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DrBuck Posted on 5/6 10:55
Should bosses set an example?
Big whinge time. My boss is on holiday for the third time this year (38 days so far), yet only allows his staff 20 days.

He also comes and goes whenever he likes, not even disguising that he has been on the piss at the casino or a night club.

Just doesn't seem like a good example to his employees and makes me angry as fook.

Moses_Kiptanui Posted on 5/6 10:56
re: Should bosses set an example?
Yes, they should. Milk, one sugar please....

bandito Posted on 5/6 10:58
re: Should bosses set an example?
and to think you moaned at me about women at cashpoints.

DrBuck Posted on 5/6 11:00
re: Should bosses set an example?
Me moan about that Bandy, you never shut up about it. At least my whinge has some credence.

Moses_Kiptanui Posted on 5/6 11:01
re: Should bosses set an example?
Now, now lads. Just cos our star striker and top scorer has jumped ship to sign for our most despised arch rivals after blowing kisses and waving to us.

MarlonD Posted on 5/6 11:02
re: Should bosses set an example?
If he is the owner of the business what the fuq has it got to do with you how he spends his time and money.

Vinny_Garstroke Posted on 5/6 11:04
re: Should bosses set an example?
Why are you counting how many days off he has had?
Has he stopped accepting apples from you?

bandito Posted on 5/6 11:04
re: Should bosses set an example?
In answer to your original post DrBuck, try playing at boss cos you can do what the fook you want. You're just a cog in the machine. If you left there'd be someone in tomorra to take your place and the boss wont even remember you after 3 hours, cos for one, he'll be in the casino and two, he'll be counting the extra money he has saved by losing you and recruiting someone cheaper.

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DrBuck Posted on 5/6 11:04
re: Should bosses set an example?
Because he employs me Marlon you dick.

zoec Posted on 5/6 11:05
re: Should bosses set an example?
Exactly, DrBuck, he employs you, he doesn't answer to you. If he owns the business, he's entitled to do what he wants.

DrBuck Posted on 5/6 11:07
re: Should bosses set an example?
Bandy I've made sure that if he loses me it will be a big mistake and I don't think he could employ anyone cheaper than me. I made the princely sum of £13000 last year (before tax).

DrBuck Posted on 5/6 11:08
re: Should bosses set an example?
Zoec, he doesn't own the business.

MarlonD Posted on 5/6 11:08
re: Should bosses set an example?
"Because he employs me Marlon you dick."

Not for much longer if he reads this board.

On a serious note if you were the boss would you only take 20 days holiday and stop in and read the Bible every night.

Try being a boss and listening to tvvats who spend more time whining than actually working.

bandito Posted on 5/6 11:08
re: Should bosses set an example?
find a better job then

Moses_Kiptanui Posted on 5/6 11:08
re: Should bosses set an example?
Overpaid and underworked if you ask me. Doctors salries have slipped a bit haven't they...

BarnesBoro Posted on 5/6 11:10
re: Should bosses set an example?
"You're born, you take shi#. You get out in the world, you take more shi#. You climb a little higher, you take less shi#. Till one day you're up in the rarefied atmosphere and you've forgotten what shi# even looks like. Welcome to the layer cake son."

piggy_nichol Posted on 5/6 11:15
re: Should bosses set an example?
I've got a mate who is a big boss. Owns a large company.

He was always reluctant to skive off too much in case the workers thought like Dr Buck. I've always encouraged him to take as much time off as he can and if anyone complains to tell them that if they work hard then one day they might be a boss who can take as much holiday as they like too.

I dont think he dares tell them though.

Mind you, after I told him to burn the place down for the insurance in the first year of trading he rarely listens to me anymore.

DrBuck Posted on 5/6 11:15
re: Should bosses set an example?
Bandito, I didn't say it was a bad job. Hard to believe but I like it.

My whinge is a serious question, obviously people don't agree with my old fashioned views about leading by example. Ho hum.

bandito Posted on 5/6 11:17
re: Should bosses set an example?
morality has left the universe. We are now in a everyman for himself world in employment.

billybalfour Posted on 5/6 11:33
re: Should bosses set an example?
If i was your boss, i doubt you would see me at all, i would be in monte carlo on the p*ss and in the casino, blowing all the money you muppets gave me

PhillyMac Posted on 5/6 11:35
re: Should bosses set an example?
If you are happy doing the job and earning what you earn for it, what difference does it make what anyone else is doing?

That's a recipe for unhappiness, my friend.

Smifter Posted on 5/6 11:38
re: Should bosses set an example?
Dr Buck he must be entitled to those holidays to be taking them. However I believe a good boss would never ask a worker to do something they wouldn't do themselves. Its no good people just saying "get another job" its not that easy, and at least you are sticking at it.

MarlonD Posted on 5/6 11:45
re: Should bosses set an example?
Sorry smifter have to disagree.

I can go and ask somebody to unload a wagon with a front loader forklift but if I had to do it myself their would be at at least 4 casualties.

