I'm off to work!

King Hoarse · Post by **King Hoarse** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 1:21 pm

My boss is an ass.

I work at a Statoil station, but there's no gas (weird, I know) - it's a car rental/car wash mainly, but also a post office (the biggest in Sweden-that is, with the most households) and cornershop. It's varied, which is nice, but sometimes I work 10 hours+ and the boss WON'T LET US HAVE A CHAIR, BECAUSE HE THINKS WE WOULDN'T WORK HARD ENOUGH!!!!

I've had three days off now, and have hardly stood up once.

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 10:11 am

my favorite boss (I have 3) just got promoted.

now I get to call him the CE doh.

wacka wacka wacka.

King Hoarse · Post by **King Hoarse** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 7:21 pm

It's one o'clock at night over here, I'll be opening up at work in about 5 hours, so I should leave this machine alone...because the Family Guy rerun is on in ten minutes! I'll sleep when I'm dead.

(Yesterday was the episode where Chris thinks he's fat and Peter tries to embarass him by the pool. Ellen & I still laughed twenty minutes after the show ended.)

bobster · Post by **bobster** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 7:26 pm

King Hoarse wrote:sometimes I work 10 hours+ and the boss WON'T LET US HAVE A CHAIR, BECAUSE HE THINKS WE WOULDN'T WORK HARD ENOUGH!!!!

And here in the U.S. we're told that Sweden is some kind of socialist workers' paradise.

King Hoarse · Post by **King Hoarse** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 7:34 pm

It is sorta socialist, but my boss isn't. And there are chairs in the lunch room, and we do get 30 minutes off in those ten hours...The money is good, though.

Post by **DrSpooky** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 10:06 pm

Only one hour to The Family Guy. Amazing how we have the DVDs and still look forward to seeing it on TBS and Cartoon Network. It is one funny show.

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 9:38 am

They are making me work for the mean lady for two months! I know this post doesn't make sense to 99.7% of you, but I am too angry too explain it all right now!

El Vez · Post by **El Vez** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 2:56 pm

miss buenos aires wrote:They are making me work for the mean lady for two months! I know this post doesn't make sense to 99.7% of you, but I am too angry too explain it all right now!

Being part of the .3% (and MBA is being generous by calling this woman The Mean Lady, btw) please allow me to extend my condolen...conduit....condaleeza.....fuck I can't spell that word!

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 3:16 pm

Now my new boss (who is not the mean lady) haggled them down to one month and a promise to never ever make me work for the mean lady ever again. Of course, she's retiring in two months, but it's a nice gesture.

bobster · Post by **bobster** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 3:46 pm

DrSpooky wrote:Only one hour to The Family Guy. Amazing how we have the DVDs and still look forward to seeing it on TBS and Cartoon Network. It is one funny show.

Dr. Spooky - You're over thirty, right? For some reason, nearly every under 30 I guy I meet loves that show. I just don't get it. Not at all. Perhaps you could be an interloketer and translate for me....

Which reminds me, I've got all these movies, mostly musicals for "research" (not sure why I'm quoting that, I really am working, finally, working on the book thing), DVR'd from TCM and Fox Movies...I generally have this problem where I've already seen most of the good ones, so that leaves the notable mediocre ones. Don't even get me started on "South Pacific"...and I'm not looking terribly forward to "The Dolly Sisters."

bobster · Post by **bobster** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 3:47 pm

Also, "Oliver" kind of stank more than I remembered (though it did provide the template for Monty Python's genius parody of its bloated production numbers with the "Every Sperm is Sacred" segment of "The Meaning of Life").

Please sir, I don't want anymore.

Mike Boom · Post by **Mike Boom** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 3:22 pm

In about 5 hours I get married.

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 4:09 pm

What?! Congratulations!

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 4:10 pm

I got the worst haircut of my adult life today! I look like the mom from "One Day at a Time."

Post by **spooky girlfriend** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 4:10 pm

Mike Boom wrote:In about 5 hours I get married.

Are you for real?????

so lacklustre · Post by **so lacklustre** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 4:27 pm

In about 5 hours I get married.

It's not too late, call it off.

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 4:48 pm

Wow!! Who's the lucky Boom-ette?

Congrats!!

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 5:12 pm

congrats, mr. and mrs. boom!

mba, my condolences. but it's hair. it will grow. hats are in now, anyway, right?

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 5:40 pm

miss buenos aires wrote:I got the worst haircut of my adult life today! I look like the mom from "One Day at a Time."

Bonnie Franklin? So it's a Dorothy Hamill bowl-style do?

Congrats boom. Best of luck to you and the Mrs.

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 7:02 pm

Ditto on the condolences, MBA...

at least you are a fan of wigs!! And I'll bet it doesn't look as bad as all that. Stay away from large, square-rimmed glasses (and greasy guys named Schneider) and you should be okay.

XO

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 12:00 pm

Pictures of the atrocity, with a note to my sisters...

http://share.shutterfly.com/action/shar ... &sm=1&sl=1

Post by **spooky girlfriend** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 12:02 pm

My dear, I've seen much worse haircuts. And you do NOT look like that chick from One Day At A Time!!

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 12:19 pm

of course not! she had red hair.

try turning the ends out instead of under.

I know lots about bad hair. The curling iron is NOT my friend.

bobster · Post by **bobster** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 12:38 pm

Wow, Mike Boom, you're getting married. And I didn't even know you were dating anyone! Hope you've known her longer than two weeks!

Congratulations...

And, Ms. B.A., looks pretty nice to me. Just be glad you've got hair to get badly cut!

invisible Pole · Post by **invisible Pole** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 1:59 pm

Congratulations, Mike !!
How did it go ?