My boss is a real asshole. He never does anything wrong so he thinks. He think he’s the best boss ever since last year he “allowed” me to take two days of vacation in succession. I’ve been working for this guy for two years and its the first time he lets me take two days back-to-back. He always makes it look like he’s doing me a favour for “allowing” me to take time off.
(We shot a wedding after dark and in the rain last year. When the happy couple met with me to pick up their photos the conversation went like this…)
Bride: “I am so disappointed that there are no beautiful sunset pictures, like on your website.”
Me: “I’m sorry about that, but if you remember correctly the weather was terrible, and you got married in the dark.”
Bride: “Yeah, but we paid you a lot of money!”
Me: “I would charge a lot more money if I could turn back time and change the weather.”
Bride: “All of the other weddings we saw on your website have beautiful sunsets!”
Me: “We took those photos at sunset, before it got dark, and it wasn’t raining.”
Bride: “I’m sick of your slick excuses. You have an answer for everything!”
(This conversation went on, round and round like this for an hour. The mom called and we had the exact same conversation!)
We have an executive assistant here at our company who is just unbearable. She is rude, gossips constantly, and is a busy body who just will not concentrate her efforts on her own life. We have doctors who will call me and ask that I please not tell them that I need to talk to HER. Other people in the office ask how I deal with working so closely with her. Mostly, I have told them that I feel sorry for her, and how it must be rough to be such an unhappy person and lead such a lonely life.
Boss comes into work, goes into his office without a hello, closes the door and locks himself inside (!), cackles occasionally, making no other noise. A quick dash out to the driveway to peek into the window finds him on the sports site of a major newspaper. Binoculars confirm it: turns out he’s been listening to hours of football podcasts while he’s supposed to be available…open door policy and transparency and all that.