The Boss Thread

[thetreble 19]

So I had to make this thread because my supervisor constantly does things to bother me. For example, she manages the money in our department and made a screw up in the paper work for a big contract. The guy from the company called to ask when his check would be ready and I said she would give him a call back. She made me give him a call back so then he started asking me all these questions about stuff I don't know about. Then after hearing my trouble on the phone, she was like. "ill pick it up..."

Sure you will pick it up now after I get accosted by the customer.

She also sucks back her mucous all morning long and doesn't realize how loud it is and how much it annoys the entire office.

Any other stories?

[trailmix 77]

So I had to make this thread because my supervisor constantly does things to bother me. For example, she manages the money in our department and made a screw up in the paper work for a big contract. The guy from the company called to ask when his check would be ready and I said she would give him a call back. She made me give him a call back so then he started asking me all these questions about stuff I don't know about. Then after hearing my trouble on the phone, she was like. "ill pick it up..."

Sure you will pick it up now after I get accosted by the customer.

She also sucks back her mucous all morning long and doesn't realize how loud it is and how much it annoys the entire office.

Any other stories?

I have lots of work stories

I don't think of managers as 'superiors' - was that tongue in cheek

[thetreble 19]

duh! Just because you are a manger, doesn't make you superior! Please share some stories with me to make me feel a bit better.

[trailmix 77]

Oh where to begin.

Well, I worked for a payroll company once...running company payrolls. This story I think may top my list of weird/manipulative/manager stories.

Setup:

District Manager for company is stationed in our Calgary office >>>> her Son works there as well, doing payroll, and a fine job.

She calls me in to her office, to discuss the current manager of the dept. I am in, what are her shortcomings etc etc etc. - she may have met with other from the department, I forget now.

FFWD a few weeks later - current dept. manager is moved to another 'lesser' position - guess who becomes Manager of the dept. i'm in - yes you guessed it - the District Manager's son.

Keep in mind that this is not like a family business, this is a CIBC company.

Manipulation of a situation at its finest.

Edited October 6, 2008 by trailmix

[trailmix 77]

Oh I have another good one!

When I left that payroll company, I went to work for one of their clients - a hotel in Calgary - as their payroll person.

So the office I was in had 3-4 people and it was REALLY quiet, no one ever spoke to anyone, it was very odd.

Well after a couple of weeks I got the lay of the land, I received the general office memo that stated that employees were not to participate in chit chat, basically you are here to work not to talk about what someone did on the weekend.

Anyway, the manager was the Daughter of the hotel owner. Nice enough I guess and she took a liking to me. I guess she was lonely in her office and she would come out and talk to me and share her lunch from the hotel with me etc etc.

So one day I am in her office and she opens her cupboard to reveal.....her video surveillance monitor of the office

She is video taping the office while we work.

If I remember correctly someone told me once that the 'thing' in the ceiling was a video camera, but I didn't believe them at the time.

I quit about a week after that.

[thetreble 19]

holy #######. Can people video tape you like that without your knowledge and consent? That is creepy. I was sure something like that was going on at my last job. We always joked that every time the boss and his assistant went out we had to watch what we said because the whole place was wired.

[trailmix 77]

holy #######. Can people video tape you like that without your knowledge and consent? That is creepy. I was sure something like that was going on at my last job. We always joked that every time the boss and his assistant went out we had to watch what we said because the whole place was wired.

I have lots more stories

I'm waiting for someone else to post - so that you and I aren't the only ones that work/have worked with weird people.

And yes, I found the video taping to be creepy as well.

[Emancipation 2]

tee hee.. no i've worked with my fair share of people that don't "get it".

There was the time that my old boss in Canada ordered the accounts payable person to pick up his daughter from daycare because he was late getting back from a meeting and couldn't go "get her".. I was the girls supervisor and didn't find out about it until after she got back.. and I went into his office and gave him a tuning.. it's not her JOB to get your child. I got completely tuned out.. and I just said.. listen.. unless you are going to pay for her million dollar liability she needs on her vehicle for transporting other people's children.. you should NEVER ask.. (she didn't have a car seat for the toddler).. he totally thought I was out of line for questioning him.. I told him he was completely out of line. bah! (he never did it again).

