I work for a state government as a clerk in a records department. My responsibilities involve copying requested records, filing incoming records, stuff like that. I have a great supervisor snf the work is interesting. Unfortunately since we are going paperless my job is being phased out and so I am going elsewhere.
My friend, Pete worked for a boss that was into mystic meditation and reading crystals. When he went in to interview, the man stared at the walls and the ceiling but not at Pete. Pete stopped talking and just stared at him.
I’m sensing your aura, dude. Keep talking,” he said.
He hired Pete. Pete took the job because there wasn’t another one out there.
It was a shipping company and pretty busy. But the boss didn’t pay his bills. Consequently, Pete was left to deal with a slew of companies wanting their money. He tap-danced as best he could. Clients started calling lawyers and collection agencies.
One day this businessman came storming over to “beat the money out of him” that the boss owed. Pete called the police. The secretary went home. The boss went downstairs and had the building manager lock him in the basement vault until the “madman” was gone!
Pete told the boss, “It makes no sense to not pay our bills.”
“Everyone’s against me,” the boss said. “Cosmic forces are conspiring to ruin me.” He suggested they stop working and just meditate.
My friend, Pete is Irish and this was his first job in the US. He thought we were all crazy if this guy was normal. “This guy never would have been able to run a business in Ireland,” he told me.
“Why not?” I asked.
“Because they would have locked the loon up!” he said.
He told the boss, “Maybe we can shift the balance of cosmic forces back and change our karma.”
“How?” his boss asked.
“By paying our bills!” Pete shouted, throwing the bills down on his desk.
Pete decided to quit the company. He was the book keeper and they were running out of money. Soon they would not have any to make payroll with. He went in on a Saturday to pack things up at his desk so when he handed in his resignation letter the following Monday morning he could make a quick exit.
The boss was in the office with a lady he introduced as his spiritual mentor. They were chanting and sprinkling what looked like dust or glitter on everyone’s desk, ringing a bell and saying something in a foreign language.
His boss told him they were dispelling the bad spirits in the place to reverse the company’s finances.
The mentor told Pete he had a greedy aura.
Pete told them goodbye.
Stupid Laws in Colorado…
One may not mutilate a rock in a state park.
Car dealers may not show cars on a Sunday.
It is illegal for liquor stores to sell food or grocery stores to sell any alcohol except beer that is at most 3.
No liquor may be sold on Sundays or election days.
It is illegal to ride a horse while under the influence.
Tags may be ripped off of pillows and mattresses.
I am a male teacher in a catholic girls’ school. There are about 20 male teachers in a staff of 100. Six months after I take the job my crazy boss decides that she wants all male staff to wear ties. Our female colleagues all dress decently but certainly not at a “corporate” standard. We have protested, our union has too and I (sadly alone) have consistently refused to wear a tie. I dress neatly and professionally at all times, usually in a suit.