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So the interesting thing about my job is that I'm part of a collective of companies run under the same person. My boss manages quite a few subsidiaries, and they all go through him. I work for Atomic Design, which is our web / design based branch. He also manages Cool Cool Video, which is used for streaming video project and some photography work. He ALSO manages Tradeshow Models . Net, which is basically a collab service in which he has references to nearly 3000 models from the United States and hires them for people for shows that they need. He gets part of the cut, yadda yadda, it all works out.
My boss is a nice guy. He'll sit and laugh when you have something funny to say, and he'll be genuinely concerned when there's something not right with a project you're working on, and he'll try to help. Really outgoing (you'd have to be to run 3 companies) and all around a nice boss to work for. It takes a lot to set him off.
Today, someone set him off. Not an employee, but one of the models for a recent show.
A girl, we'll call her "Gloria", called in directly to his line today and started yelling so loud that, even before he put her on speakerphone, I could hear her in his office. After about 5 minutes of just listening to this bitch scream, he put her on hold and called all 7 of working us into his office to listen.
The problem was that every other model who had worked a recent gig that she was at through his hiring had received their checks. She had not. The reason? Her check got sent out on Monday, whereas everyone elses had got sent out on Friday. Why the difference? Because she didn't have an address listed, and he had to dig it up over the weekend.
This is nearly verbatim the conversation that went on when we were all in the office listening:
C = Chris (my boss)
G = Gloria (the bitch)
G: I WANT MY DAMNED CHECK, I EARNED THAT MONEY
C: It will probably be there tomorrow, we sent it out Monday.
G: WELL I DONT FUCKING CARE, EVERYONE ELSE GOT THEIRS TODAY. WIRE ME THE MONEY OR SOMETHING.
C: The check is already on the way, I can't wire you money and then cancel the check in under 24 hours due to security reasons.
G: WELL WHO THE FUCK SENT OUT CHECKS INCORRECTLY THEN?
C: We didn't have your address on file because you wouldn't give it to us in the first place, and then asked us to mail your check. You never got back to us WITH an address so we had to hunt it down through your previous employers. You're lucky we even found it.
G: BULLSHIT. YOU FIND THE BITCH THAT HANDLES CHECKS AND TELL HER TO GET MY CHECK TO ME TODAY.
C: ... that *cough* bitch would be my wife, and she's on maternity leave, thank you very much.
G: *stammering*
C: Watch your mouth next time, maybe you'd still have a place with my company.
Beautiful.
My boss is a nice guy. He'll sit and laugh when you have something funny to say, and he'll be genuinely concerned when there's something not right with a project you're working on, and he'll try to help. Really outgoing (you'd have to be to run 3 companies) and all around a nice boss to work for. It takes a lot to set him off.
Today, someone set him off. Not an employee, but one of the models for a recent show.
A girl, we'll call her "Gloria", called in directly to his line today and started yelling so loud that, even before he put her on speakerphone, I could hear her in his office. After about 5 minutes of just listening to this bitch scream, he put her on hold and called all 7 of working us into his office to listen.
The problem was that every other model who had worked a recent gig that she was at through his hiring had received their checks. She had not. The reason? Her check got sent out on Monday, whereas everyone elses had got sent out on Friday. Why the difference? Because she didn't have an address listed, and he had to dig it up over the weekend.
This is nearly verbatim the conversation that went on when we were all in the office listening:
C = Chris (my boss)
G = Gloria (the bitch)
G: I WANT MY DAMNED CHECK, I EARNED THAT MONEY
C: It will probably be there tomorrow, we sent it out Monday.
G: WELL I DONT FUCKING CARE, EVERYONE ELSE GOT THEIRS TODAY. WIRE ME THE MONEY OR SOMETHING.
C: The check is already on the way, I can't wire you money and then cancel the check in under 24 hours due to security reasons.
G: WELL WHO THE FUCK SENT OUT CHECKS INCORRECTLY THEN?
C: We didn't have your address on file because you wouldn't give it to us in the first place, and then asked us to mail your check. You never got back to us WITH an address so we had to hunt it down through your previous employers. You're lucky we even found it.
G: BULLSHIT. YOU FIND THE BITCH THAT HANDLES CHECKS AND TELL HER TO GET MY CHECK TO ME TODAY.
C: ... that *cough* bitch would be my wife, and she's on maternity leave, thank you very much.
G: *stammering*
C: Watch your mouth next time, maybe you'd still have a place with my company.
Beautiful.