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MTSOs - how you deal with these nasty, witchy managers? - bad day :(

Posted: Sep 13, 2012

Just wondering how you deal with these nasty, witchy managers? Been doing this over 25 years now and am disgusted. I'm guessing they must be really miserable people. Just exhausted trying to do my best for so long, several surgeries for life-threatening tumors, and can't believe what I still have to go through with these people at my age.

what I do - sm

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Personally, I bite my tongue, and try to act like a duck and let it slide off my back. But when they are outright rude, jump to assumptions and down my throat, I just come right back at them. I've also done that with doctors when I worked in the hospital and they'd come into the dept and get off the wall. It has been my experience that these folks are used to meeting only meekness and they are completely thrown off their game when you get right back in their face. Of course, there is a risk involved, but I have not been fired yet and find that generally I am treated with more respect in the future. BYW, I am the sole wage earner in my home, so it is not like I can afford to lose my job either. But on the other hand, I have self respect and don't get ulcers anymore. Please don't let your job create unhealthy stress. Its not worth it.

Sorry you are having this problem. I used to - Sunny

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have a manager like that. I avoided interacting with her as much as possible, and when my old employer offered me a job, I took it even though it was a pay cut. It was just not worth it to me to put up with the stress of working with an unpleasant person.

Thank you - bad days

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You ladies are great (my heroes really), and I appreciate the helpful feedback. I wish I could speak up to them, but I am in so much debt from all my surgery and medical bills, don't dare, so I just remind myself these are miserable women, bullies really, and that's the way it is with managers in many places. (People rise to their level of incompetence?) I work like a dog 7 days a week, trying to learn a new account (last one was offshored) with a bunch of mumble mouth doctors, always take time to look up prior reports and go on line for new unfamiliar words. The first complaint in these two months is that a patient's name did not match up with the MR#, and these two witches are threatening me already. I totally agree with you guys here, if I had another offer would be out the door, even if less money - just need to work with decent normal and intelligent/professional people, which is not what I'm dealing with here. Looking around as of now. Nobody deserves to be treated with so little respect.

Well, thanks for letting me vent and for sharing your encouraging stories. Really appreciate it. I know we're all suffering - more than need be, though, with these nasty, horrible people in charge.

BTW.. - bad times

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BTW, my QA person on the new account has been nice and decent. I had word mistakes, of course, in getting used to the new dictators, but she was very polite in her corrections and I didn't mind that at all. It's the managers who are the snots, always looking for any little procedural mistake (even though their instructions stink), so they can chew you out like a rottweiler. :p

bad day - mymind

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Why should anyone have to put up with this crap. Some people are just unhappy with life and take it out on everyone else. They should be put in their place. No one has a right to be rude and obnoxious to anyone even if you are over them. I just think it stinks that some in authority have to have such poor people skills!

They are clueless - Annie

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I had a supervisory position at a hospital where they had state of the art training in management and supervision for their staff. Our dept proved that employee moral is CRUCIAL to production and accuracy. I don't know where MTSOs are getting some of these leads and supervisors, but they haven't a clue as to how to deal with personnel. I've been accused of doing things I have not, repremanded for not reading the company email on my days off or after hours, written up for being one line off on my bimonthly invoice, yet not one time thanked for working my days off to bring an account back to TAT. The company I work for now just did an employee survey where they asked for reviews on the supervisors. I gave one a great review and the other didn't pass in my book. I think it will catch up to them eventually.

Hang in there, ladies who are being treated with this new sweat shop mentality. These bullies have the management IQ of an erasure stick.

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