Angry MD
Some of the stories I have from working for a large telecoms distributor in cheshire are frankly unbelievable. But I'll leave that for you to judge.

The sales team was split in two, National Sales and International Sales. Being a foreign language speaker, I was one of the lucky, almost blessed ones. We were spared the more harsh treatments, we were rarely sacked on the spot. We never, for example, had our office chairs taken off us for a week (if sales were low this would happen, if sales were very low or indviduals pissed off the boss, he made them stand on their desks) and didn't have to ask if we could leave our desks to use the lavatory.

During sales meetings the MD also used to play with a clawhammer, feigning "alien hand syndrome" and nearly bashing out the brains of any unfortunate that was sat within striking distance.

He also once waited for one of his sales managers to go for a shit before setting fire to a particularly displeasing and error strewn report and throwing it into the cubicle whilst said sales manager (the author of the report) sat there.

I was spared the worst of it, because I was both very good at my job and also 6'4 and 22 stone. He did however refuse to aknowledge my existence for a week, because i dared to get the last word in against him when slinging a bit of office banter back and forth.
A few minutes after this, I walked into his office to get a deal signed off and stood directly infront of his desk. I coughed to get his attention and he just picked up the phone, called his secretary and asked her to tell me to just "fuck right off, before I get stabbed in the throat with a pencil".

As bad as it was though, I have NEVER had as much inappropriate fun as I did working there.

I have a few more stories from this place, hope to get around to posting them too!
(Fausted Sticking his faust where the sun don't shine, Fri 19 Jun 2009, 16:21, 4 replies)

Do they still do that?
I once had a manager tell me to "stand on my desk and shout Goooooooooooaaaaaaaalllll!!!!!!" in a brazilian-commentator-stylee every time I made a sale.

I told him to fuck off.


He fucked off.
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Fri 19 Jun 2009, 17:17, closed)

Yupp
I worked there between 2004 and 2006 and as far as i know things haven't changed. Problem was, the job was very well paid and there were no real alternatives in the area. The international people had it easier. I think anyone that can speak a foreign language in the UK can find a job within 2 weeks if need be...not so for the others.
(Fausted Sticking his faust where the sun don't shine, Fri 19 Jun 2009, 17:21, closed)

Good fucking god.
I thought this *had* to be some sort of movie parody post.
(Scritty Bakerman., Sun 21 Jun 2009, 10:02, closed)

Reality is stranger than fiction
Also, it was way too short and poorly written to be a parody post.
(Fausted Sticking his faust where the sun don't shine, Mon 22 Jun 2009, 12:19, closed)