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Water Cooler Convo Piece
I have worked at the same company for a period of 2 years. During
that time I have been asked to go home and change once due to the
fact that my shorts were “too revealing” for the consumers. Since that
time I have worked under a rather inappropriately dressed “supervisor”
(I use the term loosely). She is not only a repeat offender of wearing
leggings as pants but she dresses as tho she is heading out for the
evening to the club; not heading into work. Her “pants” are often so
tight that her camel toe is often the subject of several water cooler
conversations. Not to mention that she is on the heavy side. Nobody
can seem to understand how she gets away with such horrible and very
revealing outfits without any consequences. To top it off; shes a
complete bitch. She’s the type of “boss” that sits on her very fat
ass all day and does nothing until one of us employee’s make a
mistake then she is all over us yelling and screaming about being
irresponsible and how she has to “do everything” despite her utter
lack of supervisory skills.
This one day I had a particularly interesting interaction with her.
She had come into the employee office to ask if one of us could read
over a form letter she had drafted to be sent out to consumers. As I
tried to peel my eyes away from the roll of fat pouring over her jean
leggings I gladly accepted her request. Upon reading through her form
letter I realized that she was completley illiterate! She had phrases
without periods or any punctuation at all on a few and literally every
other word was mispelled. When I say mispelled I mean that my 19 month
old son could’ve spelled these words better. I respectfully noted the
changes in red pen and she went to “rewrite it”. She returned a
short time later and again….disaster! It appeared as tho a Hellen
Keller wrote this letter! She asked me with an extremely
condescending attitude “Is this cool now?” I glanced at the
butchered English language and handed it back to her and stated
“perfect” and thanked my lucky stars for having a mirror at home and
the ability to use spell check.
31 Comments to Water Cooler Convo Piece
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I believe “jean leggings” are called jeggings…and they don’t look good on anybody.
Do you mean “Helen Keller” in the derogatory sense of a deafblind person who has not yet acquired language? Because Helen Keller was the first deafblind person to earn a B.A. degree, which she got from Radcliffe. She was probably smarter than you appear to be.
Just so you know, it is spelled ‘misspelled’…
When some people ask you to “look things over”, they’re not asking you to correct them! They’re just looking for praise!! And somebody to take the blame if it all goes wrong (“It was YOUR job to correct it!!!”) In other words, a no win situation. The best you can hope for is the boss will see how stupid they really are, and get rid of them. (Ignorance is simply not knowing. Stupid is willful ignorance)
Beyond the obvious reasons, don’t you wonder why or how some of these a-holes get their jobs? Plus, again and again, we’ve seen reports of people who think that their job as supervisor is simply to ride rough-shod over the underlings. I have always wondered, is this in some miss-begotten management manual somewhere?
Mmm…camel toe…
I think I’ve worked with this woman – or her twin sister. Most Word Processing programs have an automatic spelling and grammar check, but this woman turned off that feature “because it made her nervous”, which I think is French for “You’re not the boss if me”. Her spelling was atrocious, and her approach to punctuation seemed to be to scan the document and think, “A period would look good here, and maybe a comma down here. Oh, another period in this corner, and – ah! one more up here. There. Perfect.” I have NO idea why the higher-ups tolerated it.
We got a new boss, and he let her go about a week after showing her how to use the Spell-Check program. That’s when she told him it made her nervous. He suggested she find another place to work where her spelling skills wouldn’t be so important.
No one said all bosses are smart.
I swear…women are so damn catty. Who cares?!!
When you’re lambasting someone else’s misspellings it really helps to spell ‘misspelled’ correctly, twice.
Before I even got to the part about your boss’ spelling, I was thinking to myself, “This person’s writing is horrible. Something’s not right with this story.” Are you serious? “Hellen” Keller?
You even admit having been sent home for dressing inappropriately. It’s probably the talk of the office. Sounds to me like you’re just projecting your own faults on your boss.
wow, you sound like a pretentious bitch. luck you to be so judgemental!
OP…. please use the spell checker. You missed a few words in your story.
But i am curious. Are you kinda hot? You must be if you were sent home about your dress.
If you are hot then ignore my comment about spell checker. Just send us a link of you.
