So my boss calls me into his office today..
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... and tells me he has a serious issue he needs to discuss with me, and he said it needs to be resolved today or im out.
So i begin to go through my head and think about what the heck ive done wrong,and then he asks me "wheres your belt"
and i respond oh im sorry i accidently forgot it at home, and then i ask him what is it you need to discuss with me.
which he replies,thats it,you missed wearing your belt today,you are setting a bad example for your co workers, you need to elad by example. so im thinking "yeah im sure my use of a belt inspires those around me. then he said if i cant wear a belt hes gonna have to let me go, over a god damn belt!! then he says we have proffesional image we want to keep.
the problem with this whole "proffesional image" bullshit my boss threatened to fire me over is that well frankly its bullshit, for example where most of you guys likely have a desk at your workplace,well i dont,my boss is too cheap for that,instead i have a plastic foldable picnic table which his daughter was nice enough to decorate with crayons.
and where you guys might have filing cabinets we have metal and wood industrial shelves which conduct alot of static which does wonder for PC's
then theres the fact that i dont work with customers and the few customers i have seen have been rednecks,not foreign dictnitories,heads of state or anything,we even had some redneck customer come to our offices wearing boxer shorts.
but nevermind that of all the people who work here i drive 60 miles daily,im never late,never miss deadlines,nice to people,only artist who knows the cheapo engine we use to make stuff. But i guess a piece of leather is worth the time and money it takes to hire a new artist who wears a belt.
but to give you insight on what a wonderful human being my boss is here is a list of highlights from his reel
"quality is not important,just get it done"
"from now on use magnets to post notes on your monitor"
"you guys have 2 weeks to make this program"
same guy who wants to make our receptionist quit because shes pregnant,but since he cant flat out fire her without getting sued,he "promotes" her to another position not with higher pay but a position that makes a 2 month pregnant girl go up and down stairs for 8 hours daily,i imagine this is to make her quit
i find inspiration from many things,but id never imagine hate would be a source,well hate and desire to leave this insane work environment
my boss redefining the word scumbag on a daily basis
So i begin to go through my head and think about what the heck ive done wrong,and then he asks me "wheres your belt"
and i respond oh im sorry i accidently forgot it at home, and then i ask him what is it you need to discuss with me.
which he replies,thats it,you missed wearing your belt today,you are setting a bad example for your co workers, you need to elad by example. so im thinking "yeah im sure my use of a belt inspires those around me. then he said if i cant wear a belt hes gonna have to let me go, over a god damn belt!! then he says we have proffesional image we want to keep.
the problem with this whole "proffesional image" bullshit my boss threatened to fire me over is that well frankly its bullshit, for example where most of you guys likely have a desk at your workplace,well i dont,my boss is too cheap for that,instead i have a plastic foldable picnic table which his daughter was nice enough to decorate with crayons.
and where you guys might have filing cabinets we have metal and wood industrial shelves which conduct alot of static which does wonder for PC's
then theres the fact that i dont work with customers and the few customers i have seen have been rednecks,not foreign dictnitories,heads of state or anything,we even had some redneck customer come to our offices wearing boxer shorts.
but nevermind that of all the people who work here i drive 60 miles daily,im never late,never miss deadlines,nice to people,only artist who knows the cheapo engine we use to make stuff. But i guess a piece of leather is worth the time and money it takes to hire a new artist who wears a belt.
but to give you insight on what a wonderful human being my boss is here is a list of highlights from his reel
"quality is not important,just get it done"
"from now on use magnets to post notes on your monitor"
"you guys have 2 weeks to make this program"
same guy who wants to make our receptionist quit because shes pregnant,but since he cant flat out fire her without getting sued,he "promotes" her to another position not with higher pay but a position that makes a 2 month pregnant girl go up and down stairs for 8 hours daily,i imagine this is to make her quit
i find inspiration from many things,but id never imagine hate would be a source,well hate and desire to leave this insane work environment
my boss redefining the word scumbag on a daily basis
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i have to tough it out
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=874653
While your boss sounds unreasonable, don't you watch Queer Eye? Carson would kick your ass for not wearing a belt, and I'd 'pants' ya.
"Dave Banner, I just slashed your tires."
