Posts tagged bad boss
Blame it on the alcohol!
Mar 1st
I will try to make this story as brief as I can. It’s so ridiculous. Since Novemeber 2009, I have been going out drinking with my boss..We are both female. We have always gotten along well. I have worked for her 3-plus years. Now my boss meets this male bartender through her female bartender friend. She develops a crush on him. So pretty much, she talks about him often. Asks for advice, etc. I am often with her 2 or 3 nights a week when we go to this bar. However, I would often leave after 2 or 3 drinks so they can spend time alone. She is basically a nice women. Good natured and educated. Anyway, this bartender is quite flirtatious at times. Now I know that’s part of the job. I myself am an on/off again bartender for the past 6 years. She takes everything he says seriously. Now I know pretty much that he is just gassing her up. But I do believe he valued her friendship and business. She begins trying to invite him back to her place. He declines the few times she asks..I give her my honest opinion (gently) but she insists on chasing this guy nearly every night. So now the month of November passes by and now it’s December. He puts his hands on me often enough. However, I do not take it too seriously because it might be part of his “bartender routine”. For the past couple of weeks in early December, she has been feeling rejected by him and also has been getting angry with him and starting arguments. Mind you, he has never made a date with her or called her or anything. She had told me he would be affectionate with her at times and I did witness that a couple of times. But I do simply think it was affection, not attraction. He was kind of leading her on a bit. But keep in mind, lots of bartenders act that way towards their regular patrons who spend money and bring customers in. So now she begins getting very angry with him and she refuses to go there for at least a week. She decides to send me in there for information. To sum it up: He gets me trashed (I know it’s very much my fault for allowing myself to get that way)and we make out in the bathroom. I didnt remember it afterwards. I must have blacked out. He told his friend a few weeks later about it. His friend told me. I didnt remember so I thought he was lying. But when I think back to this night , a portion of it was a blank. I then tell my boss what his friend said because I really didn;t think it actually happened. The bartender tells her it did and had the owner of the bar confirm that I was in the bathroom with him for 10 minutes. I convince her that I really didnt remember and things were ok with us. So I thought. A few weeks later in early FEbruary she starts suspecting we are having an affair behind her back. Keep in mind, she is basically a nice woman, but since November has been drinking nearly every night to sit with this bartender and keep him company. What I am trying to say, is that she has become paranoid…She tells my other coworker about her suspicions . I believe that she thought this because at the time, he was off on Saturday nights. I dont go out on Saturdays much because I have a child. I think she thought I was with him on Saturday nights.I really wasn’t.. she fired me via text message 3 weeks ago. She wished me and this bartender good luck together. I know I am an idiot for allowing this to happen. But keep in mind I did grow to like this guy as a friend and I trusted him so it never crossed my mind he would try to get me drunk and take advantage of me., I am very hurt by this. I was her manager and I wasn’t fired for a business reason. Also, I can understand her being upset. But not to this extent. Her judgement sucks from drinking so much lately. They are not dating. They are just friends ( well actually bartender/patron mostly) and they have never even been intimate at all>Well thats the summary of my story..,I tried to be as brief as possible. i really didn;t even leave out many details at all. Thats basically it in a nutshell…
This post was submitted by Dina.
Workaholics go to meetings
Chapter 2: Nice and Easy (part 2)
Dec 2nd
As I sat there wasting away minutes at useless calculations, I wondered why everything was bundled into one giant PTO pool. Imagine if baseball didn’t break down hits into singles, doubles, triples, and home runs. You’d be as confused reading the back of the baseball card as the manager trying to set the lineup. Being the statistical guru that I am, I separated everything into categories: PTO that is automatic (like holidays), PTO that is granted (like vacation), and PTO that is urgent (like sick time). This made perfect sense – PTO as a single category should not exist if you plan to track it. But no one really tracked it before. People just entered their PTO hours in the weekly time reporter and that was it. No one checked it, no one cared. But I decided that I would.