All would be forgiven.
You misspelled misspell moron!
Sanctimonious bigot is what you are.
Leggings are not pants. I cant fathom why people f’n wear them as such. My last boss dressed the same way and was overweight.. gag. Her moose knuckle could have swallowed me whole.
So it seems that the biggest problem the OP has with this boss is that she’s apparently overweight and is allowed to wear outfits the employee doesn’t approve of. If you think your boss is a bitch, I’m not surprised. I’d be a bitch too if I had to deal with superficial bimbos, too!
Helen Keller may had a BA, but if she had tried to hand write something, i bet the result would have been awful.
So, her writing was atrocious; but you repeatedly misspell several words and miss necessary punctuation? What does “tho” mean? Did you mean “though”?
I know, this isn’t a business paper, or anything. But at least make an effort if you’re going to criticize someone else’s spelling and grammar skills.
Also, what is up with so many posters on here feeling the need to point out that they’re boss was fat? Would you feel the need to point out that they were black, a little person or in a wheelchair? The only relevance of this fact is so that you can further insult them.
I like how everyone picked up on the two instances of her misspelling “misspelled”, and of Helen Keller’s name…yet no one picked up that she typed “though” as “tho”. Also twice. Not to mention, the misused apostrophe in “employee’s”, and the lack of one in “shes”, have both gone unnoticed.
I also like how she used “a Hellen Keller”. I don’t know why, but it amuses me.
Oh, one more thing. Is it just me, or is anyone else getting a headache from these posts that consist of nothing more than one or two huge chunks of text?
Ron, I think it’s more the fact that the apparent dress code doesn’t apply to someone else. For all we know, the poster could be this smoking hot lady and the boss is some fat bitch that’s jealous and making up stuff because the guys are looking at the poster, and not her.
If I’m told I can’t dress like that, I fully expect the supers to not be able to either. Especially in jobs like that, where the supers would be more visible.
What do you expect from affirmative action?
You ridicule your supervisor of being illiterate and unable to write, while praising your ability to use Spell Check. Despie this, I count nine (9) spelling or grammatical errors in your posting.
Fail!
Wow, let the piling on begin.
Sigh, ok I will join in.
You were just jealous because her camel toe was better then yours!
Aimee….you misspelled despite….
And you complain about her English skills? Yours might be marginally better, but I’m going to pull the, “I’m-an-English-major” card on you and tell you right now that you should probably look into some remedial English classes yourself.
Back in the mid-70s, I worked at a swimming pool company in Los Angeles. Shorts were ok, but some of the ladies would wear short shorts (AKA hot pants) to work. So the rules changed, and shorts were ok, as long as they were within two inches of the knee. Hot pants were “too provocative” for the office. OK. Except that the office manager, a morbidly obese woman, wore hot pants almost every day in summer. Nobody was gonna tell HER she was too provocative for work.
Pez4me42 – “Also, what is up with so many posters on here feeling the need to point out that they’re boss was fat?”
I believe you meant their, not they are. Way to comment on someones grammar and end up making that type of mistake.
Mutzali, that’s because she wasn’t provocative. Probably closer to “disgusting”. LOL! I like your story better than the OP’s.
Um, Hellen Keller? Pretty darn smart, actually… http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/h/helen_keller.html
Half of peoples complaints about their female bosses is that they are stupid (while not sounding like a winner on “Are you smarter than a 5th grader?”) or fat.
Did her muffin top use unnecessarily harsh discipline? No often the “dumb fat bitches” are a little ignorant but too accommodating and think they’re being “nice” bosses by interacting with employees and asking for their input.
So, what? Leggings as pants are a fashion mistake- but so where stretchy pants. They aren’t indecent. You might think about being nice to another woman and gently pulling her aside to mention the camel toe. Maybe show some leadership instead of being a bitter and mercenary gossip.
Seeing somebody’s twins pushed up to their neck and having a thong sticking out of their pants is a big deal. Somebody not knowing they have camel toe is sad.
Attacking a vulnerability when you could be helping somebody is why you are not and probably won’t be a manager.
Leggings ARE pants! You guys all suck!
@Aimee – you don’t ridicule someone “of” something, you ridicule them “for” it.