Horrible Bosses

12 years ago

Gee, I dunno...I think I could deal with the Jennifer Aniston boss...she didn't seem so horrible to me - :rolleyes:

The other two were scum, however...:p

Spacey is particularly adept at playing scummy bosses - (see "Swimming with the Sharks")

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AprilCT 12 years ago

Horrible bosses? Absolutely, but I do my best to not remember them. When people clutter up your life when you can't get away from them, it's best not to let them clutter up your memory later. How some people can live with themselves the way they are is beyond my ability to figure it out
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thunderbird

12 years ago

I used to have a stripper friend who told me that she started stripping because she had better protection from leches than she did in "respectable" office jobs she had held before that. She said that at the end of the day alone in the office with her bosses she felt really insecure.

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Halcyon

12 years ago

Originally Posted by thunderbird

I used to have a stripper friend who told me that she started stripping because she had better protection from leches than she did in "respectable" office jobs she had held before that. She said that at the end of the day alone in the office with her bosses she felt really insecure.

It's true.
It's hard for women in some of those smaller offices. Even though legally you have recourse it's a difficult situation if you need the job.

Go with the flow, be a team player, don't make waves, yada yada yada...

Just one more reason why I don't work for "the man" any more.

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lcombs

12 years ago

I could probably write a book about horrible bosses.
But, in a nutshell, the problem is the people making the decisions have no idea what they're doing, or what the actual work entails.
There is a saying about being a boss that goes, " If you're not pissing somebody off, you're not doing your job."
What it means is, you can't please everybody. No matter what you decide some body will be pissed off.
The problem is, most bosses interpret it to mean, "Your job is to piss people off".

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Dennis Gaskill

12 years ago

When I was about 18 or 19 I was working construction. We were getting ready to pour the foundation for a house. I was bent over doing something (something I was supposed to be doing, but I don't recall what) when the foreman swung a bulldozer around and hit me in the backside with the scoop.

That sent me flying through the air about 6 feet. Getting hit didn't really hurt, but the landing hurt some.

The boss yelled to me, "Are you OK?"

I said I thought I was (I was checking myself over), so he screams, "Then get your A** back to work. I ain't paying you to lay around."

He was a real jerk on a daily basis.

Sweet revenge...

A few days later we were setting up the forms to pour the basement walls. He was standing with one foot on the outside form and one on the inside and slipped. He fell straight down, crotch first with one leg on one side of the form and one leg on the other side. Landed squarely on his ... you know.

He missed a day of work and was back the next day on crutches. He went into a temporary shed we had for storing tools and one of the guys shut the door behind him and locked him in then he walked off the job.

I thought about letting him out . . . but I wasn't very good at thinking back then, so I slid his crutches under the shed and left. The whole crew quit that day.

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Halcyon

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill

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Sweet revenge...

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I thought about letting him out . . . but I wasn't very good at thinking back then, so I slid his crutches under the shed and left. The whole crew quit that day.

Revenge is sweet and at least you were nice enough to give him his crutches.

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Dennis Gaskill

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Halcyon

Revenge is sweet and at least you were nice enough to give him his crutches.

Uh ... no. The shed was on blocks. I actually hid them under the shed. I would be a little more compassionate today. Live and learn, right?

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Halcyon 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill

Uh ... no. The shed was on blocks. I actually hid them under the shed. I would be a little more compassionate today. Live and learn, right?

Oh I thought while he was in the shed, you slid the crutches under the door. So sweet.

Now I got it and your response is much more human like. I had you pegged as a saint for a moment.

Living and learning is right. I still fight the urge to go back to the university and push that old geezer out of his leather wingback chair. But the karma has something more appropriate for him.
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lcombs

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill

Uh ... no. The shed was on blocks. I actually hid them under the shed. I would be a little more compassionate today. Live and learn, right?

SWEET!

Actually, I find I'm becoming less compassionate with age.
I'm not as patient, forgiving, or tolerant.

I just don't have the time to deal with As*holes anymore.

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Dennis Gaskill

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Halcyon

Oh I thought while he was in the shed, you slid the crutches under the door. So sweet.

