RE: I Can Really Pick 'Em, Can't I?

["Melissa Nelson" <melmis36 -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

Sometimes you can deal with a manager and sometimes you just have to cut 
your losses.

I had a manager from Hell who had been at the company a lot longer than me. 
I knew she was beloved by the higher ups...although not by a single person 
on my team. She changed departments and became our manager after I had been 
with the company about a year. I gave her a few months and tried my best to 
get a long, looking at what I could do different etc, even after her comment 
that Technical Writers are simply admin assistants with a degree. OUCH!

However,  I ended up in the hospital for a week and missed another week of 
work after that, and I came back completely prepared to bite my pay for the 
days I missed over my paid time off; she refused saying that I had to come 
in for four Saturdays in a row to make it up. I knew then that it was time 
to go, put my resume on line and quietly worked away, telling her I would 
make the Saturdays up after I recovered a little longer, by that time I was 
gone.

It is good to try to get along...but sometimes you just have to know when to 
say when. We spend 8-9 hours a day at work five days a week...and life is 
too short!

Melissa