John's Tunnel Vision Again

Today no one was in the office. The hard drive that John refuses to replace gave me some problems again, but I did what I could. I managed to catch up quite a bit without him around changing things every five minutes. I managed to:

1. Cross reference all backorders across three sheets.
2. Update the Pick List in regards to cancels
3. Update the Pick List in regards to backorders
4. Update all Pick List notes
5. Contact more than 20 customers in regards to backorders John has created
6. Handle six or seven customer issues Kerry had and couldn't do herself
7. Merge Pick Lists and data
8. Email all cancels to Kerry

and about 10 other items.

So, after I finally get things done, because John isn't pulling me off of important work every five minutes to do something new, he comes in today and tells me that he is upset because of a few comments I made and because "I am not doing anything, I am just standing around."

This might stem from the fact that the internet died yesterday and they pulled me off of what I was doing to help pack. I was never trained to pick, nor to pack. No one suggested this is what to do, and John's system is so out of whack and unorganized (because he won't let someone like me fix it) that there's no way to tell what order people are on, if something might get picked twice, and what's happening. As typical, I asked quite a few times what I needed to do, and I was ignored. Anytime you ask John anything, it's like you are talking to a wall, and it seems as if he's doing it on purpose. Sometimes, it's obvious he is. I can see that he has no skills whatsoever in dealing with people, nor a work force. Having been the guild leader of thousands of people over the years, to be an effective leader or manager, you have to be able to deal with people, and not only that, listen to them. John can do neither. I am starting to believe that he may be bi-polar, but that is neither here, nor there.

He basically began telling me that I am not doing my job. The job that I am trying to do, but every five minutes, he has a bi-polar seizure and pulls me off to do something completely unimportant, unrelated, and uneventful. Every five minutes into doing something, I am pulled off to do something else, and never get important things done. Everyone that works here sees this and has commented on this. In any job, you are pulled away, and you must multi-task. This is completely different.