FWIW, stage left has been exited.
Well it will when I finish the resignation letter, must.remember.to.be.professional.
New gig starts in a month and I will be visiting Calgary a fair bit.
Let me make sure I’ve got this straight..
Boss and Grandboss are aware of FM’s level of idiocy and FM is still employed?
Sounds like FM might not be the biggest moron on the payroll.
I got a little burn-blister on my thumb last night, being a touch careless while cooking. No biggie, it doesn’t hurt. What it IS, though, is right on the side of my thumb, RIGHT where I tap the space bar. All damn day. GAH!!1
Moleskin. Trust me. It will stop hurting immediately.
(I have some in my purse that I could give you…)
Anymore when the boss creates a mess with his own behavior I just do my inner Nelson Muntz impression. “Ha-ha!” I’m afraid one of these days I’m gonna slip and say it out loud tho.
I had an interesting conversation with the office manager yesterday. She overheard me and the boss having a loud “discussion” over the schedule for a festival next weekend.
Boss didn’t understand why I can’t fill 18 cashier shifts with 10 kids. All the shifts are at the same time. Sorry bossman, haven’t figured out that cloning thingy just yet. :rolleyes: I was screamed at and told I was completely incompetent.
Office manager could see I was pissed and dragged me into the break room and told me I couldn’t have any more coffee until I told her what was going on. She’s a cruel woman. 
So I gave her a nutshell version of what was going on, and she immediately started apologizing to me. She said she didn’t realize that the boss was being such an ass to me. I said, “Thanks but it’s not your fault he’s a giant asshole!”
She goes on to tell me that there have been two other people that had my job in the time she’s been with the company, which is about 5 years. The boss treated both of them horribly as well. One quit after six months, the other lasted about a year and a half. She told me that if I decided to leave she’d give me a glowing recommendation.
She also said that she and the warehouse manager have a deal. They’re both about ready to walk out, and if one goes, the other goes too. I said if you two walk I’m right behind you. Wonder what will happen when the boss realizes he’s suddenly minus three employees. 
FM is from the team above ours. Both my team and his team are from subcontractors, but from different companies; in theory, FM’s team is The Guardian Of The Design. In reality, their approach is of the kind called in Spanish “el perro del hortelano (que ni come ni deja comer)” - “the veggie-farmer’s dog (who doesn’t eat and doesn’t let you eat)”. They don’t understand what they’re supposed to be guarding, so on one hand it’s possible to get them to pass six-legged elephants, and on the other sometimes they reject a document because ohmygawd, the logo on page 3 does not show the right color when viewed in the projector! the screen happens to turn everything greyish, if you want to see something’s real color you have to lift the projector and point to the ceiling.
Well, clearly you are.
All you have to do is cut the kids in half.
That would leave some extras to give breaks!
Seriously, what a tool that guy is.
The old Solomon solution, eh?
Don’t tempt me.
What about cutting your boss in half? Either as part of cutting the kids in half, or just a single act.
He’s probably come back like the broomstick in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.
You’re probably right. But at least the broomstick was useful, for a while. The boss, on the other hand…
Oy. I just had a mental picture of those broomsticks dancing around with my boss’s face on all of them. Thanks a lot… :eek: Definately a case where more does not equal better.
Sedition update! Well, more of a status report on other signs in the department. I have been dealing with HR about the person whom I believe filed the complaint about my velociraptor sign. I’m not getting anywhere, because it’s HR and why would I?, but I am still trying to fight the good fight. Whatever.
BUT. This morning there was a big sign outside the office of Evilene (the complainant) which says, in giant capital letters, “FAIR IS WHERE YOU GET COTTON CANDY.” Now I admit that I am prickly about this because I loved my meticulously handcrafted velociraptor sign that I spent maybe 10 minutes working on, including the time I spent trying to figure out how to get the color printer to actually print in color, but isn’t HER sign a little … how shall we say … hostile?
tl;dr: I can’t wait to do my student teaching so I can get the hell out of here.
Quick: someone draw a poster of a velociraptor holding some cotton candy in its claws. No caption, because that would be sedition. Just a picture, that’s all.
That reminds me - I’ve had my velociraptor sign up for weeks, on the safety/employment opportunities board. I’ve gotten one fit of giggles followed by, you put that up there, didn’t you? No other comments.
Your complainer does not have broad workplace approval.
Accidental ring tones shrilly interrupting a big conference call: the fart of the office environment.
“Was that you?”
“Nope, not me…!”
This isn’t really a gripe, per se, more of a WTF 
but I just got a routine “thank you” email in response to my confirmation that I’d done some minor required task. All well and good, except … the “thank you” reply was a) marked urgent and b) the sender CCd herself.
Kind of related: Complainant asked me the other day why in the world I think I’m going to be “qualified” to teach high school English when I’m done with grad school, or why I think I’d be “capable of such a ridiculous thing.” I looked her straight in the eye and said, “Well, I’ve been working with people who act like they never left high school for the past 15 years.”
I kind of hate her, actually.