# Boss came over at 4:00. I knew why. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 19, 2017, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boss-came-over-at-4-00-i-knew-why/786983 "2017-05-19T04:11:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boss-came-over-at-4-00-i-knew-why/786983/1 "2017-05-19T04:11:42Z")
My sales were less than 1/4 where they should be. Before she went into my prospects for Friday I offered my boss in sacrifice. Some of those kids are more fucked up than me. Others haven’t dragged their sorry butts thru the last few decades of their lives. I just extended my existence eastward. Plant corner where, roughly? I’m just happy wife’s warm, but daughter and I are more likely to give her pneumonia than the formular thing. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boss-came-over-at-4-00-i-knew-why/786983/2 "2017-05-19T04:16:56Z")
Incomprehensibility +17 ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boss-came-over-at-4-00-i-knew-why/786983/3 "2017-05-19T04:46:21Z")
Alright. Help us out. Did you get laid off? ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boss-came-over-at-4-00-i-knew-why/786983/4 "2017-05-19T05:02:43Z")
8.5 hrs,7.5 voluntarily. My job involves me a ready script that, you can only imagine, is LESS coherent than I have described! There is nothing in it a sober person might follow. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boss-came-over-at-4-00-i-knew-why/786983/5 "2017-05-19T06:32:30Z")
Tell us again tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boss-came-over-at-4-00-i-knew-why/786983/6 "2017-05-19T07:01:28Z")
Oh, FFS! I’m a telemarketer. I’m expected to make one sale to one person per hour. I failed and got laid off for slightly more than a day. Please, I’m a published author, making procedures close explaining all to immigrants Where was that not obvious. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boss-came-over-at-4-00-i-knew-why/786983/7 "2017-05-19T07:11:18Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Where was that not obvious. Here. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boss-came-over-at-4-00-i-knew-why/786983/8 "2017-05-19T07:19:47Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > My sales were less than 1/4 where they should be. Before she went into my prospects for Friday I offered my boss in sacrifice. Some of those kids are more fucked up than me. Others haven’t dragged their sorry butts thru the last few decades of their lives. I just extended my existence eastward. Plant corner where, roughly? > > I’m just happy wife’s warm, but daughter and I are more likely to give her pneumonia than the formular thing. For when you read this thread tomorrow: [Hangover Cures](http://www.menshealth.com/guy-wisdom/11-ways-to-ease-nasty-hangover) ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boss-came-over-at-4-00-i-knew-why/786983/9 "2017-05-19T10:17:37Z")
I think we may have stumbled onto WHY sales aren’t soaring! Do you make this little sense on the phone? And then say ‘FFS’, when it’s pointed out you’re just babbling? (Published author? Colour me sceptical based on use of language in this thread!) ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boss-came-over-at-4-00-i-knew-why/786983/10 "2017-05-19T10:30:18Z")
Ye gods, you must see what I’m supposed to say! It’s gibberish, even by my standards! I rip out around a third to make it the barest bit linear, then get yelled at for my troubles. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boss-came-over-at-4-00-i-knew-why/786983/11 "2017-05-19T10:43:56Z")
That OP was pretty incomprehensible. Offered your Boss in sacrifice? Plant corner where, roughly? The formular thing? Help, please. ---
**Author:** ![Grim\_Render](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@Grim\_Render](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grim_Render)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boss-came-over-at-4-00-i-knew-why/786983/12 "2017-05-19T10:48:32Z")
Did you really sacrifice your boss? Because that is frowned upon by men and gods alike. ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boss-came-over-at-4-00-i-knew-why/786983/13 "2017-05-19T10:50:46Z")
Bosses aren’t keen on it, either. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boss-came-over-at-4-00-i-knew-why/786983/14 "2017-05-19T11:10:48Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > That OP was pretty incomprehensible. > > Offered your Boss in sacrifice? Offered myself, as in my billable hours, in hours. Overstaffed for the number of leads. Others have financial lives even more desperate than I. My last few weeks were the worst of my life. It was a conjunction between “we don’t want you here,” and, “I don’t want to be here.” > [@](#): > > Plant corner where, roughly? > > The formular thing? > > Help, please. Okay, that was fairly nonsensical. In my defense, as i mentioned, the past few weeks were the worst of my life. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boss-came-over-at-4-00-i-knew-why/786983/15 "2017-05-19T11:13:22Z")
If you are editing your script, and it comes out anything like your OP, you must see why sales are slow. ETA: Sorry that things have been rough for you. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boss-came-over-at-4-00-i-knew-why/786983/16 "2017-05-19T11:15:54Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Offered myself, as in my billable hours, in hours. Overstaffed for the number of leads. Others have financial lives even more desperate than I. My last few weeks were the worst of my life. It was a conjunction between “we don’t want you here,” and, "I don’t want to be here."Okay, that was fairly nonsensical. In my defense, as i mentioned, the past few weeks were the worst of my life. ☹ So you meant you offered _yourself_ to your boss so that no one else would have had consequences (not sure why’d that have happened if it was you who was below quota). Regardless, I’m sorry it’s been a rough few weeks. Maybe having a day off will help. Hope things look brighter soon. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boss-came-over-at-4-00-i-knew-why/786983/17 "2017-05-19T11:29:19Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Here. How often has a one word reply been nominated as a post of the year? I will do so… NOW ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boss-came-over-at-4-00-i-knew-why/786983/18 "2017-05-19T11:32:20Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > So you meant you offered _yourself_ to your boss so that no one else would have had consequences (not sure why’d that have happened if it was you who was below quota). Raw numbers of the total team. Noobs were fucked, too. They needed more experience and hope they could do better. Me? See above, for the past few weeks. I needed a few hours where I didn’t need to be somewhere. Me Time. Recuperation. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boss-came-over-at-4-00-i-knew-why/786983/19 "2017-05-19T11:45:09Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Raw numbers of the total team. Noobs were fucked, too. They needed more experience and hope they could do better. Me? See above, for the past few weeks. I needed a few hours where I didn’t need to be somewhere. Me Time. Recuperation. Gotcha. Hope the time off helps. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boss-came-over-at-4-00-i-knew-why/786983/20 "2017-05-19T11:58:56Z")
If I can manage not being here I will try. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boss-came-over-at-4-00-i-knew-why/786983.md?page=2)