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I don't mind having a boss, but I would like having a boss that actually has a clue. I rather like my boss right now, she is pretty level headed, and you can joke around with her.

But the rest of my bosses were doozies:

1st job: Big country man, the kind that tells you to do a two hour job in ten minutes. "Get it done" "I'm trying, this is the first time you've had me do this and I have no idea what I am doing!" "DON'T TALK BACK TO ME!!!!!1!!ONE!"

2nd job: Big fat prissy lady. The kind that isn't above petty revenge. She was nice and all, but one christmas I got told that it could very well possibly be my Grandma's last Christmas, so naturally, I wanted to not work that day. "NO, YOUR WORKING THAT DAY AND YOUR GOING TO LIEK IT! BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO WORK THAT DAY!" So I told her to shove it and I quit right then and there. Funny thing was, was as a Dietary Aid, you have to bring out snacks for the residents, yes? Well, she as I said is a big lady, constantly drinking things that are supposed to make her slim, but when I brought cookies out the days after I quit, she started eating them by the handful. As in, I would pull out 20 cookies and only 5 of them would be left for the residents Did I mention she complained about being fat?

Petty victory: She had to work both christmas and christmas eve

3rd boss: These guys were pretty good, though they were far too nice. Creepy, we-are-up-to-something-and-we-don't-want-them-to-know-about-it nice. I don't really speak badly of them though, they helped me out in a big way when my car broke down.

I've had one boss. He was the "You do this, this, this, this and this because I can't do it and nor can anyone else. Oh, and I need it done right now, kthxbai." type, the one that runs a store that specialises in stuff he doesn't understand and blags it all, hires people based on... I actually don't know, some of the people he hired were absolute morons... The people who did know something were the ones that took all the flak; two of them left whilst I was there, and I left shortly after.

I still daydream about locking him in the store and burning it to the ground as I listen to his screams... >.>

I dunno, I have a knack for thinking of the easy, simple ways to do things. And naturally most the people Ive worked for, have to have things so fething complex that you need a diagram and a goto guide to figure them out.

The dumbest though, was I worked at Target some years ago, and was the 2nd in command for the remodel the store was doing. My boss, was a total flake, she was a hot flake, but a flake none the less. So we hit the point where we were moving the backroom to the new back room. Keep in mind that the Target in my area, is one step under a super target, so it was pretty damn big, the stock room was just massive. So she comes up with this really complex move plan where we were to move this isle on this day, and that isle 5 isles down, right after that, then this one we move half because the other half has to stay for this areas inventory and blah blah blah. Sure it was a well thought out plan and all, but then she looks and me and says "yea we need this all done in 3 days, and by we I mean you, because Im going on vacation in 3 hours"

There was literally 2 weeks worth of move and she wanted it done in 2 days. I laughed at her until I teared up. I said no friggin way is that happening. We still got it done in about 5 days but still. She was the type that wanted new boxes made up for "loose stock" instead of just simply moving the old boxes to the new spot and replacing only the ones that needed. Nope, all had to be BRAND new, so we wasted a day building new boxes. I enjoyed it, I sat on my ass all day egtting paid and just laughed with my co workers. *shrugs* whatever

IVe still had far worse bosses then her. I swear retail environments are just full of asshats

My store manager is really cool, he gets on register, mops, and basically doesn't put himself above most of the employees. The assistant managers are a pain though, we have three and they all have different ideas of what needs to be done the most.

I work in electronics and it tends to get boring when there are no customers around so I usually go to the bike section or the boys toy section to clean up. I can clean the enitre section, but if the assistant manager sees one person even near the general area they get mad and tell me I'm not doing my job.

The department supervisors are another story, generally nice in my department and the boys toy department. The electronics supervisor is laid back and does his job, the boys department supervisor is also laid back and recognizes employees for doing their jobs or for doing extra.

The HR guy is cool, he calls me Mr. Sony, Mr. Microsoft, or Mr. Nintendo depending on the day because I'll tell customers about every feature possible on a console, help them pick out games, and even tell them that a console isn't what they're looking for. I can't tell you how many times I didn't get a sale because I told a parent that their little two year old probably shouldn't get a DS but maybe a leapster.

One day I got so bored that I figured out that 33 laps around my area equals one mile.

I experience Deja-vu/precognition quite frequently,I can't begin to count the amount of times I've just "known" things..it's actually reached a point where my Missus tells me to shut up if I start to make a "prediction".

Last year we had these little remotes called 'clickers' that we would use to take a one question quizz in lecture hall. The questions were multiple choice so I would make a guess and tell the guy sitting next to me what I thought the answer was going to be before we knew the question. I was 17 for 22 and a couple of those were close, the answer was D instead of B.

My friend then asked me where the next major earthquake was going to be and I said the Phillipines and lo and behold they had an earthquake almost a few months after school let out. I sent him a picture message of the news story and he told me he was going to bottle my blood and sell it.

halonachos wrote:Last year we had these little remotes called 'clickers' that we would use to take a one question quiz in lecture hall. The questions were multiple choice so I would make a guess and tell the guy sitting next to me what I thought the answer was going to be before we knew the question. I was 17 for 22 and a couple of those were close, the answer was D instead of B.

My friend then asked me where the next major earthquake was going to be and I said the Philippines and lo and behold they had an earthquake almost a few months after school let out. I sent him a picture message of the news story and he told me he was going to bottle my blood and sell it.

See Nachos...this all goes back to us being related somewhere in history...perhaps one (or more) of our common ancestors were burned as witches.

Mr Meatballs wrote:

chowderhead13 wrote:Does something strange always seem to happen to you? Not anyone else, just you?

For some reason, I constantly get hit on. By gay teenagers. I'm not joking. I'll walk down a hall in school, and all of a sudden, one of the gay students is walking beside me, complimenting me, asking me what I'm doing after school, etc. I shoot them down with the line "I'm not gay.", and they seem startled. This has not just happened at school. Concerts, plays, musicals, hell, even walking down Newbury street in Boston. None of my friends notice it, or even seem to care. It's just... odd.

Does anything odd happen to you, and you alone, my fellow Dakkanauts?

Tell me.
What do you wear? it might factor into you getting confused with gay.

Also

Concerts, plays, musicals

most straight men don't go to plays and musicals

@ Mr meatballs
yay another concession fan

youbedead wrote:
@ Mr meatballs
yay another concession fan

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