@Jeruba The incompetent and unethical boss is mine, sadly.
I have documentation of one incident of unethical behavior. It’s in a ‘grey area’ as far as legality is concerned. (she may have had permission to change the date on a document, I don’t know for sure if she did or not and if I would inquire with the originator of the document, I’d raise a red flag to one of my customers)
Playing favorites is a part of office “politics” sometimes. I understand that to a point. When she was promoted, she named her successor to her previous position and was promptly told that if that person fails, she’d be back down in the trenches. Unfortunately, what has happened is that she has assumed so much of the responsibility for this persons’ work, that the person that is in her old position, really doesn’t know what she’s doing.
It’s not her fault, but the back end of this is that the ‘boss’ is so consumed with one persons’ work, that the rest of the group receives no support. The ‘boss’ is the point of contact person for us for other departments, so when issues arise and corrections need to be made, or IT problems need to be corrected, the ‘boss’ is notified and it ends at that.
We all have multiple e-mails unanswered to the “boss” asking to have things done. Followed by e-mails directly to the people in other departments who will get them done for us.
Not one person in our department has received a review on time since she took this position.
There is a laundry list of other complaints. I try to be objective when it comes to dealing with this person. She lied to one of my customers, handed the customer off to “her” person, then lied to me telling me that it was by my customers choice that the account went to someone else. (I only learned of this when my customer contacted me complaining about the person handing the project, and asked me how they could go about having the project management changed over from that person to me)
I have learned that I am not the only one that she’s done this to either. She has basically ‘stolen’ work from the established customers of two other people to hand over to “her” person.