My supervisor is ADD. It is like looking in the mirror all day every day. She is driving me crazy! My husband thinks it's so funnyl. He says, "Now you know what I go through living with you!":o
(she and I run a play center where we have birthday parties, afterschool programs, summer camp programs and track out programs for year around school children)

Here's what she does on a daily basis.

"Where's my keys, Help me find my keys, you mean you haven't seen where I layed my keys, well help me look for them...Pleeeeeeeesssse!"

"She screws up on every invitation she prints- always a misspelled name or date or something"

One day she says- "Keep those children out of this room", only to totally forget the next day and let them back in. She has these grand ideas for projects she wants to do with the kids or make elaborate schedules she wants to follow and never ever does she even remotely follow them.

She will say, "We are definiately going to have a meeting tomorrow" and when I ask her about it she says "what meeting?I don't have time for a meeting"

She is forever setting a new rule or coming up with a new program or telling me to do something only to not inforce that rule or not follow through with the program she has planned all out or when I have her what she has ask me to do or letter she has asked me to type (now somethings I have spent hours on!)
only for her to throw it on her desk and never review it or look at it.


She is driving me crazy.

I have just learned to ignore her. I don't really know what else to do. I just say, "Okay, sure?

Anyone going through this? I should be more understanding because I am ADD but then again I also drive myself crazy somethings.

;)

I WISH I had an ADD boss...

I'm so curious why in the world would you wish for that??????

I'm terrible to work for being ADD-I only realized just how much when I started working for an ADDer.

I believe I'd had a couple. The first was always disorganized and flustered, but rather endearing. The second was very irritable and sharp-tongued, and very intolerant of MY ADD traits. ;) Had she been dxed I bet she'd have been nicer....

Because I think an ADD boss would understand me, and I could relate to them, and help them solve their ADD issues around the workplace...

My boss hates those ADD traits in herself and therefore, hates that she hired another ADDer. I believe she likes me as a friend and a person but she hates when she sees herself in me. I try very, very hard at work not to make stupid little mistakes, I try very hard to put things where I know I can find them. The only two things I can not help myself is with being bored and having to change things constantly with the program I am working on and I can't seem to follow a schedule with the children to save my life. I will have to leave this job if they crack down on either one of those. They know my situation so they haven't done that yet. I guess that is the good thing with having an ADD boss.

Have you discussed ADD with your boss?

Justolme, I had to chuckle alittle when I read your post. Do I have an ADD Boss? I have an ADD Office! There are 7 of us and one of them is laid back and calm, the rest of us are chickens with our heads chopped off or hyperfocused in our work! On one side, we can easily frustrate each other, on the other, my office does twice the work of all the other offices, some that have 40 employees to our 7. Try to talk to your boss with comparisons to you... example... share her feelings of overwelming and frustration. Admit to any you have. I find this helps with my boss.

Wayward-To answer your question if I have talked to my boss about my ADD. I have worked there 1 year and after only a month or two of working with her (she hired me) I started to realize she and I shared so may of the same what I thought was "personality traits". I had mentioned to her that I was more like her than her own daughter (I knew her daughter as well) and that I had never met anyone that was so much like me. She is 59 and I am 37. She said, Well that's because you are ADD just like me. I was really taken back. I said, "What do you mean ADD, your joking right??" And she said no I'm not joking. Have you ever been diagnosed and I told her I had not and she said she had been like that ever since she could remember and that she was diagnosed like 20 years ago or something like that.

I did research at that point and discovered I am difinantely ADD.
I knew something was wrong with me but I wasn't sure what. I thought I was maybe Boardline Personaility disorder, Manic Depressive, Anxiety Disorder (which I'm certain I have that). I do take zoloft and it seems to mellow me out some and definiatley helps me with my Anxiety.

How did you find out you we ADD?

A little reverse I was an ADD boss

supervised 7 unionised shipping and receving employees

We had a department that really kicked a** becuase the sooner they got all the work done that we had to do the sooner we got to play and have fun and thats what o job is supposed to be isnt it

I can relate to being hyperfocused at work or as you call it "kicking ***". That is a good feeling when you have so much energy and are really interested in what your doing that you power out on it. I have found though in my past jobs that is a recipe for burn out if I do it to much. The hyperfocus thing.

Uh Huh

big time burn out real quick