Ever wonder if your boss is simply taking the piss?

Heineken Helen

So my boss is seriously picky about everything... finding mistakes that aren't there. E.G. he always has issues with letters like 'dear xxx... Please find attached' apparently the please should have a small P... which is bollox but anyway I do it his way... type the letter with a small p cos he's always changed it to that... and now he's put a capital P over the small p for me to change

This is why everyone finds him so infuriating... but now, for me, this MUST be a joke... maybe cos it's April fools or something...but he's a serious kinda guy.

what the fuck?

vedder_soup

Heineken Helen wrote:

So my boss is seriously picky about everything... finding mistakes that aren't there. E.G. he always has issues with letters like 'dear xxx... Please find attached' apparently the please should have a small P... which is bollox but anyway I do it his way... type the letter with a small p cos he's always changed it to that... and now he's put a capital P over the small p for me to change

This is why everyone finds him so infuriating... but now, for me, this MUST be a joke... maybe cos it's April fools or something...but he's a serious kinda guy.

what the fuck?

is today a good day to ask for leave then?
hey boss, i need a week off to go to NY for a concert!!

Heineken Helen

vedder_soup wrote:

is today a good day to ask for leave then?
hey boss, i need a week off to go to NY for a concert!!

well when I give him the letter back I AM gonna point out that he corrects it the other way every time! I'm wondering is his reasoning something to do with this letter being addressed to a girl or something? Maybe only girls get capital letters after their name anyone's guess to his rationale is as good as mine

ringo

Use all caps for the next letter

harmless_little_f***

I think my boss has been taking the piss ever since I was empl.....

No, I shouldn't really say that.

tybird

Maybe someone gave him a grammar book as a gift???

Heineken Helen

ringo wrote:

Use all caps for the next letter

hahaha... that's brilliant! Sometimes he bugs the shit out of me with his pettiness when it comes to 'mistakes'. I can be quite scatty and hand over a letter with about 3 or 4 mistakes in it and I've no problem admitting it... but most of the time I'm just looking at him blankly like 'you have a problem with THAT?' I don't get it. He's so unpredictable... but I'm feeling playful today though

Heineken Helen

tybird wrote:

Maybe someone gave him a grammar book as a gift???

I suppose there's always THAT possibility also, lol. It's funny though, cos he's the kind you don't argue with... if he's a problem with something you just change it... so I'm sending off all these letters written really really badly... people probably think it's me maybe he's trying to get me sacked or something

civ_eng_girl

sounds like a Dr. Seuss story, Helen!

Big P, little p... what begins with P?

Heineken Helen

civ_eng_girl wrote:

sounds like a Dr. Seuss story, Helen!

Big P, little p... what begins with P?

eh... pisshead? oh no, that's me

how about prick?

jamie uk

I'm with this one Helen, my boss is such an arsehole. Our office is way over crowded, way too small for the amount of equipment and staff in there at the busiest times. Well he was pulled up on a health and safety call about it last Friday, so Saturday he was well pissed off, called us all together and started having a go about us being untidy, about a couple of coffee cups left somewhere!!!
I was like, "oh yeah, two fuckin coffee cups is really the cause of all our problems"...He's not too keen on me at times

Heineken Helen

jamie uk wrote:

I'm with this one Helen, my boss is such an arsehole. Our office is way over crowded, way too small for the amount of equipment and staff in there at the busiest times. Well he was pulled up on a health and safety call about it last Friday, so Saturday he was well pissed off, called us all together and started having a go about us being untidy, about a couple of coffee cups left somewhere!!!
I was like, "oh yeah, two fuckin coffee cups is really the cause of all our problems"...He's not too keen on me at times

well my boss gave me another letter... so I gave it a capital P... and guess what.. he changed it to a small p :eek: so I brought it up and he said that it's cos it comes after a comma :rolleyes: and he must have made a mistake earlier... which is NOT like him at all, lol, but he's not the kind you say 'well no, actually, you're wrong' so I'll just fucking do it his way.

jamie uk

Heineken Helen wrote:

well my boss gave me another letter... so I gave it a capital P... and guess what.. he changed it to a small p :eek: so I brought it up and he said that it's cos it comes after a comma :rolleyes: and he must have made a mistake earlier... which is NOT like him at all, lol, but he's not the kind you say 'well no, actually, you're wrong' so I'll just fucking do it his way.

Hah, seems that being a complete know all, who's never wrong, is part of the criteria for Bossdom!
I suggest you spit in his tea

Buru

Heineken Helen wrote:

So my boss is seriously picky about everything... finding mistakes that aren't there. E.G. he always has issues with letters like 'dear xxx... Please find attached' apparently the please should have a small P... which is bollox but anyway I do it his way... type the letter with a small p cos he's always changed it to that... and now he's put a capital P over the small p for me to change

This is why everyone finds him so infuriating... but now, for me, this MUST be a joke... maybe cos it's April fools or something...but he's a serious kinda guy.

what the fuck?

maybe he is the kind that just has to find a mistake or make a correction otherwise he feels like he is not doing his job :rolleyes:

I write up stuff sometimes that gets changed around so many times, it almost makes me want to scream WHY DON'T YOU FUCKIN WRITE IT YOURSELF THEN, INSTEAD OF BEING A NITPICK ABOUT EVERYTHING??!!!
:mad:

But I just go back and change it. Again.