[QUOTE=Omegaman]
I guess asking him to fuck off and die is inappropriate?
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Or as I picked up from another thread (I think on Slashdot), refer him to the reply given in the case of Arkell v Pressdram. Yes, give him the legal citation, see if he looks it up.
Okay, he doesn’t JUST bug me. He annoys everyone.
The business is very small - there’s me (the entire graphics department in my own office that everyone walks through to get to the lunchroom), the warehouse guy and his wife, three salesguys including Mr. Asshole (in the sales room), the boss (in her office - yes HER and she’s actually younger than I am. the owner is her dad), and the owner who isn’t in all the time (he’s upstairs, except for when he’s harrassing the salesguys to get more sales)
We tend to get really weird salesmen. The less annoying ones will last six months, not make any money, and leave again. The really annoying ones, except for Mr. Five Year Old, burn out more quickly (he’s been here something like 12 years).
Yeah, my workplace is pretty screwed up, but I’m salaried, it’s close to home, and they’re flexible about school.
Unfortunately my boss shot down the squirt bottle idea. She said it was just over the line.
(and thumbtacks would make it obvious - my bulletin board is on the opposite side of the office, like three or four yards away)
Swearing, however, is pretty much totally okay in this office.
He’s behaving so far today. Mostly it had just built up and I needed the rant.
[QUOTE=Miss Purl McKnittington]
You won’t know for sure until he pulls your hair or hits you with a baguette, though.
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I know that’s how I signal amorous intentions. 
What, exactly, do you mean by this?
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp]
I know that’s how I signal amorous intentions.
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Remind me never to go out for coffee with you.
ETA: I think she added the HER because so many people assumed the boss was a he, fetus.
[QUOTE=Anaamika]
Remind me never to go out for coffee with you.
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yank
thump
You know, it really doesn’t seem unreasonable, if he’s really that annoying to everyone, to have the boss actually – strange though it may seem – act like a boss and sit him down and tell him to shape up. That’s her job – she should be doing it!
Honestly, I’m constantly amazed by how many bosses will go to any lengths to actually do something about a problem employee if it would be uncomfortable for them or require any type of confrontation or exercise of authority. That’s the reason you get the big bucks, is because you’re being paid to do that kind of thing. It shouldn’t be up to the victims of this idiot’s harassment to have to do the boss’s job for her.
[QUOTE=Mama Tiger]
You know, it really doesn’t seem unreasonable, if he’s really that annoying to everyone, to have the boss actually – strange though it may seem – act like a boss and sit him down and tell him to shape up. That’s her job – she should be doing it!
Honestly, I’m constantly amazed by how many bosses will go to any lengths to actually do something about a problem employee if it would be uncomfortable for them or require any type of confrontation or exercise of authority. That’s the reason you get the big bucks, is because you’re being paid to do that kind of thing. It shouldn’t be up to the victims of this idiot’s harassment to have to do the boss’s job for her.
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I doubt my boss is making big bucks.
Mr. Asshole has been yelled at before. By his manager, by the boss, by the owner. It doesn’t do any good. He’ll behave for a while, then skive off. The owner won’t fire him unless he does something blatently and obviously illegal, and annoying the rest of the office doesn’t qualify.
Like I said, it’s an ‘interesting’ place to work.
Are you sure you don’t work for the federal government?
[QUOTE=fetus]
What, exactly, do you mean by this?
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Ah, here we go. STG, you started out the hero and now you’re the goat. The offenderati have analyzed the minutia and found you lacking. C’est la vie.
My question was already answered. Thanks for your addition, Uzi.
[QUOTE=fetus]
My question was already answered. Thanks for your addition, Uzi.
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Yes, I see it has by Anaamika. I missed it because, at a brief glace, it looks like a tagline, which I tend not to read most times. Sorry about that.
[QUOTE=Uzi]
Ah, here we go. STG, you started out the hero and now you’re the goat. The offenderati have analyzed the minutia and found you lacking. C’est la vie.
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I’m reading this and thinking ‘who the hell is STG?’ Then it finally dawns on me, oh yeah, that’s me. =^.^=
He’s been behaving. Maybe because the owner has been in there harrassing them to get sales. And made them all go upstairs, presumbably so he could harrass them some more. When he gets bad again I’ll make my boss yell at him.
[QUOTE=Silver Tyger Girl]
When he gets bad again I’ll make my boss yell at him.
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Which hasn’t had a lasting effect in the past, so why should it this time. I don’t see a real solution to this except one of you leaving.
Making the boss yell at this guy seems to be the equivalent of the squirt bottle. It’s only that Silver Tyger Girl’s kitty has early onset Alzheimer’s and forgets about the squirtings.
[QUOTE=gigi]
Which hasn’t had a lasting effect in the past, so why should it this time. I don’t see a real solution to this except one of you leaving.
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That’s what I was referencing when I said:
[QUOTE=vetbridge]
I’d have him killed. I’m not saying that it’s the right thing to do, and I am trying to improve that part of my character. But all the same, I’d have him killed.
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[QUOTE=Nava]
Making the boss yell at this guy seems to be the equivalent of the squirt bottle. It’s only that Silver Tyger Girl’s kitty has early onset Alzheimer’s and forgets about the squirtings.
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Hey, don’t pick on Star!* He can’t help being handicapped. Or are you talking about Mr. Asshole?
I know yelling doesn’t permanetly fix anything, but I only have to put up with him until I graduate and it really is a good job except for dealing with the little boys in the salesroom.
*yeah, I know, no kitties without pics. Sorry, but all the pictures are on my sister’s flickr account and she uses real names which violates my rules, so I can’t link to her