Quotes from your boss (4 Viewers)

[nooleen]

I hope they've been liquidated now.

literally.

 

[Lili Marlene]

the CEO of my parent company will be sitting with me next week so hopefully i'll get a few jet-setter quotes from him

 

[sean]

"shit rolls down hill", my manager uses this most days basically saying he gets shit from the boss, so he gives us shit too. And no I don't shovel shit for a living

 

[Super Dexta]

From an email this morning, "As we are entering the performance review season, your manager will reach out to you shortly to discuss your 2008 performance."

I'm not sure I want to be reached out to.

 

[GO]

Boss-"here Gaz, put that 4 ton 'o gravel into that hole there will ya"
"Here Gaz,dig a hole where that manholes gonna be,theres the new pick axe.Good lad."
"Here Gaz,Whats the story with the lamps on you,gargled last night I suppose.Well theres the shovel,mix us up a bit of concrete there."
And my personal favourite -"Ah fuck this for a lark,lets go home"

 

[Froog]

a boss i had in lidl years ago explained quite eloquently the chain of command: "look lads, i eat the balls off ye, the store manager eats the balls off me and the regional manager eats the balls off him."

 

[Diddles]

"we're very happy with your work but given the current climate we're going to have to let you go"

gas!

No way, Johnny. That's shite.

 

[jane]

I saw a movie once where someone was taken out in front of the building and fired in the street in a hail of incomprehensible accusations and shouting.

Wait.

That....

That wasn't a movie.

 

[orange pekoe]

I'm sick.
Boss: You'll be grand. Have a cup of tea.

I have impacted wisdom teeth, my whole head is infected and i'm on two different types of painkiller and antibiotics.
Boss: You'll be grand. Have a cup of tea.

 

[CitySickness]

Wait.

That....

That wasn't a movie.

It will be.

 

[jane]

It will be.

I started building the scenery, but I ran out of poop-coloured paint halfway through a smear.

 

[CitySickness]

Go ask Steve McQueen, I heard he has pots of the stuff left over from the Hunger sets.

Lesson learned? Never underestimate your poop-dressing budget; don't assume it can be "pooped up in post".

 

[jane]

Also need a few more extras to play the bridal dugout. Most of the ones the extras agency sent were just...they were just not suitable. They fat western lady no know they place talk back all time! Not traditional value to share betweenst they.

 

[sweetoblivion]

my colleagues' comments are more interesting than my bosses:

"Isn't 'saintess' the female of saint?"

"I'm sending you on this email, it's about a music thing, it's of NO interest to me whatsoever."

 

[taubstumm]

my colleagues' comments are more interesting than my bosses:

"Isn't 'saintess' the female of saint?"

"I'm sending you on this email, it's about a music thing, it's of NO interest to me whatsoever."

a friend of mine worked in a crappy job where his co-workers had invented their own soap opera to talk about. so instead of chatting away about eastenders or the like, they'd make up an episode of their own soap, and then sit down at lunch and talk about it. true.

 

[jane]

This is where I get a bit sad that someone who thinks 'saintess' could be a word is employed and I am totally without any prospect whatsoever.

I haz crai now.

 

[broken arm]

"put the lotion in the basket"

 

[CitySickness]

a friend of mine worked in a crappy job where his co-workers had invented their own soap opera to talk about. so instead of chatting away about eastenders or the like, they'd make up an episode of their own soap, and then sit down at lunch and talk about it. true.

That's grim. Mind you, it was probably stopping them from eating each other.

 

[sweetoblivion]

This is where I get a bit sad that someone who thinks 'saintess' could be a word is employed and I am totally without any prospect whatsoever.

I haz crai now.

I really have to keep my lips zipped around that person because some of the things they say....I know someone else who wrote 'Gardai say there was nothing to lead them to suggest foul play was involved' one day.

When I was first starting off in news journalism I wrote an article and got this back from a nasty sub:

I won't deny he was right, but he could've been nicer!

 

[taubstumm]

That's grim. Mind you, it was probably stopping them from eating each other.

on one hand, it's grim

on the other, it's quite a creative way to pass the time in a crappy job

but... it's still grim