My boss is a big fat bitch

[ChickMagic]

Here's the deal. She has been gone for 2 1/2 weeks because she's been "stressed" and needed to get away. Fine. No problem. I just learned yesterday that I had been invited by a production company to participate in a Discovery Channel program which would require me to be out Monday and Tuesday.

Now, mind you, the whole time she was out, I babysat her cute little bunny who turned out to have an ulcerated cornea. That required a couple of visits to the vet, and I've been giving him eyedrops 3 times a day. And I've had to keep his cage extra clean. Plus, I spoiled him with all kinds of fresh veggies that he could have (I looked it up) which he never gets aside from the stray carrot.

I just talked to her on the phone and did she say "That's great! What an opportunity! I'll be back then so go - have fun!" No, she said, "I guess you knew about this before I left for vacation?" Uh, no. Otherwise I wouldn't be running around like a chicken with my neck cut off trying to make arrangments for my pets, and making hotel arrangements at the last minute. She hemmend and hawed and said, "Well, I'll just be getting back, so I don't know." I said, "Yeah, you'll be back, and it's just 2 days." She finally relented but not without a huge fight.

And another thing - she takes off at Christmas for a month because of her son. She's married - she's not raising the little hellion alone. She won't let me take even 3 days to be with hubby while he's off because I don't have a kid. I've even offered to be on call - if anyone needed anything, I could drop everything and come right here. But, noooo. Oh, and I'm losing about 150 hrs of vacation time this year that I haven't taken.

She capriciously takes 3 month vacations, 6 week vacations, 1 month vacations, 3 week vacations and I have to beg and get chewed out over 2 lousy days when she should be happy for me.

She's a rotten conniving bag of monkey vomit.

Phew. Thanks for letting me vent. Yay! I'm going to be an expert on a Discovery Channel show! Yay!

[cherryperry]

1. Now you've learned you simply call in sick!

However, how can you stand working for such a selfish ass?

Any possibility of a job change?

[ChickMagic]

8. Ny best hope is for her to retire

She talks about it all the time, gives me hope and then dashes it to bits. I've been working for that asshole for 19 years. I couldn't change jobs when I was younger because I had stage iv ovarian cancer so there was always an insurance issue if I changed jobs.

I cry and rant a lot.

[GOPisEvil]

2. Well, the Discovery Channel part is great.

As for our boss, she's just jealous of you! Screw her! (figuratively) :P

[ChickMagic]

9. That is cool, isn't it?

Now when I see an "expert" on the Discovery Channel, I'll think "shit for brains". :D

[oneighty]

3. Darn Ms. ginbarn!

(((((Hugs))))) and kisses! Smile.

What is it you are going to be an expert in? I wanna watch.

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[ChickMagic]

12. Aw, you always make me feel better!

It's going to be about a haunted railroad track. I don't know yet, but it may be a subset of a larger show about haunted stuff. A school bus was supposedly hit by a train killing everyone on the bus and now when a car gets stranded, or you put your car on the tracks in neutral, it rolls mysteriously uphill. If you put talcum powder on your trunk, you see little tiny handprints. Ooooh. I've found the same exact story in 3 different cities so far. This is in San Antonio and it's a gravity hill - an optical illusion that looks as though things are rolling uphill (anyone old enough to remember Casa Magnetica?). It's enough of an incline to move the car a couple of feet. It seems that if you don't have drunk teenage friends with you, the handprints don't appear. I'm taking a 6 foot level with me.

[GOPisEvil]

13. I'VE BEEN THERE!!!!

I grew up in San Antonio. We put baby powder on the trunk and everything!!! No handrpints though...

The eggheads tell us it is "gravity". :eyes:

[ChickMagic]

17. Hey, I are a egghead!

And I represent that remark! It's gravity, all right! Where exactly is this place? We're supposed to meet some folks there, and I don't have a clue where it is!

[GOPisEvil]

20. Hehehe...

...it's down by Mission San Juan. All the streets down there have girls' names or just first names (I forget). Rumor is that the streets are named for the kids that died.

I tried googling the address, but couldn't find it exactly.

[ChickMagic]

25. Actually

It was the granddaughter's names of the developer.

