seshat's blog post - Between a rock and a hard place

I don't know if I've talked much about my boss on here. She's quite a 'special' person... On the one hand, she knows what she wants, she's assertive and dynamic and knows how to get things done. On the other hand, she judges people based on barely a few words, always presumes the worst (of people), inattentively read e-mails, easily believes hear-say etc. and she has no patience or anger management skills whatsoever.

While I appreciate the opportunities she's given me, there are times when I feel like slapping her for her foul temper.

Just today, I heard loud voices in an office nearby (99% likelihood that my boss has blown a fuse). Suddenly the door opens, and I see our HR manager storming away, tears running down her face, clearly very upset. My boss then comes to complain to me about her fight with our HR manager, expecting sympathy from me, when I know full well that she actually did nothing wrong.
It was all my boss's fault for obsessively reading her e-mails on her Blackberry instead of an ordinary computer, therefore not being able to read attachments, and therefore not having read our HR manager's message properly, therefore flying off the handle...

I tried to mention the attachment to my boss, carefully, but she just came up with another lame excuse, so I stopped trying to defend my co-worker... (or risk getting my head bitten off as well...) But seriously, it disgusts me, treating people like crap like that. Sometimes I wonder how I've managed to work so closely with her for 4 years. I'm probably talented at dodging bullets.