What to do when your boss is Cheating?

Question

Two days back i had a meeting with my new boss. she was good we were discussing about the shifting of the room. Then during the two days time i email out to inform some of the staff about the shifting the room. And today she call on me asking me "From where did I heard that the room will be shifting".
Like as if she doesn't know it.. I had a talk with her boss and her boss informed me. I confirmed to her that her boss did inform me about this matter. The way she spoke to me as if I was deaf or heard it wrong. So to make her happy i told that it wouldn't happen again by emailing it out to all the staff once is really confirmed. She make me feel as if I was telling lies. She was the one who is telling a lie.

I hate working with people who like to tell lies and happy that they can get away with it.

Answer 1

While she may not have handled it the most appropriate way let me ask a few questions of my own:

1. Why did you feel it necessary to send e-mails out about the shifting of the room? Were you instructed to do so, in which case you should have told your boss that you were only following instructions.

2. Could there be some issue between the two bosses which was made worse when you sent out the email?

3. Could there have been additional details concerning the shift that you weren't told or hadn't been completely decided upon yet? When you sent the e-mail out it's possible you let slip items that were still being discussed as possibilities and thus not yet facts.

4. Is it possible that you were given information that had not been given to your boss yet? That would certainly explain why she felt as though you didn't have all the facts, she herself didn't have them all.

While her attitude in this matter was inappropriate, in the future it may be a better policy to leave these kinds of e-mails to the management team who make the decisions. Even if your boss' boss wanted you to send such an email you could politely decline saying you believe it would have more authority coming from her and could cause tension in the office if it came from you.

Remember, while showing initiative is seldom a bad thing it can put you in the crosshairs thus making you a target for other peoples problems.

Good Luck

Answer 2

The problem was that you weren't necessarily actioned on that meeting item. That is, she didn't tell you to do anything.

So you were in the wrong to send the email out.

But the way she handled it was also wrong. She was possibly exceeding her authority so needed to make you appear wrong to cover her wrong.

She suffers from what is called sociopathetic personality disorder (in old speak Psycho)

Try and change departments or jobs before her behaviour get really bad or wait and see if it was just a spike in the graph.

Oh, keep a journal or email record of things so that if there is a problem you can confront her with the list (keep it secret or you will really get in trouble)

Answer 3

kick dat biatch where da sun dont shine!!