Definitive Evidence
Thursday, February 16, 2006Yes, I finally have true, undisputable evidence that Idiot Boss really is an idiot.
At least one of you has recently said to yourself "I wonder what's been going on with the work situation for Chief Slacker?" So guess what!? ALL of you get to find out! Ha!This one's good though, well, at least I think it is, if not, blame Porq. Yup.
Anyway, we had our regular month department meeting and sat down with Idiot Boss, Boss' Boss and the rest of our group to talk about what's going. We talked about some new Standards, some new corporate projects and the regular mumbo jumbo. I'd give more details but I think I basically slept through the first half of it since one of the other managers was giving a review of the CEO's quarterly report. Anyway, at the end of the meeting, Idiot Boss talks about how our group is like the Pit Crew of a racing team. We do the behind the scenes work and it's important that we have quick turnaround so the projects stay "in the lead." Now, I am a big racing fan, I've worked on a couple different kinds of race cars and go to a NASCAR race each year, but when Idiot Boss starts making analogies, I worry.
And them came the evidence.
After the talk about being the pit crew, he also stated: "I think we need to raise the visibility of our department." Then, he handed out Fed-Ex envelopes to each of us that fairly obviously had a shirt inside. At this point, just about every bell, whistle and chemical reaction associated with the "Oh No!" portion of my brain was going haywire. With much trepidation, I open the bag and find:
Yes, it's Orange, and that picture doesn't do it's brightness justice, and yes, it have a black and white checkered collar and sleeve trim. They also have our company name, tagline and then our department name embroidered in black on the left breast area. Whoever took that picture should win an award because he/she somehow managed to make that shirt look semi-wearable. In reality, if that shirt was a person, it would be named Hid E. Ous. Unless that shirt has "Home Depot" and a number 20 on it, it's just plain wrong. No one is going to wear them, well, unless it's nice and warm at the start of next hunting season and they don't want to get Cheneyed.
The worst part is that he had to have spent at least about $300 of the companies money on these things. And that's assuming he got a decent price from our corporate vendor, and that's pretty unlikely.I didn't really need further proof, but I sure got it. Idiot Boss is irrefutably and idiot.
So yeah, work has been going ok. I really miss being able to get on a read all of your blogs during the day, but I have been making a good effort to get around and check up on everyone at home lately. I did have a sit down with the Director and that went pretty well, he was receptive, did listen some, did promise that there would be some changes and said that he was aware of some issues with Idiot Boss. I also have a meeting coming up with our new HR rep since the old one moved to a new company. Right now I'm still trolling for new jobs and in the meantime I'm just trying not to violate my little improvement plan thing and am trying my hardest to tolerate the IB.
So there you go, a little update and some evidence of idiocy. Later all! Keep Slackin!
posted by Chief Slacker @ 9:56 AM,
5 Comments:
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At Thu Feb 16, 03:23:00 PM,
The Nicsperiment said...
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Kudos to you for being the first person I know of to use Cheney as a verb.
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At Thu Feb 16, 08:46:00 PM,
Porq said...
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Slack..glad to hear the I-Boss still sucks and the shirt would make a big hit in a WARSAW bowling alley( being Polish myself I would know that). but the car looked cool. The shape of the skinny bucket seat looks from the early 70's maybe a Plymouth or a Dodge Duster?? But the car does have agreat chrome lock lock!! Oh I get blamed for worse things than having you write about I-Boss!!
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At Fri Feb 17, 08:48:00 AM,
Marie said...
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WOW, that is BRIGHT orange. Ick! I want to see a picture of you wearing it. ;)
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At Fri Feb 17, 10:42:00 AM,
OzzyC said...
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For what it's worth, I can completely relate to your situation, without the shirt.
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At Tue Feb 21, 12:40:00 PM,
Unknown said...
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You will have to post a picture of you and your blinding shirt! lol