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Pick Your Poision
I’ve had so many bad bosses, I don’t know where to begin.
I worked at a fast-food restaurant in high school. I was hired as a
favor to my uncle, who was one of my managers. The day I left (for
bigger and better things), one of my other managers said, “When we
hired you, I was like, ‘Oh great, this is gonna be some slacker kid
that has to have a family member get him a job. But now I really like
you’.” Wow, talk about a back-handed compliment.
I worked for French chef that once got mad at me for helping our
dining room manager (this was at a private country club) set up some
tables. She was in her 60′s. He grabbed me by my arm, pulled me into
the kitchen, and said to me, “I can be your best friend, or your
worst nightmare! Don’t f*** with me!” I quit the next day.
I worked for a catering company owned by an elderly couple. Very brash,
very racist people. I hurt my back at work one day, and took one (1)
day off to “recover”. I came back to work the next day, and he told
me he had seen a car that looked like mine parked downtown, so it
must have been me out partying (wasn’t mine, I’ve never been a
partier). He told me to get the hell out and never come back.
The best is when my brother and I worked for the same company. He had
been passed over several times for promotion. He finally left, and
later I was promoted to General Manager. They then promoted a lady to
the position he had wanted. This was a Fortune 500 company that
brought millions, if not billions, a year. The woman that was
promoted to what was essentially a regional manager had spent time in
prison for credit card fraud. She was put in charge of several
offices, all of which had thousands of dollars a month paid via
credit card. Seem like a good idea to you? I bought myself a $200
bottle of Scotch the day I left that job.
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So….you commited credit card fraud when you left? As I am reading this, the $200 bottle of scotch was purchased with company funds?
Chris, I read it as the OP was so relieved he gave himself a nice relaxing gift when he left. Not that s/he stole.
Wow, that woman was in jail for credit card fraud and they promoted her? I guess she slept with whoever promoted her then; these days it’s all about favoritism in the work place.
Chris, I have a felling it’s safe to assume you didn’t score very well in reading comprehension in school.
Wait…you were a General Manager in a Fortune 500 company and you don’t know whether it brought in millions or billions per year? You know, Walmart is a Fortune 500 company. so is McDonald’s. So saying it is a “Fortune 500″ company doesn’t impress anyone.
Chris, it just said “I bought myself” the scotch the day he left. The credit card part was complaining about the managerial neglect of proper credit card practices. As far as this says, no fraud was committed.
THIEF!!!
Well I have to say the guy in your first story had a point. I’ve had to work with people that are offspring of the higher ups, and most of them are completely useless. There are exceptions of course, but I don’t blame him. You should take that as a compliment I think
I don’t see what is so horribly bad about the first one. So, before he knew you he assumed you’d be some slacker kid only getting in because of family. So what? I’d think that too, as I’ve seen it happen MANY times. The important thing is he didn’t treat you as such and got to know you weren’t like that at all.
As for the rest, they are pretty WTF.
I don’t think the first one is a “back handed compliment”. It’s just a “compliment”.
Whether due to a previous experience or not, they assumed that you had the job through your family and were going to “coast through”.
Obviously, you had worked hard enough for them to realise that the original assumption was wrong, and they “complimented” you on that.
Nice personal touch, Chris. You managed to add a malicious detail the poster never mentioned.
No, I bought the Scotch with my own money. I didn’t have a company credit card.
You suck at reading. The OP only said that they bought a $200 bottle of scotch when they left, how do you read “I defrauded the company out of $200″ from that?
I don’t know how much money they brought in because the company was actually split up into several subsidiaries. I wasn’t trying to impress anyone, merely stating a point. It was a job where we were open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and I was on-call all of that time. I’d spent every known holiday in that office at some point. Even when the office building nearly burnt to the ground, they wanted us to route the calls to my home so I could answer them there.
Moderator is so stupid, they can’t even spell poison correctly.