Is Your Boss An Idiot? 235
Dracos writes "CNN Money is running an article entitled "Is Your Boss An Idiot?" Advice on how to cope with a PHB is prefaced with humorous, though suspiciously anecdotal, examples of how to identify one."
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Is Your Boss An Idiot?
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"Look! There! Evil!.. pure and simple, total evil from the Eighth Dimension!" -- Buckaroo Banzai
I work for myself (Score:5, Funny)
Oh my god, my boss _IS_ an idiot! (Score:5, Funny)
Waiddasec. I work for myself.
Is there a doctor in the house?
I'm "Self-Employed" (Score:5, Funny)
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
one explanation (Score:5, Funny)
ahem... (Score:5, Funny)
Is that a rethorical question?
Re:I work for myself (Score:5, Funny)
I don't want to say anything bad about my boss... (Score:0, Funny)
My name is Bill Gates and my boss is... (Score:1, Funny)
I dare you to call him an idiot!
T&K.
Re: Is your Boss and Idiot? (Score:3, Funny)
Wait I don't, but they're already here.
Let's get the anecdotes going (Score:5, Funny)
Other than having a propensity to open up every infected email he received (the best one was when he sent "I Love You" to all the employees), he did some other things that were pretty stupid. My favourite, however was when one of our bigger clients needed to talk to him about something. We looked all round the office, and couldn't find him, so we suggested to the client that they called him. The boss answered the phone, and they had a conversation about whatever it was that was required, though there was a really bad echo on the line. The disucssion was, however, suddenly punctuated by quite a loud "plop!", as if something was dropped into a bowl of water. It then dawned on the client why nobody could find him when we went looking.
He was on the crapper!
This guy had answered his mobile phone to one of our largest clients, while sitting on the john! The client had called the manager in front of us, and we wondered why he at first went bright red and then broke down in laughter.
He didn't tell us what had happened until later.
-- james
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I mean really, isn't this article the same annoying type link you get five or six times a day from your "too much time on their hands at work" friends?
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My boss is the smartest guy in the world! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This should have been a poll. (Score:4, Funny)
Indeed... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Asinine article (Score:5, Funny)
Re:ahem... (Score:5, Funny)
Don't you just hate those people who answer a question with a question?
Re:ahem... (Score:5, Funny)
Why would anybody do that?
Firing the 'c' programmers... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I would answer this but... (Score:2, Funny)
And you just know if you do that she'll start hogging the duvet.
Frank's an idiot... (Score:5, Funny)
Asking a patient out on a date.
The patient he asked out didn't want to date him but did set him up with a friend of hers who just left her husband a few weeks prior, who also happened to be a patient at our other clinic across town. After going out with her he decided to hire her as our new receptionist. Ten minutes after the Doctor saw one of his other patients working the phones she was gone and Frank got an ass chewing.
He reportedly said, in the middle of a meeting with the doctor and a female employ: "Sometimes when I get home after a day like this it's just brain masturbation." There's nothing I can say to put this in context because there was no context, he apparently just blurted it out for no apparent reason.
He's a verbal train wreck in general. Last week he interupted a group us working by the MRI desk (not together, just happened that a lot us needed something from that area at the same time) and shouted "Hey if none of you have any work to do maybe I should dock your pay, har har har!" He then proceeded to hold us hostage for about 20 minutes while he told stupid stories about being a self made man, tried to sell my assistant some old suits he couldn't wear anymore and then told us all the story of how his father died of a heart attack at 52.
Fortunatly he didn't hire me and can't fire me. The Doctor/owner of the clinic hired me directly a few months ago and loves me because I'm finishing projects my predecessor spent the better part of a year fucking up.
I find their wording a bit disturbing... (Score:5, Funny)
Apparently they missed their own headlines a few days ago:
"Salvador Tapia returned to the Windy City Core Supply warehouse where he had been fired six months ago and killed six of his former co-workers, police said Wednesday."
Apparently, if you can't live with 'em, you can shoot 'em.
YOU ARE SO FIRED! (Score:4, Funny)
Whoops! That's a little tasteless. Sorry. You're still fired, though.
Re:ahem... (Score:5, Funny)
Because it's impolite?
Re:RateMyBoss.com? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:RateMyBoss.com? (Score:4, Funny)
Use the Slashdot moderation categories. Interesting or Funny bosses get kept; Overrated or Troll bosses get fired.
My Boss reads Slashdot (Score:4, Funny)
Oh and my review is coming up soon. I've working incredibly hard, so I'm sure I will get a good pay increase. Isn't that right of most noble lord of the workplace?
Re:Indeed... (Score:1, Funny)
"Well okay mister smart guy. Where in the hell do we get the servers from if we don't grow them?"
My boss (Score:4, Funny)
Amazing.
Dilbert Principle (Score:3, Funny)
Re:one explanation (Score:4, Funny)
Smart man, my dad.
Re:Frank's an idiot... (Score:3, Funny)
Is your boss an idiot? (Score:5, Funny)
Reminds me of that Dilbert cartoon (Score:4, Funny)
Re:RateMyBoss.com? (Score:2, Funny)
Meetings, Lobotomies (Score:4, Funny)
Meetings are lobotomies. Long, drawn-out ones, that slowly kill you over time, like cigarettes.
Re:The Peter Principle Always Wins (Score:3, Funny)
My ex-boss is an idiot. (Score:3, Funny)
There is no hope for him. I'm glad I'm out of there now.
monkeys in a tree (Score:1, Funny)
While when you're at the bottom of the tree looking up, all you see is a bunch of assholes.
And actually, my boss is very competent.
Re:Let's get the anecdotes going (Score:5, Funny)
One day while in a meeting with a vendor over purchasing a new server(20-60k), our Supervisor turns to our CEO during the meeting and asks, "What can we afford?"
The CEO quickly responds, "Well first you tell me what we need and then we'll figure it out and I'll decide what we can afford."
Our brave supervisor tacking on but another gem in a long list of brilliant acts, turns to the vendor, "What do we need?"...
Not mine (Score:2, Funny)
Re:YOU ARE SO FIRED! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:My Boss reads Slashdot (Score:2, Funny)