Now I got it and your response is much more human like. I had you pegged as a saint for a moment.

Living and learning is right. I still fight the urge to go back to the university and push that old geezer out of his leather wingback chair. But the karma has something more appropriate for him.

Only on days with the letter a in them.

Like anyone, I have my good moments and ... not so good moments. I agree with you, let karma take care of things. I'm doing that with a few people myself. Beats having karma work against us because of something we do to retaliate.

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SWEET!

Actually, I find I'm becoming less compassionate with age.
I'm not as patient, forgiving, or tolerant.

I just don't have the time to deal with As*holes anymore.

Yeah, I can see that point of view. Working for myself as I have for the last 13 years I don't run into many A-holes anymore. I'm guessing that makes it easier to practice compassion.

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Dennis Gaskill

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Ken_Caudill

Hey, he could've docked you for the time spent on the ground. What a pussycat.

I knew a farmer in southern Indiana who removed the seat from his tractor because he didn't want to pay people to sit.

Maybe my old boss and the farmer you knew were brothers.

Seriously though, did the help have to stand? I can't imagine them being more productive because they couldn't sit. Seems like he was cutting off his nose to spite his face.

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highhopes 12 years ago

Long live Ebeneezer Scrooge.....he brought values to the work place, he understood the failures of mysticism causing laziness in individuals! Some truth here, taken with a pinch of salt!
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seasoned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Ken_Caudill

I knew a farmer in southern Indiana who removed the seat from his tractor because he didn't want to pay people to sit.

One of my favorite anecdotes was a study done by the military on two jets. A US jet and a RUSSIAN one!

The determined that both jets were roughly equal. The russian jet COULD beat the american one!!!!!! Of course, the pilot would have to be at least as good as the american, but it was definitely possible. ONE problem! If the russian jet stayed up longer, or the figt was rough, it would LOSE! WHY? The american cockpit was a LOT more ergonomic and comfortable. The russian pilot was more likely to get exhausted.

If you have a long, complicated, or precise job, you WANT to be COMFORTABLE! If he pulled the seat out, they could have taen twice as long, and STILL done inferior work!

Steve
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12 years ago

Downloading it...waiting to watch this movie...

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Fernando Veloso

12 years ago

Had a manager/boss yelling at me over the phone saying he would get his knifes and open me up top to bottom cause he was a bad mother$#$#$" soldier.

Damn funny.

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seasoned

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Halcyon

Plus, I believe that he was still upset about the North winning the Civil War. He called me "gal" or "little 'ol gal" among other things.

That isn't racist. It might not even be sexist. Some people are just that way, with EVERYONE!

But he was tenured, had been with the university for 25 years and couldn't care less about respect. In his mind as long as he didn't say one of the University's listed no-no words everything else was fair game.

Like I said, I HATE such things!

I could not wait to quit that job. By the end, I would park next to the copy room window so I could climb out and go home without having to talk to him.

sneaky! 8-)

Steve

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Halcyon

12 years ago

Originally Posted by seasoned

That isn't racist. It might not even be sexist. Some people are just that way, with EVERYONE!

Steve

"Gal" was the most tame of the names. He said worse to me and about me.

He wasn't racist in a new millennium way; hatred, slurs etc. That kind of racism generally requires that you consider the other group a threat or irritation.

He was good old boy elitist and had little consideration for any non-white male. He firmly believed that everybody has a place and mine should've been cleaning toilets or serving him in other ways and he said as much.

In fact was never completely sure if he wanted to fondle or slap me. In his twisted mind they may have been one and the same.

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seasoned

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Halcyon

He firmly believed that everybody has a place and mine should've been cleaning toilets or serving him in other ways and he said as much.

In fact was never completely sure if he wanted to fondle or slap me. In his twisted mind they may have been one and the same.

That is JUST what I meant by not racist, and maybe not sexist. Heck, I am subject to such things all the time. Waitresses touchig me, and saying things like dear, etc... Salespeople trying to act like they are some lost friend. Coworkers trying to tell me that my experience and logic are WRONG even while problems I predicted happen to all. They tell me I don't understand, etc..., and even speak down to me.

