Irritating things your boss does (1 Viewer)

[George Jefferson Airplane]

Mine says "and so forth" after just about every single sentence. He also spells "than" T-H-E-N, and so forth.

 

[Baloney Sandwich]

Mine will send emails and address me only using my first initial and signing off just using his first initial. I have 4 letters in my name and he has 5, type it out for chrissakes. Worst of all, he is just mimicking our President who only has 3 letters in his name but does the same.

All that said, I consider myself lucky as that is relatively minor all thing considered. Probably helps that I only see him once every couple of months and talk to him at most once a week.

 

[Peyton Marino]

Mine will send emails and address me only using my first initial and signing off just using his first initial. I have 4 letters in my name and he has 5, type it out for chrissakes. Worst of all, he is just mimicking our President who only has 3 letters in his name but does the same.

All that said, I consider myself lucky as that is relatively minor all thing considered. Probably helps that I only see him once every couple of months and talk to him at most once a week.

mine does this as well. it must be a thing.

 

[Ned]

Oh god, where do I begin....

First that comes to mind is they say tranche instead of phase. I don't know what it is about that word, but I want to jump out my window when I hear or read it.

 

[msommer]

Ask for a report that is critical for decision making and urgent, then proceeds to not read it, postponing the decision again, again.

Oh and is convinced of his own infallibility

 

[BowieMercs]

Schedules status meetings for 2:30PM or later on Fridays. They always start late & take far too long. We have flexible schedules... some people start at 6 or 7 am... others don't show up till after 11am. Can you guess when the boss rolls in?

 

[bakes]

"Bridge under the water."

"Pain of the ###."

 

[sdp1226]

I am pretty sure that my company monitors all internet activity so....

My boss is awesome and can do no wrong!!!

 

[IC FBGCav]

Mine will send emails and address me only using my first initial and signing off just using his first initial. I have 4 letters in my name and he has 5, type it out for chrissakes. Worst of all, he is just mimicking our President who only has 3 letters in his name but does the same.

All that said, I consider myself lucky as that is relatively minor all thing considered. Probably helps that I only see him once every couple of months and talk to him at most once a week.

mine does this as well. it must be a thing.

 

[IC FBGCav]

Schedules status meetings for 2:30PM or later on Fridays. They always start late & take far too long. We have flexible schedules... some people start at 6 or 7 am... others don't show up till after 11am. Can you guess when the boss rolls in?

Well you work with morons if they are coming in a 6 or 7.

 

[BowieMercs]

Schedules status meetings for 2:30PM or later on Fridays. They always start late & take far too long. We have flexible schedules... some people start at 6 or 7 am... others don't show up till after 11am. Can you guess when the boss rolls in?

Well you work with morons if they are coming in a 6 or 7.

LOL... It's called trying to avoid the DC area rush hour gridlock.

 

[Ned]

I spend a lot of time on the web, on these boards, checking daily fantasy football stuff, browsing reddit, deadspin, gawker, and generally slacking off online.

Every time my boss comes over with some work for me to do, relating to my actual job that he's paying me for, he apologizes and says "Hate to bother you, but can you take care of this thing? I'm sorry," and then he sheepishly leaves the room. Once it's done he's immensely grateful and thanks me profusely for getting it handled.

I hate that passive/aggressive BS.

 

[E Street Brat]

Breaths

 

[FUBAR]

Mine will send emails and address me only using my first initial and signing off just using his first initial. I have 4 letters in my name and he has 5, type it out for chrissakes. Worst of all, he is just mimicking our President who only has 3 letters in his name but does the same.

All that said, I consider myself lucky as that is relatively minor all thing considered. Probably helps that I only see him once every couple of months and talk to him at most once a week.

mine does this as well. it must be a thing.

Are you all offended by initials too or just when it's the first initial only?

Schedules status meetings for 2:30PM or later on Fridays. They always start late & take far too long. We have flexible schedules... some people start at 6 or 7 am... others don't show up till after 11am. Can you guess when the boss rolls in?

