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A death in the family ...
Several years ago I worked for a small family owned business that sold restaurant equipment and supplies. I was employed as the Drafter/Designer and produced the hand drawn blue prints for the contractors to build the restaurants from. The boss had the temperament of Ebenezer Scrooge and got his ...
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Wedding Bliss
So- I am getting married this November- when I took the job last November I made this quite apparent. At first my fiance and i were planning on going to Japan for our honeymoon. I went to my boss in December and asked her if it was going to be ...
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Using the toilet
Years ago, when I worked at the research library of an international bank in New York City, our tyrant old-maid boss made us ask to go to the toilet. We had to use a euphemism: going down the hall [which was where the ladies room was].
Not one of the ...
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Her name should be Hitler
I started working for this great company some 6 months ago as a sales representative assigned to a specific sales office. When I arrived, there were already two other senior sales reps working there, and 1 of them apparantly had it out for me the second I walked through the ...
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The Bearded Philanderer
When hired, I had a great boss. However, the company didn't deem him acceptable, and we were given a new boss, a buddy of one of the other bosses, the two of them have successfully run other companies into the ground before...Besides never doing any work, and filling ...
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Merger from HELL
My company is being bought, and we are all getting offer letters for the new company and they are increasing our hourly rate by 4%, 2% to accomodate for a raise that we would normally get this time of year and 2% to account for an extra week of pay ...
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"Family Guy"
My ex-boss (I was the one who left) was sensitive to family issues, but only when it pertained to HIS family. He was always taking off when his family had some trivial milepost but I was threatened when I took off certified time to travel 400 miles to my brother ...
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Boss' Day Isn't Picnic
I just want to remind everyone that putting up with crap isn't all one sided in a work place. I am a Manufacturing Supervisor for a fortune 500 company in PA and I've had my share of nightmares and whiners. I sometimes feel that I am a kindergarten ...
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Do as I say not as I do
Ok let me start by saying I don't believe in being late or taking off at every whim but how can you expect an employee to respect a boss when they are the case and point? Let me explain...my boss is late EVERY day and if another employee ...
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are they stupid or what
don't understand why the HR and the bosses always employ idiots... and they always believes those idiots rather than the employee who worked their asses off!
