My old boss was a pretty standup guy, always helping out with the work, making sure nobody goofed up, but at the same time letting us take it easy when there was a lull in the workload. Because of him our section was run pretty efficiently, and for once was actually a fun place to be. I found myself having more time in the evenings to relax and hang out until my shift ended because of how smoothly things were being run.

Then he got transferred abruptly, the result of the powers-that-be shuffling around three managers from three different sections. Enter new boss.

Don’t get me wrong, my new boss seems like a good guy too, but he’s a bit laid back… ok, maybe a bit TOO laid back, but I guess that’s better than being an all out psycho. Nevertheless, I was cheesed, mainly because he has to learn everything all over again, just when my former boss was finally starting to settle in. The move didn’t make any sense to me. Why did three COs (commanding officers) get shuffled around just like that without any warning?

Then I got some intel from a mole in the department, who let on that one of the COs’ subordinates from another section had boosted a kayak (that came from God only knows where), and while the CO knew what the guy did, he did nothing about it. So the gist of if was that he had been disciplined and then transferred out because of his failure to handle the situation. My old boss now works that section.

“Let me get this straight,” I said. “I lost my boss because some idiot in another section boosted a KAYAK???”

“Yup.”

“Where did this friggin’ kayak come from anyway?”

“Good question.”

So now should have been an isolated incident instead ended up affecting three separate divisions. What the blank were the powers-that-be thinking? How ’bout you just reprimand the CO and his subordinate, suspend them or whatever, and be done with it? No, you had to throw 3 divisions into chaos with brand new bosses who don’t know which end is up, and this you call good management?

Unbelievable.