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Irritating things your boss does (1 Viewer)

msommer said:
top dog said:
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.
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1) Who bites soup?

2) 2 am? Find another job, stat

ETA:

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

2) dedicated

3) My wife agrees with your assessment of my screen name not computing.

 
IvanKaramazov said:
"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.
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I was in a long conversation with sometime recently (not my bosses, who are great) who continually said "at the end of the day". Spent about an hour with this person and they must have said it over twenty times. Drove me nuts.

Your post highlights a similar phrase so it just brought all that anger I had back, thanks.

 
Comes to work on his days off.

He took the week off yet I've seen him more this week than during an average week (he has two offices).

 
Peyton Marino said:
Baloney Sandwich said:
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.
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mine does this as well. it must be a thing.
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Because just "J" is even more important sounding than "JG"?

 
My boss also loves saying things like "we can't drain the swamp to kill the alligators. " and "no one wants to address the elephant in the room". He actually has a small elephant statue on his desk that he points to when he says this.

 
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My boss whistles the theme from Sanford and Sons...constantly. He's been doing it for at least 7 years. He whistles on his office, he whistles walking around, and its always the same dang song.

 
I'm an architect, but work for an Interior designer. Very good guy- respectful, appreciative and good at what he does. problem is... what he does involves being highly fickle (I've experienced this with every int designer I've worked with). so he'll want one thing one day, and the next day/week/month go in the completely opposite direction... which is fine if you're changing paint colors- but undoing a month's worth of architectural decisions that are all linked... not good. fortunately, since he's respectful, he's listen to why something won't work or why it will put us off schedule.. and sometimes even accept it.

 
moleculo said:
My boss whistles the theme from Sanford and Sons...constantly. He's been doing it for at least 7 years. He whistles on his office, he whistles walking around, and its always the same dang song.
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this is so ####### awesome and bizarre.

 
moleculo said:
My boss whistles the theme from Sanford and Sons...constantly. He's been doing it for at least 7 years. He whistles on his office, he whistles walking around, and its always the same dang song.
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It's a good jam. It could be My Heart Will Go on so count your blessings.

 
moleculo said:
My boss whistles the theme from Sanford and Sons...constantly. He's been doing it for at least 7 years. He whistles on his office, he whistles walking around, and its always the same dang song.
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Did you hear that Elizabeth, I'm coming to join you honey.

 
My old boss would always greet you with "Got everything under control?" One day someone said no they didn't and they could use some help. He then got up and spent five minutes looking for someone to help said employee, he never asked if he could help her, nor did he even offer to help her

End all conversations by saying "beautiful" but he would draw it out....beauuuutifulllll

He would preach for everyone to put everything back where you got it by quoting "A place for everything and everything in its place" AND then promptly leave something where it didn't belong after he was done using it

 
top dog said:
My boss also loves saying things like "we can't drain the swamp to kill the alligators. " and "no one wants to address the elephant in the room". He actually has a small elephant statue on his desk that he points to when he says this.
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I like your boss.......

 
"You got to spend money to make money" Yeah, but you can't just piss it away and hope it comes back two fold.

 
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Starts every conversation with "listen to me". Sometimes 2 or 3 in a row, "listen to me", "listen to me"...."listen to me"

Will occasionally throw it in mid sentence as well.

Awful

 
He's talking on the phone and I'm listening. He finally pauses for one second and immediately says, "Are you there? Hello?"

Says something in a conversation and immediately follows in a condescending way with, "Do you understand what I'm saying?" Sometimes multiple times.

These things are said to clients, vendors, employees, group settings, one on one...just terrible.

 
Too many things to list. The biggest problem of them all is I think he is coming down with Alzheimer's. It's gotten to the point that when we receive a routine shipment of supplies, I wrote the answer to his question about price right on the package, because he asks the same question every time he sees it. He is a maniacal micro manager so it could just be that his pea sized brain can't retain everything he panics about (he is the company owner). ####### guy should be playing golf and getting laid, instead he's bothering me on a daily basis.

 
top dog said:
My boss also loves saying things like "we can't drain the swamp to kill the alligators. " and "no one wants to address the elephant in the room". He actually has a small elephant statue on his desk that he points to when he says this.
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The elephant thing is awesome.

 
moleculo said:
My boss whistles the theme from Sanford and Sons...constantly. He's been doing it for at least 7 years. He whistles on his office, he whistles walking around, and its always the same dang song.
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This is also awesome. Especially if he is a good whistler. Which he ought to be by now.

 
DA RAIDERS said:
Starts every conversation with "listen to me". Sometimes 2 or 3 in a row, "listen to me", "listen to me"...."listen to me"

Will occasionally throw it in mid sentence as well.

Awful
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I had an employee that used to do that

On the phone

With his wife

Awfuller

 
My boss will go to conferences then come back and immediately try and change everything based on that one conference. Terrible.

She also lies, a lot. Blatant stuff. Awful.

 
RedmondLonghorn said:
moleculo said:
My boss whistles the theme from Sanford and Sons...constantly. He's been doing it for at least 7 years. He whistles on his office, he whistles walking around, and its always the same dang song.
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This is also awesome. Especially if he is a good whistler. Which he ought to be by now.
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maybe he is just trying to suttely tell everyone that he thinks the place is a dump and that you are all trash take that to the bank

 
Group huddles, with no theme or importance. Just to sound important. Always tells everyone they are going to a meeting as if we are supposed to feel proud.

