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Buckeye_Democrat

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39. I later complained to my mother...
Sun May 23, 2021, 05:01 PM
May 2021

Last edited Sun May 23, 2021, 05:33 PM - Edit history (1)

... about her "encouraging" my boss with compliments, and she replied that he was at least nice enough to appear at my father's funeral. I answered that he absolutely didn't do it to be nice or respectful, if she really knew him like I did. I didn't dwell on it too much because we were all mourning, especially her after being married to my father for 63 years.

That boss (in his mid-50's at the time) bragged to me that he was a manager at age 18, right out of high school, and that he was never anything lower than a manager at all of his jobs.

One of the most entitled pricks that I ever met!

He even shared a story of one of his past managerial jobs in which he was given an assignment to write a report for an executive at the place. So he naturally just passed it off to an employee under him, like he often did to me. He then shared that the employee never did it, and the executive was furious at HIM for not having it done in time. He acted totally flabbergasted by it! He told the executive that he gave the assignment to so-and-so at that place, so that person was to blame for not getting it done. He then shared that the executive screamed at him about it, telling him that HE gave the assignment to HIM! Not so-and-so! So, yes, he was at fault!

Then my boss bragged that his "many years of managerial experience" made him so valuable to job hunters, and he decided to no longer be "abused" at that place any longer! So he applied for other managerial jobs, and that's how he found the management position at our employer.

I actually looked him up online a few months ago, half-hoping that he died from Covid or something (lol), but he's still alive and working at that same company. Close to retirement age now.

Edit:
I almost forgot to mention that he was a Republican too, like your boss. Of course! Those types never want any government regulations that might shake up the non-meritorious grifting they've found for themselves in the private sector. Our often feudalism-like corporate organizations, with a small number of "lords" sticking together as the lowly serfs do the actual work, is what they want to maintain. And like most corporations, the actual owners (stock owners) aren't even aware of the nitty-gritty details of how those companies are operating.

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