DrBuck Posted on 5/6 11:48
re: Should bosses set an example?
See that? Billy's attitude is typical of a lot of people's attitude, money orientated, uncaring selfishness. Nobody seems to think or care about anything but themselves these days. It's a sympton of what's wrong with the world we've created.

Moses_Kiptanui Posted on 5/6 11:50
re: Should bosses set an example?
I agree DrBuck.

DrBuck Posted on 5/6 11:55
re: Should bosses set an example?
There was once atime when people used to realise that they were being exploited by their bosses and tried to do something about it. Not these days though, you all just sit back and take it and want to be like them. I give up...

tacker Posted on 5/6 12:03
re: Should bosses set an example?
I've been in a similar position before, but not with my boss, with my supervisor. I basically do the same jobs as him, take this week for instance, hes off the whole week, left me in charge etc etc. Hes on double the money I'm on, but is hardly ever here, and whenever he is, takes liberties like you wouldn't believe. He'd be out sorting his house, or meeting the wife for a quick coffee, or a quick spot of shopping because he had nothing to wear for the weekend. When he was here, I done all the jobs we had to do, then everytime I walked back in the office, he'd be on the phone to the wife, flirting with our reps, on the internet or reading the paper!!

There was a point just before Christmas when I blew me lid and just spilt everything out to him (in front of one of our Directors, and well known businessman in the area)...I didn't care if I got sacked because I wouldn't miss it, and the pay was certainly nothing to gripe about! But from my little rant, besides getting a verbal warning, I think I actually earned their respect, as they thought I was the shy/timid type (like most people are with new jobs)....3/4 Months on, I was invited out more with work colleagues on the piss, I'm much more in the loop of the business, and more importantly earned an extra £1 an hour payrise. Plus my supervisor has started to get more involved, instead of sitting back all the damn time.

So opening your mush might not be a bad idea, 50/50 really, luckily I've came out shining and looking forward to working for the Company for a few Years to come!

piggy_nichol Posted on 5/6 14:30
re: Should bosses set an example?
I've been setting an example to my Kazakh collegues (I hate that word, it never looks right no matter how I spell it) by going to the pub after work. They love it now, where in the past they went straight home to cook their families tea.

I've also been teaching them to smoke cigars and what the various sweary handsignals are.

trodbitch Posted on 5/6 14:56
re: Should bosses set an example?
A boss does not have to do your job. In fact, the reason you are there is so that he doesn't have to. People have a hard time getting their heads around this so lets put it in basic terms. His job is to make sure his employees are able to work and your job is to do that work in exchange for the money he gives you. It isn't a democracy.

DrBuck Posted on 5/6 15:11
re: Should bosses set an example?
I was always taught that a bosses job was to train and develop his/her staff. Not to rub their noses in it.

trodbitch Posted on 5/6 15:25
re: Should bosses set an example?
Yup, they can do that as well but when their employees are destroying themselves with bitterness and jealousy, they should be also reminded of their place.

Boro_Owl Posted on 5/6 15:27
re: Should bosses set an example?
Business my dad works for was recently sold and the CEO got more money than my dad. F**kin ridiculous

DrBuck Posted on 5/6 15:30
re: Should bosses set an example?
Tugs forelock and says 'Sorry Mr. Trodbitch, Sir.'

trodbitch Posted on 5/6 15:35
re: Should bosses set an example?
Like I said, it's not a democracy, nor a charity.

DrBuck Posted on 5/6 15:38
re: Should bosses set an example?
Correct with the first there Trod. But wrong with the second - at our place I mean. The bosses behaviour seems to have filterd down to other members of staff. Which brings me neatly back to my original point.

billybalfour Posted on 5/6 15:38
re: Should bosses set an example?
When you put in everything you own, your house your marriage your life savings and it comes off, you have a right to do what the fook you like, fair play to them, why the fook do you expect to be treat on equal terms?

DrBuck Posted on 5/6 15:44
re: Should bosses set an example?
You know nothing of the company or the person of who I am referring to Billy, so shut it.

trodbitch Posted on 5/6 15:44
re: Should bosses set an example?
So you work for a charity? Would I be right in thinking that the charity is there to raise money for other groups and not it's employees?

billybalfour Posted on 5/6 15:47
re: Should bosses set an example?
You sound like a typical spiteful unambitous imbecile to me.
Get on with your work 'put up or shut up'

DrBuck Posted on 5/6 16:32
re: Should bosses set an example?
That really hurts Billy. Honest.

NorfolknGood Posted on 5/6 22:20
re: Should bosses set an example?
My boss is an absolute fuckwit. And incompetent with it.

For the past 6 months I have been telling everybody what an rsole she is.

I am now subject of an investigation with the possibility, or more likely probability, of diciplinary action to follow.

Apparently its not good form to criticise your boss.

Anybody know any good industrial tribunal solicitors.

Sorry this is late but couldnt post at work. That would probably be the final straw.