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PrintableJonnyApplesauce said: How about do your job and mind your business. Setting people up is an invitation to get set up. Whats all the resentment about? If you get busy w/ your plans for your life youll see how insignificant the whole lot of em are to you.
 true dat! Shady folk are gonna do what shady folk are gonna do. You can't change 'em and you'll only kill yourself stressing over their dumb games. Meanwhile you can take that energy into moving upward in your life so that you can either not have to work with idiots or you will get paid more to work with idiots. | |
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chocolatehandles said: xenon said: In truth I've been in similar work situations and it can be very frustrating, but I think you should hold off on saying anything.
You should at least give her a chance to prove she's useless!!  I asked her to file some quotes and she put them all under M - when I realised what she had done I said why did you just put all those quotes under "M" and she said they were all for the Mr's  
that there needs to go in funkpills friday funny thread seems that i was busy doing something close to nothing, but different than the day before   | |
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johnart said: chocolatehandles said: No nothing going on with the boss - he told, confided in me when they first met about how she's lived her life - with me it's about ethics and respect. I don't respect her ways. I resent her being there as I know she's using him., she is extremely transparent. I think there would be more deserving candidates for the job than her and it's now been three days and she's not suitable for office work. Positive things about her are that she dresses well and she’s got nice nails. Today I told her she looked nice and then she spent 10 minutes telling me how much everything cost. 
First off, IMO I'd say your boss cross a line by telling you personal stuff about her. Big time. My hubby is friends with his boss (I'm my own boss I don't count ) but his boss doesn't tell him personal stuff about how his wife has lived her life.
It's not your business, and I don't mean that as in you're being nosy, I mean it as in it's not something he should be sharing in the workplace. I would not advice that you try to go against the boss' "kitty" supply. It could turn out to be a losing situation. If she's really not equipped for the job it will show on its own. Just keep him abreast (no pun) of the progress or lack thereof in a professional manner, as you would with any other person you would be training. Not paying special attention to whether she deserves or not to be there.  Exactly. | |
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Sounds like he's training her for your job. | |
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Vendetta1 said: Sounds like he's training her for your job.
That's ok I'll be due for Long Service by the time she gets it  | |
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your boss told you to do something, so do it, i guess. he didn't ask you to take care of his personal life. he asked you to train an employee.  | |
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They had a fight today so she didn't come in!
And he says their relationship would never interfere with work 
He actually made a comment about how slow she is and I told him that some people aren't suited to office work, then he said I know what you mean.
I'm stupid that was my opportunity to shake him but I didn't, maybe next time  | |
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errant said: your boss told you to do something, so do it, i guess. he didn't ask you to take care of his personal life. he asked you to train an employee.
It's hard to train her It's like this  EVERYDAY![Edited 11/14/09 2:03am] | |
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Thought I'd fill you all in as to what's been going on -
She's been off work due to them arguing on three occasions.
He confided in me and said that he can only give her another month or so and then she needs to find her own job because working together has affected their relationship. 
Now for the best part - on Friday he calls me into his office all serious (I’m thinking I may need to update me Resume soon) but instead he thanks me for all the effort, and gives me an extra $5 per hour pay increase.
Ps... I forget to mention that they had a massive fight when she put instant coffee in his precious $1,000 coffee machine, and No I did not sabotage her, I don’t need to, I just let her be herself | |
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chocolatehandles said: My boss has employed his Girlfriend (she is the one who got a car from her ex, unlimited credit card from another ex., she’s spent her whole life getting free-bees from men)
He says she needs a break (Give me a break  ) and wants me to teach her. I feel like walking out but it's difficult finding a 9 to 3 well paid school hours job.
I don't respect her and this whole situation. I am reluctant to teach her as I think she's using him and based on her merits she doesn’t deserve to be there. She spent a day with me so far and I’ve come to the conclusion that when it comes down to working for a living she’s hopeless. She tried so hard to be nice (fake fake fake fake fake) to me but every time she tried to start a conversation I cut it short with only yes and no answers. I even told her that I can’t give her too much to do because she doesn’t know anything (I was only being honest) 
I think I’ll be talking to him tomorrow - this sucks!  I was in a similar situation once, but the difference was my boss was married, and hired his "girlfriend" to replace me, after I had already put in my notice. It's a LONG story, but I ended up quitting early because...they were just having little...sessions in his office while she was supposed to be training/doing my job while I had to go out of town for four days. I came back there was stuff just thrown all over my desk. The others guys in the office told me they had been back there hoochie cooing! I just walked out that day, leaving a note saying an unforeseeable personal situation had occurred, and I needed to leave earlier than anticipated. As I said, I already had something else lined-up, so I had given him two weeks out of courtesy. If he was going to use "training" time to have little dalliances in his office, then.. I wasn't going to waste my time staying when I didn't have to... It was just a really uncomfortable situation, and there were also liability issues soo.. anyway.. I was out of there!
Oh, btw, this wasn't hearsay: he had confided in me that he was having an affair with this woman because he had lost interest in his wife. It's a really long story, but there were professional lines that been crossed on many levels--not to mention the whole thing being a really uncomfortable situation.[Edited 11/14/09 4:47am] | |
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