I got one. In one part-time cleaning job my boss told me to do nothing but clean the toilets for the entire shift. I said, "Let me get this straight. You want me to spend three hours on a task I can complete in less than one hour?" His response: "Yes, but speed it up anyway." Spolier alert: I ignored him. Fool.
I had a really horrible boss many years ago, just as one example, the toilet paper was in his office and when we needed it we had to go ask him for it. When me and my colleages had enough we unionised. He left shotly after that.
Had a really horrible boss a while back. Couldn't get any help from HR. So we took a different approach. We got his resume from his computer and sauced it up pretty well, then sent it to every corporate headhunter in the country. He started getting offers from all over, and was thinking he was so good that everyone wanted him. He got a job all the way across the country and we threw him a great farewell party. Problem solved!
I'm retired now but one of my colleagues was diabetic and had an emergency pack of sweets in one of the office drawers, we all knew whose they were and what they were for. Our manager ate them and refused to replace them even when we pointed out that they could be classified as medication. We couldn't even replace them because he'd eat those too. Glad to be out of the place.
In one job, one person used to leave a pack of kit-kats in the fridge, for her to eat when she felt like it. When she took a week's holiday she left a note on the pack saying "I know how many were in there when I left." When she got back, there was one missing. There was also an addendum to the note "One taken, signed boss." To his credit, he then presented her with a new pack.
During covid I had to take my mask off to drink. So sat down, removed my mask, had a drink. Two cops came over asking why my mask was off. I held up my water bottle, intending to take another drink. The young female cop asked me why I couldn't drink THRU MY MASK. I just stared at her. The other older cop just shook his head. I quickly said "I also get trigger asthma so need to remove my mask to breathe", which was true. The young cop reminded me to put my mask back on afterwards. They then walked away, with the older cop I think, telling her off. And do you know the funniest part? I'm a 40 plus year veteran Nurse who worked thru covid, AIDS crisis, trauma / emergency, you name it - been there, worked there, done that. Cops really are stupid sometimes.
I work retail, and for a variety of reasons I still wear a mask to work (like when you work a register, EVERY SINGLE CUSTOMER comes into your space!). Most of the time I get compliments on them because I hand-sewed a variety of them using print fabrics for different seasons, holidays, and just fun styles as the outer layer of my masks. However, once I had this really ornery customer who took my wearing one as a personal offense and did nothing but insult me and my intelligence the whole time I was ringing her purchases up. As a final attempt at a cutting remark, she said “I hope you suffocate in that mask!” I responded by bursting out laughing at her ignorance and told her to have a nice day, still laughing! And yes, I immediately got on the radio and informed my coworkers what a mental furball I’d just had to deal with! They all agreed that this customer was the Queen of Pips!
Started working for a company as their accountant with a massive backlog of paperwork and payments, presented a cheque to the Director for the milkman for six months deliveries, wouldn't sign until I'd checked we had had every bottle.... It didn't get easier 🤦
I had a supervisor once who never understood faxes (this was in the late '90s/early2000s). We had work from clients come in via fax. Most of them consisted of more than one page from each client. Supv handed out the work, so she would grab the faxes, pass a page out to one person, another page out to someone else, a third page to someone else.....Workers would be asking each other, "Does anyone have pages 2 and 3 from XYZ Company?" Supv NEVER figured it out. We had to take over distributing the work.
I had a Boss that I did like & am sad that she is no longer with us - but she had a real quirk--- Since she was owner of the company she felt overly "above" everyone. Here is an example-- She had a rule that in a meeting when she asked a question you could NOT answer "I don't know" . As in " Why did *insert customer name here* want this done this way?"..... So you had to MAKE UP what you thought someone else's reasoning might be...... WHY DO I HAVE TO BE ANSWERING FOR WHAT SOMEONE ELSE IS THINKING...? They are the customer and asked for it this way & are paying for it - WTF do I have to do with it...?
"Because _their_ customer told _them_ they wanted it done like that". Either that or just say nothing. When the boss says "Why don't you answer the question?", reply "Because the only answer I have is one you won't accept."
