What Is Your Boss Like?

My boss is a great fella and i do trust him. However i`ve been away a lot in the last few years,and done loads of extra hours. I was in a meeting last night and he asked for some people to volunteer for a job,i turned it down cos i havent seen my family for nearly 2 weeks. He turned round and said "Where is your loyalty?" when i told him it was at home with my partner and kids,he couldnt believe it.

Is it just me,or am i wrong?

[orange]steve[/orange][black]one[/black] wrote: My boss is a great fella and i do trust him. However i`ve been away a lot in the last few years,and done loads of extra hours. I was in a meeting last night and he asked for some people to volunteer for a job,i turned it down cos i havent seen my family for nearly 2 weeks. He turned round and said "Where is your loyalty?" when i told him it was at home with my partner and kids,he couldnt believe it.

Is it just me,or am i wrong?

depends on the job i guess...

If you're in a job where that kind of thing happens often, you shouldn't really be surprised. If you want your partner and kiddies to come first you work a job where they can.

I work a job where I don't have much time for my guy, which constantly pisses him off--but it's kinda the life I chose and that's where my priorities lie right now. If I ever want to re-align them, I'll work in customer service or something a bit less demanding and likely less satisfying.

Me and Mrs SHEDi both work in the same profession and at the same place, so we pretty much do the same hours... That said, I don't put in nearly as much work or time outside of normal hours as my boss would probably like...

SHEDi xxx

It's your boss's job to pass on the pressure he's under to get stuff done to you. He wants the best performance from you - that's all.

It sounds like you're not scared of a trip away (we don't see you for months at a time) but two weeks without seeing the little ones is enough for anyone.

If he's any kind of a man, he's already moved on - tried to find someone else to go and if that fails, told his client that they've got to wait. If he's still worrying about getting you to go, he's a git.

My immediate boss is a sound bloke who is off work at the moment,having dislocated his ankle playing rugby,which makes me stand-in boss of a team of ten lads.Extra money is good,but its not something I want perminantly.I've knocked promotions back before,and freely admit I lack ambition within our works.The politics,demands and compromise of becoming a firm's man just is'nt for me,and we manage on my wages now so the missus understands my point of view and lets me be,thankfully...

Had one clever cunt of a manager,who made a futile effort to stop me going to the hospital for the birth of my second daughter(Angel of doom we call him)very nearly dropped the power pissed cunt,and would hate to change into anything like him...But I do understand his job demands,apart from his dumb attempt to keep me at work while the missus was in labour, and would'nt want to put myself there..I just like being one of the lads to be honest,and don't fancy handing my life over to Corus Steel,getting call outs from home and being expected to spy on,and report people at work! Its a shitty business being a gaffer at our place,in fact its a shitty dangerous place anyway!

I'm off to see me mate in hospital today,who had an accident while we were on nights on Sunday..He's split his face open doing a job,and the firm will try to say its his own fault as usual,to minimise his damages claim..Tho the lad in question is actually a Safety rep for our shift,so you can be sure he was following safe working procedure!! Fuckin arsholes like that,Corus are!! I could tell you some really disgusting ways they have tried to wriggle out of compo claims,including dragging the wife of a dead colleague of mine through court..Thanks to the witness statements of all the lads they failed on that one,and she is now a rich lady..Tho it won't bring Patrick back to her.

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My boss is a gay Geordie. Sound fella, likes to get involved and doesnt just sit in his office all day

Your boss seems out of order there, family you havn't seen for two weeks comes before 'loyalty' to work id think

I'm my own boss, so I dunno how I am.

When I have lots of work, I don't see my kids or wife for days. Working from morning until 11PM.

But when I have less work, I spend many hours at home with my family.

Ups and downs...

My boss has no concept of any non-work-related event lasting longer than an hour :p

Seriously, the day before my sister's graduation from high school, he asked me if I could come in for a few hours that morning/afternoon. This after I'd asked off for the day because I figured our family would try and celebrate the occasion. My boss first forgot that my sis's graduation was early in the morning, and then said "well, that shouldn't take more than an hour, right?

Those of you who've been to any sort of graduation ceremony know...they don't often last under an hour.

But the joke was on me: the graduation ceremony actually lasted less than an hour (they were in a hurry to get out of there, I guess), and after lunch I went in to work a few hours that day. My workmates and I have used the "shouldn't take more than an hour" line as a private joke ever since.

Boatraceface wrote: My immediate boss is a sound bloke who is off work at the moment,having dislocated his ankle playing rugby,which makes me stand-in boss of a team of ten lads.Extra money is good,but its not something I want perminantly.I've knocked promotions back before,and freely admit I lack ambition within our works.The politics,demands and compromise of becoming a firm's man just is'nt for me,and we manage on my wages now so the missus understands my point of view and lets me be,thankfully...

Had one clever cunt of a manager,who made a futile effort to stop me going to the hospital for the birth of my second daughter(Angel of doom we call him)very nearly dropped the power pissed cunt,and would hate to change into anything like him...But I do understand his job demands,apart from his dumb attempt to keep me at work while the missus was in labour, and would'nt want to put myself there..I just like being one of the lads to be honest,and don't fancy handing my life over to Corus Steel,getting call outs from home and being expected to spy on,and report people at work! Its a shitty business being a gaffer at our place,in fact its a shitty dangerous place anyway!

