My boss sucks monkey balls!

November 29, 2007 · Filed Under Mile Marker 

Everyone can relate to crappy jobs and that is often related to crappy bosses. Lets face it, there are a lot of really crappy managers out there and often even worse business owners that act as the boss. Insane demands, little acknowledgment and usually sad pay add up to most people just hating their jobs.

I don’t hate my job but my boss sucks. What makes it worse is my boss is me!

I quit my old crappy jobs a few months back to focus on this whole online thing and really try to put an effort and see what I can make of it. I was making enough off my then current sites to pay the bills and have a little left over to reinvest but I am still pretty much locked into a “week by week” situation where if I miss a check I will have a hard time paying rent. Silly situation for someone to put themselves into but the way I saw it was I was pretty much doing the same thing with my crappy jobs but also killing myself physically and mentally…not to mention “spiritually” as I had lost passion in pretty much everything and was always too exhausted to enjoy anything at all.

Why do I suck as my own boss? I’m not nearly organized and productive enough…at least when it comes to managing my only employee (yep, that’s me again). It’s kind of strange because I have almost always been in some sort of management position in all my past jobs and was actually a pretty good manager, in my own humble opinion of course. I set and kept goal, kept employees on task and helped increase profits and happy customers non-stop. I was good at it and for the most part enjoyed that part of the job…the challenge of doing it the best it could be done.

When I quit those jobs and started working for myself I think rather than bring that same organization and productivity home with me, I quit the management job to start a peon worker job without much responsibility (beyond paying the bills of course). I became a bad boss and a lazy worker…something I have never been! I am almost always late to work even thought the commute is the best it has ever been. That’s if I don’t call in “sick” and head off to the living room and TV/video games…another thing I almost never did (I think I called in sick 1 or 2 times in the last 6 years). When I do finally stroll into work I rarely do real actual productive work and end up surfing the net on “company time”. I regularly take early days and leave early often without finishing my task leaving projects half started. I blame my boss.

So what will it take to get myself in back in action, more productive and actually work like I need to? Maybe I need to give myself a suspension without pay as one thing that usually gets people motivated is desperation and if I worry I won’t be able to pay the bills I might actually do something. I just get by with just enough to pay the bills now so it wouldn’t take much to make myself desperate…maybe a video game splurge, making myself short for the month ;).

My boss needs to start doing his job and making me do my job. I need to be more organized and mini-goal orientated so I can start and finish complete projects each day. I need to hit some higher milestones as far as daily earnings on a regular basic so I can give myself a nice bonus and help get me motivated to do more. I need to sit over my own shoulder and slap myself on the back of the head when I drift off into interland browsing a new set of stupid and funny pictures or reading blogs that have nothing to do with my work and often even ones I have no personal interest in even (why the hell do I do that anyway?). I need to give myself regular reviews and rate my performance and that is what this post is about. My first personal review…

My manager rating this month: Suck ass monkey balls but a cool and fun guy to hang out with. He should really stop fraternizing with the employees, it’s not professional.

My employee rating this month: Complete ass. In fact you’re fired. Clean out your desk (actually needs a good cleaning anyway) and don’t come back. New guy starts soon :).

So what tips/advice do you have for keeping yourself on track, motivating you to do more than just “get by” and stay excited and want to work on things?

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