失憶老闆 2.0

my dear friends, if you guys have bosses who have short term memory lost, i can really understand your situation, i have one too...  *sad*

i admit that she's always packed and busy with her 'no-one-knows' schedules.  well, i'm just a small potato in the department, i need not to know what my boss is doing actually.  doesn't matter, it's not the main point.

there's a big project going on recently.  initially the project was started in HQ and i was handling all the proposal and approval papers, quotations and purchase orders and stuff like that.  when the project was about to kick start, appointment of project manager was required.  i have to consult my boss for the appointment, in case i'm the appointed one, i will need to negotiate my relocation to site during the project.  moreover, i'm not the user of site system, i need help from the user during SIT and UAT.

i explained clearly to my boss, what a project manager needs to ensure and do.  she considered for a while and appointed two, the user and i.  well, i think it's inappropriate to have 2 managers in a project, so i said no, it can allow only one.  how can 2 managers work on 1 set of proposal and approval papers, 1 set of quotations and purchase orders, which of us would be the contact point for vendors and partners?  i wonder if my boss knows what i have explained to her and i wonder if she knows the definition of a project manager??!

at last she appointed the user to be the project manager.  i was so relieved that it wasn't me as i have 2 concurrent projects running in HQ.  from that day onwards, i pass all proposal and approval papers to the project manager, explained to her how to go about it, submitting papers to the finance and regional, getting quotations from vendors, introducing her as the project manager to vendors and colleagues in other liaising departments and stuff like that.

as i don't know how the site system works, i volunteer to take charge of the integration part, from the site system to the system in HQ.  happy that the project manager and i have mutual understanding on the arrangement.  and i think i have done more than what i suppose to do.  i attended all pre kick start, kick start, UR and review meetings. imagine, i have never logged in that system, i have never gotten a chance to study how it works, basically i know nothing about that system.  joining them in the meeting is such a challenge to me, learning and catching up from zero and the same time.

guess what...  we left out my boss in our 'mutual understanding'.  she called me last night and scolded me like hell, yeah, like hell, for not submitting the proposal and approval papers to finance on time!  WTF!  this is one of the things that the project manager needs to take care of!  she said i got her wrong, the project manager is to take care only the UAT!  i need to take charge of the things in HQ.  F**K!  who says that??!  i explained to her during the appointment and now what??!  i never heard of a project manager only doing testing!!  i putih-putih kena 吊!

i hate it when she blames me for the fault caused by her short term memory lost!  s**t! this is not the first time, numerous times and i have lost count!  and i know this will keep on repeating as all the projects in hands need consult her for the next stage.  her versions of advice always keep me embarrassed and i feel stupid whenever i deal with other liaising departments, i need to keep on changing my user requirements.  i'm leading the developer team to nowhere as i'm wondering around the bushes, trying to figure out the versions of advice given by my boss.  in the end, i get 'you've got me wrong'!

*STUPID*