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Got into it bigtime with the boss today

WarbirdsWarbirds Member Posts: 16,937 ✭✭✭✭
edited October 2019 in General Discussion
Not a good day.

I guess we will see how this plays out but the chips are on the table.
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  • SCOUT5SCOUT5 Member Posts: 16,181 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Rough stuff right there, having recently moved your family and all that involves. If you can't work it out I'm sure you'll land on your feet. From your posts you seem to like what you are doing, hope it works out for you.
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  • buschmasterbuschmaster Member Posts: 14,229 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    can't tell you how many times I wanted to do that but kept my mouth shut because I have bills to pay.

    my favorite one was

    boss: "you can go home any time you want!"
    what I wanted to say: "hey, you can send me home any time you want!"
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  • montanajoemontanajoe Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 60,240 ******
    edited November -1
    I fully understand,,but,eww not good. Best wishes.
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  • mrs102mrs102 Member Posts: 1,172 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    After a man I worked for died, certain people used to come to me and say "you worked with........" I always corrected them by saying, "No, I worked for him."
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  • Ditch-RunnerDitch-Runner Member Posts: 25,371 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I hope it works out for you
    I was never much at keeping my mouth shut if I knew I was right or being treated wrong

    I learned a saying many years ago from some old timers I worked with "I came her looking for a job I can leave doing the same thing "
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  • BrookwoodBrookwood Member, Moderator Posts: 13,771 ******
    edited November -1
    Good jobs sure don't grow on trees these days and good bosses are rarer than hen's teeth!
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  • hillbillehillbille Member Posts: 14,459 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    last few years of work I was shop steward, had a lot of new management come in wanting things done their way instead of the company way, I had the bad habit of telling them what I thought of them. made a lot of em mad, most got over it those that didn't, didn't really matter to me anyway, I used to tell em, I have worked here a long time, seen many of you all come and go, bet you I will get to see you go to. In my 40 years I got to see a lot of em go. you have to learn to either hold your tongue or stand your ground, I think you have the common sense to know when to do the right one. good luck
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  • jimdeerejimdeere Member, Moderator Posts: 26,277 ******
    edited October 2019
    Bill went to the personnel department one day to ask about a day shift job. Seems he had been working nights for years and had gotten tired of it.
    ?I?m sorry, Bill, we don?t have any openings on day shift? say the personnel manager.
    As Bill turned to go out the door, he mumbled ?I?ll be a son-of- a-*?.
    The manager said ?wait, Bill! We DO need a new Foreman!?
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  • MobuckMobuck Member Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I recently had an "employee issue" involving intentional falsification of records followed by a lie to attempt to cover up the first lie. When I asked for a "believable reason", I got another excuse. When I commented I wanted a reason rather than an excuse, I got a resignation. So be it, don't let the door hit you on the way out. I guess she thought I'd fold and let her and her lies stay but SHE WAS WRONG
    Good luck, maybe you're irreplaceable.
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  • diver-rigdiver-rig Member Posts: 6,338 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ?Good luck, maybe you're irreplaceable.?

    I?ve been on both sides of the table.

    No one is irreplaceable. No one.


    Might be a set back of a little while.



    To the OP, good luck in whatever comes your way. Hope cooler heads prevail.
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  • GrasshopperGrasshopper Member Posts: 17,041 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    been there both ways, although I was a good supervisor. Hope the bastage comes around today and says he was in the wrong. I would, but so many people in SO CALLED power are ate up with it.
    GOOD LUCK BUDDY!!
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  • wpageabcwpageabc Member Posts: 8,760 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sometimes follow up smoozing helps...
    "What is truth?'
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  • JunkballerJunkballer Member Posts: 9,307 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    diver-rig wrote:

    No one is irreplaceable. No one.

    Might be a set back of a little while.

    Yep I agree, as important of a job they have we replace Presidents every 4/8 yrs and we move right along......think about that ;)

    "Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee

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  • BobJudyBobJudy Member Posts: 6,671 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Arguing with a miserable person is like arguing with an idiot. They'll drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience. The few times I briefly had a miserable boss I did the best I could do to let it roll off my back. I knew at the end of the day I would be home and happy and they would still be miserable. Bob
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  • mogley98mogley98 Member Posts: 18,291 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well true that no one is irreplaceable BUT....... sometimes the cost to replace the person who knows what they are doing and does it well is unacceptable or down right detrimental to the business. And sometimes the business will fail with the loss of a key player.

    That said good luck
    Why don't we go to school and work on the weekends and take the week off!
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  • JunkballerJunkballer Member Posts: 9,307 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    One of the first things I was taught in business school was : "if as a Boss you weren't pissing employees off THEN you weren't doing your job" (nothing personal nor insults thrown) later in life as an owner of 2 businesses I can say......very true ;)

    "Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee

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  • JunkballerJunkballer Member Posts: 9,307 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    KenK/84Bravo wrote:

    Want to take the easy road, yell at people, act superior? That motivates NO ONE. EVER.

    There are GOOD Bosses. Then there are STUPID bosses. Pick which one, you wish to be.

    Sorry. I'd like to add, that I was a "Boss," for approximately 27 years. So I really do not know anything. Army, NCO, - before that.

    Never said it took yelling and demeaning one or acting superior to piss people off ???.............I was a damn good Boss and showed appreciation to those that deserved it, which they loved......you being a Army NCO and never pissed anyone off speaks volumes to me ??? :D , I guess my service time in the late 60's and 70's were different from your time :lol:

    "Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee

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  • mmppresmmppres Member Posts: 3,195 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have been there wish you luck.
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  • montanajoemontanajoe Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 60,240 ******
    edited November -1
    Well??? update,,,
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  • WarbirdsWarbirds Member Posts: 16,937 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    oh this will play out over a few months. Its unlikely I will have any communication from him before next Tuesday- and I have to walk right past his office to get to my office. but we could go weeks without talking if I do not engage him & that wouldn?t surprise me.

    I give it a near zero percent chance that I work for him by this time next year.
    montanajoe wrote:
    Well??? update,,,
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  • roswellnativeroswellnative Member Posts: 10,195 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    There IS a difference between Right, and dead Right
    Although always described as a cowboy, Roswellnative generally acts as a righter of wrongs or bodyguard of some sort, where he excels thanks to his resourcefulness and incredible gun prowesses.
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  • montanajoemontanajoe Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 60,240 ******
    edited November -1
    wishing you the best,,
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  • bustedkneebustedknee Member Posts: 2,001 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    John Bernard Books in The Shootist:
    (After wounding the bandit who attempts to rob him in the first scene) "... you better find yourself a new line of work; cause this one sure don't fit your pistol."

    An observation:
    In most boss/employee conflicts at least one person of the two is an idiot. Regardless, the boss automatically wins.

    You have to ask yourself, "Am I a company whore?" Then ask, "Am I being paid enough to do what is being asked of me?"
    Then * to work or * out.
    I can't believe they misspelled "Pork and Beans!"
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