Team Building 101

My boss took myself and a co-worker to an offsite “team building”
meeting. He has no idea how to have a normal conversation with us, so
he had us do activities from a book on meetings and ice-breakers. One
activity required each of us to think of a wish we would like
fulfilled. My boss said, “I want world peace, so I wish we could just
get rid of all of Islam.” I was dumbfounded. It was definitely the
first time I’ve had a boss use genocide in team-building.

Scheduling Problems

So I work at a local amusement park. It was the time of the week when
we submitted our schedules.

At the park, we can usually choose our hours, and due to my age then,
I could only work 8 hours per day.

I put in from 12PM to 8:30PM, with a 30 minute break, that makes
exactly 8 hours.

Apparently, my boss thought otherwise. She gets the schedule in her
hands and states “Do you know how to count?” and then begins counting
the hours on her hands out loud to me as if I were a child.

She gets to “8 and a half” and I simply state “That’s true and all,
but if you subtract 30 minutes for my break, it’s exactly 8 hours,
which is legally acceptable.”

She just stopped completely, turned to the nearby table, wrote the
“OK” on the paper for the schedule and walked out the door like a dog
with it’s tail between it’s legs.

Never did I have a problem scheduling since then.