Still, perhaps everyone on this forum has experienced things like software breaking because of an OS patch, or java code not working, or giving "deprecated function" when they change java runtimes, etc... WHY? Because SHARED code CHANGES!

They AGREE shared code changes, and yet say that CAN't be the reason why things broke, even though they broke when they changed the code!

And I have not been one to fit in. Perhaps all here have noticed that. I actually went to a military school. The senior class, and their friends, had a LOT of power! They could tell you what to do and enforce your cooperation by even effectively denying food and sleep.

Such things hapen all the time. I am not condoning them. I am merely saying that he may have done some of that with me, or anyone else here.

Steve

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Halcyon

12 years ago

Originally Posted by seasoned

Such things hapen all the time. I am not condoning them. I am merely saying that he may have done some of that with me, or anyone else here.

Steve

You're absolutely right, he talked down to everyone. My reference to the Civil War was not calling him racist per se but to project an image of an old Southern relic of a man, who longed for the days when he could sip Mint Juleps on the porch and marvel in his feeling of superiority while surveying his cotton crops.

Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill

Back then lawsuits weren't as common, at least not in small town like the one I lived in. People nowadays look for reasons to sue. Back then accidents were accidents, if you weren't seriously hurt you didn't fake it to get a settlement. I wasn't seriously hurt, so I never thought of suing. Nowadays I don't doubt that most people would sue. I still wouldn't unless I was really hurt.

@ Halcyon - Your "boy" sounds like a real winner. I say that facetiously, of course.

Winner, Wiener and Wanker. They all work.

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seasoned

12 years ago

Yeah, I have had my fair share. The one about the idiot that landed to either side of a form is something. Why does one do such things? As for hitting you with a bulldozer? That is battery, etc... If you took disability, they would be ****LUCKY****! Lucky that you didn't sue him for every penny and get him thrown in jail, sue his employer, and blackball the manager.

Steve

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Dennis Gaskill

12 years ago

Originally Posted by seasoned

Yeah, I have had my fair share. The one about the idiot that landed to either side of a form is something. Why does one do such things? As for hitting you with a bulldozer? That is battery, etc... If you took disability, they would be ****LUCKY****! Lucky that you didn't sue him for every penny and get him thrown in jail, sue his employer, and blackball the manager.

Steve

Back then lawsuits weren't as common, at least not in small town like the one I lived in. People nowadays look for reasons to sue. Back then accidents were accidents, if you weren't seriously hurt you didn't fake it to get a settlement. I wasn't seriously hurt, so I never thought of suing. Nowadays I don't doubt that most people would sue. I still wouldn't unless I was really hurt.

@ Halcyon - Your "boy" sounds like a real winner. I say that facetiously, of course.

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thunderbird 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill

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@ Halcyon - Your "boy" sounds like a real winner. I say that facetiously, of course.

Dennis, typo alert. It should be "wiener."
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HeySal

12 years ago

Halcyon - I know all about lechers for bosses. Back when I started working I was young, cute (considered a "catch"), and I looked completely innocent and pushable. What a surprise it was to the bosses who in one statement or other threatened my job if I didn't put out to them - and that happened several times.

My answer to that type of boss was to tell them: "A man that is worth spending intimate time with knows how to seduce a woman. If you have to use force, you probably aren't good enough for me to want to be with."

That intimidated them too badly to fire me - but I never did work for them too long after that. Just long enough to "win" the situation. It was just too freaky to be around them after that.

But then I started college right about the time the prominent idea about women in college was starting to die off -- that idea being that women went to school to find good husbands.

In some ways we have actually improved over the decades.

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MoneyMagnetMagnate 12 years ago

I did have one boss I remember, who paid us all on Dec. 22/23rd, I think - Xmas was a 4 day holiday...and naturally, we used the monies to cover presents, and holiday expenses - only to all find out on the 28th or 29th (it was a long time ago, so...) After our banks had informed us the checks had bounced, that he had taken off to Mexico with his secretary, and all the available company funds - that was definitely a POS thing to do...
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sloanjim

12 years ago

what about horrible employees?

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