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I have thousands of bosses - it would cost more than I make to give them cards.
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My Dad passed away very early on Thursday morning seven years ago and his funeral was the following Monday. My brother and I worked at the same place and our boss told us to take Thurday, Friday and Monday off to be with our mother. When we got our paychecks the next week, we had been docked the time we took off.
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quote:Originally posted by Roadie: I have thousands of bosses - it would cost more than I make to give them cards.
One of the best parts about being at the bottom rungs of a bureaucracy is the sheer number of bosses an individual has. It's one of my favorite parts of the job!
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Because I don't recognize "holidays" invented by greeting card companies. If I want to recognize my boss with a card that's what her birthday's for.
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I thought this rant was a "just because" kind of rant. Much to my surprise there really is a Boss's Day. It's been around even longer than I have but I never heard of it before. Why am I always the last to know these things?
quote: The origin of Bosses Day dates back to 1958. Patricia Bays Haroski, an employee at State Farm Insurance Company in Illinois, registered it with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Ms. Haroski chose the date because it was her father's birthday. Who was her boss? ....her father.
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quote:Originally posted by Roadie: I have thousands of bosses - it would cost more than I make to give them cards.
One of the best parts about being at the bottom rungs of a bureaucracy is the sheer number of bosses an individual has. It's one of my favorite parts of the job!
Same at the top, AngRdr, same at the top. A Bosses' Day Card to all my voters? Not!
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I would've given my immediate boss a card, if I knew when bosses day was. I can't give her a card next time it rolls around because she moved to a different shift and therefore is no longer my boss. ;-; Sucks, too, she was absolutely the best "boss" at work. I'm sure whoever I'm with now (Rhonda, whom I've not seen nor spoken to since she took over for my boss, although it has only bee one day ) will do a good job, but it sucks when you lose someone so good. ;-;
Is it better to have had a boss you loved and lost then to never have had a boss you loved at all?
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I only called in sick one time- and that was during the raging flu season where everyone was dropping like flies. I worked sick for four days before the flu kicked me so hard I couldn't sit up. Even when I injured my knee in the 8th hour of a 12 hour shift, I was back to work that night with crutches, to pull another 12 hour shift. I'd covered for other people's shifts (hence the 12 hour shifts), I had come in on days off, I missed out on family events for work.
I called in on the Saturday before Easter when my husband suffered his third (that we know of) siezure. He was being hospitalized and I had no one to stay with my kids (who were all under the age of six). I never slacked off. I even worked Christmas Eve and day, New Year's Eve and day. Why the hell would I lie about the day before Easter?
My boss called the hospital to confirm my husband's admission. (And yes, he was well aware of my husband's medical disabilities).
ETA: I worked nights- 11 PM to 7 AM, so my 12 hour shifts were 11 to 11, or 7 to 7. Try and have "a life" like that.
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quote:Originally posted by Non-Aquatic Mouse: Because I don't recognize "holidays" invented by greeting card companies. If I want to recognize my boss with a card that's what her birthday's for.
True, true. I didn't know there was such a thing as Bosses' Day, and none of my old bosses probably did either.
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quote:Originally posted by Roadie: I have thousands of bosses - it would cost more than I make to give them cards.
One of the best parts about being at the bottom rungs of a bureaucracy is the sheer number of bosses an individual has. It's one of my favorite parts of the job!
They say working in a big bureaucracy is like being in a tree full of monkeys. The monkey on top looks down and sees a whole bunch of smiling faces looking up. But the monkey on the bottom looks up and just seees a whole lot of assholes.
I don't celebrate bosses day, but I do think that with any holiday a card is only appropriate or necesary if there is some thought behind. If you like your boss, give him/her a card. If they're a good boss even though you don't like them, you can still give them a card. But if they're a terrible boss, I don't know why anyone should feel that a card is necesary.
Beach...never received a card on bosses day either ...Life!
quote:Originally posted by Christie: I thought this rant was a "just because" kind of rant. Much to my surprise there really is a Boss's Day. It's been around even longer than I have but I never heard of it before. Why am I always the last to know these things?
quote: The origin of Bosses Day dates back to 1958. Patricia Bays Haroski, an employee at State Farm Insurance Company in Illinois, registered it with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Ms. Haroski chose the date because it was her father's birthday. Who was her boss? ....her father.
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quote:Originally posted by Roadie: A Bosses' Day Card to all my voters? Not!
You know who all voted for you?
