Everyone of you is fired... everyone one of you is oh oh oh oh!
My old boss was a bit rubbish.
Not only was she running a dtp/design department without any knowledge of the software we were using, she had some funny ideas about motivating staff.

After 18 months of pissing off everyone in the company and making our team look like a bunch of fuckwits, she went on maternity leave for a year. In that time the stand in manager improved every aspect of our business and managed the unenviable task of re-raising our profile within the company.

When the belgian dwarf returned her first day was spent moaning that all her procedures had been scrapped (despite them being better in every concievable way), continually asking us 'why are you doing it that way?' and generally being a pain in the hole.

At 4 o clock on her fiorst day back, she called us all into a meeting... and proceeded to tell us that her boss (Mrs P) had informed her that she wanted to sack us all. Mrs P, it seemed, saw no further use for a design team, and would look for any reson to give us the chop, so we'd better buck our ideas up.

This was a bit of a suprise, considering for the past year, we'd received nothing but praise for all our efforts.

Two weeks later, it transpired the whole thing was a lie. What had happened was, she'd come abck, realised none of us had any respect for her whatsoever, and we'd done perfectly well without her. This was her way of stamping her authority back on 'her' team.

Six months of hell, before, thank god, she got up the duff again. This led to a protracted legal battle so she could work from home. The argument against being, of course, how can you manage a team from home?

In the end, because my company are a bunch of pussies with 'delicate' matters like this, they let her work from home, on full mannager pay, on various projects that would take any one of our team a couple of hours, but took her weeks to finish.

She recently got preggera AGAIN (3rd time in four years) and I believe she is 'no longer with us'. Everyione is being very tight-lipped about the actual circumstances though.
Sadly her legacy is still with us, with various projects in various stages of completion. Her complete ineptitude in Indesign, Photoshop etc means that sadly many of them have to be started again from scratch...
( Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Mon 22 Jun 2009, 10:59, 3 replies)

A friend of mine is an IT project manager
he knows nothing technical, works from home most days and has this week off, despite taking a month off at the start of the year.

I dont know whether I am annoyed, jealous, annoyingly jealous or jealously annoyed by his life.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Mon 22 Jun 2009, 11:23, closed)

But is he good at his job?
If so then there's no problem.

It's when people are shit at their job, don't know what they are suppossed to be doing, and get rewarded with pay rises, time off and working from home, that I get pissed off.
( Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Mon 22 Jun 2009, 14:54, closed)

Wow
That company really were pussies. That big lie should have lined her up for a firing! Amazing that someone can get away with doing that!
(stubbledchin, Wed 24 Jun 2009, 15:58, closed)