leader? What’s the answer?

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Sorry for the length, I tried to keep it as short as possible.

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My boss gets drunk and forgets anything you tell him. One day he yells at me for making my own schedule, then when I go to approve my schedule with him he gives me a questioning look and I have to explain why I’m asking him. He also cursed me out for leaving the walk in freezer open at work. My job never involves entering the freezer.

Anyway. She is obviously as you pointed out a bad communicator. She is clueless basically and you need to explain in the greatest depth all discussion lol. She also needs a boy toy. You. (stick it in her pooper)

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[quote]Rohnyn wrote:
I have been strangled by my boss during my internship, she’s actually not my boss but my lord and Mistress.

She’d been unkind, and molesting me for part of the time.

At other times she’s been maniacal and an unshaven communicator.

She also seems unbearably large and I don’t fully understand her Motown records nor her incessant whining.

Sometimes she’ll stand over my shoulder and pick at little hairs on the back of my neck when I do things, very annoyingly, but overall except for those random occasions when I stuck it into her pooper, she isn’t a mega-bitch.
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FIXED.

I gave up halfway, your grammar and sentence structure was too horrendous to continue.

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What does “she was artificially insiminated and raised her son without a father” have to do with you two confused as to who wanted some online navigational menu?

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[quote]XanderBuilt wrote:

[quote]Rohnyn wrote:
I have been strangled by my boss during my internship, she’s actually not my boss but my lord and Mistress.

She’d been unkind, and molesting me for part of the time.

At other times she’s been maniacal and an unshaven communicator.

She also seems unbearably large and I don’t fully understand her Motown records nor her incessant whining.

Sometimes she’ll stand over my shoulder and pick at little hairs on the back of my neck when I do things, very annoyingly, but overall except for those random occasions when I stuck it into her pooper, she isn’t a mega-bitch.
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FIXED.

I gave up halfway, your grammar and sentence structure was too horrendous to continue.[/quote]
Gold.

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[quote]Rohnyn wrote:
At other times she’s been an unclear communicator.
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Imagine that…

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She sounds like someone who is having control issues in her life.
The fact that she’s kind and nurturing at times seems to indicate that perhaps she’ll be open to a serious discussion. Ask her if the two of you can take a lunch together, then quietly express your concerns with her. She doesn’t seem wholly unreasonable, so you may get some empathy if not sympathy.

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You are an intern. The chance that you have any clue to what is going on is very very slim.

So… You should STFU and do what she says.

Managing people isn’t easy, neither is being a single parent. The last thing she needs is some snot nose intern judging her and fucking up her work flow and schedule.

I would LOVE to hear her side of this. I’m sure the phrase “he is a fucking dumbass” would be used.

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[quote]countingbeans wrote:
You are an intern. The chance that you have any clue to what is going on is very very slim.

So… You should STFU and do what she says.

Managing people isn’t easy, neither is being a single parent. The last thing she needs is some snot nose intern judging her and fucking up her work flow and schedule.

I would LOVE to hear her side of this. I’m sure the phrase “he is a fucking dumbass” would be used.[/quote]

^You Sir, have won my respect with the above statement. The last line is the equvilant of pushing a sled with 4-45lb plates for 4min runs 1-min rest for 3 sets.

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[quote]countingbeans wrote:
You are an intern. The chance that you have any clue to what is going on is very very slim.

So… You should STFU and do what she says.

Managing people isn’t easy, neither is being a single parent. The last thing she needs is some snot nose intern judging her and fucking up her work flow and schedule.

I would LOVE to hear her side of this. I’m sure the phrase “he is a fucking dumbass” would be used.[/quote]

This is so beautiful, I have tears in my eyes.

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…wow…How bad does your oversensitive pussy hurt?

How can you possibly work on something for five days and be “75%” done and still have no clue how much longer it would take?

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Google.

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[quote]Rohnyn wrote:
She’d been kind, and nurturing to me for part of the time. [/quote]
That doesn’t give her the right to touch you innapropriately, I don’t care what she tells you!

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At other times she’s been egotistical and an unclear communicator.
She also seems unreasonable and I don’t fully understand her motives nor her wishes. [/quote]
You already eluded to the fact that she’s a female, we got it.

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Anyways, a day after starting the assignment, she asked me 3x in the same day, “When will it be done? The deadline?” [/quote]
You mean to tell me she’s not comfortable giving an intern a big project and just walking away, without knowing when the work will be done? What the fuck kind of an organization do you work for?

