In honor of its being Friday
anyone got a good boss-from-hell story they want to share?
Here's one that happened to me this week. As some of you know, I work a few hours a week at my temple, in addition to my "real" job. I help out with the religious school on Sunday mornings and Wednesday afternoons. (setting out a snack for the kids, overseeing dismissal, calling parents when kids don't show up, etc - not very exciting work, but for a while there, it was my only job.)
This past Wednesday, the school was closed due to the ice storm. I assumed I wouldn't have to go in or call in (after all, the teachers don't have to call in) so I put in a couple extra hours at my real job (which is a lot more interesting and pays a he!! of a lot better).
Yesterday I got home to find a nasty message on my machine from the temple administrator demanding to know where I was the day before. Apparently she'd closed the school, but not the office.
So she expected me to schlep all the way down there to spend 3 hours, earning an amount of money so small you can't fold it - doing what, exactly? My only duties on Wednesdays are for the school, and the school was closed.
My guess: She wanted me to cover the phones so she could go home early before the ice storm started in earnest. She is salaried and gets paid whether she's there or not. It doesn't bother her in the least that I probably would have wrapped my car around a telephone pole on the way home.
I have worse stories, this one is just fresh in my mind...
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