No way no hell am I going to try to explain bipolar. This place has a high turnover rate and they just look for excuses. What that's gaining them, I have no idea but in this job market I suspect they think they're looking for the best of the best. The problem is, the best of the best won't put up with their shit and they quit. I'm old and damn lucky to get this job and intend to retire in it.
The "stupid shit" is just tech stuff irrelevant to the discussion. We're implementing new technology on multiple fronts and there's teething pains.
I have no idea whether there will be repercussions or not. I'm known for taking direction well but occasionally have to have the obvious pointed out to me, especially with social stuff. One boss said "You're a boffin - I know how to handle boffins", another sat me down and laboriously taught me useful social scripts such as the watercooler conversation and the elevator dance. The latest guy is still at the "psssst...your shoelace is undone" stage. Everybody's been on pins and needles with the new BBB but she seems fine to me but who am I to know. If she announces an "open door" policy I have no idea what to think because in an old job there was an "open door" policy, but if you used it, all the people in between got pissed off. There have been complaints about how I dress - black jeans (there's some crawling on the floor required so I'm not wearing dress pants), golf shirt, black running shoes (or hiking boots in winter), heavy sweater - that I eat at my desk (there's 150 people in the office and lunch area seating for about 25), that my desk is cluttered (working documents, manuals, tools, broken stuff I'm working on) and that I'm unfriendly/distant/brusque or whatever. I'm a geek - it comes with the territory.
I can't fuck shit up. They have a special meeting with graphs and stuff where they make a big toodoo about not pointing fingers at people who fuck shit up but nobody's fooled including me.
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