Stupid Bosses

September 22, 2006

the other day my stupid boss put an envelope in my mailbox at work. it contained pay increases for 2 others in my workplace – one whom i supervise – one whom i supervise but am not responsible for. i never should have seen #2’s salary – i trained him, i cultivated him into what he is today – he came to our staff as a young, “careless” guy…my stupid boss used to rip on him (on me for his actions) he is now working in another dept and – now all of a sudden he walks on water – mr new, careless guy’s (newer than me and all the others)… salary is so close to mine it’s sick…i’ve been with the company for 12+ years – given it my heart and soul…by the looks of it they’re trying to tell me something – obviously they don’t appreciate my committment….shame on them! shame on me for not “getting the message….”

he deserves good pay – but so do i !!!

Stupid Bosses

Stupid Bosses

September 12, 2006

My boss is so negative that when she’s in the office a cloud of negativity and tension hangs over everyone. I swear this woman has not had a positive thought in her life. When she is here the office is completely quiet except for the constant sighs of disgust coming from her office. I have never heard her say anything nice about any of my coworkers and have found out from other coworkers that she talks bad about me all the time. Of course that is not a surprise to me because she talks bad about everyone else to me every chance she gets.

She constantly yells at me and gets nasty with me about every little thing she thinks I did wrong, even if she’s the one that made the mistake or told me to do something a certain way. If I ask her to take on more of the workload to free her up she comes up with an excuse not to let me do it but tells someone else that she wouldnt have me do it because I just wont do it right. She doesnt know this because she wont let me do hardly anything.

This is a small company so everyone knows everyone else and people come to me all the time instead of her because they dont want to have to deal with her. I also get a lot of my coworkers that don’t work for her coming to me to vent about the way she treats them.

Its gotten so bad here that I wont even go in her office. I wait till she goes out for a cigarette break before I will go in there for anything. Anything to stay away from her and her attitude.

Stupid Bosses
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Your Superhero Co-workers

August 21, 2006

The Riddler: You never really understand this type of co-worker. Sometimes he’s nice, sometimes unfriendly, sometimes knowledgeable, and sometimes dumb. The Riddler smokes and drinks and eats, but so irregularly that you wonder if he’s a smoker, or a drinker (or an eater).

Invisible Woman: The Invisible Woman (pictured below) is largely unnoticed in your office. She’s on the payroll, so everyone understands she’s somehow doing a good job, though no one understands exactly what this job is. Invisible Woman will avoid all after-work socialization, quietly leaving when work is done. The Invisible Woman doesn’t need to call in sick as no one will notice her missing anyway.

The Punisher: The Punisher is usually higher up in the hierarchy as he likes to bully people. When you did something wrong, The Punisher arrives on the scene to make you feel it by use of excessive force. Sometimes, when there’s two Punishers in one office, a no holds barred battle is going to erupt.

Stupid CoWorkers
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Stupid Tech Support – Then I used the pliers…

July 2, 2006

Customer: “I got this problem. You people sent me this install disk, and now my A: drive won’t work.”

Tech Support: “Your A drive won’t work?”

Customer: “That’s what I said. You sent me a bad disk, it got stuck in my drive, now it won’t work at all.”

Tech Support: “Did it not install properly? What kind of error messages did you get?”

Customer: “I didn’t get any error message. The disk got stuck in the drive and wouldn’t come out. So I got these pliers and tried to get it out. That didn’t work either.”

Tech Support: “You did what sir?”

Customer: “I got these pliers, and tried to get the disk out, but it wouldn’t budge. I just ended up cracking the plastic stuff a bit.”

Tech Support: “I don’t understand sir, did you push the eject button?”

Customer: “No, so then I got a stick of butter and melted it and used a turkey baster and put the butter in the drive, around the disk, and that got it loose. Then I used the pliers and it came out fine. I can’t believe you would send me a disk that was broke and defective.”

Tech Support: “Let me get this clear. You put melted butter in your A: drive and used pliers to pull the disk out?”

At this point, I put the call on the speaker phone and motioned at the other techs to listen in.

Tech Support: “Just so I am absolutely clear on this, can you repeat what you just said?”

Customer: “I said I put butter in my A: drive to get your crappy disk out, then I had to use pliers to pull it out.”

Tech Support: “Did you push that little button that was sticking out when the disk was in the drive, you know, the thing called the disk eject button?”

Silence.

Tech Support: “Sir?”

Customer: “Yes.”

Tech Support: “Sir, did you push the eject button?”

Customer: “No, but you people are going to fix my computer, or I am going to sue you for breaking my computer?”

Tech Support: “Let me get this straight. You are going to sue our company because you put the disk in the A: drive, didn’t follow the instructions we sent you, didn’t actually seek professional advice, didn’t consult your user’s manual on how to use your computer properly, instead proceeding to pour butter into the drive and physically rip the disk out?”

Customer: “Ummmm.”

Tech Support: “Do you really think you stand a chance, since we do record every call and have it on tape?”

Customer: (now rather humbled) “But you’re supposed to help!”

Tech Support: “I am sorry sir, but there is nothing we can do for you. Have a nice day.”

Stupid Tech Support
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