Disappearing Bosses: C/D?

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I just rang my boss in work after my holiday in Boston/New York, to say "As it turns out, I did get to sleep on the flight (this is a lie) but the traffic from the airport was ridiculous, so I'll be a half-hour late in (this is true)". Except when I asked for the receptionist to put me through to my boss, she said he no longer works there. Which is, er, exciting.

So share your tales of sudden office rearrangement. I'll be along in a bit.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 30 May 2005 08:10 (twenty-one years ago)

My parents just disappeared, off to Japan, leaving me with the responsibility of running the shop. A big fat dud of course since we get no days off during their business stays in Japan - except when they come back for about a week and I have to beg for a few days off. *sigh* Of course they really didn't *disappear* as your boss.

― nathalie's baby (stevie nixed), Monday, 30 May 2005 08:21 (twenty-one years ago)

What if your boss is D@v!d B1@!n3?

― Huk-L, Monday, 30 May 2005 08:21 (twenty-one years ago)

then you should change jobs?

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 30 May 2005 08:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Well some people just got fired at my work recently, including one poor woman who'd been overseas to tend to a sick father.. who came back to no job :/

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 30 May 2005 08:32 (twenty-one years ago)

The chef at the cafe I work at was recently fired because it was discovered that he had no chefing qualifications, experience or credentials. He'd just been bluffing his way through. He'd been working there for 4 years.

― Seuss, Monday, 30 May 2005 08:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Blimey. What tipped it over the edge?

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 30 May 2005 08:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, he was in the process of training up an apprentice chef and had to provide proof of his qualifications to her chefing school. If it hadn't been for that, he probably would have gotten away with it for another decade.

― Seuss, Monday, 30 May 2005 08:48 (twenty-one years ago)

So basically he had all the proper skills for the job, he just didn't have a piece paper to prove it?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 30 May 2005 08:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Heh yeah good point!

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 30 May 2005 09:02 (twenty-one years ago)

my editor is now threatening to re-appear from being off sick, several days earlier than expected. i'm having to put her off until i've got this particular edition of the magazine to the printers. that way it's too late for her do do anything about it if she hates it :)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 30 May 2005 09:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Not just my boss, his boss too! I'm back working for the guy regarding whom I finished my last review by saying "Well, that was pretty good, I was terrified that you were going to say I have to spend another three months working with (name)"

I R PWNED.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 30 May 2005 09:16 (twenty-one years ago)

It's an illusion, Michael. Tricks are something whores do for money...or candy!

― Huk-L, Monday, 30 May 2005 09:16 (twenty-one years ago)

No good trip to the States goes unpunished, Andrew.

The owner of the last company I worked for drained every bit of cash he could get out of the business (plus a few hundred thou from the local Downtown Business Association), then filed for Chapter 11. The court appointed a bankruptcy trustee who took a couple of weeks to look around and locked the owner and his wife (the general manager) out of the business. It was one ugly surprise after another for about eight months there. (Owner is now serving 12 years on a state fraud and forgery conviction, after serving two years in federal prison for bank fraud.)

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 30 May 2005 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, i've done this before. i'll call in sick, frantically hoping to reach the boss, and then it'll turn out that they're out for a week or more, and if i had just shown up late (or sometimes, not shown up at all) noone would have been the wiser. this has happened to be perhaps a dozen times.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 30 May 2005 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

My boss has gone on a trip and just before he left he sent me his copy for his regular column. Only it's almost identical to one he wrote a few months ago - same gags and everything - so I might have to write it myself.

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 30 May 2005 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

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