[GOPisEvil]

42. I knew that!

Well, I knew they weren't the names of the kids. :-)

[alphafemale]

21. oooo! ooooo!

This one? :hi:

http://paranormal.about.com/library/weekly/aa031201a.htm

[GOPisEvil]

23. Yes!!!!

It is SPOOKY!!!! :scared:

[ChickMagic]

26. That's the one!

Thanks, I'll print it out to add to my stack.

[ronnykmarshall]

4. How's the bunny?

[ChickMagic]

14. He's great!

He still gives me kisses, even though I have to torture him wtih eyedrops. The evil one is retrieving him tonight though, so her hellion son will torture him, and he won't get any more num nums. He's supposed to go back to the vet on Saturday, but I doubt very much that she'll take him.

[demnan]

5. Okay, take a deep breath

Now, what is your company's policy on vacation? I think you ought to go to whoever is in charge of company benefits and explain the situation about losing so much of your hard-earned vacation time. No "boss" should have so much vacation and not allow subordinates any time off. Go to her boss if necessary. Keep it civil. You only want a vacation and you are entitled to it, you don't want unemployment.

I'd also back away from taking care of my boss's pets. You don't owe the woman anything, that's what personal friends are for and even if she's a bitch I'm sure she has some.

[ChickMagic]

24. I kind of snuck one in

I went to our new office manager and just asked, naively and curiously, whether it was university policy for people with children to get preferential treatment for vacation. Why, no indeed. Shse's going to run a spreadsheet with the amount of vacation she's had vs. what I or my coworker (who got written up for having back problems) have taken.

You see, it's rationalized because it goes over to sick time and I've only 88 hours of sick time, you see. Damn you cancer!

We'll see if anything comes of the office manager's discovery. Hee hee har har HA HA!!!

[BiggJawn]

34. "University policy"??? ohmigawd...

Next you'll be telling me that you're a circulation clerk in the largest library on campus, and your boss' boss is a weenie who hides in his office because he "can't handle stress" and the Dean is a jerk-wad too....

Sounds like my girlfirend's situation. Her boss and her boss' "pet" seem to have LOTS of "comp time" to take, so they're always gone. And nobody gives a rat's ass about it. These 2 seem to be cooking their hours, and as long as nobody's getting knifed on top of "Mr. Stressed-out"'s desk and causing him "problems", he doesn't care....

You work at the same school I do?

[ChickMagic]

38. She gets to write her own ticket

Her boss is far too busy to mess with mundane business like employee relations. She even writes her own evaluations! Guess what? She scores really, really high! She approves her own raises - when she was married to her ex (who didn't have a job) they were driving a porche and a jaguar. Hubby and I, who both work, have one 1997 Toyota Corolla.

[BiggJawn]

41. This is weirder than handprints in the baby powder...

"Her boss is far too busy to mess with mundane business like employee relations. She even writes her own evaluations! "

Same here!

[Ilsa]

6. This is great! Tell us when to watch.

Too bad your boss is such a bitch. The other post is right: she's jealous that she didn't get that phone call. She'll probably try and make your life hell after it's over, so be prepared to deal with it, one way or another.

[ChickMagic]

27. Oh, I'll keep my *real* friends updated

You'll all hear about it, that's for sure!

[northzax]

7. hold it

you're owed vacation time? find out your company policy for taking vacation time. If they deny you the ability to take vacation time (do everything by email so you have a record) they have to compensate you for it if they take it away. If your salary includes, say, two week's vacation a year, and you were unable to take it based on the capriciousness of your boss, they HAVE to compensate you for that time. You worked for free for two weeks. remember that. go above her head if you have to.

no offense, ginbarn (and tell us what show, eh?) but do you want to come work for me? I'd love to have someone who will take this treatment lying down.

[ChickMagic]

29. The shut the surplus over to sick time

That way, if you quit or get fired, they don't have to pay you for it. Bastards.

[ChickMagic]

39. Oops, I meant they SHUNT the excess vacation to sick time

Edit time expired, sorry.

[Richardo]

10. "Welllllllll.... Ginbarn's boss is a bitch, she's a great big bitch...

...she's the biggest bitch in the whole wide world.

She's a stupid bitch, if there ever was a bitch. She's a bitch to all the boys and girls."




