AAAAUUUUGGGGHHHH!!!! (a rant.)

[ulysses]

My boss, in addition to being the fundamentalist, conservative, underpaying head of a nascent cult of personality (minus the personality), is - surprise! - a complete goddamned control freak!

Brought my lunch to work today and put it in the fridge - leftover pizza and baby carrots that had seen better days, but that were still edible.

Come lunchtime, the pizza is still there (I suppose I should be grateful) but the carrots and the bag in which I had carried everything were gone. From my mouth comes a necessarily sanitized version of "where the fuck are my carrots?"

Freaknut boss: "Oh, Mr. Uly, that was me. I came across those in the fridge and they didn't look very good, so I threw them out."

Moment of stunned silence on my part.

Freaknut boss: "Would you like a tomato?"

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She does this - little acts of random weirdness that keep the faculty and the kids off balance. Half the time it's in the classroom, in the middle of a lesson. I'd go further into the harm schools like this do to the kids, but this is the Lounge and I'm gearing up for a longer GD post on private religious schools and vouchers. It's sufficient to note here that this is a person with, to my layman's eye, pretty evident boundary issues.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. Sounds like a passive aggressive food fight

[ulysses]

4. I think she'll probably use it as spin

for the explanation of why Mr. Uly isn't back next year. "Well, he ate questionable carrots, which is how the Enemy infects our bowels."

:crazy: Fucking headcase.

[GOPisEvil]

2. She thinks she did you a favor.

Some people just don't get it.

[XanaDUer]

3. heh heh

maybe she ate them. If so, well, the mind boggles...


I feel your pain. My insane, fundie-witch boss "prayed for me" when she found out I was not religious...

[H2O Man]

5. Sometimes it's hard to see a picture...

..when you are standing inside the frame. She has issues. You are okay. I'm glad that you are in the classroom to counter-balance her odd behavior. There are people like her everywhere -- I worked at a mental health clinic for many years, and the contents of the refrigerator where often the stuff of similar control issues. Maybe it's a Freudian type of thing!

[historian]

6. next time

take in some really over ripe overdue gorgonozola cheese (preferably with worms in it) and then let her play with it

[Lydia Leftcoast]

7. During my year at Cornell

we had a hallway refrigerator on each floor.

We were plagued with a yogurt thief. I would buy cartons of yogurt, and they would disappear, as would food bought by other people.

Then help arrived in the form of a box of Malt-O-Meal, which my mother sent in a "care package." It was unavailable on the East Coast at the time, and for those of you who don't know it, it's a hot cereal mix consisting of grains in various shades of tan and brown.

The next time I bought yogurt, I sprinkled Malt-O-Meal across the top before putting the cartons in the refrigerator.

I was never bothered again. I knew that the stuff was harmless, but an Easterner unfamiliar with Malt-O-Meal could easily assume that the carton was contaiminated. :evilgrin:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

8. Wow I wonder if that was my ex!

she went to Cornell...she always took my yogurt!

[GOPisEvil]

10. I work in investigations for a state agency.

We once set up a surveillance camera to catch a lunch thief. Put a camera in a clock and everything. :-)

[tjwash]

9. I had a boss who was a completely anal retentive control freak.

So when he would sit in his office, I would toss a little scrap of paper right in front of his door on the sly. When he would walk out, he ALWAYS would then see it and stop. Now mind you, he could not just bend over and pick it up either, he would pinch both pleats on his pants, and slowly squat down to pick it up, take the scrap between the thumb and forefinger, re pinch the pleats with the other hand and walk it over to my desk, show it to me, and put it in the trash. I also used paper clips,and staples and he would do the same thing. The guy could never walk over any of these little items. I don't think he ever got the clue how entertaining to us all he was by being himself like that.

[Eureka]

11. Sounds like a vampire

If I recall my anti-vampire techniques, one way to keep them away is to sprinkle sesame seeds around your door, and they would get to the door and compulsively count them, until the sun comes up and they have to leave.

How were the teeth on this boss?

Hang on, maybe you're a vampire too. Aaaaarrrggghh!!

:-)