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Supervisors can make your life a living - Another MT

Posted: Nov 19, 2012

I have known this for all the years that I have been in this business, but unfortunately I came face to face, so to speak, with this problem again recently. I stated a point to my supervisor by e-mail, and very nicely, about some technical difficulties I was having, and no matter how I would explain it, she did not understand what I said. Even the tech told her that it was not due to my computer, but the connection I had. She said she would call me, and I said I would look forward to it. The next day, I got one of the worst dictators and all the reports had less than a minute in dictation. This went on all evening with the same awful dictator. This was not a coincidence, but very methodically planned out. All I know is that women in power can be horrible to deal with.

Supervisors - MTmadness

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I am so sorry that happened to you and I feel your pain. I too recently approached my supervisor, who is probably 20 years younger than I am, with a precise and professional e-mail about a QA error on her part. I know, I know, shouldn't have done that . . . but I just keep thinking we are all grownups and we all make mistakes, right? Wrong. The next day there was virtually no work for me. Obviously I'm entirely too idealistic when it comes to thinking we are all grownups.

What's really galling is these people get paid far more - than those of us who actually WORK for a living.

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Most of them should be canned.

Gone are the days of communication! - zipped fingers

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I stopped communicating a long time ago. Unless it's something that is on my evaluation, I just don't even respond unless response is required. Mind you, this is very infrequent.

Our QA is not real super picky about things that don't impact patient care, but I have seen incorrect edits on reports I have to send to QA for other issues. I document it in a notebook just in case I'm blamed in the future, but that's it for me.

Back in the day where you saw people and could talk to people and had a grip on their personality and what was going on in their lives and they in yours, communication was much easier.

I can't find a way to communicate without sounding like I'm a know it all that someone made a mistake and here's the documentation.

So I let it go.

Maybe I'm paranoid, but I'm always thinking if I point something out, that I'm a pain in the neck and "who does she think she is." And they have the routing power, so... again I let it go.

I also realize they may be dealing with bigger problems than my petty gripe about maze versus Maze, but I have no way of knowing when is the "right time" to bring it up since I'm here and they are there.

So... I collect my paycheck and keep my fingers zipped.

Remaining silent is a survival instinct when dealing with the young narcissists. - Angie

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I'm putting that one on a T-shirt, or VERY large poster - smack-dab in front of my desk. NM

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Applies to narcissists of any age - nm

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nm.

I so understand because it happens to me - PR

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Working as IC, can send a note saying I would like to start a day by an hour earlier 1 day and you would think you asked for the moon. That email can lead to at least 4 to 5 return emails from her which you have to answer which means a total of, well you get it. Nothing and I mean nothing can ever be simple for her. Oh, but do not and I mean do not ask a question as to why the reports are not coming thru like they should. Then silence. I feel like I am talking to my child when they were younger.

I use the "Don't ask - just do it" strategy. - Let THEM do the asking.

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RE Women sups, you are spot on. - MT

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I have been in this biz for over 2 decades and working for 32 years. With only 2 notable exceptions, all my women bosses SUCKED! I did, however, have some fantastic male bosses.

This is pervasive and not just specific to MT. My friend is a Math teacher, and her boss (department head) doesn't like her personally (has nothing to do with her teaching or professionalism or anything relevant) so suddenly next semester there are no sections for her to teach!!

There is something about women in positions of authority; they somehow have this urge to abuse the power. Ironic, isn't it, when you consider all the complaining women have done about men being in power!?

Absolutely agree - so sad

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I was in MT management for about 5 years. I was absolutely unqualified, untrained, and unprepared. I was a good MT, but, as we all know, that's not enough. Good managers are worth gold...they know how to motivate and inspire. I don't think I was ever power hungry, but I sure got out when I realized it was a bad fit and went back to MTing, where I belong.

I also have to deal daily with overblown QA who make me feel incompetent and with women supervisors who have somehow been promoted and are mean spirited and poorly educated. Geesh. As if things weren't difficult enough already. :(

I know it's not very "liberated" to say so, but I'd rather work for a guy. Much less drama.

Bosses - eastcoast

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Couldn't agree more! Maybe it is because women seem more competitive in general when they're together (you know the old saying about not going into another woman's kitchen). I worked in a predominantly male environment in my former career, and from experience, my female bosses in this industry have truly been the rudest and more about their own ego.

Have to remember, too, most MT bosses are NOT trained as managers nor leaders.

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