My colleagues and other animals
My industry, being the games industry attracts a variety of nerds, geeks and garden variety freaks. Even suspected asperger's sufferers and absolute social lepers are relatively common. This is pretty much par for the course, and I can hardly disassociate myself from them, much as I'd like to. For despite the quirks and eccentricities, we are good folk, who toil and try to bring the public something good that might provide a bit of entertainment.

At least, the workers are, but take two steps or even one step up the hierarchy, and you will quickly encounter ineptitude, carelessness and boundless stupidity, pretty much across the board.

So without any further ado, I introduce my last, much maligned boss, Stewart (surname is a colour falling between yellow and blue). Here, we have a man who despite his best efforts at bankruptcy and fostering seething hatred amongst his employees, still runs (figuratively) a successful business. Highlights of my employment include:

-Attempting to pay someone in ice cream; we aren't talking an insubstantial amount either.

-Going bankrupt n to the power times, each time reopening with a subtle variation on the name, but always remembering to pay employees via a different company that never went under.

-Losing the right to be an MD due to his stunning bankruptcy skills.

-Sacking and escorting an employee off the premises for sending an email about a boat race (yep, just a boat race).

-Claiming that despite a person receiving email confirmation receipts from his pc, that he had not in fact looked at the email.

-Emailing a blanket request for mandatory overtime, the oxymoron level was high with that one.

-Actually giving people reason to suspect that he had bipolar disorder, schizophrenia or a good old fashioned evil twin.

-Joked while the 9/11 stuff was going on (between buildings being hit), I'm rarely given to violence and i'm not a huge merkin fan, but that nearly got him a punch or three.

-Employed countless people contract wise and didn't pay them.

-Cheated on his wife with whom he has 3 daughters.

-Has a knowledge to ego ratio somewhere in the region of zero:infinity.

All's I can say is, I'm glad that he isn't paying my wages anymore, and the jobs I'd take before that happened again would probably involve cleaning glass up with my tongue.

Apologies for length, but a cnut of this degree deserves it, preferably from a guy named bubba
(ShiftyBastard won the World Cup on World Soccer Champs 2010!, Tue 29 Jan 2008, 17:58, 1 reply)

*clicks*
for the last sentence, especially!
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Tue 29 Jan 2008, 18:20, closed)