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*RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIP*
"RAAAAAAARARHAHAhahahahah. I'm priceless."
we also make a system we basiclly sell to rich rednecks which is like duck hunt but wayyyy more expensive, i do everything 3d pretty much models,animation,textures,importing etc
"with any luck the project will only get delayed for what 2-3 months?"
lol thats the thing,we dont get that long to produce anything, the way my boss operates is we make really cheap and fast i wouldnt even call it games and sell it to people at NRA conventions and all the suck up political dinners we got to. so we make games that cater to orginizations whether it be police or whatever and make as much money as we can from our crap products
1 month is what we typically take to make anything.
Does he have a boss? Do you have an HR person you can talk to? This guy is a freakin joke and needs to go. I say sink his ship before he sinks yours AND the companies. Do everyone a favor and find a way to get rid of this guy, legally of course and without setting him up. I bet you can think of something this A-Hole as done to mess up. If you can't, make sure to wear the belt and wait. He is bound to screw a customer over.
If you can't get rid of him because he is the owner, then make sure to NOT wear the belt when it is crunch mode. Then ask for an exit interview and lay it out for him and ask him not to talk until you are done.
how does he manage not to run this company to the ground,well because all of you (americans) pay for it,he is regularly in washington sucking up to his politician friends and we are about to get a contract from the us army valued at 30 million
The way you gotta run things, is just keep "forgetting" to wear a belt, and then when he says something drop kick him in the tits.
Guaranteed to work!
Things like:
1) If he uses a "ball mouse" most tightwads still do. Put a piece of tape over the ball hole. If its an optical mouse roll up a small piece of paper and wedge it up in the eye.
2) Unplug his keyboard when he steps away.
3) This one is my favorite. Wait until he walks away and take a screen grab of his desktop. Set that as his backgroud and hide all his icons and set the menu bar to auto-hide. I bet it takes him a few hours and a few phone calls to tech-support to figure it out.
4) If he has a rolly chair stop up one of the wheels, or put a crayon in the wheel so it draws marks on his chair mat/floor. Since it sounds like he has a daughter, we know who gets blamed.
5) When he is away move something on his desk. Put papers in a drawer or put all the pens in a mug. if he has a pen mug flipping them all upside down.
5) Adjust his monitor tracking settings to be fuzzy. THIS COULD JUST MAKE HIM MORE CRABBY so be careful.
6) Turn up his speakers really loud and set the media player to turn on when a CD is in the drive, buy some cheap devil music and slide it in the drive and power is computer down.
7) Set his clock to chime every min. Set the chime to something he can barely hear and set it to something he might hear, like a squeek or fan rattle. Even if he figures out what it is, chances are he doesn't know how to make it stop without hunting for 30min.
8) Put something really stinky under the can liner in his trash can. Once he finds it switch the spot up. Tape said stinky item to the back of a drawer or the side of his desk that might face the wall. Also putting drops of something really smelling in his keyboard is a nice touch also. I bet he gets up to wash his hands a few times before putting it together.
9) This could get you in trouble. Put a note on his monitor and use a magnet. When he asks you why on gods green earth you destoryed his monitor quote him.
10)Tape down the reciever button on his phone. It won't pick up when he does. "Hello? HELLO!? hello!?"
Of course if he freaks out about a belt, I am sure he would crap bricks if he caught you. So might as well plant these seeds in a coworkers head or just have a good laugh.
Vig: no,this isnt the first contract we've had,previous one was for 10 million
after that i asked him if i could go to gdc to learn and improve my work to make the products we do look better,his answer "your not here to learn your here to produce,you wanna learn things do it on your off time"
;(
Its his house and you are just going to have to live with his rules. If you dont like it, time to go someplace else.
;(
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The glass is always "half full" with you, isn't it, Jerry.
I think the closest one to me is Ritual (I live in New Braunfels, between SA and Austin)
"It's good enough.". This applied to ANYTHING in the game...
I got an 'stick it to the man' idea - Ok your making shooting games right. Just program it will be very very hard to hit anything or make it a random accuracy. You could have a secret key to null the problem so when they come to you and say 'wtf this sucks' you jump on and get hits no-probs.
Keep improving your res. and get the fuck out of there JO420.
before you quit you should sabotage him for sure
I have a cousin in Houston who's husband owns a company that makes simulations for police and military...
wonder if it's him. Didn't much like him...
