Called some very busy clients a week ago to set up a remote session on their server so that my boss can check some settings and analyze their network since we will be managing a portion of their network soon. It's not too difficult, but takes time out of their day to give us access. I set the remote to last 7 days just in case and told the client that my boss will get all the information he would need overnight, and let my boss know it was ready as instructed. I was idle for a time and got the relevant information myself as well, but my boss insists on seeing to it himself.
Cut to 8 days later today, and it seems my boss never got around to it. And wants me to call them again to set it back up again for him. All of this was supposed to have been taken care of half a month ago, and we're not even past step 1 yet because I need to pass the ball to him to do his part and every time I do he drops the ball.
He's the one who insisted he would leave the 4 month old business and go on tour with a band for a quarter. He also insisted that he would still do all the things he needed to do. He hasn't been. There are now 3 clients piled up that he told me to wait for his word on that have been waiting for entirely too long. Whenever I get in touch with him my instructions amount to stalling tactics and stuff like "I forgot". I wouldn't mind so much, it's his business he's burying, if I wasn't the one who had to deal with these people on the phone, and I hadn't already sunk entirely too much unpaid time and effort into this.
I worked for him before, I loved working for him then, we always put the customer first, and I learned a lot. But now I'm not so sure. He's off across the country, doing something everybody involved advised against, I'm watching an empty customerless storefront, and the things I don't have sufficient company access to do are not getting done, because the one who does seems to be ignoring it hoping it will go away.
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