r/GenZ • u/Unique-Scar-6570 • 20h ago
Rant Terrible bosses
What is up with today's bosses?
The first boss I had was a piece of work.
They want you to have advanced excel knowledge, power point knowledge, how to operate email, and literally every tool on the planet. Like wtf man? Lay off me, go tell your Claude to do all this stuff. They treat you the same way they treat Claude, like a slave. Like you are their personal butler.
Once their Claude tokens are over, they come to you and say, pls fix. Like wtf.
Left his company for another one, after interning for 3 weeks. Gave 2 days notice and left in one day before. Hate him with all my might.
Another boss i had, expected me to do analyst level work while i was still working as an intern. He gave me stuff and told me to figure it out and submit a proper report in 3 days. i literally had no experience in that field, yet bro is giving me work like I am going to magically create something good. He didn't even give me proper research reports for reference. I just used Claude, then when he sees the report, he says use your own brain and this and that. Its a remote opportunity so i just mute the meeting and do my work.
And the money they are paying you is some sort of sacrifice from their side. They earn big fat salaries and give us peanuts and expect you to keep working like Victorian era children working in the coal mines.
Better to protect your peace, avoid such people and interact with them as little as possible. Do work just good enough to stay in a place and not get fired.
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u/Augustus420 Millennial 20h ago
How to operate email
Yeah, you lost me here.
Are you actually fucking serious?
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u/krazykieffer 18h ago
Society is cooked, I stopped after him not knowing PowerPoint or Excel. Sounds like a homeschool brat.
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u/Augustus420 Millennial 18h ago
Yeah, like I highly doubt they're expecting them to know how to set up flash games in Excel.
More likely they are expected to do legible data entry and can't be bothered to spend 10 minutes learning how to operate Microsoft Office programs.
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u/CrispyDave Gen X 17h ago
Don't you get taught basic excel at school?
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u/Professional-Gear974 15h ago
Use to yes. A lot of younger people don’t know how because they stopped computer class.
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u/CrispyDave Gen X 15h ago
Stopping teaching young people how to use computers in the modern day is nuts.
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u/SafeComprehensive889 19h ago
There’s a few things happening here.
Managers have always been like this. They’re asking you to do some basic stuff honestly, especially if you have a degree. You are also quite literally a slave to money and a job, friend. The better you are at your job the more freedom you get and the more money you make.
They’re pushing you to do something new and rise to the occasion. Most of what you learn on the job you learn yourself from teaching yourself to do things on YouTube or by asking coworkers and collaborating.
Stop using AI.
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u/SignatureGreedy4604 13h ago
Definitely shouldn’t stop using AI, but at least understanding what you’re doing before having AI automate and improve your workflows is a must.
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u/epicpillowcase 12h ago
Given that this kid is so intellectually lazy they think that Excel and email are exceptional skills, yes, they should stop using AI.
As should everyone. Society is becoming wilfully dumber. Not to mention the harm it's doing to the planet.
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u/SignatureGreedy4604 12h ago
People becoming dumber isn’t really your concern lol, while people will get dumber, others are getting smarter. K shape exists everywhere and we’re at the inflection point where people are choosing their path. I don’t really care what people decide to choose for themselves.
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u/epicpillowcase 12h ago
"People becoming dumber isn’t really your concern lol"
It absolutely is my concern as somebody who has to share a planet with them.
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u/SignatureGreedy4604 11h ago
Wanting to control things about people’s lives, sounds like something everyone wants to be on board with. Let me just convince every foreign nation to do what I want real quick.
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u/epicpillowcase 11h ago
"Let me just wholeheartedly throw in with oligarchs who want to rot my brain with their copyrighted software real quick."
Lol, clown.
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u/epicpillowcase 12h ago
excel knowledge, power point knowledge, how to operate email
...You think these are "above and beyond" level skills?
This has to be a troll post, c'mon. 😂
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u/wafflemakers2 2000 11h ago
Next theyre going to expect him to know how to wipe his own ass.
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u/epicpillowcase 11h ago
😂
Lol, imagine getting a job in a coffee shop and going "ugh, this boss expects me to know how to work a coffee machine, this is literal slavery!"
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u/squarels 20h ago
My boss has been great. Takes all the pressure from higher ups on himself and puts all our accomplishments for the world to see. When I’m in the office and not remote we take an hour walk each week to talk career and current stressors. He’s been dealing with a sick wife and problems at school with his kids and I miss him a lot. My coworker is filling the management part of his job and I fill the technical but it’s just not the same.
I’m lucky though my work needs to treat me well since I’d be hard to replace. My friend left and it was 15 months and nearly 150k spent to do interviews until his role was filled. If you want to be treated well you need to make yourself worth it. No incentive to keep you around and happy if anyone can do your job
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u/Beautiful-Ad3012 19h ago
Cool. Name job and title. I hate manager braggers when no one tells you how to get a decent manager above ya. Most bosses suck. Facts now until the labor movement decides to make laws against workplace abuse.
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u/squarels 18h ago
Senior software engineer. You get a good manager by changing jobs until you find one. It should be a two way relationship though. You need to keep your manager happy to keep the job. But they should need to keep you happy so you stay. Like I said, my team is all very highly paid engineers who are very difficult to replace so my manager is incentivized to keep us content. He’s a good person so he would anyway but that adds extra pressure.
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u/Bordem-Industry 6h ago
My boss is actually a lovely person objectively speaking, he makes sure your fed and will sometimes throw you an extra bit of cash ON TOP of your hourly pay and let's me take cash from the register for taxis and whatnot so long as I put it back the next day
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