Stupid Bosses

Well where to start with!!! This boss of mine has just taken over and in doing that he had gone I work for an IT department whose staff has shrunk from 13 to 5 over the last five years. And one of our employees, the person responsbile from frontline helpdesk calls is almost completly worthless. So needless to say, I’m taking on the job responsibilties that used to be performed by many people.

Stupid Things Overheard

Thug on cell: I don’t know where I was, but they’s Germans everywhere in this hood! They on my left, right. Damn! [Looks around anxiously] Now I know how Patton felt, son!

Stupid Criminals

ONSLOW COUNTY — A bizarre request Monday morning at the Onslow County Sheriff’s Office.

Lolita Bullock turned herself in for robbing the Bank of America in Jacksonville on May 4. But she also wanted to cash in on a reward being offered in the case.

Lolita brought a friend with her to the Sheriff’s office to claim the reward money.

It will be up to Crime Stoppers to decide if her friend deserves the reward.

Stupid CoWorkers

Why is it when coworkers become supervisors they become tyrants who micromanage and control everything? I’ve known perfectly nice people (I am a counselor after all) who have been promoted and literally become unrecognizable to those former co-workers who have the unfortunate fate of sticking around afterwards. In my most recent position as an adolescent drug and alcohol counselor for the city’s health department, I have seen it the worst it’s ever been. Is it due to working in a system that supports managers and supervisors no matter what the issue is? Is it because city workers are typically people who have stuck around in the system for so long waiting for their pension to kick in that they are bitter and looking for someone to take out their anger on? Is it because they’ve been in the trenches for so long that when they’re lifted up and given a small amount of power they go nuts with it?