Wednesday, June 28, 2006



Win a Free Vacation by Telling Your Bad Boss Story

A bad boss can drive you nuts! Long hours, low pay. Hard work, no health insurance. The boss gets a golden parachute, you get no pension, no respect. You need a break. Tell us all about it and you could win a much-needed vacation.

Learn more about the contest.


Semifinalist Winners Will Compete for the Grand Prize:
A Paid Getaway from the Boss

Grand prize is a one-week condo vacation with round-trip airfare.

Special Mention Contestants also will receive prizes, such as:


"Take This Job and Shove It" CD, by Johnny Paycheck.

A Survival Guide for Working with Bad Bosses: Dealing with Bullies, Idiots, Back-Stabbers and Other Managers from Hell, by Gini Graham Scott.

The Dictionary of Corporate Bullshit: An A to Z Lexicon of Empty, Enraging and Just Plain Stupid Office Talk, by Lois Beckwith.

"Nine to Five" DVD, signed by Jane Fonda.

The semifinalists will be determined from the contestants whose stories receive the most votes during these voting periods:

1st Semifinalist Vote:
Wednesday, June 14, 12 p.m. until Wednesday, June 28, 11:59 a.m.

2nd Semifinalist Vote:
Wednesday, June 28, 12 p.m. until Wednesday, July 5, 11:59 a.m.

3rd Semifinalist Vote:
Wednesday, July 5, 12 p.m. until Wednesday, July 12, 11:59 a.m.

4th Semifinalist Vote:
Wednesday, July 12, 12 p.m. until Wednesday July 19, 11:59 a.m.

5th Semifinalist Vote:
Wednesday, July 19, 12 p.m. until Wednesday, July 26, 11:59 a.m.

All semifinalists will compete for the grand prize. The voting period for the grand prize is:

Wednesday, July 26, 12 p.m. until Thursday, Aug. 10, 11:59 a.m.

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9 Comments:

Blogger MC Fanon said...

Funny! Unfortunately, I've never had a boss I didn't like... Although I suppose that's a good thing.

10:12 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I've never had a "bad boss" either.

In the FDNY Officers (Lieutenants, Captains and Chiefs) eat with the firefighters, live with them and go into the same buildings, and they've come from their ranks and sympathize with the job.

Sure there are some Officers who are "too nervous" at fires, some that become overbearing with rank. I've had a number of funny boss stories, but I've never had a "bad boss," in any real sense of that word.

When I first learned the deck building busines, I worked for an old German guy. He was a real perfectionist and as a young guy, I wasn't, so I was, as they say, "none too fond," but I became a lot more perfectionist when I ran a business later, and learned a lot from that guy, so even though I didn't like the guy when I was twenty, I revered his memory just five years later.

I think folks like Dave above are the rule rather than the exception.

10:24 AM  
Blogger Van said...

Thanks for comenting guys.

Man, I've had some really bad boses. But most of them were good.

I had one boss who would not promote me because I was over qualified, that's the excuse that he used but I was already doing the work. Essentially he wouldn't promote me because I was already doing the job.



He was a jerk. I eventually quit.

11:12 AM  
Blogger MC Fanon said...

That really sucks. Was this at Wal-Mart by any chance? ;)

11:22 AM  
Blogger Van said...

No, it wasn't Walmart. I was a Senior Engineer (chief electrician) at the St Petersburg Renaissance Vinoy Resort at the time.

I was doing the work load of a supervisor (the supervisor whom I replaced), but I was not being paid for the position.

So my supervisor suggested that I receive a promotion.
But his boss, the director, was infamous for being tight with the dollar. His reasoning was for turning me down was, "Why should I pay a guy more money for a job that he is already doing". That's what he told my supervisor.

I was in college at the time so the excuse that he gave me was that I was over qualified, over qualified for a job that I was already doing.

I quit soon after and found employment with JP Morgan in my field of study (computer networking).

There is some poetic justice though, my old boss eventually got fired for drinking on the job and they still haven't replaced my old job with someone as capable.

When I quit, he (the director) began to lecture me about how he bent over backwards to accommodate my schedule (for school), that's when I lost it.

He was much taller than I am (I'm 6'3") but I was so angry that I couldn't contain my frustration any further. I let him have it. I yelled all of my frustrations. I knew that he was scared, yet didn't care.
Later I was ashamed of my self, I never lose my cool like that. However, my former supervisor called and told me that he never heard such accurate articulation at such high decibels. And, after I tore him a new one, he was nicer...for about a week.




This was 7 years ago.

3:44 PM  
Blogger MC Fanon said...

Wow. That has to be the worst boss story of all time, right up there with the guy from Office Space.

5:29 PM  
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