Well, I work in a department store in the men's department. My tasks basically are:
- Ring up customers
- Put up new stock
- Help customers find clothes
- Straighten the department
I've been trying to figure out my boss' type for a few weeks now. She's very strict on everyone in the store. However, when she's with me, I tend to notice that she constantly tells me things that I could've easily done, or starts on one project, then while working on it, finds something else that needs to be done. She was telling me she had a problem before where she couldn't focus on one thing at a time. Her attitude toward her job and the people she manages suggests J, but when I watch how she maneuvers herself, I think P.
For example, we have a sock sale that just started, so we had to get the department ready for it. I spent probably 3-4 hours with her yesterday trying to get things set up. I kept asking her questions about it, she would say random things, and I had no idea if she was thinking out loud or giving me an order. When we tried working one part of it, she went near an area that needed to be worked on, and started cleaning up that area instead of the project her and I were working on. I was like, "WTF."
I ended up emptying our stockroom of extra socks a half hour before I left, and I barely got anything done that day because I was constantly following her. I got the feeling I was moving and thinking faster than her. I just didn't want to do things on my own without her consent. It was really busy yesterday, though, so she could've been really busy.
One of the major problems is with putting up new stock. I look at it, then look where it has to go, and I say, "That doesn't look like it can really fit there, what should we do?" To which she just says frequently, "Just try it! You have to make it work! Sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do." The way I do things is I look at it with my eyes, and try to guesstimate on how plausible it is. She just tries anyway.
She's definitely an extravert, because when I'm working on something with her, it bothers her SO much if I'm quiet. She'll start asking me if she's offended me or the obligatory, "what's wrong?" She can be strict a lot of times, to the point that I feel like she's so cold. There's definitely no Fe going on at all with her. My store manager, however, is all about Fe. His motto is, "Just do what makes the customer happy."
She constantly places demands on me to do things, and doesn't understand why I don't really do it. A lot of things they ask us to do, I just feel stupid doing. If I were an Extraverted Feeler, it'd be a lot easier, but I'm not. I think I'm like a challenge to her, though. She knows very well that we don't get along, and is constantly reaffirming our "conflicts."
For instance, the other night, I had a box of gift boxes I was going to restock at my counter. I looked at them and thought it wasn't worth it to open two new boxes, so I'd carry both of them back to the back. On the way back, I stopped at another counter to rest for a second, which was when she saw me holding two big boxes at a counter that wasn't mine. Her first reaction was, "You better not be leaving those boxes at that counter!" I told her no, and just kept walking to the back.
When I saw her next, even though I shouldn't have, I said, "I'm glad you think so highly of me that you expect the worst." Her response was probably a Sensor response. It just annoyed me. She said, "That was just what I saw. You don't have to do all you do with your bad attitude, though." I left her and went to clock out, and a minute later, she came over to me, and apologized, saying, "I'm sorry for jumping to conclusions like that and saying what I did about your bad attitude, but I was talking about what I saw."
Actually, now that I've written this expository, I'm thinking she's ESFP.