Re: need suggestions on handling a boss

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

What you have is a boss who hasn't got the bandwidth to do all the work 
herself yet cannot let go of ownership because she is convinced that nobody 
can do the work as well as she can.  Including you.  If you've already had 
encounters like the one you describe before, by now perhaps especially you. 
Unless you get really lucky and she has a nervous collapse, gets hit by a 
bus or the ghosts of Xmas Past, Present and Future pay her a visit, you will 
always be behind the eight ball.  You will never be as qualified as she 
thinks you should be, your productivity will never be as high as she thinks 
it should be and your knowledge of process and product will never be up to 
her standards (hers probably aren't either, but she's in denial).

Let me guess:  she was the company's "Tech Writer #1," and carried the 
entire load on her back before you were hired?

Given the constraints you are working under, you will not meet your 
deliverable tomorrow, at least not to her satisfaction.  I wish there was 
some Jedi technical writing trick we could share with you, but there isn't. 
Do the best you can, and if she doesn't fire you in the morning start a 
full-effort job search, because she will eventually.

Gene Kim-Eng


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