I once worked for a organisation that needed to make some redundancies. Everyone was called to a meeting first thing one day and the CEO said he had looked at the people that reported to him and had fired one of them. He then told us that the remaining managers had to do the same all the way down the structure tree. Meanwhile we should all go back to work and wait for a hand on your shoulder moment. Not a lot of work got done that day. Believe it or not it was actually a great place to work apart from this.
Yeah, no matter how layoffs are announced or conducted, employee productivity drops like a rock for a time. People are anxious about their jobs, as they're at the windows. watching the parade of former coworkers, toting their personal belongings out of the building in boxes.
He obviously never learned his MULTIPLICATION tables, certainly (I was seven years old when I was told "We don't call them "times tables;" we're old enough to properly and correctly call them 'multiplication' tables").
The thing about those autocorrect goofs. How can someone then hit send before checking the same thing didn't happen again? They obviously saw it an instant after sending.
A guy got promoted to replace a great manager we had in a car parts warehouse. He knew very little about even the stock we had or the vehicles we served, and nothing at all about managing, nothing at all about employment law. His first day in charge he made a point in telling everyone that from now on, it was his way, or the highway. That is in fact, all by itself, a breach of the employment law here. If a manager says that to employees, he has broken the law. The only thing to make it worse would be putting it in writing. So I said, jokingly, "You should print that out, put it on the wall". So he did, signing it with his name and General Manager. I applied for a job at another company, and gave him written notice that I would be unavailable in a weeks time for the afternoon, while going to the interview, as the law allows. He told me "It doesn't suit me, you will have to re-plan the interview to your day off ( the weekend ) if you take that time off, consider yourself fired". I laughed and said "If you are so sure of yourself there, put that in writing and sign it". He did, making it a written warning because I "Was disrespectful" toward him. I got an extra months wages, he got fired.
Worked for a small company decades ago that had a rule of praying in the morning. Georgia and the owner was a Southern Baptist religious man. He told me to fake a seizure in a courtroom so that I could get out of jury duty and work!! Needless to say, I definitely didn't fake a seizure; however, I wasn't selected as anyone with medical experience was excused. Found a new job and told my manager at 5pm Friday I wouldn't be coming in Monday and why. She told me she'd speak to the owner, but I couldn't work for a religious hypocrite. ( got a job that led to other jobs❤❤)Maybe I should thank him?
I will sometimes hesitate and then say well, okay if you insist. I've also thought about, but haven't done it, looking at them indignantly then sneering, oh yeah, well same to you.
I work in a small factory. There is no dedicated cleaning staff and our owner doesn't like people cleaning up, feels that doesn't make him money. So I have to sneak around when I have down time and clean the men's room with cleaning supplies I buy myself.
Yeah, it sounds like the absolute right person was deemed unnecessary to the effective operation of the company. Geez -- was he hoping to see them act like crabs in a bucket?
I got one. In one part-time cleaning job my boss told me to do nothing but clean the toilets for the entire shift. I said, "Let me get this straight. You want me to spend three hours on a task I can complete in less than one hour?"
His response: "Yes, but speed it up anyway."
Spolier alert: I ignored him. Fool.
I had a really horrible boss many years ago, just as one example, the toilet paper was in his office and when we needed it we had to go ask him for it. When me and my colleages had enough we unionised. He left shotly after that.
I hope 'shotly' was NOT a typo!
(Cannon Fire Preferred!🥳🥳🥳🥳)
Had a really horrible boss a while back. Couldn't get any help from HR. So we took a different approach.
We got his resume from his computer and sauced it up pretty well, then sent it to every corporate headhunter in the country.
He started getting offers from all over, and was thinking he was so good that everyone wanted him.
He got a job all the way across the country and we threw him a great farewell party.
Problem solved!
I'm retired now but one of my colleagues was diabetic and had an emergency pack of sweets in one of the office drawers, we all knew whose they were and what they were for. Our manager ate them and refused to replace them even when we pointed out that they could be classified as medication. We couldn't even replace them because he'd eat those too. Glad to be out of the place.
