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I've got a "supervisor" and two "bosses," above him, in the sense that if I really, really piss off somebody, there's two people who have the power to fire me ... and aside from the president of my company, no one else could fire me directly, not even my supervisor.

Btw, my supervisor is cool as fuck. So are the two folks above with the direct power to fire me, and the president of the company I work for, for that matter.

I'm lucky. And no, tards, I'm not writing this from work at 3 a.m.

Hasn't always been this way for me. I worked for another company where my immediate supervisors were cool and I wished death upon the general manager ... not because he did anything to me, personally, but because of the way he treated other people. I still want that sorry excuse for a human being dead. As far as I know, he's still living in his 1950s-management world. And I swear to God, no one from my old job will go to that motherfucker's funeral, at least not willingly. When the bastard finally croaks, I'll start a thread in here celebrating his death.


You?

Btw, the (!) tag is so that we can tell stories about bosses or former bosses, with a smaller chance of being discovered at work and stuff.

My boss now is about 5'10 and has brown eyes, glasses, and dark hair. He's a little overweight and his hairline is moving back. I think he's in his early 50s and his wife is around 40. Some of the people in our office like him, but for some reason he's never taken a liking to me. He's an arrogant man and thinks his jokes are the funny ones. Like everyone whould laugh at what he says. I used to laugh along but now I've mostly just stopped playing that game.

I don't want to speak that negatively about him. Best thing I can do is just do my job and let him have his territory. But I'd like to see him take his foot off the accelerator and chill out a little bit.

About 95-98% of the time I really like my boss and I love my job. Patsy can probably testify to some of my beefs being a fellow graphic designer...I work in a non-conventional designer's job working for a controls contractor. With our product, you're able to control your building using a web browser and I help produce the graphics for the jobs as well as doing the putting together the promotional material and "prettying up" any bids for jobs.

For the most part, my boss and I see eye-to-eye on most things but there are still some things he prefers that I can't stand. The frustrating part is that I want to be honest and upfront with how much I dislike some of his ideas but I also don't want to be unemployed. I'm probably the one employee of the company who has their worked picked apart by my boss the most because I'm working in the office most of the time. I've had to be a "yes" man for most of my time with the company and if I start speaking out against what he likes, I'd probably cause a stir and I don't want to mess up my job security.

I think ultimately I'd like to find a more traditonal design job down the line but for now, I pretty much have to swallow my pride and just obey my boss' wishes for the time being. I'm in a position right now where I'm lucky to be employed as a graphic designer but if I lost my job, I probably wouldn't have enough artillery to get another job very quickly. Needless to say, it's better to have a job that will get on your nerves than to not have a job at all.

Retired guy here--- but I'll tell you that in my 32
years of teaching-- out of a good two dozen or more school administrators I worked under-- only two had any real ability for the job !!

Friggin bible thumper. Were talking "the earth is 6000 years old" kind of thumper. We're talking "noah's ark isn't just a story" kind of thumper". We're talking "the bible is literal" kind of thumper. Cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo

I've had to be a "yes" man for most of my time with the company and if I start speaking out against what he likes, I'd probably cause a stir and I don't want to mess up my job security.

You need to learn how to interject your ideas into the bossman's gameplan instead of doing it differently than he would. Even though he/she may be completely full of shit the boss tends to respect the fact that you take his proposal seriously and are making an effort to make it better. Start slow because once he realizes you can do this shit on your own you''ll be working longer hours...:)

Mr. Belvedere wrote:Friggin bible thumper. Were talking "the earth is 6000 years old" kind of thumper. We're talking "noah's ark isn't just a story" kind of thumper". We're talking "the bible is literal" kind of thumper. Cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo

It must suck to have Rosy as your boss.

Shoalzie wrote:I'm probably the one employee of the company who has their worked picked apart by my boss the most because I'm working in the office most of the time.

Maybe it's just a roost by your boss to test your level of dedication to the company?

Dinsdale wrote:

Shoalzie wrote:I'm probably the one employee of the company who has their worked picked apart by my boss the most because I'm working in the office most of the time.

Maybe it's just a roost by your boss to test your level of dedication to the company?

a roost?

Mister Bushice wrote:a roost?

Yup, a roost.



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If this is, in fact, some sort of regional slang, then I certainly hope the Michigan posters don't run rough shot all over me for being unfamiliar with it.

RadioFan wrote:Hasn't always been this way for me. I worked for another company where my immediate supervisors were cool and I wished death upon the general manager ... not because he did anything to me, personally, but because of the way he treated other people. I still want that sorry excuse for a human being dead. As far as I know, he's still living in his 1950s-management world. And I swear to God, no one from my old job will go to that motherfucker's funeral, at least not willingly. When the bastard finally croaks, I'll start a thread in here celebrating his death.