So she repeatedly asked you a question and you repeatedly gave her a vague answer and you’re wondering why she continued to ask you the same question? You may be mildly retarded, there’s nothing wrong with being retarded, I’m just sayin you should get yourself checked. I hear retards attract bears! And the last thing your wanna have to worry about is bears!

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We’re on a similar strange point where asked me if I was going to put a gui (visual computer menu) on the database, and I asked her, if she thought it would be needed, she said no but might be nice. [/quote]
A female asked you a question and you answered it with a question? You must not be married or have ever been in a really long term relationship, you NEVER do that. Anytime someone asks you something regarding something YOU are working on and you transfer the power back to them by asking them for their opinion without stating your own, you’re just asking for problems.

Kill her and user her skin to keep you warm at night!

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She also was artificiually inseminated and has raisd a son from day 1 without a Fatherr. [/quote]
Don’t cows usually get artificially inseminated? Maybe she’s a cow

[quote] Or is she playing with me because she think I’m weak willed?[/quote] Makes sense. My weak will is what causes me to play with myself.

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At the same time, she can be kind, generous, and honestly makes me feel relatively secure because I feel an unspoken bond with her and as if she is possessive of me, so therefore might give me shyt, but wouldn’t fire me in some kind of an egotrip. Not like I’m that worried about that. [/quote]
I thought you said she wasn’t your supervisor, just your go to? So this “go to” has the power to fire you? Sounds like she might really be your supervisor?
Or maybe she doesn’t exist at all!!! Maybe creating the GUI was just a test, soon she’ll have you cracking complex encryptions in enemy telecommunications! Sooner or later you’ll be searching thru magazines and newspapers ostensibly to thwart the Soviets plots!! Inevitably you’re wife, Jennifer Connely, will call a psychiatric facility and they will sedate you and take you back to the coocoo bin where they’ll plant a tracking device in your arm. But being the warrior that you are, you’ll realize it’s really a listening device for the DoD and you’ll end up ripping it from your flesh. Eventually you’ll realize that this supervisor of yours is just a hellucination and although you’ll never truly rid yourself of her, you may be able to live a somewhat normal life by convincing yourself she is a hellucination and ignoring her as best you can…

Ya, try that!

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[quote]countingbeans wrote:
You are an intern. The chance that you have any clue to what is going on is very very slim.

So… You should STFU and do what she says.

Managing people isn’t easy, neither is being a single parent. The last thing she needs is some snot nose intern judging her and fucking up her work flow and schedule.

I would LOVE to hear her side of this. I’m sure the phrase “he is a fucking dumbass” would be used.[/quote]

hah, agreed. However people should still be able to not bring home to work. Anyway, most jobs work on deadlines, and she want’s to see if you can properly give one and meet it. Get some of the employees to help you if you need, in fact a LOT of companies look to see if you can do that as an intern before hiring you.

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[quote]kellerdp wrote:

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lawlz nice reference

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[quote]LiquidWolf wrote:
…wow…How bad does your oversensitive pussy hurt?

How can you possibly work on something for five days and be “75%” done and still have no clue how much longer it would take?
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The project involved some serious data processing, that was more or less manually compiling bits and pieces of database into a new form. Nearly a thousand in total, the amount of time it would have taken to automate it wasn’t worth it, so I bean counted, and found that many of the addresses were wrong etcetera, and had to fix that.
Prior to giving her a deadline, having never used their databases nor done something like this before, I had ZERO idea how long it would take. That’s why I couldn’t answer her. It took 3 days partial days of work alongside other activites of course.
Since doing that, the project has been going smoothly, and I’ve given a firm deadline.
Prior to this, I felt unable, but should have just given myself a pillow deadline in order to put somehting out there, and beat it instead.

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[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
She sounds like someone who is having control issues in her life.
The fact that she’s kind and nurturing at times seems to indicate that perhaps she’ll be open to a serious discussion. Ask her if the two of you can take a lunch together, then quietly express your concerns with her. She doesn’t seem wholly unreasonable, so you may get some empathy if not sympathy. [/quote]

. . then you can stick it where she produces excrement.

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[quote]Rohnyn wrote:
Prior to this, I felt unable, but should have just given myself a pillow deadline in order to put somehting out there, and beat it instead.[/quote]

Were you beating or biting the pillow?