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Is Your Boss An Idiot?
Dracos writes "CNN Money is running an article entitled "Is Your Boss An Idiot?" Advice on how to cope with a PHB is prefaced with humorous, though suspiciously anecdotal, examples of how to identify one."
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So, Yes my boss is an idiot
What a fool! Always late for meetings, never gives any supportive commentary, the pay sucks, the hours are long, and _HE_ gets all the glory for the crap I have to do all day long! What a bozo!
Waiddasec. I work for myself.
Is there a doctor in the house?
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So, the answer is "Yes."
They say the first thing to go is your penis. Well, it's either that or your brain. I forget which...
Not a story. :)
Well, they give all managers lobotomies. How else would they be able to stand going to meetings for 7 hours a day.
Where am I going and why am I in this handbasket?
Is Your Boss An Idiot?
Is that a rethorical question?
...because if he finds out that it is me, he will tell his wife and then she won't fuck me anymore :(
...SATAN!
I dare you to call him an idiot!
T&K.
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I for one welcome our new idiot masters...
Wait I don't, but they're already here.
Disclaimer: If I disagree with you I'm probably trolling...
There was an office manager where I worked who had absolutely no idea. He just happened to be the brother-in-law of one of the Directors of the organisation (an ISP).
Other than having a propensity to open up every infected email he received (the best one was when he sent "I Love You" to all the employees), he did some other things that were pretty stupid. My favourite, however was when one of our bigger clients needed to talk to him about something. We looked all round the office, and couldn't find him, so we suggested to the client that they called him. The boss answered the phone, and they had a conversation about whatever it was that was required, though there was a really bad echo on the line. The disucssion was, however, suddenly punctuated by quite a loud "plop!", as if something was dropped into a bowl of water. It then dawned on the client why nobody could find him when we went looking.
He was on the crapper!
This guy had answered his mobile phone to one of our largest clients, while sitting on the john! The client had called the manager in front of us, and we wondered why he at first went bright red and then broke down in laughter.
He didn't tell us what had happened until later.
-- james
Anyone else get the feeling that we have been secretly spammed by this article on /.?
I mean really, isn't this article the same annoying type link you get five or six times a day from your "too much time on their hands at work" friends?
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He hired me.
You try dealing with a guy who seriously yelled at the entire IT department for keeping livestock on premises... He was refering to the server farm, and no I'm not kidding...
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And you just know if you do that she'll start hogging the duvet.
Ok I'm the IT Manager at an oncology/diagnostic imaging clinic and holy shit is my boss, the general manager (COO if you ask him) an idiot. Some examples include:
Asking a patient out on a date.
The patient he asked out didn't want to date him but did set him up with a friend of hers who just left her husband a few weeks prior, who also happened to be a patient at our other clinic across town. After going out with her he decided to hire her as our new receptionist. Ten minutes after the Doctor saw one of his other patients working the phones she was gone and Frank got an ass chewing.
He reportedly said, in the middle of a meeting with the doctor and a female employ: "Sometimes when I get home after a day like this it's just brain masturbation." There's nothing I can say to put this in context because there was no context, he apparently just blurted it out for no apparent reason.
He's a verbal train wreck in general. Last week he interupted a group us working by the MRI desk (not together, just happened that a lot us needed something from that area at the same time) and shouted "Hey if none of you have any work to do maybe I should dock your pay, har har har!" He then proceeded to hold us hostage for about 20 minutes while he told stupid stories about being a self made man, tried to sell my assistant some old suits he couldn't wear anymore and then told us all the story of how his father died of a heart attack at 52.
Fortunatly he didn't hire me and can't fire me. The Doctor/owner of the clinic hired me directly a few months ago and loves me because I'm finishing projects my predecessor spent the better part of a year fucking up.
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Apparently they missed their own headlines a few days ago:
"Salvador Tapia returned to the Windy City Core Supply warehouse where he had been fired six months ago and killed six of his former co-workers, police said Wednesday."
Apparently, if you can't live with 'em, you can shoot 'em.
- Kate
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I don't know how, but I'll find a way. Pack up your stuff, "boss", because as soon as I can find a way to acquire you, I will terminate you so quick you'll think you were in a seedy uptown clinic dodging a coathanger.
Whoops! That's a little tasteless. Sorry. You're still fired, though.
I auctioned my old boss on eBay. I got $20, the high bidder got my old job.
Use the Slashdot moderation categories. Interesting or Funny bosses get kept; Overrated or Troll bosses get fired.
Oh and my review is coming up soon. I've working incredibly hard, so I'm sure I will get a good pay increase. Isn't that right of most noble lord of the workplace?
The other day, the moron walked up to my desk, looked at me for a moment, and then said "uh...". He kept looking at me for a second, and then he walked into the bathroom.
Amazing.
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No, if you really want to get rid of your boss, there are much better ways. Especially if you're a sysadmin. Ever heard of the BOFH? Read and learn, read and learn ;)
Well, they give all managers lobotomies. How else would they be able to stand going to meetings for 7 hours a day.
Meetings are lobotomies. Long, drawn-out ones, that slowly kill you over time, like cigarettes.
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Back when I used to work as a software engineer, we had a large automotive engine tester that we made. Our boss, VP of Engineering, was out trying to help sell gobs of them to some large car repair chain. They asked him, "What operating system does it use?" His reply? "We use Microsoft Word."
There is no hope for him. I'm glad I'm out of there now.
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The boss monkeys look down from high up the tree and all they see is a bunch of smiling monkey faces.
While when you're at the bottom of the tree looking up, all you see is a bunch of assholes.
And actually, my boss is very competent.
You mean the one looking at my screen over my shoulder? Of course not! Hes the smartest guy in the world.