So I have this 46 inch LCD in my cube with a XBOX 360 hooked up to it.
My Boss is addicted to Pacman CE on it. He has been trying to beat my high score for months now.
Every time he looses you can hear him scream across the entire cube floor. I worked from home today but before
I left last night I put a child lock timer on the Xbox so in the middle of his game he was locked out... whohahaha
He called me up today and said did I put a lock on the Xbox. I told him yeah and he can only play 15 minutes a day now. I still have not given him the passcode =)
Good thing he already did my review for this quarter.
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wait.. your boss lets you have a big ass tv and xbox at work and your trying to piss him off.
And that's a fridge with beer in it under the desk =) Yeah I guess I am trying to piss him off :P
awesome.
are you hiring?
No =(
I wish. we are short handed right now and we had a open rec which magically disappeared =(
you're playing a dangerous game with your boss...
Nah we have a good relationship or I wouldn't have done that to him.
Quote from: herm (not herb) on January 20, 2010, 03:59:49 PM
you're playing a dangerous game with your boss...
Exactly. It's all easy to play fast and loose but a job is something you don't want to lose.
you guys are taking this way to seriously.
If I had a bad relationship with my boss and I valued my job I would never have done anything like this.
Trust me... He thought it was funny.
We have these long denim aprons at work for when we are working on something dirty like tires or brakes. They go all the way down to your boots. One day he was giving me shit so I put on an apron with just a shirt and boots, no pants or shorts. Couldnt tell from the front but I was bare assed from the back. Everybody in the shop was cracking up then the boss came out to see what was up. Never seen him turn so red. I still catch hell for it but it was totally worth it. ;D
His wife.
LA
Well working out in White Stone VA in the middle of no where we had a porta john and my boss went in to do his buisness.
So we had a loaded 9mm in the truck and unloaded it behind the john into the ground. I've never seen some one run out so fast with plans in one hand and trying to pull up his pants and yelling "Duck and cover, hit the ground!!!!" funny as hell
One monday I told my boss I was snowed in at Reno and wouldn't be at work. I was on vacation that week and he didn't realize it and spent the next 1/2 hour running around trying to find someone to cover my route.
Slept with his sister. :D
Quote from: MrIncredible on January 20, 2010, 06:51:34 PM
Slept with his sister. :D
Now I believe that one =) not the wife one though
Turned in my 2 week notice. (yesterday)
He aged 20 years almost instantly.
He should've known it was coming though. I've been asking for a raise every week for over a month now. Haven't gotten one in 8 years.
Went for an interview yesterday afternoon and got the job, $4.00 more per hr. Went back to work and dropped the bomb.
Quote from: hooligan machinist on January 21, 2010, 01:39:07 AM
Turned in my 2 week notice. (yesterday)
He aged 20 years almost instantly.
He should've known it was coming though. I've been asking for a raise every week for over a month now. Haven't gotten one in 8 years.
Went for an interview yesterday afternoon and got the job, $4.00 more per hr. Went back to work and dropped the bomb.
Congrats. That's a nice raise. About another 8k a year...
I needed some cash to pay for college and I had blown the majority of my summer already doing...well...nothing productive so I had to get my ass in gear as it were. Found a job driving a small catering truck (pick-up truck that has a cooler on the back to sell sandwiches, soda, chips and other shit) delivering to small shops on their break and lunch times. The job guaranteed me $300/wk but would let you keep extra $ if you went over that. The guarantee was for 4 weeks. I had 4 weeks before going back to college so it worked out for me.
Paychecks were:
$300
$450
$300
$420
What I did was to run the truck dry every other week so my profit came in around $1 to $20 and then he would 'comp' the rest up to $300. The other two weeks I sold all that stuff off the truck and made the overages.
Last week, last day they asked me to run a Saturday route which had fewer shops open, but you got to cover more territory so it worked out. They sent me out w/almost NO hot sandwiches or hot food as the Detroit Metro Airport expansion crews weren't working, or so they thought. They were actually working a double-shift and I was the *ONLY* truck coming for lunch for over 100 hungry and angry men.