I'm off to see me mate in hospital today,who had an accident while we were on nights on Sunday..He's split his face open doing a job,and the firm will try to say its his own fault as usual,to minimise his damages claim..Tho the lad in question is actually a Safety rep for our shift,so you can be sure he was following safe working procedure!! Fuckin arsholes like that,Corus are!! I could tell you some really disgusting ways they have tried to wriggle out of compo claims,including dragging the wife of a dead colleague of mine through court..Thanks to the witness statements of all the lads they failed on that one,and she is now a rich lady..Tho it won't bring Patrick back to her.

Good for you. I admire someone who can turn down money in favor of hapiness. But maybe that's cos I'm a slacker too. As for the rest of your story, it sounds like typical upper management shitting all over the common workers type stuff.

I don't have any good tales to tell about my boss being an asshole. I've never been asked to work during a graduation or my wife giving birth. My immediate boss is a cool guy, but a couple of level above him they are all a bunch of cunts. Just typical corporate assholes, who don't even do a good job of pretending that they care about the common workers. Oh well, at least it's a job.

Anyway, if Steveone's boss is still pissed off about him actually wanting to see his family after a couple of weeks, then he is a prick. Probably doesn't care for his own family so doesn't understand. I've had bosses like that.

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Never trust a man in a suit

Johnny Come Loudly wrote: Never trust a man in a suit

what's that picture in yer avatar? great threads..:

jonathan wrote:

Johnny Come Loudly wrote: Never trust a man in a suit

what's that picture in yer avatar? great threads..:

it's from Saville's design book published in 2003. a fashion designer called Raf Simon designed the clothes.did a load of new order clothes some years back.well ,saville artwork design clothes

Absolutely great, mine is, unless one keeps repeating stupid (and expensive) mistakes. He leaves it to the employee to take the initiative on matters a lot of the time, which means that unmotivated slackers in our company will get lots of grief from the rest of us, and these guys don't last long. We have had very, very, very, very little employee turnover in the 11 plus years I've been there, he's very generous with many things, the good ex-employees always stay in touch cause it's such a great place to work. Honesty from everybody is the key for him (he knows mistakes will be made, but one should learn from them).

[orange]steve[/orange][black]one[/black] wrote: My boss is a great fella and i do trust him. However i`ve been away a lot in the last few years,and done loads of extra hours. I was in a meeting last night and he asked for some people to volunteer for a job,i turned it down cos i havent seen my family for nearly 2 weeks. He turned round and said "Where is your loyalty?" when i told him it was at home with my partner and kids,he couldnt believe it.

Is it just me,or am i wrong?

I don't think you're wrong. Your family has to come first. There are other jobs but your partner and kids are one of a kind. I could understand his comment if you've been slacking on the job but that doesn't seem to be the case.

My boss is a very nice lady. She's easy going but she'll only be my boss for about a month longer since I attend school in the fall. We all work closely and she's very supportive.

I AM MY OWN BOSS

Mine does not know half the job. Whenever he reaches the end of his knowlege he dumps the task to me. He constantly overreacts which is bullshit. Calm the fook down.

Johnny Come Loudly wrote: Never trust a man in a suit

I think that should be: NEVER TRUST A MAN (in or out of a suit!).

My boss is weak, male, almost retired (should be now), and a great demotivator - this really helps me as a manager to instill confidence and motivation in other staff.

Nice!:(

Smurfy wrote:

Johnny Come Loudly wrote: Never trust a man in a suit

I think that should be: NEVER TRUST A MAN (in or out of a suit!).

My boss is weak, male, almost retired (should be now), and a great demotivator - this really helps me as a manager to instill confidence and motivation in other staff.

Nice!:(

Another good day?

Force him into retirement and then snap his job up! Then.... buy a house, get married, have kids and live happily ever after! :p

Bonzette wrote:

Smurfy wrote:

Johnny Come Loudly wrote: Never trust a man in a suit

I think that should be: NEVER TRUST A MAN (in or out of a suit!).

My boss is weak, male, almost retired (should be now), and a great demotivator - this really helps me as a manager to instill confidence and motivation in other staff.

Nice!:(

Another good day?

Force him into retirement and then snap his job up! Then.... buy a house, get married, have kids and live happily ever after! :p

Marriage, kids me. Could have the job - not worth the effort - see I told you I was full of motivation!

Smurfy wrote:

Bonzette wrote:

Smurfy wrote:

Johnny Come Loudly wrote: Never trust a man in a suit

I think that should be: NEVER TRUST A MAN (in or out of a suit!).

My boss is weak, male, almost retired (should be now), and a great demotivator - this really helps me as a manager to instill confidence and motivation in other staff.

Nice!:(

Another good day?

Force him into retirement and then snap his job up! Then.... buy a house, get married, have kids and live happily ever after! :p

Marriage, kids me. Could have the job - not worth the effort - see I told you I was full of motivation!

My current boss is great, he lets me do what he hired me to do, which is a nice change from how it was at my last job.

At my last job, the owner was my boss and he was so afraid that everyone was out to get him, that he never let anyone do the jobs he hired them to do. Due to this, this stress level in the office was unbearable since you would never know when he might explode for no reason. In the 2 1/2 years I worked there, he went through 6 keyboards, 8 mice, 2 nextel phones and 3 regular phones that he destroyed due to him acting like a child.

He would also sign off on someone's vacation request and then the day before they would be on vacation, tell them sorry they can't have it. He would go to the field techs on a friday at 4pm and tell them, that they were working all weekend and if they did not show up their were fired, even though he knew about the work earlier in the week. As far as he was concerned you lived to work there and nothing else mattered.

So glad I'm no longer there even though I'm making way less money.

Psy