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Chthonic asks: What's the naughtiest thing a boss has ever asked you to do? And did you do it? Or perhaps you are the boss and would like to confess.

(, Thu 7 Jul 2011, 13:36)
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I nearly got done....
Many many moons ago I was working for a terribly posh 'IT type' girl. She had borrowed a tonne of money from mummy, and decided to set up her own little business.

There was only the boss, her assistant and me. I tended to get the shitty jobs.

One of them involved emptying the bins. Now in this area of London town - I am sure its the same everywhere. You had to use special council bags, and only put out the crap on a specific day.

She never got any special bags. So every other night. Like a hungover Ninja I would sneak down from our unit to the main road, up the street and hide the bags by a bus stop.

My heart used to race. Mostly because of the massive drugs, but also the fear of being caught. £1000 fine, which would land directly on my head not the companies! Lovely.
(, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 12:51, 17 replies)
erm...
companies company's
(, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 12:55, closed)
Frankly I wish you'd got caught and fined
arsehole.
(, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 13:03, closed)
and I in turn am, frankly, glad that he did not get caught.
And so the balance of the fucking universe is restored.
(, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 13:19, closed)
OK.
1: why didn't you just get her to get the bags, or, indeed, get some yourself?

2: full stops are not commas.
(, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 13:08, closed)
You terrible grammar bully!

(, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 13:54, closed)

I like. Full. Stops. I am barely literate, so the fact I manage to type something that is reasonably ledgible is quite a feat (feet).

It was not my responsibility to buy the bags - I believe you had to pay something or other. I did not enjoy this roll, but it was put up or shut up, especially in that industry.
(, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 14:34, closed)

roll rôle
(, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 14:38, closed)
no
rôle role, unless you are actually French, in which case (a) I take it back, and (b) piss off to béta.fr or somesuch.
(, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:22, closed)
It's the same as here
except for the slight odour, and the even more extreme language snobbery.

Le Walkman? LE WALKMAN??
(, Tue 12 Jul 2011, 13:42, closed)
Ah yes - "Not my responsibility".
I know that attitude very well.
(, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 14:42, closed)
I dunno...
I just work here.
(, Tue 12 Jul 2011, 0:55, closed)
I vos just obeying orders!

(, Tue 12 Jul 2011, 2:17, closed)
Has anyone ever fucking heard of Stanley Milgram?

(, Tue 12 Jul 2011, 16:08, closed)
This just makes me wish even more that you'd been caught.
Also, that's not what ledgible means.
(, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 14:47, closed)
What is an "IT type"?
Was she overweight, with a collection of cats at home?
(, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 13:56, closed)
I would much prefer this story if...
... it was about some teribbly posh IT Department girl... I'm imagining a cross between The Queen and Moss from the IT Crowd.
(, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 15:30, closed)
haha, interesting
When I joined my current company (from which I resigned today, but that's another story), my boss would duck out each evening with the bin bags and fly-tip the pavement just round the corner from our office. He'd been doing this for years.

He was astounded when I called up the council and simply ordered the special bin bags required.
(, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 15:59, closed)

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