Uh....now what?
To make time I skipped all the Mom & Pop shops and focused the rest of my day on Lear seating (again about 100 employees) and the DTW expansion crew. I drove the truck to a pizza place and bought 8 large pizzas, went next door to a fast-food restaurant and bought $215 worth of food. Had enough soda & chips, but had to cover my hot food for sure! (Cold rainy August Saturday in MI)
End result? Truck was returned to the shop on fumes in both tanks covered in mud from the tires to the roof, completely empty of soda and chips. I made about $300 in the one-day! ;D School was covered for finances and I quit as I got back to the shop. The manager (who had to wait for me to return) was FUMING!!! He asked about the Mom & Pop shops & I told him I couldn't find them... Hehehe...
BTW, it is illegal in MI to re-package and distribute food. But the very LARGE construction foreman who would've kicked my ass... well, motivated me to be creative. ;D
Quote from: hooligan machinist on January 21, 2010, 01:39:07 AM
Turned in my 2 week notice. (yesterday)
He aged 20 years almost instantly.
He should've known it was coming though. I've been asking for a raise every week for over a month now. Haven't gotten one in 8 years.
Went for an interview yesterday afternoon and got the job, $4.00 more per hr. Went back to work and dropped the bomb.
NICE.
worst thing I did to my boss was start my own business.
They were assholes, so we (me and my brother) saved up money for about a year (enough to start the business then pay the bills for about 8mo I fugured it was about what we'd need), then one day went in and were like "have a nice day, and we need to open a account with parts dept"
that douche nozzle didn't know what to say when his only two VW expert techs walked into the office and said "We'll be leaving in two weeks to start our own shop"
then, I went above his head to the GM to buy a bunch of old equipment they had in storage. I got it for CHEAP.
two lifts and a tire balancer for $2500... i told him I searched around on-line and these were the going price for this equipment (I lied, it was like 1/5 the value! ;D)
5 years later I go in there to get parts and STILL get the stink eye. [laugh]
Quoteworst thing I did to my boss was start my own business.
I wish i could afford to do that.
But the equipment i would need would cost in the hundreds of thousands.
I did get a counter offer to stay this morning. I haven't told anyone what i'll be making at the new job, but they offered me another $1.00 hr to stay on.
I told them no thanks (too little too late). Besides, $1.00 an hour is only part of what they cut me last summer.
I believe they'll try again before i leave. If there ever was an employee who was truly irreplacable, i'm it for this place. And they know it. That's why he almost died on the spot when i told him i was leaving.
Quote from: hooligan machinist on January 21, 2010, 07:26:57 AM
I wish i could afford to do that.
But the equipment i would need would cost in the hundreds of thousands.
I did get a counter offer to stay this morning. I haven't told anyone what i'll be making at the new job, but they offered me another $1.00 hr to stay on.
I told them no thanks (too little too late). Besides, $1.00 an hour is only part of what they cut me last summer.
I believe they'll try again before i leave. If there ever was an employee who was truly irreplacable, i'm it for this place. And they know it. That's why he almost died on the spot when i told him i was leaving.
I would leave even if they offer you more than the new job. They clearly have no idea how to treat you.
Just figured I'd throw that out there in case it comes up ;)
Agreed.
8 years with no raise is a little far fetched for a guy that's *that* important.
Sounds like they got comfortable with you being there on a daily basis.
about 20 years ago...
We all worked in this shitty shitty shitty office..
the boss was a prick.. he was the owner. glommed on the girls in the office big time, thought he was hot shit.. nasty make the beast with two backser.. had an old 300zx he drove, thought it made him cool.
we all had those office chairs with the foam, cloth covered seats.
we put salad dressing on his seat. soaked it.
mind you, these were the ingredients:
1 pint water
2 oz canola oil
1/4th cup (CUP) of habanero powder
shake it up really really good and soak the seat in it. let it all SOAK in well.
your wool pants will just suck it up when you sit down.
and then the fun began. yes, we had to call an ambulance. apparently his asshole swelled shut.