Why wouldn't they want to go? Seems to me they would want to verify the fucker was really dead.

Dinsdale wrote:

Mister Bushice wrote:a roost?

Yup, a roost.



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If this is, in fact, some sort of regional slang, then I certainly hope the Michigan posters don't run rough shot all over me for being unfamiliar with it.

Help me out here...did I spell it wrong or misuse the word? I'm serious...fill me in, oh 'sage of all things great and small'. I heard the word "roost" used to refer to a scam or a prank...shame on me for using a term misused by another person.

Dinsdale wrote:If this is, in fact, some sort of regional slang, then I certainly hope the Michigan posters don't run rough shot all over me for being unfamiliar with it.

Yeah, that might hurt your self of steam.

btw - Michigander here who has never heard "roost."

Shoalzie wrote:Help me out here...did I spell it wrong or misuse the word? I'm serious...fill me in, oh 'sage of all things great and small'. I heard the word "roost" used to refer to a scam or a prank...shame on me for using a term misused by another person.

You're probably thinking of "ruse."

Mister Bushice wrote:

Dinsdale wrote:

Shoalzie wrote:I'm probably the one employee of the company who has their worked picked apart by my boss the most because I'm working in the office most of the time.

Maybe it's just a roost by your boss to test your level of dedication to the company?

a roost?

Yes, a roost. Dontcha know?

shoalzie wrote:It's gotta be a roost. Strippers make money off lonely guys all the time...it's a scam, don't fall for it.

You see, I think what he referenced was that the strippers like to find a roosting spot atop the bar to spindle $$$ out of patrons.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:

Shoalzie wrote:Help me out here...did I spell it wrong or misuse the word? I'm serious...fill me in, oh 'sage of all things great and small'. I heard the word "roost" used to refer to a scam or a prank...shame on me for using a term misused by another person.

You're probably thinking of "ruse."

Ruse, that has to be it...thanks.

If I'm lucky, I'll be having some slow roosted prime rib later on.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:

Shoalzie wrote:Help me out here...did I spell it wrong or misuse the word? I'm serious...fill me in, oh 'sage of all things great and small'. I heard the word "roost" used to refer to a scam or a prank...shame on me for using a term misused by another person.

You're probably thinking of "ruse."

Boy, ya' think? Atta boy.
Anyways, this was pointed out once to him, what makes you think another ball ping hammer to the cranium will get it in?

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:If I'm lucky, I'll be having some slow roosted prime rib later on.

Safe me sum!

Ken wrote:Boy, ya' think? Atta boy.

Obviously nothing this elementary would ever slip past you, Kenny boy, but I'm trying to help out my boy Shoalz here.

So get fucked.

Don't take sides with the cousin-kisser...you might get labeled too.

Shoalzie wrote:

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:

Shoalzie wrote:Help me out here...did I spell it wrong or misuse the word? I'm serious...fill me in, oh 'sage of all things great and small'. I heard the word "roost" used to refer to a scam or a prank...shame on me for using a term misused by another person.

You're probably thinking of "ruse."

Ruse, that has to be it...thanks.

Don't worry dude, it's a moo point.

So the roost thing is some sort of redundant rooze from the City of the Rozes.

My boss is a slave driving prick. He gets me up at 0500 and works me 12 hours some days. He is a likable fellow, and my customers adore him. as a matter of fact, one of my customers called him the other day raving about me. On the other hand, he can be critical and down right mean to me when I screw up.

Only one creepy thing. He stares at me, smiling, while I shave in the morning.

Y2K wrote:So the roost thing is some sort of redundant rooze from the City of the Rozes.

Yeah, you geyes to don't leet a runing joak goe...gotta hav phun with it, eye gess.

Jerkovich wrote:My boss is a slave driving prick. He gets me up at 0500 and works me 12 hours some days. He is a likable fellow, and my customers adore him. as a matter of fact, one of my customers called him the other day raving about me. On the other hand, he can be critical and down right mean to me when I screw up.

Only one creepy thing. He stares at me, smiling, while I shave in the morning.

Dude Kath is no "he" and I would imagine it's hard not to stare at someone who needs to shave his nose hair each day.

Talk about your boss/former boss

I don't have that kind of time.

-AP

P.S. You could say we didn't see eye to eye.

Y2K wrote:

Jerkovich wrote:My boss is a slave driving prick. He gets me up at 0500 and works me 12 hours some days. He is a likable fellow, and my customers adore him. as a matter of fact, one of my customers called him the other day raving about me. On the other hand, he can be critical and down right mean to me when I screw up.

Only one creepy thing. He stares at me, smiling, while I shave in the morning.

