OT- I Need To Vent Too Dammit!

[scarygirl]

Yesterday at work, somone brought a gift for my boss. I didn't recognize the person, and asked who should I say this is from? At first he wouldn't tell me, other than saying "when she sees it, she'll know." Finally though, he said tell her it''s from ******; at least that's what I thought he said, more on that later.

Upon seeing it, she immediately inquired as to who brought it.. When I couldn't tell her based on the limited information I had she became upset saying she had to know who it was from, and that she wasn't going to tell me why. Again I repeated the information that I knew and left it that. After work she calls me to request a favor. She told me that I need to redeliver the gift back to **** *******because the gift was from someone that she couldn't stand. How she came to this assumption I'm not sure, since the name (a first name only) I told her that was told to me was not one she recognized. I also described the person and she didn't recognize the decription either.

Flash forward to today. After being called for the upteemth tim about this that and the other (not on company time btw), she calls me irate because apparently the gift was from a friend. She also said I know this person. She said he said his name was so and so from so and so. The name I remember him saying was similar, in fact they almost rhyme. So now, I'm in trouble because of my "inability to relate to other people and look them in the eye." I also in trouble because i got the details wrong, which relates back to my "inability..." I decribed him as having a beard. He had a mustache.

My whole thing is I feel like she is in the wrong because if she hadn't over reacted in the first place (she wasn't sure who it from) and asked me to take it back then this wouldn't have happened. Call me crazy, but if I had a quarrel with someone, the last thing I would do is give them a gift, especially a hand made gift.

[Rick]

This boss lady of yours is starting to piss me off. You need to set her up or something. Plant a bag of pot in her desk, then send an anonymous letter to her boss saying you saw her huffing on some kind of pipe out in the parking lot. Or, if you don't want to cause anyone to lose their job, get some dirt on her somehow and hold it over her head so she'll quit fucking with you. Make her give you a raise too!

[scarygirl]

ROTFL! I work for a husband and wife. Fat chance I have.

The thing is, I didn't recognize that person so I didn't know who it was.

[Greg]

If this is not on company time nor has anything to do with your job, then there isn't anything, legally, she can do to you.

[mistiejourney]

Two words: new job! You're working for someone with serious mental issues.

[*Laura]

This boss lady of yours is starting to piss me off. You need to set her up or something. Plant a bag of pot in her desk, then send an anonymous letter to her boss saying you saw her huffing on some kind of pipe out in the parking lot. Or, if you don't want to cause anyone to lose their job, get some dirt on her somehow and hold it over her head so she'll quit fucking with you. Make her give you a raise too!

Me likes the way you think!



Scarygirl,here's something you could have fun with.If you can get to your boss's computer while she's out,do this pen the mouse settings in the Windows control panel. Change "double click speed" so that it's as fast as it can go.
Then you can sit back and enjoy watching her struggling to do a successful double-click.Even changing the setting back will take her forever...LOL

[scarygirl]

This boss lady of yours is starting to piss me off. You need to set her up or something. Plant a bag of pot in her desk, then send an anonymous letter to her boss saying you saw her huffing on some kind of pipe out in the parking lot. Or, if you don't want to cause anyone to lose their job, get some dirt on her somehow and hold it over her head so she'll quit fucking with you. Make her give you a raise too!

Me likes the way you think!



Scarygirl,here's something you could have fun with.If you can get to your boss's computer while she's out,do this pen the mouse settings in the Windows control panel. Change "double click speed" so that it's as fast as it can go.
Then you can sit back and enjoy watching her struggling to do a successful double-click.Even changing the setting back will take her forever...LOL[/quote

You guys make me laugh!

[TigerBite]

Better yet, change the language on her computer to Chinese or something else.

I feel your pain.

[strangegrey]

Two words: new job! You're working for someone with serious mental issues.

Gotta agree with this!

Working for a psycho boss will only make things harder and harder. It never gets easier. I worked for a complete, certifiable lunatic between 2001 and 2003. By the time I finally wised up and left the company, I was so battered and torn, that I literally quit the web business...and ultimately went back to school after emotionally recouping.

Don't underestimate how damaging a hostile work environment can be to your emotional well-being.

-F

[scarygirl]

Two words: new job! You're working for someone with serious mental issues.

Gotta agree with this!

Working for a psycho boss will only make things harder and harder. It never gets easier. I worked for a complete, certifiable lunatic between 2001 and 2003. By the time I finally wised up and left the company, I was so battered and torn, that I literally quit the web business...and ultimately went back to school after emotionally recouping.

Don't underestimate how damaging a hostile work environment can be to your emotional well-being.

-F

I've been at this job four years. Incidently I'm their longest running employee. Note, I said nothing about smartest. If I was I would have left after the first 6 months or the day after being told to not to take their "rants" personally.

[Natalie]

Yesterday at work, somone brought a gift for my boss. I didn't recognize the person, and asked who should I say this is from? At first he wouldn't tell me, other than saying "when she sees it, she'll know." Finally though, he said tell her it''s from ******; at least that's what I thought he said, more on that later.

Upon seeing it, she immediately inquired as to who brought it.. When I couldn't tell her based on the limited information I had she became upset saying she had to know who it was from, and that she wasn't going to tell me why. Again I repeated the information that I knew and left it that. After work she calls me to request a favor. She told me that I need to redeliver the gift back to **** *******because the gift was from someone that she couldn't stand. How she came to this assumption I'm not sure, since the name (a first name only) I told her that was told to me was not one she recognized. I also described the person and she didn't recognize the decription either.

