The Boss.
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I'm self-employed, so have a fantastic boss.
Cheapjack - please provide more gruesome details of how your soul is gradually being destroyed by your work. It's quite difficult to cackle maniacally with the very limited information provided so far. If this thread represents your best work effort, I'm not surprised your boss is disappointed with you.
Cheapjack - please provide more gruesome details of how your soul is gradually being destroyed by your work. It's quite difficult to cackle maniacally with the very limited information provided so far. If this thread represents your best work effort, I'm not surprised your boss is disappointed with you.
My friend, that is signature material. You don't mind do you?
I'm self-employed, so have a fantastic boss.
Cheapjack - please provide more gruesome details of how your soul is gradually being destroyed by your work. It's quite difficult to cackle maniacally with the very limited information provided so far. If this thread represents your best work effort, I'm not surprised your boss is disappointed with you.
Actually, it's a bit of a zeitgeist thing.
I'm self-employed, so have a fantastic boss.
Cheapjack - please provide more gruesome details of how your soul is gradually being destroyed by your work. It's quite difficult to cackle maniacally with the very limited information provided so far. If this thread represents your best work effort, I'm not surprised your boss is disappointed with you.
Actually, it's a bit of a zeitgeist thing.
Gesundheit. Here, have a tissue.
Flashover
Lieutenant Commander
It was kinda sad actually. I maintained a good working relationship with certain members of the company, and I helped them over the years and they helped me.
In fact when they realized they couldn't go on anymore they called me and told me "the end is near, if there is anything you want pick it out now and we'll set it aside so the appraiser doesn't mark it."
Their technological distinctiveness has been added to our own. I also hired two workers from there.
Now to clarify things: I am one of three owners this business I am involved in. I actually have very very little administrative malarky to deal with as I'm the engineer and Dark Prince Of Sales.
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Flashover
Lieutenant Commander
I threatened a customer with a curse over the phone one day. We were actually trying to get them to drop us as a supplier... Funny, it backfired on us... now they are one of our top five customers.
When I opened this thread, I thought it would be about Bruce Springsteen. 
As to the asked question...bosses are people - and some people are jerks who delight in making others miserable in one way or the other.
If someone is a petty jerk deep underneath, becoming a boss is not going to change that in the slightest. They will then be a petty jerk...with power over others. And everyone else has to figure out a way to deal with them or avoid them.
This is the sort of thing that office politics is made of.
As to the asked question...bosses are people - and some people are jerks who delight in making others miserable in one way or the other.
If someone is a petty jerk deep underneath, becoming a boss is not going to change that in the slightest. They will then be a petty jerk...with power over others. And everyone else has to figure out a way to deal with them or avoid them.
This is the sort of thing that office politics is made of.
When I opened this thread, I thought it would be about Bruce Springsteen.
You all can pretty much guess who *I* thought it would be about.
Not hockey. Look at my avatar.
Hey, don't drag Back To The Future into this. Besides, you'll give people ideas.
Badminton?
His avatar has a stick and a sombrero. I can only assume that it's from a professional Mexican Pinata League.
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I wish I could remember who made that avatar for me. It was during the height of the sombrero craze.
I meant "The Boss" as in George Steinbrenner, of course.
I wish I could remember who made that avatar for me. It was during the height of the sombrero craze.
I meant "The Boss" as in George Steinbrenner, of course.
For me the Boss is always Bruce.
I'm a Yankees fan and I didn't realize he was called that until after he died.
Oh good! Now I can start working on a list of stuff we actually agree on.
There is only one Boss, and he's from Jersey.
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