Well you work with morons if they are coming in a 6 or 7.

LOL... It's called trying to avoid the DC area rush hour gridlock.

we do the 7 am thing here too, lets people leave by 3:30. they seem to love it.

 

[Judge Smails]

Tries to take credit for every deal we've ever signed. Avoids key conversations around comp, etc. Shifts strategy every quarter.

 

[Bonfire]

Poops in the elevator and bites people to establish dominance; makes everyone call him 'Mad Dog'.

 

[IvanKaramazov]

"At this point in time."

She will literally use this phrase 3-4 times in under 60 seconds when flustered. It's like a tic.

 

[Ditka Butkus]

Meetings

 

[johnnycakes]

She's started to insist I help with the dishes.

 

[IC FBGCav]

Schedules status meetings for 2:30PM or later on Fridays. They always start late & take far too long. We have flexible schedules... some people start at 6 or 7 am... others don't show up till after 11am. Can you guess when the boss rolls in?

Well you work with morons if they are coming in a 6 or 7.

LOL... It's called trying to avoid the DC area rush hour gridlock.

495 is always gridlock.

 

[Guest]

Answers "Fair enough" to just about everything.

Me: I need some additional details from you before I can get started on this (very important to you) project.

Him: Fair enough.

I never get the additional details.

Me: It looks like it might storm today.

Him: Fair enough.

Me:

Me: How was your son's game last night?

Him: Fair enough.

Me:

 

[IC FBGCav]

Answers "Fair enough" to just about everything.

Me: I need some additional details from you before I can get started on this (very important to you) project.

Him: Fair enough.

I never get the additional details.

Me: It looks like it might storm today.

Him: Fair enough.

Me:

Me: How was your son's game last night?

Him: Fair enough.

Me:

He has no respect for you and doesn't like you to be that indifferent.

 

[George Jefferson Airplane]

Tries to take credit for every deal we've ever signed.

I had one like this. What I did was every time I wanted something, I would make it seem like it was his idea all along. After a second or third mention of it, he was telling everyone what a great idea he had and how we were going to implement it right away. This worked like a dozen times, it was pretty awesome.

 

[Poke_4_Life]

Nothing. I currently have the best boss I have ever had. Plus its the first time I've ever had a boss that offices over 1000 miles from my office. Love that arrangement. My boss is very hands off and just gets involved in my day to day when asked to do so, otherwise I rarely hear from her. (Yes my boss is female, the single best female I've ever worked for, not like the corporate ladder climbing #####es I've worked for before.)

 

[Parmcat]

"we must be mindful...."

 

[George Jefferson Airplane]

"we must be mindful...."

:X

 

[James Daulton]

Mine brings his laptop to all meetings and he's constantly pecking at his laptop and misses half of the conversations. I think he only does it to let everyone know how important he is.

 

[Rick James]

Mine scheduled an 8am conference call last Friday. That was not tight.

 

[Zegras11]

Answers "Fair enough" to just about everything.

Me: I need some additional details from you before I can get started on this (very important to you) project.

Him: Fair enough.

I never get the additional details.

Me: It looks like it might storm today.

Him: Fair enough.

Me:

Me: How was your son's game last night?

Him: Fair enough.

Me:

He has no respect for you and doesn't like you to be that indifferent.

Fair enough

 

[bentley]

Reminds me that I'm not supposed to bang vendors or consultants.

 

[Chemical X]

i really have no issues given my setup, but time has no bearing on my boss. a scheduled 3p call will never be at 3p. could be 4p, maybe 3.30p, maybe it wont occur. hey, lunch tomorrow at 1p means i am likely not going to lunch. if you set a time, follow it......everyone else is busy too.

 

[The Commish]

Schedules status meetings for 2:30PM or later on Fridays. They always start late & take far too long. We have flexible schedules... some people start at 6 or 7 am... others don't show up till after 11am. Can you guess when the boss rolls in?

Well you work with morons if they are coming in a 6 or 7.

LOL... It's called trying to avoid the DC area rush hour gridlock.

