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..Seriously? Nobody has an obnoxious boss? I find this hard to believe bees. I need to vent and listen to other annoying boss stories to make myself feel better lol
Thankfully I don't have a boss like that now but my old one had a 'talk' with me about office hours because I took a shorter lunch occasionally and left work a little early. Right now I have a bit of an obnoxious coworker though...
I minimize my stuff b/c well my email (through my web browser) is personal. I feel for you, we have different offices and on any given day I might be in a different one and a lot of people come and go in those offices, so I minimize my stuff when I'm about to have a conversation b/c I don't want it to be a distraction to me or the person I'm talking to.
Haha. I've never been called out about it but I totally pull an alt+tab before anyone walks in my office.
Today was a sucky day at work for me too. I have a head cold from allergies and my boss didn't like these reports I have worked the last week on. Oh, and I got two more projects added to my plate that all have major deadlines in the next 2-3 weeks. UGH.
Oh, yeah! The HR manager at my last job was a total hag.
I admit now that I'm older my tattoos are somewhat ridiculous (ie tramp stamp...embarrassing) & not as cool as they used to be as when I was 18. Well Dani ALWAYS had a remark to say about how she thinks tattoos on the back are "so trashy & disgusting". She said it constantly to other people around me, but never to my face. So one day I heard her making another comment, went into her office and basically told her, "Dani, cut the crap. Don't even start w/ the "trashy" talk again. I'm so sick of hearing you talk crap about tattoos, it gets old so get over it". After that she never said much about the tattoos, but certainly had plenty of other crap to talk...ugh, what a bitch.
I actually do the opposite. I don't minimize things when people walk by because I don't want them thinking I'm trying to hide stuff, I just need a break! And that way when they come over if they see I'm reading an interesting story or something it eases the conversation a bit and keeps it casual from the getgo. Seems to work for me anyway, my bosses all think I consistently work above and beyond, and I have no idea what theyre talking about :D
ugh. mine's an idiot as well. luckily he's not in our office area but damn, he's aggravating. i sent him a link to a briefing today and he couldn't figure out how to open it. here's a hint... CLICK THE LINK. dummy. he's constantly bitching about how my generation is the "microwave" generation and want everything (like promotions) now. uhh... i have automatic promotions for the next 2 years and i've never said anything about it to you! lest we forget that i'm the most efficient, productive person in the office; everyone else is old and sleeps lol. hmph.
Ah yes. I had a boss who did something similar and I always felt like saying, "....But is my WORK late? Sub-par? No? Then why do you care??" (This was, I should point out, a thankless secretarial first-job)
And PS--there are sites that can disguise your web browsing to look like a Word or Excel file: www.vanishd.com :)
I had a boss just like that up until only a few months ago. This guy was a real winner. He didnt do ANYTHING all day but surf the net and email back and forth with his wife who sat about 50 feet from him. He was a total douche and always spent more time in mine and my co-workers cube instead of in his own. He blatantly harassed us both on more than one occasion. The entire corporate office (about 200+ people) completely loathed him. Thankfully he got the boot in March and work had been a pleasure ever since. :-)
I got a written warning for doing something that I have seen supervisors do... which is why I thought it was OK for me to do it, too! My office selectively enforces policy based on whether or not you're one of the "in-group."
All of the internet is blocked at work, pretty much, and I DO NOT try to do anything of my own because as you may have guessed, I am not one of the people who can "get away" with things at work. I don't read; I don't do anything but work on company time. And on one hand, I can see their points -- they're not paying you to surf weddingbee. On the other hand, it makes for more productive employees if they can take a mental break. It's a tough call. I hope your boss relaxes.
My boss is weird. He will slow down when he walks by my desk. When I hear footsteps and turn around, he runs off. He doesn't say anything though.
My boss monitor all computers!!! i accidentally went to the wrong page and i quickly went to the right page (i typed in the vendor's name wrong...and no it wasn't an P**N site) and i got my butt chewed out bad even gotten written up...i had to show him the site i meant to go to and the site i accidentally went to and he was like..."oh sorry" still never took the write up off (but that was 4 years ago when i started)so yes i agree with you totally OBNOXIOUS!!
I am a grad student so I TA for various courses and sometimes the instructors are... insanely obnoxious (maybe not as bad as the older grad student I got stuck working with though!). They would always be looking over my shoulder and checking out what I was doing on the computer... work, because I don't have time for anything else.
