Mad office boss
I remember my first 'proper job' manager with a small glow inside. I think it's called hatred...

It started innocently enough with me writing a newsletter for her to proof read. She found some things she didn't like, I fixed them. Then the second proof she found more, and then more on the third, fourth and fifth proof. By the time we got to the eleventh proof I was now amending back changes she had wanted the first time.

I went to have a chat about how silly this was, and she promptly burst into tears and ran out of the office.

Everyone else looked at me like I had just threatened to kill her or something.

The next day she bounces in, all sweetness and light and forgives me (erm forgives me? what did I do??) and takes me out to lunch. We spend a happy afternoon building houses for our newly acquired kids meal toys.

The next day, I walk into the office with a note on my desk, saying 'see me in my office', from my manager. In I wander and am promptly ripped into for wasting the afternoon before and doing no work.

Now as you can imagine I'm a bit confused, but soldier on to make up the work from the day before.

Now, rinse and repeating the above scenario everyday for three months you can see how it became a burning hatred for the individual.

If I failed to be happy with her on 'good' days I felt like I was kicking a puppy about the room and everyone else thought I was evil.

On other days when I had strips torn off they thought I was crap at my job.

I was trapped there as it was a university placement and couldn't leave without failing the course.

I did however get a glowing report and promise of a job there if ever I wanted it (about the same amount as gargling razor blades).

It might have been a slightly less glowing report if she had discovered how many mistakes I didn't bother to correct in stuff we went out. If she hadn't spotted them in eleven stages of proof reading, why should I? My favourite being the headline about a 'car ant boat show'.

A petty revenge but it somehow seemed appropriate.
(Wooden meal is. Or is he?, Thu 24 Jan 2008, 12:59, 4 replies)

I would have amended it to 'car, ant and boat show'
And, if questioned, pretended I thought that was the intended message.
(clumsyeloquence is a girl, Thu 24 Jan 2008, 13:24, closed)

*click*
Gargling razor blades
(Fuckarma was masturbating into your handbag, Thu 24 Jan 2008, 13:42, closed)

click
For 'car ant boat show'. I can't even work out what that is.
(Emily Bruce-Dickinson http://jovialfellow.blogspot.com/, Sat 26 Jan 2008, 6:21, closed)

Should have been
Car and boat show, that we were sponsoring.

If only I could have done the same on the 20 foot banner!
(Wooden meal is. Or is he?, Mon 28 Jan 2008, 12:41, closed)