My Boss is funny
Went to work yesterday. Joey had the day off so he came by and played on my laptop since we have no internet at home. Which is a confusing story, but my bosses fault. Anyways joey works all kinds of crazy hours and 12hr shifts and so he’s not ALWAYS here. And the guys like him and I mostly ignore him and do my work. He doesn’t get in my way.
So the boss shows up and is in a bad mood because of other stuff and promised to do some things with me that he needed done. Then he rushes off to do something else and I try calling and am put on hold, then call again and no answer. 5:10 I bail out.
He calls because someone calls him and says something is going wrong and he’s all hypes up and I said Id take care of it tomorrow because its NOT all wrong, the guy was wrong.
I end up going in and finding out the guy WAS wrong and everything was fine, but the boss wont hear of it because now he has to see it for himself and blah blah and “while I’m there…” to do some more work things. I told him no I was going home to be with Joey. So then he lays into Joey being at work and we start arguing and I told him Joey doesn’t distract me and he’s hardly there only to use the internet and ask anyone I’m always working and Joey doesn’t distract, actually he’s helped a few times!
Then hes launching into I don’t work enough and that he has to be there when im there and I “might not get enough hrs” so I told him if he doesn’t think that I work enough and that if someone else can put up with his shit (yes I said that) then he was more than welcome to find them, but that I wasn’t going to come in tomorrow because I didn’t feel like being dragged away from Joey for some bullshit and then an attempt at a guilt trip to get more work done, then have him yell about random stuff because he’s got shit going on in his life and needs to take it out on me.
Another co-worker comes in because now I’m screaming, looks at me, then leaves. He knows who I’m talking to. I go home and Joey has to be restrained from coming and giving my boss a piece of his mind.
So this morning I wake up and clean the house and am very happily playing housewife and the phone rings. My boss, very nicely, asks if I’m coming in to work today because he needs so many things done. Heh. So I shower and come over and get done what /I have time to because now its 3pm and I leave at 5pm.
I cant wait till Joey finishes Paramedic, 1 year, because then hell make more than enough I don’t have to work. I will want a part time job after the baby is a bit older but I would love to not have the stress and Joey wants to kill my boss because it stresses me and our baby.
Basically my boss needs me, he knows it, and I don’t need him. So I do my job and he seems to get so focused on 1 task that if I do 30 other ones, if that 1 isn’t done then “what DID I do with me day?!” I never know which task it is but I do everything I can with the tools I have. He doesn’t grasp that.
As a bonus, I know HTML and he wants me to code a full business website, for $8/hr and doesn’t see why I ‘declined’ it. He said it was part of my job and I told him I was not hired for that and I ‘happen’ to have that skill, but he doesn’t know own all of my skills and needs to pay accordingly. I was hired because I can type and use the computer. So I said $15 for HTML programming and he finally dropped it.
He wants everything done yesterday for no money. That sounds like all bosses but he will yell and scream and throw a tantrum and so I have finally had to start yelling back (which is odd cause he’s my boss, but he does it to us so whatever) and hanging up on him or pressing one of the buttons on my phone to get a ‘beeeeep’ sound till he stops yelling. Its completely wrong but so is his behavior.
I cant wait to find another job, but with 6mo till the baby born who’s going to hire me for a few months till I take off maternity leave? If I can keep him from driving me nuts, or Joey from killing him, then Ill be okay.
So the boss shows up and is in a bad mood because of other stuff and promised to do some things with me that he needed done. Then he rushes off to do something else and I try calling and am put on hold, then call again and no answer. 5:10 I bail out.
He calls because someone calls him and says something is going wrong and he’s all hypes up and I said Id take care of it tomorrow because its NOT all wrong, the guy was wrong.
I end up going in and finding out the guy WAS wrong and everything was fine, but the boss wont hear of it because now he has to see it for himself and blah blah and “while I’m there…” to do some more work things. I told him no I was going home to be with Joey. So then he lays into Joey being at work and we start arguing and I told him Joey doesn’t distract me and he’s hardly there only to use the internet and ask anyone I’m always working and Joey doesn’t distract, actually he’s helped a few times!
Then hes launching into I don’t work enough and that he has to be there when im there and I “might not get enough hrs” so I told him if he doesn’t think that I work enough and that if someone else can put up with his shit (yes I said that) then he was more than welcome to find them, but that I wasn’t going to come in tomorrow because I didn’t feel like being dragged away from Joey for some bullshit and then an attempt at a guilt trip to get more work done, then have him yell about random stuff because he’s got shit going on in his life and needs to take it out on me.
Another co-worker comes in because now I’m screaming, looks at me, then leaves. He knows who I’m talking to. I go home and Joey has to be restrained from coming and giving my boss a piece of his mind.
So this morning I wake up and clean the house and am very happily playing housewife and the phone rings. My boss, very nicely, asks if I’m coming in to work today because he needs so many things done. Heh. So I shower and come over and get done what /I have time to because now its 3pm and I leave at 5pm.
I cant wait till Joey finishes Paramedic, 1 year, because then hell make more than enough I don’t have to work. I will want a part time job after the baby is a bit older but I would love to not have the stress and Joey wants to kill my boss because it stresses me and our baby.
Basically my boss needs me, he knows it, and I don’t need him. So I do my job and he seems to get so focused on 1 task that if I do 30 other ones, if that 1 isn’t done then “what DID I do with me day?!” I never know which task it is but I do everything I can with the tools I have. He doesn’t grasp that.
As a bonus, I know HTML and he wants me to code a full business website, for $8/hr and doesn’t see why I ‘declined’ it. He said it was part of my job and I told him I was not hired for that and I ‘happen’ to have that skill, but he doesn’t know own all of my skills and needs to pay accordingly. I was hired because I can type and use the computer. So I said $15 for HTML programming and he finally dropped it.
He wants everything done yesterday for no money. That sounds like all bosses but he will yell and scream and throw a tantrum and so I have finally had to start yelling back (which is odd cause he’s my boss, but he does it to us so whatever) and hanging up on him or pressing one of the buttons on my phone to get a ‘beeeeep’ sound till he stops yelling. Its completely wrong but so is his behavior.
I cant wait to find another job, but with 6mo till the baby born who’s going to hire me for a few months till I take off maternity leave? If I can keep him from driving me nuts, or Joey from killing him, then Ill be okay.