I want to say 1) as a person, he seems fine and 2) He was thrown in and basically given zero training because the temporary supervisor who overlapped with him had to run the branch while he did his mandatory training

And so on that note there's parts of this situation that are things he has been saddled with.

Things he's pretty good at: managing funds. Which he should be, with an accounting background.

Things he has improved with slowly over time: finishing tasks when they're due. Well. Somewhat improved. Mostly improved anyway.

Things he is consistently terrible with: Communication

oh, and scheduling

Now, at the beginning (in January) I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt regarding communication because my previous boss was very much share-everything-that-isn't-prohibited because she felt that it was part of trust and including your team.

you know, some people are just a little less inclined to be free with stuff if you don't absolutely need to know

and I don't like that but it's a difference not a fault

h o w e v e r

things that have happened multiple times: he puts in a request for building maintenance, doesn't tell anyone that he's done it, so no one knows what's supposed to be happening or why maintenance is there

He arranged for a new person to be trained and didn't tell the person who was supposed to be doing the training

Found out when we're getting volunteers back and didn't tell the volunteer coordinator

(I had to tell the volunteer coordinator)

Asked me where the monthly stats were when I'd emailed them to him three days prior

The last one wouldn't stand out except it was not the first nor the last time he didn't see an email, apparently

The person in charge of standing orders emailed him in mid June saying that here's the list please check it and get back to her with changes by July 5th

She emails him again the last week of June as a reminder (because holiday and all)

She emails him AGAIN on the 9th of July like "um?"

And he forwards the whole thing to me like "do you know if we've done anything with this either before or after I got here?"

on the 9th of July

we're meeting to look at it this week

similar to this: the outreach coordinator for the system emailed him that someone wanted to do a mock interview for a college project and since they were in our area here was their contact info

He forwarded it to my coworker a month later

The project was done

My coworker and I did email with the woman about library work, etc.

REGARDING SCHEDULING

Look, I don't want to be difficult

My schedule is consistent

but you never know what vacation etc is coming up for people

I'd just like a monthly schedule before the 28th of the previous month

or you know, before the first of the month it is

(The schedule issue has been mostly resolved by other staff's collectively taking it out of his hands and doing it ourselves)

oh that is BAD boss'ing

scheduling and communication are like. primary elements of management as a concept

We also don't get hourly schedules (which we need as we have on and off public desk work) until the day that particular week starts

Yeah like

Most of the time it's okay-ish but I also don't know what else I might have missed

My one coworker is so done, because she was doing the hiring stuff that needs to be done a week out from a new hire

And asked him how it worked, since she hadn't hired before

And his response is "oh it's easy, we'll go over it"

> new hire starts this coming thursday

> as of last thursday, he still hadn't gotten back to her

> he planned to meet this tuesday

eat him

consume him and share his tasks & wages amongst the rest of you

so she's going to directly ask him how she can express to him when she needs something IMMEDIATELY

Or at least in a timely fashion

(mind you, she asked him about it over a week before last thursday)

Honestly before I shoved the manager tasks I was doing onto him we WERE sharing out all of his tasks

OTOH I'm also doing a head of ref job without title or pay for it but that's just...library.

actually my huge concern is that there IS something vital that I've missed and I won't know until it bites me in the ass because he didn't TELL me about it.

oh

indicative but funny to me rather than anger inducing:

when he first started he got a tour of the building, as you do

two or three weeks after this he walked into the back room upstairs. This is where the reference staff and pages have their office stuff and computers

and he said, completely genuinely, "oh, I had no idea this was up here"

He pushed the button on the elevator out of curiosity apparently

(I will grant that the two story model is INCREDIBLY DUMB but still, did he think his staff was just disappearing into the aether all day? Or did he just not think about us at all, which is arguably worse?)

And I'm just frustrated too because he was hired into this position over me.

And I've given him a lot of slack because I know it bothers me and I don't want it to color how I look at him; it's not his fault.

And he's done some things that I wouldn't have but in a good sense? That is, they're not bad, just different.

And I'm glad because it's stuff I wouldn't necessarily have considered

But then there's all of this and I just

idk man

Wheeze

That’s so many things

SO MANY THINGS IN SO LITTLE TIME...

Is this a lot?