Thank God I'm Single

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We have a new CFO at work.  That's Chief Financial Officer and not Chief Medical Officer as I seem to always want to say.  Anyway, at first he seemed ok.  But he was the newbie so, usually they tend to be nice until they settle in.  He sat in his office and counted the pre-counted beans I gave him in new and artistic ways and life was grand.  Too many damn beans for even me.

Then, I was told I might have to be out of work for a few weeks for medical reasons.  Which means somebody will have to do the pre-bean-counting things that I do for him.  Which means I've had to train him to do my job and I'm less than thrilled thinking just anybody can step in and do what I do so well.  Plus, the honeymoon is definitely over and his true nature is coming out.  He's not as nice and friendly as he first appeared and my life has been hell for about a month now.

Anyway, back to the training.  I wrote up notes which he ignored.  We had demonstration sessions at which he would sit and complain about how ancient and backwards the computer system is.  He'd get stuck on something, ask me for help and then belittle whatever I tell him.  And/or ignore it completely.  Or not ask at all and then get all indignant when I, oh so helpfully, point out the error.  Heh!  And he can't find his ass with both hands!  Have I mentioned that yet?  "I can't find this deposit."  "it's right here, see, right where you wrote all over the bank statement, which by the way, I hate because it's messy and makes thing so much more difficult to tie out in the end, yanno?" 

Today, I realized what the problem is.  He's a late fifties something and I'm an early fifties something.  The way he does things makes me nuts in a way I remember being driven nuts by my ex.  Won't ask for directions, can't take help from a woman, thinks I'm there to make his copies/phone calls, etc.  It's a good thing I don't drink coffee because if he started asking me to make him his morning fix, we'd have a real problem.

And I think it's just his generation.  I'm not sure I'm claiming being a baby-boomer since I tend to think most of what's wrong today can be blamed on them, but that's just me.  The men I've worked with in this company are all mostly younger than me by at least five years.  The boss is ten years younger and he does not display any "attitudes".  So I've decided we're having a generational issue.  In addition to the fact that he's taking over my job.

Which leads me to the notion that I'm so happy I'm single and don't have to put up with that kind of thing anymore.  Which probably means I've been that way for too long now.  Or, maybe dipping a bit below my "age group" might not be such a bad thing.

Comments

[sassyinkpen.livejournal.com]

I can absolutely relate to this - I've seen it many times in men about that age. OMG.