The Boss
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.
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( , Thu 18 Jun 2009, 13:06)
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 must confess that...
I have been pretty darn lucky with bosses in my working life, most of them have been relatively nice, sane individuals, although there have been a few which have made me want to poke spoons in their eyes… this is a story about a spoon-pokey boss…
Her name was Elaine, but she was referred to quite a lot as ‘the she-devil’ or just plain old ‘bitch’ by near enough everyone in the office. I could have almost felt sorry for her if she wasn’t such a gigantic arse.
She was clearly unhappy about being in her mid 40’s and would always totter around the office in tiny, tight skirts and high heels thrusting her old, wobbly breasts in men’s faces, it was really quite embarrassing to watch. I think she just assumed that because we worked in the motor trade and there wern't that many women in the office, all the men would drool over her - this was not the case.
Sooo yes. I think she took an immediate dislike to me when I started working at the company, mainly because I was young, blonde and liked cars - I was competition and therefore clearly a nasty piece of work in her eyes. As she was my manager I couldn’t really avoid her, and because she didn’t like me she spent a great deal of her time being evil to me. She would palm all her work off on me, tell other managers that I was lazy (yes me the lazy one, doing two peoples jobs) and just generally badmouth me around the office.
If I was a sensible person would have gone to someone higher up and made a complaint, but I was seriously lacking in confidence so just yet her verbally and mentally attack me everyday. Thankfully I did get my revenge on her, in an unintentional way.
I was planning on going on holiday for two weeks so handed in my holiday form marking up that Elaine would be covering my work while I was away - She was the only other person in my department so she had to agree. Before I went away I thought I would do the right thing and ask her if she needed me to go through anything with her, just in case she had any questions or needed any procedures explaining. Well. She. Went. Mental.‘I know what I’m doing thank you, I’ve been here for years, I’m your boss, I don't need your help’ etc etc. Not wanting to get in an argument I just left it and buggered off on my holls.
So there I was tanning away in Greece while she got a taste of her own medicine. Apparently she fell to pieces and just couldn’t cope with the workload. She made a ton of mistakes and everyone in the office suddenly became aware of how much I did around the office, it was brilliant! When I got back one of the main bosses asked me to write down everything I did at work and they gave Elaine a MASSIVE bollocking for taking advantage of me.
Thankfully I left a little while after that and Elaine was pretty much forced to take back her work and hardly spoke to me for the rest of my time at the company – result.
( , Fri 19 Jun 2009, 11:58, 3 replies)
I have been pretty darn lucky with bosses in my working life, most of them have been relatively nice, sane individuals, although there have been a few which have made me want to poke spoons in their eyes… this is a story about a spoon-pokey boss…
Her name was Elaine, but she was referred to quite a lot as ‘the she-devil’ or just plain old ‘bitch’ by near enough everyone in the office. I could have almost felt sorry for her if she wasn’t such a gigantic arse.
She was clearly unhappy about being in her mid 40’s and would always totter around the office in tiny, tight skirts and high heels thrusting her old, wobbly breasts in men’s faces, it was really quite embarrassing to watch. I think she just assumed that because we worked in the motor trade and there wern't that many women in the office, all the men would drool over her - this was not the case.
Sooo yes. I think she took an immediate dislike to me when I started working at the company, mainly because I was young, blonde and liked cars - I was competition and therefore clearly a nasty piece of work in her eyes. As she was my manager I couldn’t really avoid her, and because she didn’t like me she spent a great deal of her time being evil to me. She would palm all her work off on me, tell other managers that I was lazy (yes me the lazy one, doing two peoples jobs) and just generally badmouth me around the office.
If I was a sensible person would have gone to someone higher up and made a complaint, but I was seriously lacking in confidence so just yet her verbally and mentally attack me everyday. Thankfully I did get my revenge on her, in an unintentional way.
I was planning on going on holiday for two weeks so handed in my holiday form marking up that Elaine would be covering my work while I was away - She was the only other person in my department so she had to agree. Before I went away I thought I would do the right thing and ask her if she needed me to go through anything with her, just in case she had any questions or needed any procedures explaining. Well. She. Went. Mental.‘I know what I’m doing thank you, I’ve been here for years, I’m your boss, I don't need your help’ etc etc. Not wanting to get in an argument I just left it and buggered off on my holls.
So there I was tanning away in Greece while she got a taste of her own medicine. Apparently she fell to pieces and just couldn’t cope with the workload. She made a ton of mistakes and everyone in the office suddenly became aware of how much I did around the office, it was brilliant! When I got back one of the main bosses asked me to write down everything I did at work and they gave Elaine a MASSIVE bollocking for taking advantage of me.
Thankfully I left a little while after that and Elaine was pretty much forced to take back her work and hardly spoke to me for the rest of my time at the company – result.
( , Fri 19 Jun 2009, 11:58, 3 replies)
Bwahaha
My flatmate has a boss like that, she's leaving soon and that mangy wench is proper fucked :]
( , Sun 21 Jun 2009, 9:23, closed)
My flatmate has a boss like that, she's leaving soon and that mangy wench is proper fucked :]
( , Sun 21 Jun 2009, 9:23, closed)
Mwahaha
Good news for your flatmate, I like it when evil people get their comeuppance! :)
( , Tue 23 Jun 2009, 12:12, closed)
Good news for your flatmate, I like it when evil people get their comeuppance! :)
( , Tue 23 Jun 2009, 12:12, closed)
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