Muppet alliance
My boss is a the bastard offspring of David Brent and Alan Partridge, only meaner, more conceited, and fortunately for me and my (nominal)+1 manager more stupid than either.
He's a millionaire, but so mean he made his gold digging girlf (whose parents are younger than him) get out of a taxi in the Manc equivalent of the bronx because it was £5 more than he'd expected up to that point. At 2am. They had to wait half an hour for another taxi, which proceeded to charge him £10 more than he expected to pay. Hah hah.
Anyway.. at an interminable trade fair in Amsterdam, he left his phone which I checked... apart from the message saying 'I know you don't want any more children, but I really want a baby (i.e. your cash), I don't know what to do' was another message, with better consequences. My loathing for my boss was well known, however my +1 manager was a rather spineless fence sitter. Till the text message we found, from his girlf, saying 'enjoy your day with the muppets'. Clearly indicating that was the way our boss talked about both of us... Muppet he could have handled (i.e. me) - but that 's' has resulted in a pact which allows days off on the q.t., easy street,and as much piss as we can take, to this very day...
(Countryslicker, Mon 5 Feb 2007, 17:02, Reply)