Edited October 6, 2008 by Emancipation

[Krikit 1,164]

Yes, you can be video-taped at work without your knowledge or consent.... as long as there is no sound. We had to set up video surveillance at a former place of work because there was thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars worth of state-of-the-art technical equipment disappearing. In one particular case, we had to install it to target a specific individual whom we suspected of robbery but needed definitive proof. The budget for security equipment was obscene. I had a really good laugh one day when one of my staff told me she started putting a copy of all purchase orders for data projectors directly into the "Stolen Equipment" file because she knew that's where they would end up. (It cut down on the amount of time she had to spend looking the information up for police reports and insurance claims.)

[trailmix 77]

Yes, you can be video-taped at work without your knowledge or consent.... as long as there is no sound. We had to set up video surveillance at a former place of work because there was thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars worth of state-of-the-art technical equipment disappearing. In one particular case, we had to install it to target a specific individual whom we suspected of robbery but needed definitive proof. The budget for security equipment was obscene. I had a really good laugh one day when one of my staff told me she started putting a copy of all purchase orders for data projectors directly into the "Stolen Equipment" file because she knew that's where they would end up. (It cut down on the amount of time she had to spend looking the information up for police reports and insurance claims.)

So what did you find out on the video, was it the guy they suspected!?

[Brad and Vika 129]

One of my oldest friends is a manager at a home depot. They apparently had a timed security camera on the front-of-house where the registers are. One day his assistant manager gave him a tape with the after hours view of a cashier and supervisor doing guess what on one of the conveyors. They were let go pretty quickly. Hard to believe they didn't know about the camera

[Krikit 1,164]

So what did you find out on the video, was it the guy they suspected!?

Yes. But it wasn't the video surveillance which got him, though that did play a part.

One of my oldest friends is a manager at a home depot. They apparently had a timed security camera on the front-of-house where the registers are. One day his assistant manager gave him a tape with the after hours view of a cashier and supervisor doing guess what on one of the conveyors. They were let go pretty quickly. Hard to believe they didn't know about the camera

That is awesome.

[Ana&D 0]

And I thought I worked for some weird ppl... I especially loved the story about silent office on the camera

Well, my last US internship was quite smth too. We had a guy watching gay porno during day shifts, bellman watching some other weird porn during nights in the accounting offices. Another dude had a habit of faking sickness so they would send him home early. He really took it to the next level when he fell out of the chair and apparently had to go to special class for his wrist that company paid for! Oh, and there was this really young college girl working the front desk who just loved to share her wild party stories. No kidding, once she told us how they got drunk and some guy peed on her We also had a spy in the office who watched every misdoing and reported back to the managment. Add a manager constantly on a power trip, supervisor whose response always was "I don't know"... Makes me wonder how on Earth did I last ther for 18 months?

[BH45 0]

How would you like to be supervised by someone who knows nothing of your job and who has no degrees whatsoever in the area of your work? I spent more time arguing with the supposed supervisors than doing a lot of my work. I'm glad I no longer work there. I've been stress free for 6 months now.

And I thought I worked for some weird ppl... I especially loved the story about silent office on the camera

Well, my last US internship was quite smth too. We had a guy watching gay porno during day shifts, bellman watching some other weird porn during nights in the accounting offices. Another dude had a habit of faking sickness so they would send him home early. He really took it to the next level when he fell out of the chair and apparently had to go to special class for his wrist that company paid for! Oh, and there was this really young college girl working the front desk who just loved to share her wild party stories. No kidding, once she told us how they got drunk and some guy peed on her We also had a spy in the office who watched every misdoing and reported back to the managment. Add a manager constantly on a power trip, supervisor whose response always was "I don't know"... Makes me wonder how on Earth did I last ther for 18 months?

I worked with these type of folks too. Did we work in the same place?

[Sprailenes 47]

I had a boss when I worked in Canada, and she was the most crazy boss ever.

She threw keys at me, she'd throw plates when she was angry. She would constantly scream at everyone and blame everyone but herself for all of the problems. I went to HR about her twice because I was her assistant, I even took her in for two meetings to try to resolve things. It never worked. I ended up in the hospital due to stress, my hair was falling out, my stomach was all in knots, and I was admitted for 3 days and the doctor told me: "What stresses you out? Family? Work?" and I answered: "Both"

He told me that I couldn't quit my family so I'd have to quit my job. So I did. When I got out of the hospital I went to check on the Canada jobs site and found a job at a local precision plastics factory. Yep I went from office work to injection moulding machines. I was going through the visa process at this time so I considered a job to just pass the time and took it. It was honestly a really fun job. I didn't mind it at all. And yes I'd do it again. No questions.