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My boss is a "dog"
I went to a job interview at a magazine. The Editor in Chief greeted me at her home office with her barking dog nipping at my ankles. She made me pick up the dog to calm it down then the dog proceeded to jump on me all throughout the interview. By the time the interview ended, I had dog hair all over my black suit, but at least the dog had finally calmed down. Or so I thought. The Editor asked me to attend a meeting with her, and when we got up to leave, the dog chased me and bit me. The Editor responded by saying the dog had prior abandonment issues! In the cab ride to the meeting, the dog was standing on my arm while the Editor was on her cell phone. I was scared to move. I thought the dog might bite me again!
Against my better judgment, I took the job at the magazine and quickly realized what a mistake it was. The dog was the boss of the office. The dog had his own email address, and I received numerous emails from the dog throughout the day with paw prints attached. (I was allowed to work from home). The Editor had ADD so she often forgot what she told me to do, often changed her mind about my job responsibilities, therefore I never got any work done. They made me leave the office once when I was sick because her co-worker said the dog and the owner “couldn’t afford to get sick”! Needless to say, I quit after two weeks. Craziness!
Posted by anita62 on 9/5/2006 at 8:14 AM
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The Principal
The president of my company acts like a middle school principal. We are required to do attendance every morning – if you miss attendance, then you are considered to be late. We must be in at 8:55am to start the 9:00 am workday, and are not allowed to leave to get coffee, breakfast or anything else. Our lunch is strictly scheduled between 12 and 2 pm, no earlier and no later. We cannot leave a message if we will be out of the office – we are required to speak to at least one boss. The president also sent out a dress code policy, with strict rules on what to wear. Most of us spend our day behind a computer but we must always be dressed up! She despises denim so no casual Fridays for us! She also sent around a meeting policy, telling us how to sit up straight, clean up after our self and not rest your head on your hand. What grade does she think we are in?
Posted by joanallen on 9/8/2006 at 10:14 AM
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Verbal b**** slap!
I currently work at a job in New Jersey where the top boss is an a** h***. Almost every morning around 10am (almost like clockwork, once or twice a week) my boss calls his accountant into his lavish office. Once the accountant enters the room, the door closes. Then it begins. The boss begins to scream at the top of his lungs at the accountant for various issues. “You f***in idiot, I can’t believe you are such a fool, what the f*** is wrong with you”, and it goes on and on. The accountant never replies to the insults. He just sits there and takes it. I just sit in my cube and think to myself, if I was the accountant, the dude would get b***** slapped for talking to me that way. What a loser.
Posted by rjsimond
on 9/8/2006 at 03:26 PM
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My Boss is a loser!
I was working as the VP of sales for a small advertising company in Los Angeles. And the problem was that my boss would yell at me in front of others regardless of how small the problem. He didn’t care where we were. He would just yell at me, use fowl language and I just felt very embarrassed.
Posted by susanb
on 9/8/2006 at 11:14 PM
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