In one job, one person used to leave a pack of kit-kats in the fridge, for her to eat when she felt like it.
When she took a week's holiday she left a note on the pack saying "I know how many were in there when I left."
When she got back, there was one missing. There was also an addendum to the note "One taken, signed boss."
To his credit, he then presented her with a new pack.
@@lomax343 lol at least he gave her a new pack
@@MML-x2b The boss sounds like a good guy. Definitely a nifty sense of humor.
There is a very apt saying for this: "People will rise to their maximum level of incomptency."
That's THE PETER PRINCIPLE, by Lawrence J. Peter!
THE BOOK IS A RIOT!
The cream rises to the top but so does the scum!
That’s a good one! The one we used in the Army was, “if you f*Ck up, you move up” when discussion how certain high ranking folks got to that position.
During covid I had to take my mask off to drink. So sat down, removed my mask, had a drink. Two cops came over asking why my mask was off. I held up my water bottle, intending to take another drink. The young female cop asked me why I couldn't drink THRU MY MASK. I just stared at her. The other older cop just shook his head. I quickly said "I also get trigger asthma so need to remove my mask to breathe", which was true. The young cop reminded me to put my mask back on afterwards. They then walked away, with the older cop I think, telling her off. And do you know the funniest part? I'm a 40 plus year veteran Nurse who worked thru covid, AIDS crisis, trauma / emergency, you name it - been there, worked there, done that. Cops really are stupid sometimes.
Sometimes?
Reminds me of a Sarah Silverman joke: Ma'am, do you know why I pulled you over? You got all C's in high-school?
No! The FEMALE Cop Was Stupid!
I work retail, and for a variety of reasons I still wear a mask to work (like when you work a register, EVERY SINGLE CUSTOMER comes into your space!). Most of the time I get compliments on them because I hand-sewed a variety of them using print fabrics for different seasons, holidays, and just fun styles as the outer layer of my masks. However, once I had this really ornery customer who took my wearing one as a personal offense and did nothing but insult me and my intelligence the whole time I was ringing her purchases up. As a final attempt at a cutting remark, she said “I hope you suffocate in that mask!” I responded by bursting out laughing at her ignorance and told her to have a nice day, still laughing!
And yes, I immediately got on the radio and informed my coworkers what a mental furball I’d just had to deal with! They all agreed that this customer was the Queen of Pips!
Yeah, just proved Sarah Silverman never was funny.
Had a boss that requested authorisation from the deceased, for the police to confirm the identity of the patient.
Started working for a company as their accountant with a massive backlog of paperwork and payments, presented a cheque to the Director for the milkman for six months deliveries, wouldn't sign until I'd checked we had had every bottle.... It didn't get easier 🤦
I had a supervisor once who never understood faxes (this was in the late '90s/early2000s). We had work from clients come in via fax. Most of them consisted of more than one page from each client. Supv handed out the work, so she would grab the faxes, pass a page out to one person, another page out to someone else, a third page to someone else.....Workers would be asking each other, "Does anyone have pages 2 and 3 from XYZ Company?" Supv NEVER figured it out. We had to take over distributing the work.
To be fair, the mask thing makes sense. After all, if computers can get viruses, there’s no reason they can’t also transmit them.🤣
"Math is hard." 🤣
Puts a whole new spin on potato head.
As as soon as possible as possible 😂
It's as bad as saying Pin number.
I hear Michael Scott 😂
@@lomax343 Worse. IMO
I had a Boss that I did like & am sad that she is no longer with us - but she had a real quirk--- Since she was owner of the company she felt overly "above" everyone. Here is an example--
She had a rule that in a meeting when she asked a question you could NOT answer "I don't know" . As in " Why did *insert customer name here* want this done this way?"..... So you had to MAKE UP what you thought someone else's reasoning might be...... WHY DO I HAVE TO BE ANSWERING FOR WHAT SOMEONE ELSE IS THINKING...? They are the customer and asked for it this way & are paying for it - WTF do I have to do with it...?
