Office Phone & Restroom Etiquette

I'll be on the phone with a client or one of our technicians in the field and my boss will come into my office and start talking to me in my other ear. He'll talk right over me as I'm talking on the phone. But he's not just talking over me, he's giving me commands....WHILE I'm on the damn telephone!!

Sometimes its a client and I end up getting extremely annoyed.

I'll be trying to give very exact information to one of our technicians in the field and my boss will be talking completely over me, TO me. Sometimes he will mumble bits of information he wants me to relay to the technician. I do my best to pay attention to BOTH conversations. Sometimes I will ask my boss, "I'm sorry will you say that again please" and he'll say, "LISTEN to me! I hate repeating myself!"

He wont just talk to the damn technician on the phone himself...... he has to make it difficult. Sometimes my boss will be standing like 4 feet away from me and he still wont just pick up the damn phone and talk to his technician personally.

I'm sure some of you will think this is totally unwarranted venting. But its SOoooooooo annoying.

My boss has no sense of phone etiquette.

One time, I stood up for myself and said to my boss, "you know, I have your technician on one end of the phone giving me precise information and then I have you standing here yelling out commands at me and I'm doing my best to pay attention to both of you and actively participate in both conversations."

My boss showed some teeth and in a huffy puffy manner, said something like, "I'm WAY more important than the technician so you listen to ME when I am telling you something".

Obviously my boss has a little superiority complex.

There have been times when I'm at the office, in the restroom which is small. My boss will talk to me thru the damn door about some business matter. I mean come on...... i cant even use the restroom in peace.

Next time he does THAT one, I'm just going to say (thru the door), "no matter what it is you have to say right now, it can probably wait until I'm done using the restroom".

Someone teach my boss some manners.