When a manager throws a fit

[shootingstar]

Badger, your manager sounds very unhappy. Working in your environment for several decades would wear a person out if it wasn't ever the right "fit" in the lst place.

No, pinkpeddles I'm not particularily interested in her job.

My job position is classified as unionized but that's nothing new to me. It never changed my work habits nor how I view management.

So far, the best thing is for me to allow her to rant abit, because she does tend to use me as some sort of confidante.. then I try to offer a couple of words /questions about the situation ...to defuse her abit. The saving grace for her, is that she does remarkably get along well with her senior manager to whom she reports to ...because he is an even-tempered person. We all work on open-office floor layout. So conversations tend to carry across cubicles.

I guess I'm used to this sort of thing....I was raised by a mother with an explosive temper at times. She cussed...in Chinese. sh*t in Chinese, etc. More wildly than we realized until we, as children, tried to repeat the same words, which at that point, she shut us down.