my first webbie job
not long after the job with the psycho boss who got fired for bullying (another story) I got a job as a webbie, chiefly because my mate had just got the job as office manager because his mate had bought the company.

The new owner had spent quite a lot of money in order to take on one rrebellios teenager coder, two ancient PCs full of pirated software, and a few customers. His first act was to eploy a manager and two other webbies, and buy us all nice new computers full of legit software, and rent some office space for us.

He then had to put up the prices, and P*ssed off all the customers who promptly left.

Alll this without actually having been on a website for four years.

Other fun included getting a pay-per minute ISDN line, and telling us all off when the internet bill was massive (two grand. hee-hee), and generally thinking he knew more about websites than those of us who built them...

In short, he was a total twunt, and an angry sod too. Every time I designed anything (which the other guys all thought was pretty good usually) he walked in, took one look at it and said "I don't like it - start again".

then after my three month probationary period, he told me I had an attitude problem, and he was going to extend my probationary period for another month and unless I bucked up I'd be out. I asked about whether I'd be getting the pay-rise he'd previously told me about, and he said "what pay-rise?".

All things considered, and not really wanting to be saddled with another psycho boss so soon after the last one, I went home and drafted a delicious letter of resignation where I told him exactly what I thought of him. When he read it he went all beetroot coloured and ordered me out at once. I enjoyed that.

It's much more fun doing the chucking than being chucked!
(teasus likes tea, Sun 26 Feb 2006, 21:00, Reply)