Jeez, stupid followed me home from work tonight.
The CEO is in Australia. 2 hours ago he starts pinging emails and texts. He wants us to formulate some new things but instead of saying “Hey guys, here’s what I want to see if we can do”, he ignores the fact that we have over 90 years of expert experience in innovative formulation between us and just tells us what to go put together a formulation of his imagination which he has zero experience to justify.
So instead of letting his expert guys work the request and report back what can or can’t be done, he just spews formulation recommendations.
It has gone like this so far...
Him: Go sign a contract with one of our vendors to put this formulation together next week.
Us: That formulation won’t work since the materials are incompatible.
Him: I will have someone here send you alternatives for the materials
30 mins later, materials information is sent.
Us: That information shows that the materials aren’t compatible and it can’t be done that way.
Him: Can’t you just use this other form of the material and just do this?
Us: No, that doesn’t change anything regarding compatibility and those materials aren’t acceptable for pharmaceutical use anyway.
Now it’s silent...but I just know he is searching the internet or finding another talking head to find something that lets him make another stupid recommendation on how to do what he wants.
His lack of respect for expertise is a huge part of the reason I want to be done with him. 3 experts and all saying the same thing, and he still wants to run the show like he knows what he’s talking about and beat on anyone who tells him that he is wrong.
His ignorance is exceeded only by his arrogance.