1. I was working with a co-worker on a project for the team. Our supervisor had us come to his desk to demonstrate the work. The guy demonstrated his part and then I demonstrated mine. Immediately after, the boss thanked him. I got no recognition what-so-ever.
2. One morning, I came up the elevators and was heading to my desk when I saw him walking towards him. I said "good morning" to him and he stared at me blankly for a moment before greeting the co-worker behind me. I know he saw me say it because he was looking straight at me when I did, and when he greeted the other co-worker, he had to look up to make eye contact with him. So, he basically just ignored me.
3. For most of the time I was working there, I was in charge of consolidating people's time sheets into a master sheet for the week and to put it into pie chart form for weekly and monthly meetings with the team leader (his boss). As one might expect, no one wants to do these documents. So, overtime, the other members of the team began to stop turning them in to be consolidated. I sent emails and even went to their desks to try and get them to do it, but that only worked for a short while. People began to create excuses for not doing it. So I reported it to him. He did nothing. I CCed him on all emails to show that I was actually trying. He claimed that he would talk to them about it. I gave it a few days, then asked a few co-workers and he hadn't talked to any of them. Come meeting day, his boss is wondering why the time charts look so "off" and essentially scolds him for it. Later on, my supervisor comes at me like it's my fault and scolds me for it before actually talking to the other co-workers.
4. When I first started, there was some training that I needed. My boss told me to go search for it on the internet. I had never done this before and barely knew what I was looking for. With some advice from a co-worker, I managed to find the training that I needed, but the date for it was drawing near, so I passed it on to my supervisor so that he can give the OK and do whatever he has to do. He told me to keep looking to see if there was anything cheaper. I spent some time for that and couldn't find anything. So I told him about it and he did nothing. I hammered him with emails each day trying to remind him and he continued to do nothing. The deadline passed by and I was forced to try to find another. The next training for the same class was months away and I told him that. He gave me one of those "you're so stupid" sighs before telling me to find something else. So I found something that looked similar and he FINALLY did his job in setting that up for me. Unfortunately, at the time, I didn't know that the training I gave him was of a different version of the program I was to be in charge of. Some concepts are the same, but much of the functionality was very different. My supervisor shouldn't known better, but he just blindly signed me up for it.
These stories are all about the same guy and there are more, but these are the ones I remember the best. I worked for him for 2 years before calling it quits. The job paid very well for an entry level employee, but It wasn't worth the stress and headaches. The lesson I learned from working there is that, if they preach to you about "diversity" during an interview and the office employees don't seem to be very diverse, don't take the job unless you absolutely have to. Especially if your race, gender, or age is different than what you see there. There's a very good chance that they're just hiring you as a token to meet the status quo and you probably won't be respected in the office. I complained to my mother about the job and she thought I was overreacting until she went to a school reunion and talked to people who have worked for the same company or know someone that has. I wasn't the only one having problems, apparently.
