FRIDAY

FRIDAY'S BOSS FROM HELL
(or boss from heaven, or job from hell, or office romance tale)

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This all stated about 1 yr ago. I started to date a fellow employee, we'll call her Susan. It was real casual at first, and VERY discreet because her and I (being management) are strictly forbidden to date AT ALL. Plus she's quite a bit older than I. I'm near 30 and she was near, 47. Anyhow, this goes great for about 8 or 9 months. It was kind of fun sneaking around town having secret meetings and stealing kisses from her at work when no one was around. Oh, did I mention she is still married? Yeah, that's a minor detail. She tells me she wants a divorce but she just can't afford it right now blah, blah, blah. But yeah, it was fun! Sneaking around, making out in the conference room and such.

After about 9 months she just goes cold on me. Stops calling, avoids me at work, doesn't return my calls. Repeated inquires to this behavior are ignored. Finally I figure out that she just doesn't want to see me anymore. I don't get it. She would call me every day (if we didn't work together) and tell me she missed me and my lips, she would call to tell me goodnight if we were apart, and then nothing.

So I move on. I now develop a liking to another coworker (I may never learn), we'll call her Becky. Becky is more my age, and super sweet and really good looking. I also sense that Becky is responding to my flirting. Everything seems to be coming together. Then a bomb gets dropped.

Susan and Becky worked in different departments and didn't really know each other. Then about 2-3 months ago Becky starts working under Susan. I can't believe it. They become good friends and go shopping together and trash talk men together (gulp), the whole nine yards. Ever since these two got together, Becky seems disinterested in anything having to do with me. I have the sneaking suspicion that she has been sabotaged by Susan. I can't confront Susan about it because if I'm wrong, she now knows that I like Becky and she may proceed bad mouthing me to Becky then. I can't say a word about it to anyone. I would be risking my employment, which I really need right now. So it appears that since I couldn't stay away from Susan and keep my hormones in check, I'm going to have to do without Becky as a result. Which may turn out to be a good thing, these work place romances are a pain.

Highschool years 16-18 at a BK or booger fling for those who know what the food amounts too.   My manager for the last year and a half was a piece of work. When she started she realized that no one ever really cleaned the broiler. That big piece of crap in the middle of the kitchen that 'flame broils' your burgers. So I was the unlucky F that got to show up at 6AM Sunday morning and clean that thing out during breakfast and I better have had that put back togoether by lunch or will the S be flying. Now this lasted for for the rest of my 2 years there. Besides the usual misery that comes with working at a burger dump there is the fun of this manager I have already mentioned.

    There was about 5-10 of us lowly crew that got along age ranging from 17-23 including the bosses 'pet'. by that I mean the lucky F that came from the last BK the manager was at and got as cushy treatment you could get at a burger dump. Then again she had to work weekends too and 6AM so I can't say it was too cushy. The problem was this manager was a 30 year old married lady who just had to be involved with the social and personal lives of the crew. On top of that she was a, well slightly larger than normal person who had a tendancy to sit in the office spread eagle so you can see her pants tightly forming to her large body, disturbing view of 'toe'.   I quit just before graduating Highschool, she had previously told be I'd be working there through college as if I wouldn't get tired of her sh!t. There like at least twice a month maybe a little more often if we had time that those of us in the crew that got along would go out and do some sort of crap, midnight bowling or other mindless junk, well on the trip filled with 10 people under the age of 23, our 30 year old manager decides she wants to have fun, the plans change and the group ends up simply eating at a denny's for the night. So I am a little annoyed by her constanbt involvement even after I have left the job, including a friends graduation party where she shows up because she is the 'pets' only way to get a ride there. Let me remind you we all got along well with the pet, fact is the pet in the end was just taking advantage of the title anyway to make things easy for her, can't blame her. well this manager was a B!tch at my friends party and I made a decision. I told my friend who later a few weeks later quit the job too to go to work and tell the 'pet' that she was more than welcome to show up at my graduation party, BUT if the manager was her only ride there that I was sorry but no chance in hell she is showing up.

    I walk into the store a few days later and another friend working there announces to me that this is his last week, I of course give him a congradulatory yell and when suddenly form the office (spreading her fat wide I pressumed) I hear, get him out of my FaKING store, I almost sh!t myself. I left, laughing as loudly as I could.

    It gets better this manager, losses track of a deposit AND it is disocvered the inventory is about $4000 in burgers light. Just 6 months earlier she let a former friend and lower manager get fired for suspicians of the same thing. last I heard she was being indicted on some charges...but trying to plead her way out.

    I may be a sick twisted F, but somehow I felt very good about all of this when I heard it from her former 'pet' who now wants very little to do with her.

    You know the job may have sucked, the boss may have been a B, but well the B got it in the end I am no longer cleaning broilers on a sunday morning...so things can't be that bad....oh wait I'm in law school right now, I am a future A--hole

Jason

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