:o
:o
:o
went to a strip club with him for lunch and bought him a dance from a stripper who I personally asked to put on more glitter. We walked into the office together and everyone fell to the ground. He thought he had it all gone but no.
A bit of the old in-out in-out.
(relax, it was a girl...
she actually gave me a written performance evaluation the next day at work. I met or exceeded expectations [laugh])
Quote from: acalles on January 21, 2010, 06:49:21 AM
worst thing I did to my boss was start my own business.
Did the same thing. She was a wreck to work for - her only mgmt tool was waggling her tits and batting her eyelashes. Didn't do anything for me. She hired two people to replace me and they have driven the department straight into the ground. I get calls from former regional staff wanting to hire me to fix the mess the replacements have made.
Quote from: hooligan machinist on January 21, 2010, 07:26:57 AM
But the equipment i would need would cost in the hundreds of thousands.
I did remodeling projects for about a year on the side before I quit. That gave me enough to pay for mortgage/bills/food etc in case the first year sucked. Thanks goodness my only overhead is a couple of computers and some expensive software.
When my boss' boss asked me what I though of the boss, I told him
Next day I was reporting to my boss' boss, as was everyone else. A month later he was gone.
Incompetent bastard got a year's severance and accelerated options vesting, so maybe it wasn't the worst thing I've ever done.
Quote from: hooligan machinist on January 21, 2010, 07:26:57 AM
I wish i could afford to do that.
But the equipment i would need would cost in the hundreds of thousands.
I did get a counter offer to stay this morning. I haven't told anyone what i'll be making at the new job, but they offered me another $1.00 hr to stay on.
I told them no thanks (too little too late). Besides, $1.00 an hour is only part of what they cut me last summer.
I believe they'll try again before i leave. If there ever was an employee who was truly irreplacable, i'm it for this place. And they know it. That's why he almost died on the spot when i told him i was leaving.
good for you! i had a very similar situation last summer. i also got a new job for better money and got the same reaction from my old boss... he was actually in shock after i told him i was leaving, i had to say it 4 times before he got it.
never look back :)
I tell him he is useless on a daily basis and still he doesn`t want to fire me ;D
YOUR not YOU'RE
you just noticed that?
Quote from: ducpainter on January 22, 2010, 03:59:59 AM
you just noticed that?
no, it's just been irking me every time i see it pop up in my list... i try to ignore things.. i really do... >sigh<
When I gave my two week notice at a previous job, I asked the administrator if he'd write a letter of recommendation. He blew me some shit about how my level of professionalism wasn't up to his standards, basically out of bitterness that I was leaving for a job equal to his and the fact that now he'd have to pick up all the work I'd been doing on his behalf. So, despite a flawless record to that point, he withheld acknowlegement of my contributions. Bushleague and petty, soooo...
On my last day I knew that he and his secretary were going out to lunch. They left, and left his office door open. I visited his office and placed his phone receiver in my pants, making sure to make as much contact with as many of my private parts as possible.
As soon as I knew he was back from lunch, I called him from the parking lot.
[laugh]
lolol
awesome
Quote from: dropstharockalot on January 22, 2010, 04:45:56 AM
On my last day I knew that he and his secretary were going out to lunch. They left, and left his office door open. I visited his office and placed his phone receiver in my pants, making sure to make as much contact with as many of my private parts as possible.
a person i knew years ago was in a similar situation -- he unscrewed the mouthpiece (old style phone) and deposited some faecal matter there. apparently, boss was complaining about the smell of shit in his office for the next year.
Quote from: ducatiz on January 22, 2010, 04:13:22 AM
no, it's just been irking me every time i see it pop up in my list... i try to ignore things.. i really do... >sigh<
Don't upset you'reself! :D
Quote from: MrIncredible on January 22, 2010, 04:57:08 PM
Don't upset you'reself! :D
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Quote from: ducpainter on January 22, 2010, 04:58:28 PM
Your not helping.... :P
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