 
Baloney Sandwich said:
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.
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I don't see the problem here.

- J

 
Ned said:
Ends every sentence as if it was a question.
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That is my boss. He likes to use the word "right".We have to be proactive instead of reactive, right?

We need to think about how to go forward, right?

You eat an elephant one bite at a time, right?

Drives me freaking bonkers!

 
When I had a boss at Ford during a meeting he would say "And things of that nature" 10-12 times in a 20 minute meeting...or whenever he did not know something.

 
Leviathan said:
Ned said:
Ends every sentence as if it was a question.
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That is my boss. He likes to use the word "right".We have to be proactive instead of reactive, right?

We need to think about how to go forward, right?

You eat an elephant one bite at a time, right?

Drives me freaking bonkers!
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Even a simple statement turns into a question. I've figured out that it comes out every time she's uncertain/not confident on a subject.

Water is wet? The sky is blue?

:wall: :no: :rant: :loco:

 
Ned said:
Leviathan said:
Ned said:
Ends every sentence as if it was a question.
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That is my boss. He likes to use the word "right".We have to be proactive instead of reactive, right?

We need to think about how to go forward, right?

You eat an elephant one bite at a time, right?

Drives me freaking bonkers!
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Even a simple statement turns into a question. I've figured out that it comes out every time she's uncertain/not confident on a subject.

Water is wet? The sky is blue?

:wall: :no: :rant: :loco:
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She's not just Canadian?

 
The most annoying thing my boss does is threaten to fire everybody when he's out of the office. It's amazing. If he's on travel or vacation, he sends these blistering emails and phone calls. He does it when he's in the office too, but much more rare.

It's this routine where if you can just get him in a room 1:1 you can have a calm conversation and he's cool. But if he's on the phone some distance away he's a bulldozer.

 
He's out at our corporate office. I'm in the field.

There's a boss ahead of him that has to approve things related to our deal-making. I'm in a very time-sensitive business that oftentimes require quick answers.

So I convey the situation (whatever it may be at the time) to him, propose a solution, and ask if we can proceed given my solution, and if not, what are conditions we would proceed under.

He doesn't want me talking directly to the guy above him. He hates the guy personally and doesn't want me to have a good relationship with him, even though I personally like the guy. So he waits and waits to even bring up my situation because he just doesn't like talking with him and in the meantime my deal dies due to lack of response.

And it's hard to call out your boss. And not the environment where you go above him either.

 
my boss always has some dumb thing to say if i say take it to the bank he will be like i am not going that way or they are closed or something it is very unpath of the brohan is what i am saying and phil if you are reading this you can take that to the bank it is open and i know dam well it is on your way brohan

 
Had a group lunch today without boss. We all decided to call him Dawg. Like, "What's up Dawg?"

D.ooshy

A.ss

W.ipe

G.uy

Whole office is cracking up.

 
T J said:
He's out at our corporate office. I'm in the field.

There's a boss ahead of him that has to approve things related to our deal-making. I'm in a very time-sensitive business that oftentimes require quick answers.

So I convey the situation (whatever it may be at the time) to him, propose a solution, and ask if we can proceed given my solution, and if not, what are conditions we would proceed under.

He doesn't want me talking directly to the guy above him. He hates the guy personally and doesn't want me to have a good relationship with him, even though I personally like the guy. So he waits and waits to even bring up my situation because he just doesn't like talking with him and in the meantime my deal dies due to lack of response.

And it's hard to call out your boss. And not the environment where you go above him either.
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Is it affecting your pay check? If it does, #### him and the environment.
 
El Floppo said:
I'm an architect, but work for an Interior designer. Very good guy- respectful, appreciative and good at what he does. problem is... what he does involves being highly fickle (I've experienced this with every int designer I've worked with). so he'll want one thing one day, and the next day/week/month go in the completely opposite direction... which is fine if you're changing paint colors- but undoing a month's worth of architectural decisions that are all linked... not good. fortunately, since he's respectful, he's listen to why something won't work or why it will put us off schedule.. and sometimes even accept it.
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Interior designers are the worst people to work with. We will no longer take them on as clients. We also won't work with photographers or fitness people.

 
Binky The Doormat said:
moleculo said:
My boss whistles the theme from Sanford and Sons...constantly. He's been doing it for at least 7 years. He whistles on his office, he whistles walking around, and its always the same dang song.
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####in' whistling. I would have to quit or go to jail for murder.
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Not a boss, but an ex co-worker would whistle miserable 1980s pop love songs, usually involving Peabo Bryson or Kim Carnes, incessantly. Called her the Teakettle.

 
My new boss is actually pretty awesome. Recently asked him for permission to give everyone on my team a $50 Amazon gift card for a migration that took months to plan/practice and went off without a hitch. He said "NO!". I started to respond and he said "Make it $200" each". :eek:

 
top dog said:
RedmondLonghorn said:
top dog said:
My boss also loves saying things like "we can't drain the swamp to kill the alligators. " and "no one wants to address the elephant in the room". He actually has a small elephant statue on his desk that he points to when he says this.
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The elephant thing is awesome.
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It was the first 5000 times he said it.
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It would be so money if one time you lean down, look the elephant directly in the eye and start talking to it as you make a point about something. Then you could pause, look up and say "I just wanted to address the elephant in the room."

He will hate you a little and secretly wish for your failure forever afterward, but he will probably never make that statement again with you in the room.

 
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