You'll all hate me, but...
...technically, at the age of 21, I'm the boss. I'm an elected officer at a students' union, and as such am one of 14 line managers for a lot of staff, all of whom have more experience, were born at least 20 years before me and earn more than i do. Sometimes it's tough being the boss...
(Holloway_Girl To err is to be human, to be a fool is to believe, Mon 22 Jun 2009, 22:30, 17 replies)

I literally don't know how to react to this amazing news.
I mean, wow. Well done.
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Mon 22 Jun 2009, 22:33, closed)

Hate? More 'Oh look, another sabb. Quick, nod and smile'
Good luck with that :p You won't be their first and you won't be their last.

Seriously, don't use the 'I'm your boss' line with them, ever. Not if you want to be allowed into the union building outside of office hours.

In fact, don't even think it. It'll be easier that way.

(Incidentally, 21 and the boss is impressive when you're an army officer. When you've become the boss due to a popularity contest, it's the complete opposite)
( multijoy, Mon 22 Jun 2009, 22:38, closed)

You'll still be utterly unemployable when you do eventually graduate.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Mon 22 Jun 2009, 22:39, closed)

good news on being the boss
But I'd recommend thinking of it as a good thing to be on your CV rather than anything people take too seriously!

For example, as an elected officer, how much respect do MPs get these days? :p
(Eds Meds Mathskillz=1,Socialskillz=0, Mon 22 Jun 2009, 23:08, closed)

^^^
Yarp, no one cares

And your underlings probably hate you
(chimpo2k, Tue 23 Jun 2009, 10:44, closed)

Elected officers are, by definition, not the boss.
You have have more bosses than you'll ever meet, viz, your electorate.
( Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Tue 23 Jun 2009, 10:50, closed)

Damm straight
I just wish the feckers in London would remember it.
(dxg, Tue 23 Jun 2009, 22:30, closed)

Hmmm, in my experience Student's Unions
Are massively inefficient, popularity based, self-celebratory, backslapping, wankathons bearing no real resemblance to a real job.
( Anthropos Was making beer on, Tue 23 Jun 2009, 10:59, closed)

^Agreed
,
(The Kwyjibo A big, dumb, balding North American ape., Tue 23 Jun 2009, 11:08, closed)

^ this
totally.
(snowboardrob, Tue 23 Jun 2009, 11:35, closed)

Oh, you went to Reading Uni as well?

( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 23 Jun 2009, 12:01, closed)

^ double this

( rofl harris, Tue 23 Jun 2009, 12:41, closed)

Ahhhh Reading
Londons retarded cousin
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 23 Jun 2009, 12:49, closed)

I went to a Reading and Counting School.
And we did a little bit of rugger too.




And Geography.
(Rsoles, Tue 23 Jun 2009, 14:10, closed)

If you're an elected boss, then you're not the boss
you're a puppet. Your underlings earn more than you and probably wish death and syphilis upon your unborn children.

Well done.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Tue 23 Jun 2009, 12:36, closed)

I do the recruitment at work
I wouldn't even offer you an interview if you were there any period of time. Do yourself an favour and leave ASAP before you become unemployable in the real world.
( currantbun is nubtnarruc backwards, Tue 23 Jun 2009, 15:33, closed)

"...partly responsible for a business
with an annual turnover of nearly a million pounds."

...or similar is no doubt something you have been delightedly looking forward to putting on your cv when you go for a real job. Well, unfortunately, everyone interviewing you will have come across tiresome cunts like you when they were at University, so best you start polishing those burger flipping skills!
(Oil Slick, Tue 23 Jun 2009, 22:23, closed)