Aaaack!!!!....My Boss is Evil

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mustangclaire said:
I could go on, and on about my boss. He was office manager. Then our resident partner left as his daughter died. Mr OCD (as I call him) bought into the partnership with his parents money. He is now my boss. And I have never worked for someone like it. He admits he is incredibly picky, I don't understand how I have done a job perfectly well for 8 years, and all of a sudden I am being picked up for the tiniest of things. I work in a small office, only 5 of us, and we all feel the same. He worries me so much. I swallow Kalms before I go to work, and swallow more before bedtime so I don't lie awake at night obsessing I did everything right. And he's younger than me. Go figure
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Maybe he just doesn't like that you drive a Mustang...
 
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ghost19 said:
I remember what it feels like to go from "one of the guys", to a supervisor of those same guys. It's a very crappy feeling when you know topics you used to kick around with everyone at lunch are now discussed without you around. That was the hardest adjustment I had to make. The same group of guys I shared common experiences and hardships with were now going to be under my supervision. Over the course of one weekend, you go from "guy with us in the trenches" to "admin a-hole". I called a meeting about my third day as a supervisor and tried to tell everyone that "my door is always open, I'm still one of you'll." The whole speech felt hollow and useless. I waited in silence after telling everyone at the conference table this fact and watched as everyone just sat there looking down at the table. No jokes, no comments, nothing. I then just sat down in my chair and told all the guys. "Look, I'm not any good at being in charge. I wasn't given a choice, I need you guys to continue to do what you do, how you do it. I'm not here to change anything, just to support all of you and give you whatever you need to get the job done." I sat there staring around the room for what seemed like eternity. Finally, Travis, my co-worker of over a decade and someone I would trust with my life, asked if he might say a few words. I told him please do. Travis got up from his chair and walked over the dry erase board in the conference room. He acted like he was going to say something several times, then just shook his head, looked at me very seriously for a few minutes, and proceeded to draw a huge phallus on the board, writing my name above it and then a caption below the picture exclaiming "WE ALL HATE YOU!".......Everyone lost it, including me. He did this while MY supervisor was watching. My supervisor had decided to sit in and see how my first meeting with my team went. My supervisor was crying he was laughing so hard. Travis shook my hand and took his seat, and everything was ok after that. I think three quarters of getting respect at my work is if you are ok with laughing at yourself. If you take yourself too seriously, they are going to let you have it without remorse....
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...OUTSTANDING!!!!!...
 
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danie said:
I teach sixth grade, so the 3 sixth-grade teachers and I eat lunch together, along with one or two others from different grade levels. One woman teaches writing to all three grades (6,7,8) and eats lunch with us every day. The problem is she simply dominates the whole conversation. She'll start telling a story about her young son's baseball game, or how her aunt's best friend's cousin bought a house in Kansas City that looks like this-n-such, or Here are the things I bought on my last shopping trip. One time, she told us she and her husband had started watching Breaking Bad, and guess what? I'll never get to watch one episode even if I wanted to, because she spent 15 minutes telling every detail of every show and spoiling all the plot points. I have started not eating with them because it's so annoying. Plus, I always assume no one wants to hear more than a sentence or two about my life; why can't they see we're just not that interested in theirs? I swear, one time it took her ten minutes to answer the question, "Where did you find those cookies in Wal Mart?" She practically started at the birth of Christ and 10 minutes later, we knew exactly which aisle, shelf and behind which other box to find them. As Jerry Clower would say, "Just shoot up here amongst us; one of us has got to have some relief!"
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Someone very near and dear to me :D has the tendency to talk without breathing when he gets an audience, and one time his cousin grabbed his arm and, very sweetly and jokingly but firmly, said, "Oh my God, I'm going to get you one of those shirts that says, "Help, I'm talking and I can't shut up!"" He got the message, and laughed, and spent the rest of the evening listening. I believe people are 90% clueless, and need things pointed out to them sometimes.
 
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SusanNorton said:
Someone very near and dear to me :D has the tendency to talk without breathing when he gets an audience, and one time his cousin grabbed his arm and, very sweetly and jokingly but firmly, said, "Oh my God, I'm going to get you one of those shirts that says, "Help, I'm talking and I can't shut up!"" He got the message, and laughed, and spent the rest of the evening listening. I believe people are 90% clueless, and need things pointed out to them sometimes.
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I'm clueless about some things.
 
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SusanNorton said:
Someone very near and dear to me :D has the tendency to talk without breathing when he gets an audience, and one time his cousin grabbed his arm and, very sweetly and jokingly but firmly, said, "Oh my God, I'm going to get you one of those shirts that says, "Help, I'm talking and I can't shut up!"" He got the message, and laughed, and spent the rest of the evening listening. I believe people are 90% clueless, and need things pointed out to them sometimes.
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I have a friend like that, and he told me that someone once told him he tells stories like Hemmingway. I think he thought it was a compliment :0:
 
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