Sounds familiar
He wasn't a fat bastard called Keith was he? We got taken over by a .com company and they installed this obnoxious twat to "run" our company (comprising of 14 people). He turned up in his shiny Merc and started barking orders at various people, needless to say he didn't get a good reception and things didn't get done for him. He got really annoyed that I wouldn't order him a new palm (after he had rather obviously sat on the original one) I patiently pointed out we had no way of just ordering stuff we had no accounts with anyone and suppliers don't tend to send stuff for free (I was also on my way out at the time so not very inclined to help) his response to this was "just do it" I said no and carried on my way.
I'm always slightly surprised he didn't try and fire me but he was gone in less than a month, no doubt off to another high paying managerial position where he could throw his considerable weight around.
(cmouse is pondering about life in other jobs, Fri 28 May 2010, 13:14, Reply)