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Posts tagged my boss is a great guy but he’s really really cheap
Camouflage
May 31st
Today, my boss IM’ed me like he usually does to let me know I should go into his office to talk about what we’re working on. “Bring your ipod,” he said this morning.
“I don’t have it,” I replied.
His response? A sad smiley.
Free Agitation
Apr 17th
Every morning, Natalie, Charlie and I go out on a Tim’s run. Sometimes we’re joined by Vortex, but more often than not, it’s just the three of us. By now, it’s become an expected mid-morning ritual. By 10 am, one of us has IM’ed the others asking, “coffee?”
It’s not even about the coffee. It gives us a chance to gab for a few minutes away from the confines of the office where there’s always a set of ears waiting to listen in.
Unless he’s not in his office, I always ask Larry (my boss), if he’d like something from Tim’s before I leave. 99.8% of the time, he declines and just nods towards the frozen muffin he’s brought in that day. Larry never buys tea (he’s not a coffee drinker), nor does he ever buy his lunch. Instead, he has some of the free Flavia stuff provided by the office and brings his lunch. Larry likes it when a meeting he’s attending is happening during the lunch hour because it means he’ll get a free meal out of it.
Old Edition
Oct 26th
I know I’ve written about my boss’ cheapness before, but this latest venture of his really deserves to be shared. Last month, he began a night class. He’s actually going to be pursuing a certificate and this is his first course in the program. Like most courses, the particular class has a required textbook. During the first class, Larry visited the bookstore and purchased the book for a whopping $100. The book was the latest edition available and was completely new. Unhappy with having to buy a new book, Larry inquired with the cashier as to the return policy. He was informed that there was a two week period where the book could be returned for a full refund.
With that knowledge, Larry set about searching for an older edition of the book. “$100 is just so much money,” he told me the next morning. “Besides, I don’t like how the copy is laid out, it’s too hard to read.” Somehow I think he would have been fine with the copy if he only paid a few dollars for the book. I told him about a few used text books stores I knew about from my post-secondary school days and we left it at that.
A few days later, he approached my work station all excited, “I found a book for $15!”
Summer Teeth
Aug 18th
There I sat at my desk at work, plugging away at some of the tasks on my list of things I need to wrap up this week before I go on vacation when I was joined by my boss. My work station comes with a small stool so that folks who visit me have somewhere to sit. My boss, Larry, puts that chair to good use. I often get teased by some of the gals I work with that he sits a little too close. Often, we’ll be working on something on my computer and he’ll scoot over close to me in order to better see the screen.
Yesterday was one such incident where we were sitting close together working on a task. We were waiting for the file to finish saving and it was taking a few minutes because it was a large file. We sat there in silence as we watched the status bar on the screen inch its way to completion. “A part of my tooth fell out earlier,” Larry said.
“Oh?” I asked not sure I’d heard him correctly.
BlackBerry Aggravation
May 26th
My boss is going to drive me to drink. Maybe it’s just PMS and whacked-out hormones, but he is irritating the hell out of me the last few days.
He and I were both in that training the last few weeks. During the training, he would often interrupt the instructor with irrelevant/repetitive questions. If he found a spelling mistake in one of the set of instructions we were using, he’d make a stink about it. The instructor handled it pretty well but I could tell he was as annoyed as I was.
Last week, Larry (the boss) let me know that our IT department had notified him that they would be upgrading his BlackBerry. Not everyone at the company gets a BlackBerry, but managers at Larry’s level do. I knew as soon as he told me about his new device that it was going to be causing me headaches.
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