Anyone think their boss talks just to hear themself?

CLC85TA

CLC85TA

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First off, I work for a medical and lab filtration company in Ann Arbor as a student intern/technician. This is my third year here as part of my school's requirements (Kettering/GMI).

I was in my boss's office this morning discusing a DOE (design of experiments for the non engineers) we did yesterday. The guy just keeps rambling and repeating over and over what he said when I first walked in. He wants to see a table with results. He wants to see what parts we have and what we can do with them.

Then he goes on his marker board and draws some crappy 3-d diagram trying to show the 3 variables we monkied with (I have no variable data, just attribute so far). I tell him i'm working on putting together a summary of all the data and a test plan and will bring it to him when i'm finished.

He starts over. Saying he wants to see the notes we took with what groups we built. He wants to see data and know which worked and didn't work. Then he said he wants to see a test plan.

By the end of it, I had wasted 10 to 15 minutes letting him repeating himself when I told him I'm already working on it and will have it when I'm done.

I'm ready to move on to my 4th boss..... This guy confuses the hell outta me.
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Yeah, you will run into those kind of people everywhere. The better you learn to deal with it, the easier your work life will be. There are times when you can interrupt them and get them to stop talking. But you have to be careful not to offend them in the process.

But you gotta watch out that you don't become the "Talker" either!! Ha Ha!
 
the one boss i normally don't mind, the other one i want say shut the fuck up to if he even say hi to me.
 
You may be missing a point here.....
You went in to discuss a DOE with zero documentation?
Consider what the boss told you again, you may learn something.
 
Documentation - I had all three of the lab and settings notebooks with me from the night before. He knew I hadn't had time to write up a report and I told him I was in the middle of writing one. Add that to the fact he brought up the DOE when I went in with a separate question, then yes, I didn't have any summary documentation.

Damnit, when I get on a streak, let me go and work, especially when it's fresh on the brain. I hate waiting when I know I could be doing something.

Good thing is I showed him the first 3 pages of the report this afternoon, and he was happy. Still landed me another hour and a half of sitting in there with misc little things, including him calling my replacement to find out when he'd be back at work and him spending 20 to 25 minutes trying to remember how to read results from a full factorial DOE he had done over 10 years ago.

Somehow in the middle of all this I ended up outside figuring out why his truck wouldn't start. Immediately pulled the battery cable off, it was loose even with the built up undercoating on the post. Don't ask me how it got there.
 
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