Posted by: Jamie
If you remember from a past blog, my husband’s boss uses his employees to do all of his personal CRAP! Last week, Bryan had to clean up his basement because the sewer had backed up. The day before that, he had to clean up the boss’s son’s throw up!
So anyways, Bryan comes home last night and says, “Tomorrow is Cori’s (the boss) birthday. Everyone is putting money in to get him something.” My first reaction, NO! He told me that, well everyone is giving some so I’ll look like an ass not giving anything. So I undersood that I guess.
“Give $5.” I tell him.
“Well everyone else is giving $35!”
AAHHH! This is total madness! Everyone giving the boss money, the man who has over 200 GRAND in his checking account. Am I on some alternate universe where NONE of this makes sense?! This man makes my husband clean up his SHIT… literally!! He mops up his sewer water and now wants a GIFT from us?!?! I said, “Nothing more than $10. That is the most you will give!”
Now Bryan tells me he won’t get to leave for his lunch hour tomorrow since they are having a “Birthday BBQ” for his boss. “Well, you’ll just have to miss our prenatal appointment tomorrow then…”
Bryan apologized all over himself this morning for not being able to make it to the appointment. I said, “I’m not mad at you. It just blows my mind that you’re paying him 10 bucks to miss your son’s, and my appointment tomorrow.”
What kind of boss can’t understand: “I think my family and our baby-to-be need the money, and we can’t really afford to give him anything right now?” How hard to undersand would that be, for the boss?!?! I know that here at the Journal during Thanksgiving and Christmas that they ask people if they want to give money to the company. Call me greedy but I’m not giving up my hard earned wages to a company worth millions… nay…. BILLIONS of dollars!
Am I wrong for how I think? Is it wrong to not give money to his boss for his birthday? All this for a man who can’t give out a Christmas bonus, or do anything for his employees on the holiday’s other than making them clean up human waste?!?!
November 30th, -0001 at 12:00 am
Wow, what a sleaze. Giving money to buy the boss a gift, that’s crossing the line. But it’s weird that the attitude around the place is that everyone pitches in $35. Either everybody that works there fears for their job, or they all think he’s a great guy.
Admittedly I don’t know the whole story, because I don’t know the guy, but I know I’ve never had a boss that I felt I needed to offer my personal wages.