My boss’s management skills begin and end with the threat of the sack. Everything comes down to: ‘I pay you to do that, so you’ll do it’. It makes it hard to be efficient when you are aware of doing a job wrong because you’ve been told to do it that way. I once spent a morning pre-gluing stamps so they would be easier to apply later in the day, knowing that, by three o’clock, the glue would have dried. I finished the day with a desk covered with enough postage to send it to Columbia by air mail
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It’s a shame that My Boss lacks any irony because he also thinks that he’s funny. The man can’t go a minute without cracking a terrible joke, usually at the expense of ‘ze Germans’ (he pronounces it as written). He also speaks in this strange perversion of proper English, in which odd words take on added emphasis, and everything comes with the added zing of a mucho gracias’, a ‘ta-ta’ or a ‘cheerio’
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Every Friday we have ‘casual dress day’ at work. Last week my boss comes-in wearing a Tshirt that said “the flogging will continue until morale improves”. He thought this was hilarious. To then make things worse, he went around the office telling everyone to read his shirt as if we were all too stupid to notice what it said. Makes me want to make a shirt that says “my boss is a wanker” and then go up to him and ask what he thinks of MY shirt.
