I had to hire a criminal attorney as it was discovered that my boss was "cooking the books" and the Feds came after him for almost $5 million in bank fraud.
(I was in no part involved in this scheme but because I worked in the accounting dept, I had to testify before a federal grand jury about my work.)
My last boss scheduled a weekly one on one with me. Every time we met he would take his shoes off. It was very strange. He also had a grip strengthener thingy and would use it all the time during our meetings, and talk about his gym strength and how fast he could row 500m, all very strange. He also would tell me crazy stories about how he “hacked into the source code” of major software companies (I’m a software developer and he was the CTO). It was very clear these stories were not true. Even despite all this complete madness every week (where I always acted normal and tried to speak about my current work and issues I was facing and always kept my shoes on) he refused to give me a raise when I was well below market rate.
Anyway I left and got a new job and a large salary increase. My current boss also sucks but at least he’s not a total creeper in that way.
Years ago at a professional level job, team lead said that she didn't like the way I wore/did my make up, and she was going to give me a lesson one day. She was not a fashionista--at all. I stopped wearing make up the next day and have never worn it to work since unless we had professional pictures or a something important.
Post by litskispeciality on Mar 7, 2024 9:37:36 GMT -5
mala, I used to joke with a guy in the Registrar/Records Office that he and I were going to have a second career consulting for a big company that ran the software we all used. We'd get paid a lot more money to sit in conference rooms and finally have someone listen to our ideas as good ideas, rather than wait for it to be someone else's idea a while later.
I know I'm hard on the younger folks, but I really hope they're able to change the general mind set that it has to be someone higher up's idea. Good ideas lead to more productivity regardless who throws it out there.
In High School I worked in a small business coffee shop, it was not a chain, but very liked in our small town. We would constantly run out of cups…. Like, if someone wanted a large I could only sell them a medium 😆 I told the owner to have a bigger inventory (they had the space) and she said she thought it would encourage “waste” if there was an over supply?!?? Like, am I going to play games with cups instead of using them for coffee or something?! What could anyone possibly waste cups on??? Laughable that a high school student was trying to help out the business owner
This reminds me of the studio I taught group fitness at for years. The owner was really nice but she was terrible with keeping the studios (there were 2 locations) stocked with necessary supplies, and it's not like there are a million things needed. TP, paper towels and disinfecting wipes or spray and yes, paper towels for the spray. Same stuff over and over. I'd come in and realize we were out of something and she'd run by with like a 6 pack of TP. It drove me nuts that she didn't either do a big Costco run once a month, or have auto delivery from somewhere! It wasn't a good look to clients when they couldn't wipe down their equipment after use.
mala, I used to joke with a guy in the Registrar/Records Office that he and I were going to have a second career consulting for a big company that ran the software we all used. We'd get paid a lot more money to sit in conference rooms and finally have someone listen to our ideas as good ideas, rather than wait for it to be someone else's idea a while later.
I know I'm hard on the younger folks, but I really hope they're able to change the general mind set that it has to be someone higher up's idea. Good ideas lead to more productivity regardless who throws it out there.
That's the terrible thing, these were 16-22 year olds with only a few years of job experience vs me, in my 30s with 10+ years of job experience in food & customer service. These weren't people older than me with a ton more experience. And it wasn't a sexism thing because they were mostly female. I also had seniority. So... fuck my ideas I guess.