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    Boss asks employee at 8 AM to make a presentation for the whole company at 9 AM: 'He is the same guy that passed me over for a promotion.'

    He can't expect his employees to create quality work if he only gives them one hour to complete and polish it. 

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    • Employee giving presentation in conference room an hour after she was told to start said presentation
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    • My boss asked me at 8am on Monday to make a presentation for the whole company at 9am

      When I told him that I can do it, because I actually have it ready, but that I do not appreciate that he ask me for these things last minute he said "keep it for yourself, I can't handle feedback right now" He is the same guy that skipped me for the promotion.
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    • Adventurous-Wash3201 Original Poster's Reply I delivered a very good presentation, I got compliments from my team for it. Then I sent an email to HR in which I reported word by word our interaction with screenshots. Two people in our team are in burnout because of him, so I said that multiple times he told me he is always open for feedback to avoid someone else going in burnout but I brought proof that this is not true.
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    • If everyone else on the team is having these problems with him, he's definitely the problem. It's not like he just has extremely high expectations of this one employee. He wants it all, and he wants it all right now.

    • EconomistFar666 That's poor leadership. An 8am request for a 9am company wide presentation is unreasonable. And shutting you down when you gave calm feedback shows insecurity, not strength. If he skipped you for promotion but still relies on you in crunch time, that tells you a lot.
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    • Adventurous-Wash3201 Original Poster's Reply The fact is that he is the one responsible for this meetings, they are every week at the same time, the content is 50% the same 50% new. It's been 6 weeks that he forgets to tell people to prepare material on time. Three of these weeks he asked me to cover for that at 8am on the same day, I start at 9. I just was hoping that with two people in his team going on stress leave because of him he would understand that he needs to be more organised, but he
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    • Monsieur_Perdu Depends. If the boss causes burn-outs and the company has to pay for it (depends on law/country, but in my country company needs to pay wages for a year in such cases) then HR can be your ally.
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    • Adventurous-Wash3201 Original Poster's Reply We already have two of his 4 direct report on burnout.
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    • Noob ToobinStinkMitt "I do not appreciate that he ask me for these things last minute" that's why you don't get the promotion. Fair or not.
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    • Adventurous-Wash3201 Original Poster's Reply Sure, it is also not normal that for something you need to do every single week you constantly forget to inform people on time and you always end up on Monday morning at 8am to ask for presentation to be ready by 9 am on the same day. Isn't it incompetence?
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    • bdash1990 You should memorize "keep it for yourself, I can't handle feedback right now" for the next time he has anything to say about your performance.
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    • That can backfire quickly. Most bosses don't want to hear that you cannot handle any feedback on your work, even when their feedback is unwanted. “Keep it to yourself, I can't handle feedback right now,” is something you might say to your best friend when you're ranting about your love life, and they want to give you advice instead of giving you support. With your boss, it's better to let unwanted feedback go in one ear and out the other. You don't want to put a target on your back when they're already unhappy with some aspect of your work performance.

    • Fun-Professional-581 'Had I more time to prepare, I would have had graphics to help aid my presentation, but with a mere hour to prepare, my charm and wit will have to suffice.'
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    • jdscott0111 You missed out on such a great opportunity. You let him flounder during the presentation, then when he can't answer questions, you step up, plug in your laptop, and be the hero to his bosses. You make him look like a fool, and then they not only question his competence, but his judgment for skipping you for that promotion. You could have been in his job inside of six months if you played it smart. All you did was give him notice that he can keep asking these things of you and the new
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    • That kind of thing happens in stories on the internet, but they're far less common in real life. Has anyone experienced something dramatic like that in the actual workplace?

    • Optimal_Collection 77 Do it but make sure to say he dropped it on you at 8am. Everyone knows he's a then
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    • autumneliteRS I'd probably start looking for other jobs. He sounds like an absolute pain and there are other workplaces where you can be paid more not to deal with him.
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    • At the end of the day, this is probably the only solution that will really improve this employee's life. It doesn't matter how many employees he burns out: there's a very good chance he won't change. He might change if this Christmas Eve he is visited by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future and acknowledges the error of his ways, but there are ten months until Christmas, and this employee doesn't have that long to wait! I hope that her next boss will actually give her enough time to get her work done. I hope she gets a raise, too, while she's at it. 

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