One day an instructor logged into my computer at school...I totally didn't get it because gmail was open so I thought I left it on, then I looked at the first unread email and it was about some ordering some raunchy PAYPERVIEW PORN! So that gave me a good giggle...
It is so annoying when people are suspicious for no good reason.
UGH! I'm right there with you. I work from home, and today I was up to my elbows in a particularly nasty project that is due ASAP. My boss is emailing about something due tomorrow, and because I didn't answer right away he asked me, "Are you even there?"
Come on! I've been here, at this desk, in my house, four 4 years, without ever missing a deadline!!!!!
Oy, I am glad my company isn't super weird about us working all the time. No human can be "on" every single moment. Taking little breaks is good for you. Since I know the environment is more or less supportive of that at my work, even though people are timid about it, I try to be really open with my work habits. I have told my boss many times that I tend to work in spurts---get a lot done, then take a break. I go for a walk every afternoon to get some sunshine and exercise, and people think it's kind of weird, like they are afraid to leave (they could if they wanted to)! I think it's weird that they want to stay indoors all the time when it's gorgeous out. And if I'm reading Weddingbee at work and my boss comes by, I don't minimize the screen---she knows I work for the site and we have talked about it before. I figure, as long as my work stays great, they don't have anything to complain about.
My boss is okay. He's kinda tough to read sometimes, but he's a good guy. My heinous (sp?) bitch of a co-worker? Now that is another story entirely.
I used WB at work.. but I worked flat out and I had a coworker call me on it one day.. he said you always minimise the screen. I basically said to him... Im not a smoker.... so while you go have your 15 minute break or pick up the newspaper and read it at your desk, Im with the younger generation and we use the internet. I also said to him there is no company policy on internet use and you can ask various people of what they think is acceptable, some surf youtube, weather channels, news, stock shares?
Also.. work gives us a company phone. I barely use mine, but I know you call your dad, aunty and uncle and cousins and everyone else and work pays for it? so whats the differance!
That shut him up never heard a bo peep since!
To be honest, I think I have the most obnoxious boss ever, and I always tell everyone she is a one of a kind. So with that in mind, if I leave my job I have a chance of never having to work for such a physco again! haha...ok it sounds like im exaggerating but get this:
I make a small typo and I get - "You are just not educated enough!" yelled across the room
I send an email to her with a suggestion on a new process and I hear: ::new mail alarm::...::click::....::scroll::....Loud laughter coming from her office...silence...
If I mess up on ANYTHING I have to do it over again 10 or more times...
I get a new project handed to me by her but before she leaves she says "Now remember, this will require THINKING so make sure you do that..."
I take a phone call outside for 5min and when I return into the office, I get called into her office and asked "Why are you taking your calls outside? Are you interviewing?? Why are you being so secretive??"
I made a point to not tell her about my proposal but after listening in to my conversations to other employees, she came over and said "Oh good, he FINALLY did it"
I'm going to stop now because if I listed everything this post would be too long lol.
Haha not that I'm glad you all have to deal with crazy coworkers/bosses but it is nice to know I'm not alone. The thing that bothered me is that I honestly don't minimize things when I see him walk by. I suppose if it happens it is by chance. All he does is come in the office, nag at things for us to do that we all know just to smile and nod at because he makes no sense, sit on the computer and surf the internet, and take calls from his friends. We all HATE when he is in the office - he never does anything himself but manages to make the whole office tense. I cannot wait until I am done with school... I'm going to be a teacher so it will be so nice to have my own classroom without a boss breathing down my neck every 10 minutes.
Haha, my boss better not do that to me b/c I get in before him and leave after him every day.. and never work from home with my kids screaming in the background every time I get on the phone.
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So annoyed. Today my boss decides to come up to me and tell me that he has been noticing that whenever he walks by my desk I apparently minimize the window on my computer that I am looking at. So basically implying that I am doing things I shouldn't be doing and trying to be all sneaky around him about it. Total idiot. I have no idea what he is talking about. I even told him that yeah I'll read the occassional yahoo news story just to give myself a mental break from staring at patient charts all day but that I'm not trying to pull a fast one on him. I told him to tell me at the time he thinks I am doing it so that I can clear things up with him. Bosses are so obnoxious. Anyone else have a boss like this?