WTF?....
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Joe24
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Rig up the draws so when one shuts, another one opens up. Then when he goes to close that one, they all open back up.
In a French company I spent some time in, whenever everyone came in, they all used to go around shaking hands with everyone, everyone. You spent the first half hour shaking hands, the next drinking coffee, did some work, drank coffee, went for lunch, drank coffee, did some work until 5. At 5 if you were on a Cadre contract you had to stay 'till 7ish but it was mostly drinking coffee. In exchange for this extra time drinking coffee, you got an extra weeks holiday due to the fact the maximum working week was 35hrs in France (I think it's changed now). Most peculiar, i don't know if that was just the company I worked for or whether it's common. I have to say they did work hard in-between and a deadline was a deadline.
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peanut said:that sounds to me like the actions of a man who is under considerable stress but is either unable to do anything about the situation or is putting off making decisions. I recognise the symptoms when I lost my business to the foot and mouth ,putting 26 employees out of work.
How strong is your order book ?
Maybe you should make him a nice cup of tea....these are worrying times for small businesses.
summerdays said:
As soon as I started to read this, I thought as Peanut did. However amusing it might be to "wind him up", please resist the temptation. Just carry on as normal, and let him behave as he feels necessary. This reads to me like OCD.
He sounds like he is under considerable stress, and this is his attempt to exert some control over his environment. I know that it is your office, but he is the Director. If it is "driving you mad", just think how he feels, he is only in your office for a few minutes, but he has the compulsion all the time. I can imagine he does this and then feels that he can tackle the more important issues back in his own office.
If he is on the point of losing his mental stability, it may not take very many more small shoves, and he will take a very, very long time to recover.
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snapper_37
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Speicher said:
Speicher. This thread was just a bit of harmless fun. It is getting on my nerves but there you go. What I might do is go AWOL to the loo when it's visiting time.
I wouldn't dream of taking the p*ss out of my gaffer really, he's always been ok with me although he can be a very nasty bastard to others.
NickM
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Come on, just a few teeny little shoves. You know you want to really...snapper_37 said:...he's always been ok with me although he can be a very nasty bastard to others.
NickM
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Tut. That post was going so well. Why did you have to spoil it?Crackle said:
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snapper_37 said:Speicher. This thread was just a bit of harmless fun. It is getting on my nerves but there you go. What I might do is go AWOL to the loo when it's visiting time.
I wouldn't dream of taking the p*ss out of my gaffer really, he's always been ok with me although he can be a very nasty bastard to others.
Yes, I realised that the contents of the post was harmless fun, I suppose I may have over-reacted
and mistakenly thought that you might exacerbate the situation. As you suggest, going AWOL might help.
NickM
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That's more like it!Crackle said:
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snapper_37
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yenrod said:>snapper_37
You are one untidy bugger !!!!!!!!!
You are right there yenrod!
But I know where everything is in the organised chaos!!!
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Maybe he's just trying to be 'around', visable if you like
. When I was in management positions we had all kinds of BS training courses etc on how to lead/assert/motivate etc...one of the big NO NO's of good management/leadership is the closed door, behind big desk syndrome. Being 'amoungst the troops' is where it's at from a leaders point of view. Trouble is some people just can't do that naturally, so they get edgy, self concious, confused etc...in short they out of their zone, so they 'leak' and you get the type of behaviour he seems to be demonstrating. What a could manager/leader wants/needs is to be one of the troops..to be accepted on that level...it's toughy sometimes.
I'd ask him if he's ok with everything....or go have a beer after work if he's that kind of a guy...more relaxed ..less walls of hierachy in the way...
But then again he could just be a wackjob
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. When I was in management positions we had all kinds of BS training courses etc on how to lead/assert/motivate etc...one of the big NO NO's of good management/leadership is the closed door, behind big desk syndrome. Being 'amoungst the troops' is where it's at from a leaders point of view. Trouble is some people just can't do that naturally, so they get edgy, self concious, confused etc...in short they out of their zone, so they 'leak' and you get the type of behaviour he seems to be demonstrating. What a could manager/leader wants/needs is to be one of the troops..to be accepted on that level...it's toughy sometimes.I'd ask him if he's ok with everything....or go have a beer after work if he's that kind of a guy...more relaxed ..less walls of hierachy in the way...
But then again he could just be a wackjob
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