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Tb2571989 says Bad Management isn't just a great name for a heavy metal band - what kind of rubbish work practices have you had to put up with?

(, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 10:53)
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Pervy, PR Paul
I have worked at some good places over the years but have had the misfortune to work for some right bastards. One bloke Paul married 40 something with 3 kids, who was the part owner of a PR agency, was a real piece of work. He regularly spoke to his 6 strong female team like pieces of shit, he’d shout, swear and would pretty much do what he could to humiliate us all on a frequent basis. He also got his cock out once on a ‘team building’ trip that they took us on to France, he was and probably still is a complete c**t.

I had to take the company digital camera to a client function and when I went to download the pictures I found loads of shots of him and a very young scantily clad girl in some grubby hotel room. I’d just saved the photos onto my memory stick when he had another wig out in the main office and started bollocking one of my colleagues quite ferociously, I stood up for her and received the same bollocking. He then called us all useless c**ts and began another rant, I lost my temper at this point, told him I’d never been spoken to like this before by a manager and that I had no respect for him professionally or personally and that I was giving him 1 months notice as of that moment. He then maturely shouted ‘well f**k o** then’ at me.. Needless to say the remaining month was not exactly pleasant. It was made worse by the interviews I was made to sit through while they were searching for the poor soul that would become my replacement. They eventually found a guy called Dave, he was really nice and that’s what made it worse because I knew exactly what he was coming into. I gave him my mobile number and told him to give me a call if he had any questions or needed to find any thing. Anyway, I started my new job and had got about a month in when I got a call from Dave, it was pretty unexpected and his opening line was ‘Can I ask you honestly what Paul is like…because he has just sacked me’. Well 30 mins later it transpired that Paul had discovered that Dave had lied at his interview about his previous salary being 18k per annum, Dave had actually been on 17k. Paul wasn’t happy about this and decided to sack him, the ridiculous thing is that I had been on 22k so it clearly wasn’t all about the money. Dave had been in his previous job for 9 years and his MRS. was 7 months pregnant. Admittedly Dave had lied but a grand in the scheme of things wasn’t a lot for Paul. Considering the amount of money he was coning out of loads of our clients for doing fuck all work and the dodgy tax practices that went on in that place. Dave went on to tell me all the stuff they’d told him about me, he also imparted the bollocks that Paul had told some of the old clients about me. Paul being the c**t that he was meant that none of it was a surprise but it still pissed me off. Infact it pissed me of enough to meet up with Dave the next week where I had the pleasure in handing over the memory stick with the grubby hotel room shots and the keys to the office which Paul hadn’t even been arsed to ask me for when I left.

I found out from an old colleague about a month later about the showdown that followed in the office. Paul had decided to withhold the salary he owed Dave so Dave paid Paul a visit early one morning. He gave Paul the hiding he deserved and then left with a cheque. About a week later Paul’s MRS chucked him out following the grubby poster campaign that had been displayed along their road for all to see. What goes around, comes around.
(, Wed 16 Jun 2010, 15:19, 10 replies)
Clickity click
I love it when justice is served.
(, Wed 16 Jun 2010, 15:24, closed)
Nice one!
This has it all!

Click
(, Wed 16 Jun 2010, 16:03, closed)
Ooooh
I so hope this is true (and I have no reason to doubt it apart from the fact that Justice so rarely gets served).

Brilliant.
(, Wed 16 Jun 2010, 16:38, closed)
It certainly is
And it didn't mater one bit that I didn't get to deal out the justice, and at 20 odd years of age I probably wouldn't have known how. I was just glad that he got his comeupance he really was a peice of work.
(, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:48, closed)
Did he use a Honda Accord to drive around delivering the posters?
(Click, as this story is win.)
(, Wed 16 Jun 2010, 18:01, closed)
I was waiting for the Honda Accord reference..
*click*
(, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 4:58, closed)
Fecking get in!
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(, Wed 16 Jun 2010, 19:28, closed)
Riiiiggghhhhttttt
And did Joe then give him a flying kick to the head?
(, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 9:41, closed)
VENGEANCE!

(, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 10:19, closed)
this is absolutely bloody marvellous
and appeals to the mob-side of my mentality. Can you publish Paul's contact details, so that we can all have a gloat?
(, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 12:39, closed)

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