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My chief at a large retail chain used to decide on head office redundancies by chanting "One potato, two potato" over the staff list. Tell us about your mad psycho bosses - collect your P45 on the way out.

Bruce Springsteen jokes = Ban, ridicule

(, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 13:06)
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I have the patience of a saint and nerves of steel!
My supervisor...

Drenches herself in nasty perfume that smells rotten. It gives me a headache, and our whole hall smells like her perfume. The good thing is, you know where she is. It's like an early-warning systems for stinky bosses.

Smacks her gum, very loudly. Her office is right next to mine, so I have to close my door sometimes to shut out the smacking. Then she comes in to my office and smacks her gum in my ear.

I give her documents to review and never see them again. Until I get in trouble for not releasing that document. Sorry, that's not happening until it's been approved! Because she has a habit of making me think that a document is ready to go, and then at the last minute she'll have to make some (pointless, unnecessary) changes. So I always have make absolutely sure that this is really the final version and she really, really isn't going to have any more changes.

Takes my supplies. Takes things out of the cabinet over my desk and leaves the door open and leaves the things she took out of the cabinet on my desk. If she doesn't leave them on my desk, she leaves them in her office, and then when I need them, I have no idea where they are.

Lets the printer run out of paper and doesn't refill it. Takes my printouts off of the printer, so I think maybe I just forgot to print it and I print it again. Can we please stop wasting paper?

Hates it when I type. I have been "spoken to" about typing too much - I had only been typing for about two minutes!

Borrowed my sweater when she had to work outside one evening. I have no idea what happened to it, but it must have been messy, because she took it home to wash it, and she brought it back to the office much smaller than it was before. She must have used really hot water, because I had washed it before and it was fine. But now it is too tight. She said she would buy me another one, but I think you've all guessed by now that that didn't happen. I liked that sweater. It was black with nice pearly buttons. I miss it.

That's really just the beginning, but I don't want to bore everyone. More later, maybe. I'm not even going to get started on my really crazy boss from a few jobs ago. That could take a while.
(, Fri 19 Jun 2009, 3:35, 3 replies)
if you want people to like you
you'd say how hard you want to spang her, tell us the other story, then post pix of you two making making out
(, Fri 19 Jun 2009, 6:23, closed)
That would work

(, Sun 21 Jun 2009, 0:38, closed)
I'd settle for more stories about your previous crazy boss.
Om nom nom @work entertainment.
(, Sun 21 Jun 2009, 8:23, closed)

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