Because we all need an occasional crazy boss story...

[geminigirl]

Each week (Monday if I'm good about it, Tuesday morning if I'm not) I'm expected to give my boss a calendar for the week, mostly detailing when I'll be in the office and when I'll be out. Because I was off Tuesday this week (in exchange for working on Saturday) I put it in her mailbox on Monday afternoon before I left. About 20 minutes ago, I got a phone call from her, asking where I was.

"I'm home. I'm not supposed to be in until 1 PM, because I have a group tonight, and won't be done until 9 PM or so."

"How come I don't know this."

"It's on my calendar, which is in your mailbox, where I put it on Monday before I left."

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[winterbadger]

My boss sent me a citation for a document and severalparagraphs of quotations from it that he had typed up, all relating to a research subject we're working on, with a query as to whether I had seen this information.

Yes. It is, by pure chance, the subject of the first record in the 1600+ record database that I and a coworker produced for him last year and which is sitting on a CD or on his hard drive.

And we wonder why our client doesn't seem to use the database much. Gee, maybe because our boss, who the only one of the three of us who ever speaks to the client, won't use it. (His reaction to the initial, 300-record cut of the database? To print it all out on paper and read it that way.)

**sigh**

[beetlebau.livejournal.com]

I had a boss who was insane. He started seeing little people in various places and eventually threatened a university vice-president, which is how he became an ex-boss.

I recently found usenet postings by him when I was looking up "seeing little people" on usenet, because of a posting on another discussion group by someone who was seeing little people lurking around the Mars rovers. Apparently, this is far more common than I would have thought.