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My chief at a large retail chain used to decide on head office redundancies by chanting "One potato, two potato" over the staff list. Tell us about your mad psycho bosses - collect your P45 on the way out.

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(, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 13:06)
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Lot's of stories really
It wasn't too rare my boss in a company past would come in drunk, which often gave the most entertaining results.

For instance; we at one point were based in a shop front despite just being a web company. One day he had the idea of taping a €50 note to the end of a fishing line, attached to a fishing rod and placing the note on the pavement outside while he hid near a window. When someone came and noticed the note, he'd reel it in a bit...then a bit more as they stooped to try and pick it up; each time edging closer towards the main entrance. Genius. Except that house-wives/general day-walkers rarely were interested in buying a website, but still; didn't stop my boss from giggling like a mong anyway.

Also interviews. For any job we advertised, we'd always put the contact name as "John Fox" in the ad; that being a code for "it's some cunt wanting to work for us" - often there wouldn't actually be any jobs; some pleb would phone in 4 weeks late just on the off-chance it was still going. So the boss would often stroll round the office while still on the phone to whoever it was...and just randomly hand it to one of us with no explanation; mid-way through a conversation and we'd have to pick up the conversation just knowing it was another "John Fox" call. Most amusing, lines such as:

[random employee] "So tell me your greatest strengths".
[telephoning hopeful] "I did 4 times already"
[random employee] "Ah yes. So why are you well suited for this design job then?"
[telephoning hopeful] "It's for a php job?"

Best of all was when, inexplicably, the "interviewer's" voice would randomly turn female for a single question...and back to male again, with no explanation. Once or twice we even group answered back things like "yeah, sounds really good" in perfect synchronization as the guy reeled off about some talking point or other. John Fox had multiple voice-boxes apparently...and all this while the guy on the line was trying desperately to impress and keep his cool.
(, Fri 19 Jun 2009, 11:09, Reply)

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