Dude Kath is no "he" and I would imagine it's hard not to stare at someone who needs to shave his nose hair each day.

:P

I've only had one boss from hell. I was young and hired to do payroll for a mortgage company. And cover the receptionist during her lunch. It was a high pressure place to work. Some of them made big bucks for what they did, except us peons in payroll/HR. This bitch of a boss never had a nice thing to say, while she yelled and was in a constant state of witchyness. I quickly found another job within a month before my probation was even up. I figured I didn't owe her a 2 week notice, so it was a lovely day when I called in one morning to say I would not be back. I left her ass hanging, as the payroll was was due to be finished that day. I could hear her decreped chin drop on her desk in shock.

I'm now in a totally different field of work. The bosses I have now are 2 lovely ladies with tons of energy, great at what they do and treat me with respect and appreciation.

Y2K wrote: You need to learn how to interject your ideas into the bossman's gameplan instead of doing it differently than he would. Even though he/she may be completely full of shit the boss tends to respect the fact that you take his proposal seriously and are making an effort to make it better. Start slow because once he realizes you can do this shit on your own you''ll be working longer hours...:)

RACK.

The CEO at my last job in CA was infamous for her "wig outs" when big or sometimes even minor problems were discovered. She'd just go absolutely ballistic and usually stick the landing by implying not-so-subtly that the problem might be your ineptitude. I had worked with her for more than five years, so I learned to just let it all go in one ear and out the other and just pick out the relevant parts of the rant (i.e. what needed to be done). I'd do it and then report back when it was done.

Just about everyone else there was completely intimidated by her. I wasn't, not because I'm playing internet tough guy here, but because I'd had so many quality ass-reamings...can I change that to "ass-chewings"...errr, how about "bitch out sessions"...in the Navy that it just didn't phase me anymore. You wanna yell? Ga'head...*yawn*. I've heard it all a thousand times before from people a hell of a lot tougher than you.

Once I was promoted to manager, she frequently called on me to bounce ideas off my dome and see what I thought. At first, I thought it was because she recognized my brilliance , but eventually she told me that it was because she knew I would give honest answers and opinions and just about every other manager or department head in the company just told her what they thought she wanted to hear.

So as long as you feel confident in your responses, don't be afraid to speak out. Granted, when you're dealing with superiors, you have to do it in a somewhat diplomatic way, but unless your boss is a complete asshole, they'll eventually come to respect you for your honesty.

e wrote:

Shoalzie wrote:we don't get french benefits?

I get it already...damn it.

Our most recent CEO, in his infinite wisdom, decided we should have more females in management capacity.

Never mind that 95% of our customers are WASP males, and most with law enforcement or related backgrounds. And never mind that we didn't have any females currently with the company that even understood what our customer's problems were, much less how we would design solutions, They're females and we should have some.

The first one he hired talked a great game and made it all the way to VP of product development. Unfortunetly, no one seemed to be buying any of the newest product she came up with (which she conveniently tried to blame on sales for "not trying") - Bwa - Sales finally had the stupid bitch in a meeting with VP's from Op's and Finance and pointed out that it wasn't for lack of trying, but was beacuse she had devloped a product that had no discernable ROI that could be created.

Two years later, she's gone and now he's let the European group take the reins for product development, beacuse God knows, American's are dying to follow the euro's lead.

It's like a fuckin Dilbert cartoon.

Jsc810 wrote:I've been very fortunate to work for some wonderful individuals, but the lady who I currently work for is at the top of that list. She is exceptional, powerful, and is universally respected. I cannot say enough good things about her, a truly remarkable lady.

Wanna go watch some paint dry?

Wow, what a trendsetter I am.

I ran a little spellingsmack, and people really took the ball and ran with it.

Shoalzie wrote:labeled

trev wrote:witchyness

trev wrote:decreped

Well dunn28, people.

Dinsdale wrote:Wow, what a trendsetter I am.

I ran a little spellingsmack, and people really took the ball and ran with it.

Shoalzie wrote:labeled

Your point?

Shoalzie wrote:Your point?

Past tense of label can be both labeled and labelled... so, I can't wait for the explanation on this too. Expect a non-response response from Dins.

My only problem with Shoalzie is all the friggin' emoticons. Take it easy, punchy.

ucantdoitdoggieSTyle2 wrote:Past tense of label can be both labeled and labelled...

You better know it baby...!

Sin,

ucantdoitdoggieSTyle2 wrote:

Shoalzie wrote:Your point?

Past tense of label can be both labeled and labelled... so, I can't wait for the explanation on this too. Expect a non-response response from Dins.

It's all a ruse, dontcha know?

resisting to use laughing emoticon...

Shoalzie wrote:
resisting to use laughing emoticon...

Baby steps.