The owners were on board right away, and I was writing policy change notices before I knew it. Advance request requirements, half day options, the snowball had been pushed off and was barreling down at the speed of light. And in the midst of it all, there I was, like a wizard waving a magic wand, creating rules and policies, setting requirements… Little did I realize, this made life harder on everyone. Not that I cared. I felt power, I felt importance.
What the f**k did I know about setting policies? I wasn’t a business owner now, I had never been one before. I’ve been an employee my whole life, yet I was sitting there with a suit and tie and a smart ass look on my face setting up hoops for everyone to jump through. Everyone but those deemed exempt, those lucky few living outside the black and white of the policy world. And who would decide who is granted membership to this exclusive club? Why, I, of course.
Better LATE than never
Nov 11th
I grew tired of my job and really wanted to quit but I couldn’t afford to go without a paycheck. I’ve been trying to get 
fired for the past 6 weeks. I pulled out all the tricks in the book: I was late all the time, missed meetings, ignored emails, and failed to hand in assignments. And then it finally happened. I can’t believe it took 6 weeks for them to make this decision…and I thought that I made it so much easier on them to kick me out. Oh well! My boss told me that he was through babying me…are you kidding? This company’s moral is so low that most coworkers just congratulated me on finally moving on. EVERYONE in this company has their resumes out on Monster looking for a new job. This place is truly run without thinking of the people they employ. All I gotta say is GOODBYE and Good riddance!
This post was submitted by Moley.
Fired! Civil Duty: two different ends of the spectrum
Oct 20th
One fired because he was “too intimidating” (is that a real reason?) and the second because he went over his bosses head. The difference? One received a severance package that will ensure a clean separation, while the other is let loose after nearly three decades of service and is now suing to get his job back.
Keep your employment away from termination
A small Florida town has fired Bill Vance, its Town Manager, because he was too intimidating. The town’s Library Director has told the the town commissioners during a special meeting that she along with other staff members “are being intimidated, being ambushed.” Vance’s firing comes as a result of “such an amount of adverse comments.” Vance was terminated with a six-month severance package.
In New York, a Health and Hospitals Corporation employee has been fired for what he claims to be “unjust reasons”. According to Naren Gupta, his problems began when while serving as a senior management consultant for HHC, he discovered more than $1,000,000 in payments being made to Chase Manhattan Bank without a contract Read the rest of this entry »
Insensitive jokes will get you Fired!
Oct 16th
Ronan Tynan, the Irish Tenor who (used to) sing God Bless America at Yankee Stadium has been dismissed
Ronan Tynan Fired for Anti-Semitic Joke
by the Yankees organization for making an anti-Semitic “joke”.
This ill-conceived attempt at humor was made when Tynan told a real estate agent who was showing an apartment in his building to a doctor from NYU Medical Center that he’s “ok” with the potential new tenants “as long as they are not Jewish.”
A joke? I think not. If it’s a joke told in a private setting, it’s one thing, but if he’s saying Read the rest of this entry »
This post was submitted by Jim Joyce.
I drove a B-757 and got fired!
Oct 12th
Okay, so if you know anything about airplanes, you should know that when an airplane is on the ground and is in the
B-757 towed by a TUG
gate area, usually they are towed to and from the gate. For example, when aircraft are ready for departure, they need to be towed (pushed) out by a machine called a TUG. This little machine has enough power to push any size aircraft. Also, when a plane is parked on the hardstand (a place where they are parked when they are not in use and there is no room for them at the gates.) So here is my story, since I will be using airport specific terms, I needed to clear those terms up.
I worked for an ANAL airline (who is no longer in business) for about a year. I was doing passenger service, but that included everything from floor to ceiling. So after the first aircraft (we had 2 departure) was pushed back. The TUG driver (and supervisor) asked me if I want to take a ride with him to bring the 2nd aircraft from hardstand to the gate (to get it ready for the 2nd departure.) I figured, he knew what he was doing, he’s a supervisor! So I agreed. Read the rest of this entry »
This post was submitted by Banana.
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