Hang in there, ginbarn...sorry you have to put up with that $#!+.

[Fenris]

15. THat's exactly what I thought!

Weeeeeeellllllllllll...........

[ChickMagic]

28. Thanks, Richardo!

She's a great big stupid mega beeeyaech!!! I really mean it - she's a big, fat FUCKING bitch!!! Yah.

[nini]

11. Does she own the company too? or just your boss?

If she doesn't own the company.. why the hell is she getting away with all that?


and I agree on the vacation accruing you can't use.. sounds unlawful to me.

[ChickMagic]

31. Rick Perry owns the company

Not really - we work for the state. So, it's not like it's being made up for in big bucks.

[masmdu]

16. MY BOSS TOO!!!!....and I'm self employed.

What kind of business does she have?

Sounds like she gets a fair bit of vacation.

[ChickMagic]

32. Through a series of loopholes, she answers to no one

She just decides when to go and goes. I, however, have to grovel and beg and get the tight lipped acquiecence. Yeech!

[radwriter0555]

18. So why do you let her abuse you like this? She can start planning HER

vacations around YOURS. Put it in writing...

No one can victimize you without you ALLOWING it. Take a little control here.

Stop being so nice. Don't be quite so available. Look out for yourself first.

She can hire a temp while you're gone.

[ChickMagic]

35. I am too nice for my own good

I wonder what she'd do if I said, "Gee, I'd love to help, but I've got to get my nails done."

What gets me is another girl, the assistant of my boss' boss (on paper - my boss writes her own evaluations), will take off all afternoon to get a pedicure. My boss just says it liek it's a normal thing - no big deal, but boy, if I tried to do that, look out brother!!!!

I'm thinking total psycho.

[otohara]

19. The Entertainment Business is Full of

BFB's. people think they are primi-donna's - and should get everything for free. My boss at the evil radio corporation used to ask me 2/3 times per day to go get him this or that (coffee, water) I have a disability and should not do too much walking. Did that deter my Regionl Mgr. Executive VP from asking "Fuck NO". I wanted to scream "I hate you"

[ChickMagic]

33. Yuck!

At least she doesn't ask me to do that. Aside form the vacation issue, or if I dare call in sick, things go pretty well.

[MUAD_DIB]

22. I hope that this doesn't sound jaded, but

keep a paper trail on her: if she is that bad.

Keep times, dates and details...on everything that she does wrong...that is definatley over the limit.

Keep a detailed paper trail on her, and if she screws you, or anybody, then you have a payback option.

You may think that it is over the top to do this, but if she is like you say she is then she won't be changing for the better.

Keep the paper trail at home. Do not email it to yourself at home but manually take it home.


You may think that I am joking, but remember this: as unfortunate as it is ...nice guys do sometimes finish last.

[ChickMagic]

36. That's a great idea.

I'm going to do that - I'll start a journal today. Thanks for the idea.

[TEXASYANKEE]

30. Sorry about that!

I'm sorry that your boss is such a Bitch! You might consider telling her, sadly enough, that the rabbit died -- and then keep the sweet little nubbin for yourself. You obviously take much better care of it than her hellian son.

Good luck with the Discovery Channel shoot. Please tell us when that episode will air.

[ChickMagic]

37. I really couldn't do that to her son

He just turned eight. They accidentally left the bunny out of his cage one night and the next morning there was a little pile of buuny poo pellets right in front of the boy's door. Awww.

She actually asked me today, on the phone, if I brought the bunny in with me (after she was already mad). Well, no, I told her I'd call her as soon as I got home. Why on earth would I stress the bunny that way when I already made arrangements to call her this evening? Gad.

I'll fill you guys in just as soon as I know something! I'm a stah, I'm a stah, I'm a bright and shining stah! Oh wait, wrong medium.

My future sister in law made a slasher movie where she got to stab a guy with a pitchfork and say, "Die, 'tard!" I have to be all intellectual and junk. :D

[ChickMagic]

40. Thank you guys

You cheered me up, gave me good suggestions, great revenge fantasies, and you're happy I'm getting this interesting opportunity. And you're even interested in watching it! That's why I love you guys so much. :loveya: