If you've ever been an employee, this may bring a chuckle. If you've been a supervisor, this should send shivers up your spine.
Employees, feeling abused, have:
· Had subscriptions to fetish magazines sent to the office in their bosses' name.
· Stole the boss's clothes out of his locker while he was taking a shower at the corporate fitness center.
· Got into the boss's e-mail, found a message she had written calling the president of the company a dork, and sent it to everyone in the office ... including the president.
· A woman who was tired of her manager taking credit for her ideas (and aware he couldn't tell a good idea from a bad one) let her boss steal several great ideas, then slipped in five that were so bad the boss was demoted.
· A vice president whose ego was far larger than his stature was furious when he found out days later that staff members changed his office caller I.D. to appear as Lord Farquaad.
· Employees decided to give their cheapskate boss his comeuppance by mocking up a $500 gift certificate to an expensive restaurant and sending it with a letter saying he was the winner of a promotional event. He invited friends, ran up a $600 bill, and then was told the restaurant would not accept the fake certificate.(various sources)
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As a supervisor, your are right, that sent chills right up my spine. Good thing I am likeable, as long as they do their job:)
Often times, people in authority come to believe they operate in a state of low accountability, where a lack of competence and leadership skills will not effect them.
Often times, they are wrong.
Once in a while, the results are hilarious.
I have it on good authority that a local boss here (at an industrial plant) magically received a subscription to a 'technical journal' (or so they thought) called RUBBER QUARTERLY. It was addressed to his secretary at work, as she opened and reviewed the mail. My understanding was the first cover had a female model entirely in latex, with certain areas cut out.
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