Dumb Bosses

CrznDnUS1 · Post by **CrznDnUS1** » January 20, 2006 3:35 pm

What is up with some of these so called bosses? My boss called a meeting at 5:00 today until 5:30. I would blow if off but there is only two or threee otheres going to be there and I would sort of be missed. Don't these guys have a life, oh nevermind I just answered my question.

buffettbride · Post by **buffettbride** » January 20, 2006 3:36 pm

A 5 o'clock meeting???

OMG.

It's rare anyone schedules anything around here after 3pm on a Friday the weekend before football playoffs.

Blasphemous.

ToplessRideFL · Post by **ToplessRideFL** » January 20, 2006 3:37 pm

CrznDnUS1 wrote:What is up with some of these so called bosses? My boss called a meeting at 5:00 today until 5:30. I would blow if off but there is only two or threee otheres going to be there and I would sort of be missed. Don't these guys have a life, oh nevermind I just answered my question.

My boss does that all the time..... which is one of the reasons I had an interview today!

rednekkPH · Post by **rednekkPH** » January 20, 2006 3:38 pm

buffettbride wrote:A 5 o'clock meeting???

OMG.

It's rare anyone schedules anything around here after 3pm on a Friday the weekend before Denver gets their asses kicked.

Blasphemous.

Fixed it for ya.

buffettbride · Post by **buffettbride** » January 20, 2006 3:40 pm

rednekkPH wrote:
buffettbride wrote:A 5 o'clock meeting???

OMG.

It's rare anyone schedules anything around here after 3pm on a Friday the weekend before Denver gets their asses kicked.

Blasphemous.
Fixed it for ya.

Y O U S U C K

creeky · Post by **creeky** » January 20, 2006 3:40 pm

5.00pm is a stupid time .... I hardly ever schedule meetings after 2.00pm .. gotta get people at their peak - and that is not at going home time

Mine are always a 9.00am meeting if I can schedule then!

Calypso Poet 99 · Post by **Calypso Poet 99** » January 20, 2006 3:41 pm

meeting with a boss on Friday @ 5 is never a good thing especialy when it is pay day

My old manager had one of those and it was the last time I saw him.

Good Luck!

sy · Post by sy » January 20, 2006 3:45 pm

CrznDnUS1 wrote:What is up with some of these so called bosses? My boss called a meeting at 5:00 today until 5:30. I would blow if off but there is only two or threee otheres going to be there and I would sort of be missed. Don't these guys have a life, oh nevermind I just answered my question.

No. No they don't. and I sympathize with you because I've been scr*wed on more than one occasion by an 'emergency' 5pm meeting on a Friday.

Doesn't even matter that I normally leave at 4, either

CadiRita · Post by **CadiRita** » January 20, 2006 3:52 pm

Any boss who schedules a meeting after 4pm on a Friday is just testing his employees.

Which means that he is an ineffective boss if he can't motivate his team without being sneaky (as in this case), threatening or instigating fear of any kind - obvious or not.

On that note, I love the big guys at my company. We have weekly update meetings on Friday afternoons. We moved it up from 3pm to 1:30pm during the summer so that people COULD leave early and have a life. The time has stuck even during the winter.

This is the kind of cool boss that motivates me to always perform above expectation.

3/4 Time · Post by **3/4 Time** » January 20, 2006 3:55 pm

Inspired by this thread, I just went around to all my staff and told them we were having a meeting at 5:00.

And you know what?

I'd be dead!

iuparrothead · Post by **iuparrothead** » January 20, 2006 4:27 pm

It just started snowing pretty hard and I'm getting really antsy to leave... last time we got a big snowstorm, I was stuck on a bus for 2+ hours trying to get home... and that was only half way! I walked the 2nd half of the commute home!

Fortunately, my boss is so dumb that I'm just planning to leave in a half hour and he won't even realize that I'm gone.

creeky · Post by **creeky** » January 20, 2006 4:31 pm

I would be lucky to have half my staff left at 4.00pm on a friday ..... they would be already at the pub sinking a cold one

CrznDnUS1 · Post by **CrznDnUS1** » January 20, 2006 4:34 pm

CadiRita wrote: On that note, I love the big guys at my company. We have weekly update meetings on Friday afternoons. We moved it up from 3pm to 1:30pm during the summer so that people COULD leave early and have a life.

Actually when I worked for General Foods back in the '80s they had a summer hours thing from Memorial Day to Labor Day. Come in 30 minutes early and work 15 minutes later each day and we all left at 12:30 on fridays to beat the shore traffic. Those were the good old days. Now a company feels like you should pay them for the privledge to work there. And No i am not getting fiored just have wave an a$$hole for a boss.

Quiet and Shy · Post by **Quiet and Shy** » January 20, 2006 4:38 pm

ToplessRideFL wrote:
CrznDnUS1 wrote:What is up with some of these so called bosses? My boss called a meeting at 5:00 today until 5:30. I would blow if off but there is only two or threee otheres going to be there and I would sort of be missed. Don't these guys have a life, oh nevermind I just answered my question.
My boss does that all the time..... which is one of the reasons I had an interview today!

Good luck!!!

I've been in several of those meetings. My favorite was the time I got a dirty look for leaving at 6:00 so I could get to the shop and get my car before it closed for the weekend. Oh, and then there are the emergency 6:30 am meetings (normal work schedule 8-5).

CrznDnUS1 · Post by **CrznDnUS1** » January 20, 2006 5:01 pm

yea, i used to work atr a place and when you left at 5:30 or 6:00 the boss commented "What a half day?" Jokingly, but half serious. buttheads!!!!

Oops ain't I supposed to be on this meeting call? HaHaHa.

Wino you know · Post by **Wino you know** » January 20, 2006 5:15 pm

We have training and/or staff meetings two Wednesdays a month. If it's our day off, or we're just coming off the graveyard shift (6 PM-6 AM), that's tough. We're required to be there.
That being said, I really do like my boss/chief and my immediate supervisor/sergeant.
However, there are three or four of my slug co-workers, who, as far as I'm concerned, can go take a flying f--k at a rolling donut.

Four Play Palm · Post by **Four Play Palm** » January 20, 2006 6:13 pm

All of you: Quit your jobs and hang with me all year. I will be staying with different people just about every week and travel all over the US without having to pay a dime of my own money, I'm supported by the good people here on this sight. C'mon, you know it will be a blast. Who's with me?

Sam · Post by **Sam** » January 20, 2006 6:25 pm

Soon as the Boss calls the 5 O'Clock meeting send a meno to EVERYONE about ( or maybe a rumor ) the meeting is to be held at ( name of favorite bar/bup and grill) and don't fail to include the boss is buying. of this helps if you do not originate it on your own computer. ( anyone have access to the boss's computer?)
Sign it with his boss's name. Or else just get creative.......and make up your own message...... MUAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

jellocannoncrew · Post by **jellocannoncrew** » January 20, 2006 8:46 pm

My Dad's old boss used to have store meetings at, are u ready for this, 6:00 am on a SUNDAY MORNING!!! Don't think it was mandatory but if u did not go, you did not get a full 40 hours for the week. If you did not go, you would get 40 hours minus however the meeting took; usually 2 hours.
Oh ya, he works at Home Depot but that manager is no longer there.
I wonder why??

CaptBud · Post by **CaptBud** » January 20, 2006 9:16 pm

jellocannoncrew wrote:Oh ya, he works at Home Depot but that manager is no longer there.
I wonder why??

I use to work part-time at a Home Depot and we did the samething (6 am Sunday morning meetings). We did it because we opened at 6am everymorning but Sunday ( Sunday we opened at 8am)

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