Posted on 06/17/2005 by Tired of working for idiots
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I manage the office of a large preschool. I have a boss who is probably the least intelligent person I've ever had for a supervisor. I have many stories supporting my opinion, but below are three of my favorites.
Each year we send out paperwork to families that they fill out and return. My boss asked me which forms I send out so that he could reference them in his cover letter. I told him that I had a checklist that went out with the forms, and that I would give him a copy of that. In our next meeting we went over the checklist, and then he asked me, "Are you going to send the forms out too, or just the checklist?" What kind of idiot would send out a forms checklist and not include the forms? Because he's stupid, I think he assumes everybody is.
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A coworker and my boss were measuring a space for new classroom furniture. He asked her, "What's 54 plus 48?" She correctly replied, "102." "Are you sure?" "Yes." Over the next five minutes, he asked her 6 more times, (count 'em, 6, this is not an exaggeration) each time looking at her like he didn't believe her. Finally, he went to his office and got his calculator! When he added it and the calculator gave him 102, he acted like he had never asked her.
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Speaking of calculators.... Each year we have a large bakesale. The parents running the sale asked our director (aka my stupid boss) if they could borrow his calculator. When we came to work the day after the sale, his calculator hadn't been returned. Within a space of 15 minutes, he whined to me about it three times. He then asked if he could borrow mine, and I said yes. He practically climbed under my desk trying to unplug it, which wasn't necessary, but he doesn't seem to be able to do anything without disrupting everyone around him. FINALLY, I thought he was settled, and would stop bothering me about the calculator. But after a moment he called out, "How do you get a total on this thing?" I paused for a second, unable to believe that anybody was that stupid, "Uh," I said, "hit the equal sign."
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