CW is doing some research on her computer for a show. I am on the other side of the room helping a student during lab time.
All of a sudden, we hear the sound of children singing and CW exclaims: (pdq)"Hey! It's the Hitler Youth choir! Mrs. C, it's the music of your people!"
::Pause while I (and several students) give her the wtf face::
I'm 200 miles away at a trade show, and when I arrived here this morning I found out a bunch of coworkers got fired. Including my boss. Who was slated to go to bat for me next year for a promotion and raise. And she's a single mom too
And my manager my be on the chopping block as well, according to the colleague at the trade show who told me all this (although I don't really trust the colleague but nobody else back at the office is giving me info - Colleague says I am definitely safe but I can't put my trust in her) ... Manager is a step below the fired boss and I adore her, and she's the one who'd normally feed me all this info, but she's on vacation right now and Not at all reachable. I hope she doesn't come home to bad news.
Fuck, I hope that *I* don't come home to bad news. I have to front all my expenses when I go to shows and hey reimburse me, so I don't want to come home to find out I'm on the hook for everything. And I'm debating on how/if to tell MH about this because he'll panic really badly about my job.
Post by compassrose on Oct 1, 2014 17:41:05 GMT -5
Hmm, I don't have many embarrassing ones, but my last boss texted one of her students on NYE to tell her she (the student) had too much work to do to go out and party and that she needed to stay home. Student didn't listen (a good thing, IMO).
Post by laurensmomma on Oct 1, 2014 17:43:19 GMT -5
At my last company, the HR woman was a very nice but naive lady. She decided that in order to incentivize people, she was going to give out "coupons" for the employee to use on the Friday of their choice to wear blue jeans (dress was business casual, otherwise) to the office.
She soon started to hand out coupons for a "Free BJ Day", lol. We just about died laughing. The IT manager had to go in and sweetly tell her what BJ stands for to most people, bahahahahahaha!!!!
PDQ- The owner of one place I worked had a serious sense of entitlement since his dad was former lead council at a Big 3 Auto Maker. The owner would get drunk and insult guests and locals. One day I could hear screaming from my office and I walked down the hall to find the owner yelling at the director of our local CVB (a major tourist area) telling him he was useless, the entire town was nothing but peasants and had sucked off the teat of his family for years.
We had mysterious poop in the men's restroom on the floor. The theory behind it is the guy would literally stand on the toilet when using the restroom, and that's how everyone assumes it ended up on the floor. Of course he didn't clean it up, either. And no, I don't work at a daycare or nursing home...
We have cameras pointing in the area where the bathrooms are - because we have stairwell exits there, and they have cameras on every exit. They were able to figure out who did it based on that. He's not here anymore, and was apparently awful at his job anyway.
Hmm, I don't have many embarrassing ones, but my last boss texted one of her students on NYE to tell her she (the student) had too much work to do to go out and party and that she needed to stay home. Student didn't listen (a good thing, IMO).
In 7th grade I went to a friend's house and she was on the phone with our teacher (a woman). I asked if it was a homework thing or something ... nope, they were just having an hourlong chat.
I was incredibly naive at that age, but even then I knew Teacher was fucked up.
Hmm, I don't have many embarrassing ones, but my last boss texted one of her students on NYE to tell her she (the student) had too much work to do to go out and party and that she needed to stay home. Student didn't listen (a good thing, IMO).
In 7th grade I went to a friend's house and she was on the phone with our teacher (a woman). I asked if it was a homework thing or something ... nope, they were just having an hourlong chat.
I was incredibly naive at that age, but even then I knew Teacher was fucked up.
I know it's a little different in grad school, especially when you are young and your students are about the same age. But the above story is waaaayyyyyyyy over the line for me.
We had mysterious poop in the men's restroom on the floor. The theory behind it is the guy would literally stand on the toilet when using the restroom, and that's how everyone assumes it ended up on the floor. Of course he didn't clean it up, either. And no, I don't work at a daycare or nursing home...
We have cameras pointing in the area where the bathrooms are - because we have stairwell exits there, and they have cameras on every exit. They were able to figure out who did it based on that. He's not here anymore, and was apparently awful at his job anyway.
I was on vacation this summer and my assistant texted me that there was poop on the floor of the ladies room. They used the lobby cam to narrow it down to two people. It later came out that it also used to happen periodically in the bathroom on the 3nd floor, where one of the two used to sit before we rearranged. So we all assume it was her. WTF is wrong with people?!?
I have the pleasure of sitting nearest to the staff bathrooms. One of my coworkers goes in around 2pm every day and does his business. His business is quite loud, much like a firecracker exploding in the toilet.
One day, our mail guy was picking up the mail, and my coworker was in the bathroom. As usual, the buttcracker went off, and the mail man was so startled by the noise that he dropped the whole mail tote all over the floor. He asked what the noise was, and it took me forever to phrase that sentence tactfully!
Aaaannnnd colleague just heard from a work friend that half of our office was fired today, too.
I wasn't included, and she swears I'm safe, but (a) I'm not sure if I trust her since she blows smoke, and (b) I don't want to work for a company that'd do that to so many people, especially people who've been there 20-30 years. I don't trust that they won't do the same to me in a few weeks/months. I'd better start looking.
*drinks more* (glad I have spell check on this laptop)
Aaaannnnd colleague just heard from a work friend that half of our office was fired today, too.
I wasn't included, and she swears I'm safe, but (a) I'm not sure if I trust her since she blows smoke, and (b) I don't want to work for a company that'd do that to so many people, especially people who've been there 20-30 years. I don't trust that they won't do the same to me in a few weeks/months. I'd better start looking.
*drinks more* (glad I have spell check on this laptop)
I worked in a small firm (maybe 7 people in essentially 1 room) & 2 employees got into a shouting match. One of them literally pulled down his pants (not boxers just pants) and stuck his butt out and was saying over and over to the other guy. "Kiss my ass". The same guy joked about bringing in a gun (pretended shooting people) and was generally just insane. I think my boss was legit scared to fire him. I was glad when I left to go to grad school...imagine my surprise when I start my job post grad school at a different much larger firm & the guy works there. Luckily they weren't chicken to fire him (because he was still erratic) & he was gone not long after.
Our executive assistants first week this summer she had to book an overnight business trip for me and a male coworker. She called me and asked me if she was allowed to book us separate rooms. My response:
"I'm a girl and he's a boy"
"I just don't know if I am allowed to book two rooms. Its the Hilton. ..so expensive"