This morning I watched my big fat lazy boss yak at the copy machine (which is right across from my cubicle) for an HOUR. She stood there talking about her kids, her husband, her nagging cough, her upcoming vacation to Gettysburg and her husband's antique typewriter collection. It wasn't even to one person either! People would come to make copies and she would talk to each of them...repeating the same stories over and over like a travelling circus! As if I already wasn't annoyed, she stops by my desk to piss on me before she goes back to her office/ivory tower. She stops and says "I am just too busy today! I am too busy to even think. Can you please pick up my dry cleaning on your way to lunch today?" I could not belive the nerve of this woman and said "I'm not going out for lunch today" and she says "Well of course you are...it's such a lovely day outside. I wish I could enjoy it. Here's the ticket". Then she pulls the ticket out and slides it under my keyboard, patting it twice as I look on in shock. As she was walking away she sees one of the other bosses and runs up to him and starts yaking to him about his wife. BUSY MY HIND END!!!! Like an idiot, I did go to the cleaners and when I got there, they were closed. I took a picture with my camera phone in case she didn't believe me. I tell you I am so annoyed, if she asks me ever again to do something like that I am going to pull a few threads loose on her cleaned blouses. Unless anyone out there has a better idea about what to do about a boss from hell??? I'm open!
POST A COMMENTFedUp(07/19/2005)
Thanks. You're right, I shouldn't have. I told myself that the whole way there...I felt like I was making myself a doormat, but I didn't know what else to do. I am relatively new here and didn't want to cause waves, but you're right, I think I just set the expectation level for myself... I feel like I should have seen this coming when I interviewed with her. I read another post on here that says to start a file and I will do that. I thought asking people to do personal errands was a thing of the past.
Awesomeness(07/28/2005)
Find a new job.
Corporate Doormat(07/19/2006)
I had a busy boss like that, only she was really busy. She didn't know how to simplify her work. I was her administrative assistant for 6 months and I was supposed to manage her calendar for meetings, however when I met with her to go over my responsibilities (I was transferred to her because my boss had left the company) and said that she would handle that. I figured ok. Less work for me since calendar management could take up to 30% of one's day. Anyway, one morning she comes in late (says she has to drop off her kids at school) and asks me to go downstairs and get her some oatmeal. She drops $5.00 on my desk. We are on the 12th floor with an elevator, but nevertheless I figured she asked this once and so I complied. When I returned she was on the phone and didn't acknowledge my presence, nor did she say thank you. So I let it go. Around noon the same day, she asks me again to go downstairs and get her a sandwich. At this point, I'm wondering why she couldn't have movee her lazy but. She had an hour of no meetings before she asked me to get her lunch and her door was closed. So I wondered what she was doing. So again, I did as I was told. A few more times of this and I'm still complying, but wondering why she wouldn't say "get a sandwich for yourself." (The b*tch made over $180,000 so obviously $6.00 wouldn't of hurt her financially. So off I went, mad and I decided to spit in her sandwich and her oatmeal every time she asked me to get her food. That was my revenge.
been there (07/18/2005)
You should NOT have gone to the cleaners for this person. You should have just left the ticket there. You already said you were not going to lunch. When she comes for the clothes, just say you never went out because you were so busy working. NEVER do personal errands for someone on the job unless it is part of your job description. You are not anyone's servant.
Keachie (07/19/2005)
Agreed. As I have said before, document,document,document (save the picture and your account of this incident). Patting the ticket, constant loitering, dancing around, etc. are not only unacceptable business practice, they show signs of instabity. Visit bullyonline.org for more!
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