# Meet My Supervisor: Pete Puma **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 13, 2004, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-supervisor-pete-puma/268927 "2004-10-13T01:50:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-supervisor-pete-puma/268927/21 "2004-10-15T02:53:04Z")
WTF?!?! I clicked on your .wav link and it brought up some nasty spyware. šŸ˜• ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-supervisor-pete-puma/268927/22 "2004-10-15T04:13:29Z")
> [@LilyoftheValley](#): > > WTF?!?! > > I clicked on your .wav link and it brought up some nasty spyware. šŸ˜• Got me, I didnā€™t have any problems with spyware. (Then again, Iā€™ve got my system locked down pretty tight against that kind of stuff, so who knows?) ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2004, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-supervisor-pete-puma/268927/23 "2004-10-30T04:27:44Z")
They sent me home early from work today (Iā€™ve been having trouble making it in on time, so Iā€™ve got no beef with them on that), and that left just the die maker and Pete in the shop. Now, the die maker, of course, had to spend a lot of time alone with Pete, since I was out of town for most of last week, and apparently, itā€™s made him a bit ā€œtouchy.ā€ So, in watching Pete race back and forth between the office and his machine (you know, owner comes in, Pete races out of the office, fires up his machine so that he looks busy, owner leaves, Pete zips back to the office so he can surf the net), he gets an idea. So when Peteā€™s at his machine, the die maker slides out a cabinet drawer. The next time Pete races into his office, **_BAM_!** He slams his groin right into the corner of the drawer. šŸ˜ƒ The die maker told me that on Monday heā€™s going to super glue the CTL ALT DEL keys down on the computer. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2004, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-supervisor-pete-puma/268927/24 "2004-10-30T04:49:28Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > The next time Pete races into his office, **_BAM_!** He slams his groin right into the corner of the drawer. šŸ˜ƒ The die maker told me that on Monday heā€™s going to super glue the CTL ALT DEL keys down on the computer. :eek: I like the cut of that manā€™s jib. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-supervisor-pete-puma/268927/25 "2004-11-23T05:44:29Z")
On Friday, I dropped by work at about 9 PM so I that I could work on part of my school project, since thereā€™s no school on Fridayā€™s and we donā€™t have a second shift in the machine shop. While I was there, I went into Peteā€™s office and changed the screen saver on his PC to the marquee and had it say, ā€œPete, get back to workā€“[The Owner]ā€ So, this morning when I got to work, the third shift supervisor (whoā€™s first name is Marvin) came up to me and asked if I put anything on Peteā€™s computer. Naturally, I used the Bill Clinton defense, ā€œI didnā€™t put anything on his computer.ā€ (Technically correct, but. . . .) The third shift supervisor explains that Pete found it and went nuts over the thing, started accusing everyone he could think of. Some time later, the owner spots me as Iā€™m coming out of the bathroom and says, ā€œDid you change the marquee on Peteā€™s computer?ā€ I hated to do it, but I denied everything, since the owner had this, ā€œI really donā€™t need this shit.ā€ look on his face and I figured that itā€™d be better for everyone if I played innocent. When I get in the shop, Pete lays into me about being there off the clock (Ya think that if the owner was upset by it, heā€™d have said something.), about someone tampering with his computer, and just all kinds of outlandish stuff, in general. I get a bit short with him, and he storms off in a snit, because he knows Iā€™m _not_ going to listen to him. (He swears up and down that heā€™s a btter machinist than I am, but whenever theyā€™ve got a delicate job that needs to be done, and the mold makerā€™s tied up, they ask me to do it, not him.) After work, the mold maker pulls me aside, and we have a good laugh about it, then he tells me what the welder told him. The welder said that Pete came up to him and asked him about the screensaver, and the welder replied, ā€œWell, the owner probably did it. You know how he likes to play mind games.ā€ Needless to say, Iā€™m going to keep a low profile at work for a while, and not pull any more pranks for a bit. Of course, that doesnā€™t mean the mold maker _wonā€™t_ do something. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-supervisor-pete-puma/268927/26 "2004-11-23T20:10:54Z")
[Is this movie](http://machinistmovie.com/index2.asp) about you? (Even though I work for the company that is releasing this film Iā€™m not trying to promote the film I swear) ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-supervisor-pete-puma/268927/27 "2004-11-23T21:49:13Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > [Is this movie](http://machinistmovie.com/index2.asp) about you? > > (Even though I work for the company that is releasing this film Iā€™m not trying to promote the film I swear) From what Iā€™ve seen of it, it looks scarily like my own life. ---
**Author:** ![Bongmaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Bongmaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bongmaster)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-supervisor-pete-puma/268927/28 "2004-11-24T19:34:37Z")
Great rant, 9/10! ---
**Author:** ![Lochdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/edb3f5/32.png) [@Lochdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lochdale)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2006, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-supervisor-pete-puma/268927/29 "2006-01-29T19:50:31Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > Nah, if he were going to do something like that, heā€™d just disconnect the coolant tubing on the lathe and use that. > > Thanks. You owe me a new key board. My current one is covered with diet coke and turkey sandwich bits because of this line šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2006, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-supervisor-pete-puma/268927/30 "2006-01-29T19:54:34Z")
You resurrect a thread thatā€™s been dead for over a year so you can post _that_? ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2006, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-supervisor-pete-puma/268927/31 "2006-01-29T20:03:49Z")
Zombie thread on the prowl. Back to the crypt with itā€¦ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-supervisor-pete-puma/268927.md?page=1)