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Boss - Lets see what you have written?


Me - Here you go.


Boss - ABC?


Me - Yes.


Boss - I think BCA is better.


Me - Really? It's no different is it?


Boss - Take a closer look.


Me - I have. Its exactly the same words except you have just changed the order.


Boss - Exactly, you have. Except I have the same words. Its just changed the order.


Me - *sighs*


Edited due to :-$

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What Bossman SHOULD have done is explain WHY 'BCA' is better than 'ABC' in his opinion, not treat it as a contest and also allow for difference in style.

Inexperienced Boss perhaps, or, Katie, your text was really bad and you just can't see it (but we know that's not the case).

As a Boss you can impose what you want but the things you explain / qualify are the ones that get accepted.

I'd say in general Katie, challenging your boss is generally not a good tactic. Support your boss despite his/her apparent shortcomings and if you are better than him/her then in the long run people will see this and you will succeed.


I'd say the most important thing is to look around the firm you work for and decide if you were in his/her job then is it the sort of job that is worth waiting 5 years for. If it is, then take the flak and play the long game.

don't listen to him.

Tell your boss hes a complete cunt and then get a job somewhere that your talents are appreciated, proabably a job where your ability to decide between ACB and BAC are key.

Then when you are king of CABBACland visiting bossisatwatland, give him a pitying look, but don't talk to him or engage in any way, ooooh no.

I...


..had a sales director / boss who said the following things...


"I know it's irritating but I am always right..."


"I measure my success in handbags "


"My husband hardly talks, he's virtually autistic "


( When she wasn't around he spoke just fine, she just bullied him into silence)


All in a really nasally Kiwi accent



Sad but true & she honestly believed them.


Hand on heart she was the nastiest bitch I have ever had to endure (& I was good at my job ) There was also an unspoken rule that if you wanted to get on you had to "fancy" her or at least pretend to, she made me cringe


At the Christmas parties she was a legendary groper of the male staff ( yes, even in front of her husband ), especially when the booze kicked in


Thankfully I only had to work with her for a 6 month contract




W**F


*shudders..*

Mick Mac Wrote:

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> Katie - you had to edit your own post about your

> boss asking you to edit something? :)



Mick Mac, ha ha - yes I had to edit it because I realised what began as 'boss' had become....in my eagerness.....shall we say, a bit more specific. Ooops :-$

My boss is 5'2 and he tries to bully/cop a feel/insult the female members of staff.


He does a jokey sort of squeeze hug thing and a kind of elbow nudge thing which is really irritating, so I actually did a jokey kind of headlock on him to let him know if it's ok for him to become overfamiliar then he can't complain if we also overstep the mark!


It was very funny and my colleagues thought i'd get the sack, but I'm still there!


He stopped being a wanker for about a week, before normal service was resumed!

A long time ago boss attempted to say in an interview what you put in to the company, you'll get out. Work hard and you'll get the rewards. Not and we'll not put up with it.


Unfortunately he phrased the second part as "You feck me and I'll feck you". She walked out, her big boyfriend arrived half an hour later, my how we laughed.

Most of the bosses I have worked for I was cleverer, quicker, and more astute than, eventually I realized I was insufferable as an employee, so I became a boss and have run businesses for 40 years.


I am now an insufferable boss about to retire, and I no longer have to put up with uppity employees who think they know the job better than I, but are too gutless to start their own thing.


Katie I sympathise with your predicament and understand how demeaning it is to be subserviant to a boss who appears an oafish buffoon but if you are soooo clever, do your own thing and start your own business.


Swallowing the company line always stuck in my throat, and I was forever baulking at the narrow perameters a job held, I found it was just too stifling for my overbearing, obnoxious know-it-all personality.


Best of luck in what ever venture you choose for the future.

???? Wrote:

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> Monday in one to one;

>

> Me: "I think the best approach for this is ABC"

>

> Boss: "No I don't like that"

>

> Tuesday in team meeting

>

> Boss: "Right everyone, I've had a think about this

> and the best aproach is ABC"



Console yourself in your next meeting by remembering that while there's no I in team, there is a u in cunt (that would be him the cunt, not you the cunt)

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