Or the people in the office that stop by to chat. Then you realize at the end of the day you didn't get #### done.

 

[The Commish]

My boss was adamant about me being in the office after working from home for 15 years. Oh, she's in Maryland, I'm in SC/NC and I never see her.

 

[BowieMercs]

My boss was adamant about me being in the office after working from home for 15 years. Oh, she's in Maryland, I'm in SC/NC and I never see her.

I hate cube farmers. Absentee cube farmers are worse.

 

[The Commish]

My boss was adamant about me being in the office after working from home for 15 years. Oh, she's in Maryland, I'm in SC/NC and I never see her.

I hate cube farmers. Absentee cube farmers are worse.

She's not very good at it. I haven't been in the office in over a year and I'm not sure she even knows. Fortunately, she leaves me the hell alone. If she were a micro-manager I'd have quit a long time ago. It's a lock that she will choose the most complicated, drawn out option of any options presented to her. I don't even go there anymore.

 

[sho nuff]

Mine brings his laptop to all meetings and he's constantly pecking at his laptop and misses half of the conversations. I think he only does it to let everyone know how important he is.

Or he posts here a lot?

 

[BowieMercs]

Boss came in today & said "Everyone in my house has a stomach virus or something. It's coming out of both ends". I thanked him for sharing that virus with the office.

 

[Guest]

Boss came in today & said "Everyone in my house has a stomach virus or something. It's coming out of both ends". I thanked him for sharing that virus with the office.

Get a head start to the holiday weekend. "Hey boss, I'm not feeling very well. I think you brought the virus to the office."

Extra points if you can vomit and/or crap your pants voluntarily.

 

[nirad3]

Ugh. I was at a sales conference with my boss and another co-worker once. We all went out for dinner and drinks the night before things kicked off and we got pretty ish-faced. I stayed out til 3 or 4 am partying with strippers, did a few lines, finally got to bed at 5 or 6am.

Got up, texted my co-worker that I was sick. I mean, I kinda was. Boss got mad and supposedly came to some message board to ask for advice on what to do about me. That was irritating.

I ended up quitting via email.

 

[IC FBGCav]

Ugh. I was at a sales conference with my boss and another co-worker once. We all went out for dinner and drinks the night before things kicked off and we got pretty ish-faced. I stayed out til 3 or 4 am partying with strippers, did a few lines, finally got to bed at 5 or 6am.

Got up, texted my co-worker that I was sick. I mean, I kinda was. Boss got mad and supposedly came to some message board to ask for advice on what to do about me. That was irritating.

I ended up quitting via email.

The yellow board called, it wants it's shtick back.

 

[nirad3]

Ugh. I was at a sales conference with my boss and another co-worker once. We all went out for dinner and drinks the night before things kicked off and we got pretty ish-faced. I stayed out til 3 or 4 am partying with strippers, did a few lines, finally got to bed at 5 or 6am.

Got up, texted my co-worker that I was sick. I mean, I kinda was. Boss got mad and supposedly came to some message board to ask for advice on what to do about me. That was irritating.

I ended up quitting via email.

The yellow board called, it wants it's shtick back.

Is that a racist joke?

 

[elguapo07]

Not recognizing a ####### thing that I did for him over the past 10 years.

 

[top dog]

My boss comes into our teams office at least 3 times a day to warm up soup. It's irritating because it's not that he eats a lot of soup, he just never finishes it. He also lightly clears his throat when he enters the room. Also drives me nuts. Then he will make small talk with whomever while he waits for his soup to warm up that he is going to sit on his desk and not friggin eat!

Starts like this....

10:00 am :

Door opens to office, ::uh hem::...

BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, WHIRLLLLLLLLLL,

Boss - "So, any new progress?" or "See what Obama did today?" or "Hey, did you see they are paving the parking lot across the street?" or "How can my cell phone say I missed a call when it never rang? How does that happen?"

DINNG!!

(door opens and shuts on microwave)

Hear door open and shut as he takes his soup back across the hall to his office just to take a few bites and let it cool off until he warms it up later.