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Don't feel bad, there are tons of strange holidays most of us never heard of. Then one year Hallmark came out with a something every day calendar. For November: Ho-Hum Day, Make no Footprints Day, Special Effects Day, Leftover Turkey day. These were surely a joke, but it's hard to separate the wheat from the chaff sometimes.
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I'm another who works in the bureaucracy that is the U.S. Government, so I have literally thousands of bosses in offices all over the country, most of whom I've never heard of and who have never heard of me. I don't think George W. Bush would be too touched if I sent him a Bosses Day card.
However, if I did work at a place where I had only one boss, I would see getting him/her a card and/or present for Bosses Day as thinly veiled kissing up and nothing more, and I would think that my boss would see it as the same.
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quote:Originally posted by Roadie: A Bosses' Day Card to all my voters? Not!
You know who all voted for you?
Of course I do. It's part of my all-knowing, all-seeing schtick.
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quote:Originally posted by Roadie: A Bosses' Day Card to all my voters? Not!
You know who all voted for you?
Of course I do. It's part of my all-knowing, all-seeing schtick.
So it wasn't because you issued reciepts?
Dropbear
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Don't be silly, Dropbear. That would be illegal.
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quote:Originally posted by Roadie: A Bosses' Day Card to all my voters? Not!
You know who all voted for you?
Of course I do. It's part of my all-knowing, all-seeing schtick.
So it wasn't because you issued reciepts?
Dropbear
Nah. I issued gift certificates. Errrr, I mean, not that I paid for votes or anything...because that would have been, ya know, illegal.
Okay, stop it, you two!
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I'll pay attention to bosses day when I'm working somewhere as a full-time employee instead of doing contract work.
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quote:Originally posted by Quantum Leap: You can't use your cell phone during work hours?
I'm not sure how this one makes a boss a Grinch.
or a "gritch."
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I didn't do anything for bosses' day because I was actively planning to leave my job. Actually that was the day I gave notice. Does a resignation letter count as a card? It certainly expresses a sentiment...
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My boss is awesome. However I didn't do anything for bosses day because I wasn't trained to do that. I also don't give cards for Thanksgiving or Halloween, and my grandmother was honoured on mother's day, not grandparent's day.
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This reminds me of when I was a kid, and I would ask, "When is Children's Day?"
Invariably I'd receive the response, "Everyday is Children's Day."
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quote:Originally posted by AdmiralDinty: This reminds me of when I was a kid, and I would ask, "When is Children's Day?"
Invariably I'd receive the response, "Everyday is Children's Day."
Actually yesterday was the UN "Day of the Child". I don't think it's celebrated with cards and choccies though.
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They celebrate a Children's Day in Japan, don't they?
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Children's or Boy's Day is May 5th which happens to be my son's birthday. He thinks this entitles him to an extra present for some reason. Maybe if we ever move to Japan...
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I sure as hell wouldn't have gotten upper-management anything. I probably wouldn't have given my shift supervisor anything either, seeing how she is now nothing more than a "crutch". *sigh* The company I work for has some truly messed up priorities.
I try to make it all okay in my head by accepting that dimwitted and uncaring decisions are expected to be the norm, and that the people announcing said decisions don't have much choice in the matter.
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I actually didn't know it was boss's day and when I got to work I found a card and a nice gift bag with a bottle of wine on my desk from my staff. Not that I have to do a lot of "bossing". I am so lucky to have 5 people on my staff who do a great job and are wonderful people to work with as well!
If my job paid benefits there would be no way I would be looking elsewhere
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*sigh* So my new immediate supervisor started, and I've seen her a total of one time, when she went over the 30 day review that my previous immediate supervisor had already filled out for her (which turned out very well, but that's not the point.) I don't know if she's just been busy because she's new to the whoel job, or if she's really completely and totally useless. Time will tell, I guess, but I miss Wendy already. Definitely wouldn't be giving this new woman any cards on bosses day.
quote:Originally posted by LolaRennt: I didn't do anything for bosses' day because I was actively planning to leave my job. Actually that was the day I gave notice. Does a resignation letter count as a card? It certainly expresses a sentiment...
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Lola, you completely crack me up! I hope that you're happier now!
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quote:Originally posted by Quantum Leap: You can't use your cell phone during work hours?
I'm not sure how this one makes a boss a Grinch.
Actually it was Holk Hogan's son who wanted to use his cell phone during working hours on one of Holk's shows. I just threw that one in. I don't own a cell phone.
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