Out of Touch People

[daisylu]

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A couple of my faves:

- ."During a break room discussion on how one of my co-workers had to go to food stamps because the job didn't pay enough, the new CEO, who for the first and last time decided to have lunch in the break room, chimed in with, 'Yeah, I know what you mean. We had to let our second nanny go.'"


- "I used to work with an extremely competent and really nice supervisor, and she didn't show up for work one day. Our boss, who was also the owner, wanted to terminate my supervisor immediately until it came out that her husband died in a really violent, freak accident. The boss backed off when I told him that I can cover for her for as long as she needs. After two weeks passed, and in spite of her checking in every so often and being in the bereavement guidelines, our boss started interrogating people, asking when she'd be returning. He complained that her coming in to collect a paycheck (which she had to do because he refused to pay us through direct deposit) was really unprofessional given how long she'd been gone. He even started quietly asking people how it would look if he went ahead and replaced her."

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"She ended up returning almost immediately after her husband's funeral concluded, in my opinion because our boss kept pressuring her to return.



Three months later, that boss's dog died. He was a gentle, adorable English Bulldog that our boss would bring every so often, but he was also old and extremely sick — he had about a six-month warning that his dog would die.



The boss was utterly devastated...like ashes and sackcloth forlorn. Not only did he completely fall off the radar for a month, but he only resurfaced to have a meeting where he explained that he was heading to Hawaii to 're-center.' And, I kid you not, he looked my supervisor dead in the eyes and told her that she should understand." 

 - "I had a millionaire tell me it was so great that even though we could be making much more elsewhere than we were at the nonprofit we worked at, that we stayed 'for the kids' because, 'Who needs money when your job is rewarding?'"

[andi9899]

Some people really are dense.