11:00 am - SAME THING

2:00 am - SAME THING

It seriously is the same can of soup being warmed up all day. He used to pour part of the soup into a bowl and just warm up that, but I mistakenly threw away his remaining soup one day thinking that a guy who wasn't there had left soup by the microwave from the day before.

 

[GoFishTN]

Mine scheduled an 8am conference call last Friday. That was not tight.

8 and 12 meetings are the worst. What's wrong with people?

 

[Poke_4_Life]

Mine scheduled an 8am conference call last Friday. That was not tight.

8 and 12 meetings are the worst. What's wrong with people?

You people complaining about 8 and 12 meetings crack me up. I'm working on a project right now with people across all the time zones. We have conference calls at 9am Eastern and 1pm Eastern weekly. I'm Central time so I feel like its no big deal to me, my counterparts on the West Coast never even complain (well not seriously).

 

[Snoopy]

Mine scheduled an 8am conference call last Friday. That was not tight.

8 and 12 meetings are the worst. What's wrong with people?

You people complaining about 8 and 12 meetings crack me up. I'm working on a project right now with people across all the time zones. We have conference calls at 9am Eastern and 1pm Eastern weekly. I'm Central time so I feel like its no big deal to me, my counterparts on the West Coast never even complain (well not seriously).

My sister worked for a worldwide company and had to come in for 3:00 AM meetings.

 

[sbonomo]

Where to start: 1). Boss constantly schedules meetings then does not show up only to reschedule hours later. As other's have mentioned, we are all busy as well. 2). Extreme micro manager with anything he has to sign, he and I jointly sign 50%-60% of my teams work product and all new deals, although he thinks that he is very high-level manager. 3). Worst personal time manager i have ever seen. I think he works 80-90 every week but really only gets 30-40 worth of work done. Anything that goes to him is a complete loss of time. 4). there is this thing called a "bottleneck" - I may have to submit his picture to Wiki. 5). Has zero clue how his senior people are compensated. I wonder why attrition is so high.

I honestly could go on and on but I think you get the picture. Light at the end of the tunnel is that i most likely will be re-organized out of his group in the next two to three months, otherwise i will reorganize myself.

 

[sbonomo]

Mine scheduled an 8am conference call last Friday. That was not tight.

8 and 12 meetings are the worst. What's wrong with people?

You people complaining about 8 and 12 meetings crack me up. I'm working on a project right now with people across all the time zones. We have conference calls at 9am Eastern and 1pm Eastern weekly. I'm Central time so I feel like its no big deal to me, my counterparts on the West Coast never even complain (well not seriously).

My sister worked for a worldwide company and had to come in for 3:00 AM meetings.

I do this all the time...all of my companies have international arms so to be able to get on the phone with India, Australia, China, etc i have to be flexible.

 

[Tom Skerritt]

"Supposably"

 

[msommer]

My boss comes into our teams office at least 3 times a day to warm up soup. It's irritating because it's not that he eats a lot of soup, he just never finishes it. He also lightly clears his throat when he enters the room. Also drives me nuts. Then he will make small talk with whomever while he waits for his soup to warm up that he is going to sit on his desk and not friggin eat!

Starts like this....

10:00 am :

Door opens to office, ::uh hem::...

BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, WHIRLLLLLLLLLL,

Boss - "So, any new progress?" or "See what Obama did today?" or "Hey, did you see they are paving the parking lot across the street?" or "How can my cell phone say I missed a call when it never rang? How does that happen?"

DINNG!!

(door opens and shuts on microwave)

Hear door open and shut as he takes his soup back across the hall to his office just to take a few bites and let it cool off until he warms it up later.

11:00 am - SAME THING

2:00 am - SAME THING

It seriously is the same can of soup being warmed up all day. He used to pour part of the soup into a bowl and just warm up that, but I mistakenly threw away his remaining soup one day thinking that a guy who wasn't there had left soup by the microwave from the day before.

1) Who bites soup?

2) 2 am? Find another job, stat

ETA:

3) screen name + having an irritating boss = does not compute