Maybe he won't be such a tightwad if he manages to land that contract, maybe he will relax... I doubt it. You could always resort to office warfare and destroy him a piece at a time. It works best if everyone is in on it and can cover for each other as well as assist in the pulling off.
Things like:
1) If he uses a "ball mouse" most tightwads still do. Put a piece of tape over the ball hole. If its an optical mouse roll up a small piece of paper and wedge it up in the eye.
2) Unplug his keyboard when he steps away.
3) This one is my favorite. Wait until he walks away and take a screen grab of his desktop. Set that as his backgroud and hide all his icons and set the menu bar to auto-hide. I bet it takes him a few hours and a few phone calls to tech-support to figure it out.
4) If he has a rolly chair stop up one of the wheels, or put a crayon in the wheel so it draws marks on his chair mat/floor. Since it sounds like he has a daughter, we know who gets blamed.
5) When he is away move something on his desk. Put papers in a drawer or put all the pens in a mug. if he has a pen mug flipping them all upside down.
5) Adjust his monitor tracking settings to be fuzzy. THIS COULD JUST MAKE HIM MORE CRABBY so be careful.
6) Turn up his speakers really loud and set the media player to turn on when a CD is in the drive, buy some cheap devil music and slide it in the drive and power is computer down.
7) Set his clock to chime every min. Set the chime to something he can barely hear and set it to something he might hear, like a squeek or fan rattle. Even if he figures out what it is, chances are he doesn't know how to make it stop without hunting for 30min.
8) Put something really stinky under the can liner in his trash can. Once he finds it switch the spot up. Tape said stinky item to the back of a drawer or the side of his desk that might face the wall. Also putting drops of something really smelling in his keyboard is a nice touch also. I bet he gets up to wash his hands a few times before putting it together.
9) This could get you in trouble. Put a note on his monitor and use a magnet. When he asks you why on gods green earth you destoryed his monitor quote him.
10)Tape down the reciever button on his phone. It won't pick up when he does. "Hello? HELLO!? hello!?"
Of course if he freaks out about a belt, I am sure he would crap bricks if he caught you. So might as well plant these seeds in a coworkers head or just have a good laugh.
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ROFLMAO HAHAHA
Go down to Country General or whichever local store serves up the lil cowpokes in your area and find the biggest, gaudiest cast-pewter-with-brass-trim, ropin, ridin, hee-haw'in piece of ugly you can find and wear it proudly. Make sure to make a show of unbuckling it and throw it over your shoulder on your way out at the end of every day.
might not be,hes unmarried,some people think hes light in the loafers in fact
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Wow, quite the coencidence.
Unless they've divorced in the past 5 years, (I don't keep up with that side of the family), but yeah, I thought he was gay myself when I first met him.
He also owns a restaurant.
"Your beard.. you have to shave that off.", she replied
Thats recockulous! But in my case.. when i look back at that.. I had that thin discusting pubic hair beard only a freshman in HS would have. AHHAHAHAHA
BTW Ritual is located smack dab in downtown Dallas.
How d'you do that, excactly? That sounds absolutely brilliant!
Maybe it's not the lack of a belt but a belt BUCKLE.
Go down to Country General or whichever local store serves up the lil cowpokes in your area and find the biggest, gaudiest cast-pewter-with-brass-trim, ropin, ridin, hee-haw'in piece of ugly you can find and wear it proudly. Make sure to make a show of unbuckling it and throw it over your shoulder on your way out at the end of every day.
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HAHAHA... that's genius... and be sure to hook your thumbs behind the belt buckle with your elbows cocked out to the sides whenever you're just standing around. And then, while standing in this pose, you can pull on the buckle to loosen your belt a bit and let out a satisfied "yup."
but i will never name names!
seriously, this guy is a professional jack ass.
Oh and if you still have problems after you told him to go fuck himself. You can always call the Boskmani famila, we'll fit him some concrete shoes, eh. Capice?
Or... Hm, can you build a convincing TNT stick imitation?
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or, hot dogs. strap lots of hot dogs to your belt.
Pink belt with flashing red LEDs. That's gotta get his attention.
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Nah, if you are going to go the LED route, at lest have them say something
Hm, maybe have it display a countdown timer along with a few dynamite imitations?
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