******* boss

[Hardcoreruss]

9am

Boss - Russell, I need you to have the blah blah accounts to me for value yesterday on my desk by 4pm

Me - Sure no problem

10pm

Chase up Email

11.30pm

Reminder

1.30

Another email and verbal reminder as they are "really important"

As you can gather these are important things that he needs urgently , I have been working on them since 7.30am this morning. Five minutes a go the boss walks past me with his coat on. I ask him if he is going out to lunch and can he get me a sarnie, he says no I am going to Spain, I say "your joking", but nope he is serious.

"What should I do with the work" I ask, "bin it" he says, "it won't mean anything to me on Monday", redo it then.

He must of known he was going so why ask me to do something which he won't need, I have a million other things to do which I put off to do this.

******* bosses, he does **** all anyway, I have got the MAJOR Donald now. For the rest of the day I am on the net.

[lordsmurf]

This is where you ask him, next time he pulls this "now" thing .... "are you planning on going to Spain again or is it really something you need?"

Yeah, I don't play it safe.

[VCDHunter]

How ******* weird.

Last Friday - "Don't bother with the 44k SES threshold, just concentrate on allocating the queried entries." My Boss.

Today - "**** the queries, we need to get the SES threshold down to zero !" My Boss.

Its like a ******* chimps tea party here sometimes.

[Hardcoreruss]

Going forward, definitely.

[gshelley61]

Corporate America is becoming more and more intolerable for me. I'm in local cable television advertising sales with one of the big international media conglomerates. We now have so many meetings, reports, priorities, initiatives, etc. that it is literally getting in the way of being proactive with clients and getting the job done effectively.

[Hardcoreruss]

Same here I have so many meetings, conference calls etc that I do not have time to do my actual job. Instead I tell my temps what to do, they do it for me and I check it.

[VCDHunter]

Same here I have so many meetings, conference calls etc that I do not have time to do my actual job. Instead I tell my temps what to do, they do it for me and I check it.

Meetings - The Practical Alternative To Work.

[Hardcoreruss]

Indeed, pointless. If all the bosses (the people with the most xp) got involved, the workload would half. However we have meetings about how our staff can't do the job properly and what we are going to do.

I know, dont have the meetings and spend that time training people up.

[Heywould3]

LOL speaking of meetings.. I feel ya all on this.. I am A mechanical Engineer i work for a major tear 1 supplier to the big 3 here in the US.. i work mainly with safty devices like air bags stearing columns etc.. well i have standing meetings every single day of the week except Tuesdays. some times 2 a day. so if you look at it.. i really only get one day to do my actual job and thats only 8 hours becasue they cut out all over time. wtf.. do we really need to talk about the same issues 4 times a week? and it is the same stuff just with different groups.. seriously lets all get together at the same time and talk once a week..

[tgpo]

******* bosses

I hope you got a raise.

[VCDHunter]

******* bosses

I hope you got a raise.

Without it the ******* would've been hard :P

[Hardcoreruss]

******* bosses

I hope you got a raise.

[northcat_8]

Boys, boys...you could be in management as well. All you have to do is eliminate all logic from your decision making and you are management material.

[Hardcoreruss]

I am management, just not mega management.

[gshelley61]

Yeah, all these meetings we have and the reports we fill out... it's the same info 3 or 4 times per week! I just don't don't get it. And the sales managers - of course, are too busy with all this crap to come out on sales calls with us where they might actually be able to do some good.

[CoasterCreator]

well I am glad that your boss drove your to us for the day ( hey look at it in the bright side ) he will not me on your back until he gets back )

[Hardcoreruss]

Thats what I have been thinking I will have an easy day tomorrow.

[northcat_8]

I guess I have it easy by comparison. I see my boss...um...well...twice a year...maybe. I pass him in the halls, we talk sports, that's about it.

[CoasterCreator]

yeah they bust my balls about how everything is going? ...I say fine ( but I think they want to know who its going at home ) so I just looK at them and smile ,until they get the clue the conversation is over.. my bosses think I am weird

[beavereater]

I have a business partner. He asked me to design him something "American" style for his other company. I ask for specifics..."All your ideas please."

Next couple days I get 3 designs ready..."Nope...nope...nope." He points out the colors he doesn't like, the fonts he doesn't like, the background and pictures of choice. SO I ASK "Are there ANY other Colors, fonts etc that you DON'T want me to use. "No, it's all up to you." Cockknocker!!

[CoasterCreator]

this is my boss

[Craig Tucker]

Thankfully I have an excellent boss. Any of you from the UK who watch scrap heap challenge may well have seen him. He has been one of the "experts" on several occasions.

[Capmaster]

As of right now I don't have a boss. He was just promoted and they haven't replaced him yet.

He was promoted to be group manager of several departments, including ours. He had been our department manager. So I guess you can say he's his own boss, since he now reports to himself, but he can't, since he has been promoted.

So ...if I can just get him to report to me now, using the old "how is a man his own son and his own grandfather at the same time" argument, I can delegate everything to him and really explore slackerdom the way it was meant to be explored

[pacmania_2001]

I'm enjoying my job at the moment. My boss's know that I get my work done so not to bother me even when I'm wandering around the store doing nothing.

The one pet peeve I have with them is that they never get the right number of staff in so they want you to stay back and do an extra area of the store.

[Capmaster]

I'm enjoying my job at the moment. My boss's know that I get my work done so not to bother me even when I'm wandering around the store doing nothing.

The one pet peeve I have with them is that they never get the right number of staff in so they want you to stay back and do an extra area of the store.

Suggest they contribute an "extra area" to your paycheck in exchange

Or suggest they explore an "extra area" you have just for them

Easy for me to advise you since they can't fire me

And, Pac, that avatar still has "color" misspelled. You didn't use a Mac to make that, did you?

[pacmania_2001]

That's another good thing about my job. Thanks to their crappy management and bad training program I'm the only person who can do all the tasks required for my area and also do other areas.

It's why I can bludge around so much, criticize their management, flirt with co-workers and play pranks without ever being reprimanded.

And, Pac, that avatar still has "color" misspelled. You didn't use a Mac to make that, did you?

Bastardized english isn't acceptable to me. :P

If I never have to use a Mac again I'd be a happy man. Been using them lately at uni to do 3D animation and Director work and all they are is an expensive paper weight that causes trouble.

[holistic]

And, Pac, that avatar still has "color" misspelled. You didn't use a Mac to make that, did you?

Bastardized english isn't acceptable to me. :PI

Any way you spell it, black is NOT a coloUr .


A funny quote from a colleague of mine to a manager.

" I see you lips moving, but all I hear is blah blah blah "

Don't know if it is an original but it had me laughing.



carry on...........

[Capmaster]

Bastardized english isn't acceptable to me.

I know. I haven't teased you about it for a while

If I never have to use a Mac again I'd be a happy man. Been using them lately at uni to do 3D animation and Director work and all they are is an expensive paper weight that causes trouble.

I was taking advantage of an opportunity to make fun of tgpo's machine. He secretly likes it