Especially if she looked liked Ernest Borgnine in drag.
But yeah if she gave me a house and is going to give me a company, I’d probably comply, but if it just a fantasy I’m acting out on the SDMB and with my Batman figurines, then probably not.
NOPE no reconciling that. That was error to say that I WAH and work less and make more/ while saying I am always at work. I should have said that although I work less and DO make more, my brain is always thinking about the job as it becomes part of my life. I don’t clock in so I cant honestly say that i work more, but I can honestly say I make more than in the past and other people that know me would easily say that I appear not to work much since it is spread out over a longer period. Yes i do go weeks without needing to do much, and there are weeks I have to work work like break a sweat at a trade show. The pay would be the same both weeks. This is why i say that i work less. It truely is 6 in one hand and a half dozen in the other.
Long ago I worked for a company that kept splitting up and reforming and transferring between two partners for reasons that they gave up explaining after a while. It was bizarre, but they had their reasons. I didn’t care what company name was on my paycheck as long as I was getting paid.
I don’t know about anyone else, but I still really don’t understand what you’re talking about. Maybe that’s my problem, though. I did just want to make this one little nitpick:
Company A makes BUKU money.
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The phrase is “boo-koo bucks” (or really, “beaucoup bucks”)
It sounds like **lurkedtolong ** has a similar mid-level corporate executive management job that I have. He works for a boss (CEO in his case, the VP of Professional Services in mine). He probably has clients (even if it’s just his boss). He may even have a team of people he manages.
With my job, I get paid a flat salary plus bonus. I have projects I manage, but I don’t punch a clock (other than filling out my timeshet each week) or even really need to be in the office. I can work from home, the client site, on the road, wherever. I planned a trip in a couple weeks to go out to our headquarters in CA and meet with the CEO for no reason other than I want to visit some friends who live out there. I can pretty much do whatever the hell I want so long as:
a) my work gets done by its deadline
b) my client is happy
Now the flip side of this is to get my work done and make my client happy, I often have to be available evenings, weekends, holidays and personal time off. But unfortunately I almost never know which ones in advance.
This is not a normal request, but your boss paying for employees’ houses/cars/surgery is not normal either. My first thought on the matter is (and this may be totally off-base) if you can afford a car that costs more than 100k, you can afford to buy a decent pre-owned car at Carmax for 10k. Use it for a year or two, and then sell it when she retires.
If I were in that position, I’d probably indulge her eccentricity. If not, then maybe pretend you have a rich relative who bought it for you.
Accusations of trolling are counterproductive and irrelevant. Either we can take the OP as writ and answer the question, or we can do nothing. But personally, I feel the OP has provided enough detail that it’s not reasonable to assume he’s trolling.
Hell, treat it like a Skaldothetical, if nothing else.
