What were they thinking must be contagious.

Yesterday I found out I will be getting a new boss (This sucks, I finally got the last one trained to do things how I want him to do it.) (And, it takes a long time to train a boss.). My boss’s title is Senior Instructor of Bus Maintenance Training. He will be swapping jobs with the Senior Instructor of Rail Maintenance Training. So my company is swapping both Senior Instructors into jobs that they know nothing about. So, not only are we getting someone who doesn’t want to change jobs (I’m assuming the new guy is as mad as my boss (I’ve heard that swearing was involved in the meetings)), but someone who doesn’t know anything about what we teach (yea!).

I was told the reason my boss was given for this move was that our department runs well and works well with our customer (Bus Maintenance), and the new guys department is as dysfunctional as a family wedding between first cousins. I can smell the leadership from here.

I almost didn’t survive the last bad boss (I refer to him as the Shade Tree Manager). Three of the instructors at the time left our department (voluntarily) while the Shade Tree Manager was the boss. If this guy is bad enough to be moved, I might want to update my resume. No good can come out of having a boss that doesn’t want to be there, doesn’t understand what you do and is such a bad leader that he is being moved.

If a person can’t do a job well, you should re-train them or fire them. You shouldn’t inflict them on a working group that is doing a good job. What were they thinking?