Flash forward to today. After being called for the upteemth tim about this that and the other (not on company time btw), she calls me irate because apparently the gift was from a friend. She also said I know this person. She said he said his name was so and so from so and so. The name I remember him saying was similar, in fact they almost rhyme. So now, I'm in trouble because of my "inability to relate to other people and look them in the eye." I also in trouble because i got the details wrong, which relates back to my "inability..." I decribed him as having a beard. He had a mustache.

My whole thing is I feel like she is in the wrong because if she hadn't over reacted in the first place (she wasn't sure who it from) and asked me to take it back then this wouldn't have happened. Call me crazy, but if I had a quarrel with someone, the last thing I would do is give them a gift, especially a hand made gift.

Does your boss wear Prada??? hehe!

[strangegrey]

Yeah, there's usually a warning sign that happens in the first month or two. It's sometimes blunt, but most of the time, very subtle.

My warning sign couldn't have been more obvious, if it were posted on the big jumbotron outside times square.


2 weeks into my employment, my boss gets into a 3 way phone fight with his wife and mistress. (In the middle of a brainstorming meeting on a website)

They both lace into him and inform him they're leaving him. He get's furious, punches the speakerphone off, gets up from his office chair, picks up the office chair, hurls it trough the 5x5 picture window behind his desk, shatters the window, the chair sails down 3 stories and lands in the windshield/hood of the web designer's car, causing $2800 of damage.

Anger management issues, eh?


2 weeks later 9/11 happened...and I remember the first thing that went through my mind when I saw the trade center on fire was "Crap, now the job market for web developers is *really* going to go into the shitter...I guess I'm stuck here for a while!"

[CatEyes]

Yeah, there's usually a warning sign that happens in the first month or two. It's sometimes blunt, but most of the time, very subtle.
[...]

They both lace into him and inform him they're leaving him. He get's furious, punches the speakerphone off, gets up from his office chair, picks up the office chair, hurls it trough the 5x5 picture window behind his desk, shatters the window, the chair sails down 3 stories and lands in the windshield/hood of the web designer's car, causing $2800 of damage.

...ahmmmmm..... yeah ......... subtle.

[bluejeangirl76]

Better yet, change the language on her computer to Chinese or something else.

I feel your pain.

LOL!!! Ways to F with coworkers your hate 101...

change the keyboard language to Hebrew
change the time zone to pacific
change the desktop pic
change the screen resolution so the icons are either GIANT or tiny
hide all the pens
something sharp and pointy on the chair...
change the double-click rate AND the keyboard repeat rate
set set the computer "sleep" time to 1 minute
change the screen saver to the scrolling marquee that reads "ydalsdemoztihcsruoyekat" (and hope it doesn't occur to her to read it backwards).

plug the phone into the fax line and vice versa
place an open carton of expired half and half in a very inconspicous place (this one takes awhile before you get a reaction, but no doubt worth it!).

[TigerBite]

One more: hide an open can of tuna behind their desk!

Gawd, we could write a book with this stuff!

[bluejeangirl76]

One more: hide an open can of tuna behind their desk!

Gawd, we could write a book with this stuff!

*NARF*

...hide it WITH the expired half and half...

[strangegrey]

Find out if she has a live-in boyfriend/husband....send flowers (or something more dirty minded) to the house when you know she will be at work and the boyfriend/husband will be home.

Attach a note saying something like "you were wonderful the other night. You make handcuffs SO sexy!"

[txfirefighter]

Two words: new job! You're working for someone with serious mental issues.

Gotta agree with this!

Working for a psycho boss will only make things harder and harder. It never gets easier. I worked for a complete, certifiable lunatic between 2001 and 2003. By the time I finally wised up and left the company, I was so battered and torn, that I literally quit the web business...and ultimately went back to school after emotionally recouping.

Don't underestimate how damaging a hostile work environment can be to your emotional well-being.

-F

No truer words have ever been spoken on this forum!

[Voyager]

I Need To Vent Too Dammit!

Me too. Is it my turn already?

Hi, my name is John. I am a MelodicRockAholic and a forum addict. That's for letting me share. I am thankful for the 12-step 80's rock addict recovery program here at MR. If I didn't have it, I would have to look for unhealthy ways to get my 80's rock fix.

Anyway, my wife has been nagging, my kids are always wanting things, I need to bring in more business sales, and it's nasty outside.

With that, I will pass. Next!

[Rip Rokken]

Hey, there -- try looking her up in this book, and it may help.

http://www.amazon.com/Coping-Managers-S ... 363&sr=8-2

Another great book I recently purchased myself:

http://www.amazon.com/Coping-Managers-S ... 363&sr=8-2

[Rip Rokken]

Hi, my name is John. I am a MelodicRockAholic and a forum addict. That's for letting me share. I am thankful for the 12-step 80's rock addict recovery program here at MR. If I didn't have it, I would have to look for unhealthy ways to get my 80's rock fix.

Anyway, my wife has been nagging, my kids are always wanting things, I need to bring in more business sales, and it's nasty outside.

With that, I will pass. Next!

Haha.... Step 1, bro -- Admit that you are completely powerless over 80's rock...

[scarygirl]

Hi, my name is John. I am a MelodicRockAholic and a forum addict. That's for letting me share. I am thankful for the 12-step 80's rock addict recovery program here at MR. If I didn't have it, I would have to look for unhealthy ways to get my 80's rock fix.

Anyway, my wife has been nagging, my kids are always wanting things, I need to bring in more business sales, and it's nasty outside.

With that, I will pass. Next!

Haha.... Step 1, bro -- Admit that you are completely powerless over 80's rock...

Yep. Listening to BON JOVI as we speak.