"Because _their_ customer told _them_ they wanted it done like that".
Either that or just say nothing. When the boss says "Why don't you answer the question?", reply "Because the only answer I have is one you won't accept."
I once worked for a organisation that needed to make some redundancies. Everyone was called to a meeting first thing one day and the CEO said he had looked at the people that reported to him and had fired one of them. He then told us that the remaining managers had to do the same all the way down the structure tree. Meanwhile we should all go back to work and wait for a hand on your shoulder moment. Not a lot of work got done that day. Believe it or not it was actually a great place to work apart from this.
Yeah, no matter how layoffs are announced or conducted, employee productivity drops like a rock for a time. People are anxious about their jobs, as they're at the windows. watching the parade of former coworkers, toting their personal belongings out of the building in boxes.
3:51 he never learned his times tables, did he?
He obviously never learned his MULTIPLICATION tables, certainly (I was seven years old when I was told "We don't call them "times tables;" we're old enough to properly and correctly call them 'multiplication' tables").
The thing about those autocorrect goofs. How can someone then hit send before checking the same thing didn't happen again? They obviously saw it an instant after sending.
A guy got promoted to replace a great manager we had in a car parts warehouse. He knew very little about even the stock we had or the vehicles we served, and nothing at all about managing, nothing at all about employment law. His first day in charge he made a point in telling everyone that from now on, it was his way, or the highway. That is in fact, all by itself, a breach of the employment law here. If a manager says that to employees, he has broken the law. The only thing to make it worse would be putting it in writing. So I said, jokingly, "You should print that out, put it on the wall".
So he did, signing it with his name and General Manager.
I applied for a job at another company, and gave him written notice that I would be unavailable in a weeks time for the afternoon, while going to the interview, as the law allows. He told me "It doesn't suit me, you will have to re-plan the interview to your day off ( the weekend ) if you take that time off, consider yourself fired". I laughed and said "If you are so sure of yourself there, put that in writing and sign it".
He did, making it a written warning because I "Was disrespectful" toward him.
I got an extra months wages, he got fired.
Worked for a small company decades ago that had a rule of praying in the morning. Georgia and the owner was a Southern Baptist religious man. He told me to fake a seizure in a courtroom so that I could get out of jury duty and work!! Needless to say, I definitely didn't fake a seizure; however, I wasn't selected as anyone with medical experience was excused. Found a new job and told my manager at 5pm Friday I wouldn't be coming in Monday and why. She told me she'd speak to the owner, but I couldn't work for a religious hypocrite. ( got a job that led to other jobs❤❤)Maybe I should thank him?
Matt Groening had a great name for bosses like these in his book, "Work is Hell." He called them "Psychotic Boss-Monster[s] from Hell"
Crazy bosses couldn't organize a chook raffle.
When someone tells me to "have a nice day", I say, "Thanks, but I've made other plans."
@@AnnaAnna-uc2ff
I love this!
I will sometimes hesitate and then say well, okay if you insist. I've also thought about, but haven't done it, looking at them indignantly then sneering, oh yeah, well same to you.
7:17 I'll bet he says "ATM machine" and "PIN number," too.
I knew a guy who said, annoyingly often: "too as well."
maybe he was the boss of the department of redundancy department?
@@SeahawksFTW2014
There's a whole country in North America full of people who say "a tad bit...".
6:26 Reminds of Futurama!
2:38 and I would certainly press charges for false suspicion / slander ...
The cellphone charger thing is nothing more than a cheap and/or charger as one cannot normally get a jolt from 5 volts
I work in a small factory. There is no dedicated cleaning staff and our owner doesn't like people cleaning up, feels that doesn't make him money. So I have to sneak around when I have down time and clean the men's room with cleaning supplies I buy myself.
Don't compensate for your boss' cheapness. Let it get really filthy, then call in the health department.
1:02 His/Her plan worked!
Yeah, it sounds like the absolute right person was deemed unnecessary to the effective operation of the company. Geez -- was he hoping to see them act like crabs in a bucket?
“As ASAP as possible” means super fast ASAP. Really. It does.