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"So, why are you the boss?" That was surely on the minds of staffers at one Web start-up when they attended a meeting held to introduce the new chief technology officer. According to one former staffer, the CTO had zero Internet experience, a fact made all too apparent when he walked into the meeting carrying the book,"Building a Web Site for Dummies."
"Okay, did you not get the memo that it's the 21st century?" Often what makes a boss really aggravating isn't necessarily a lack of brain cells but an inability to channel them in appropriate ways. Take the boss who was presenting an award to a group of female employees and was reported to have said, "To my most attractive and shaggable team."
"Ah, you got the memo. You just don't know what to do with it." Striving to make the office more diverse, head honchos at one company reportedly were quite pleased to have hired someone they just assumed was Latino on the basis of his last name. On the new hire's first day, the bosses kept asserting that surely, he speaks some Spanish. No, the employee said. "I'm Italian."
"Oh, good thinking. That'll boost morale." There's nothing like a little ice cream to make everything all better. That's what one top dog seemed to think when he threw an ice-cream party for the staff to raise spirits after he unexpectedly laid off several employees.
"Hey, anybody see the big guy this year?" It's not unusual for a boss to be out of the office for a few days or even a few weeks at a time. But months? One head of a corporate unit had a tremendous fondness for his mobile home, so great that his staff created a "Where's the boss?" Web site, tracking the boss' whereabouts whenever he would check in with his assistant (which was only "every now and then," one former staffer said).
"So, why are you the boss?" That was surely on the minds of staffers at one Web start-up when they attended a meeting held to introduce the new chief technology officer. According to one former staffer, the CTO had zero Internet experience, a fact made all too apparent when he walked into the meeting carrying the book,"Building a Web Site for Dummies."
"Okay, did you not get the memo that it's the 21st century?" Often what makes a boss really aggravating isn't necessarily a lack of brain cells but an inability to channel them in appropriate ways. Take the boss who was presenting an award to a group of female employees and was reported to have said, "To my most attractive and shaggable team."
"Ah, you got the memo. You just don't know what to do with it." Striving to make the office more diverse, head honchos at one company reportedly were quite pleased to have hired someone they just assumed was Latino on the basis of his last name. On the new hire's first day, the bosses kept asserting that surely, he speaks some Spanish. No, the employee said. "I'm Italian."
"Oh, good thinking. That'll boost morale." There's nothing like a little ice cream to make everything all better. That's what one top dog seemed to think when he threw an ice-cream party for the staff to raise spirits after he unexpectedly laid off several employees.
"Hey, anybody see the big guy this year?" It's not unusual for a boss to be out of the office for a few days or even a few weeks at a time. But months? One head of a corporate unit had a tremendous fondness for his mobile home, so great that his staff created a "Where's the boss?" Web site, tracking the boss' whereabouts whenever he would check in with his assistant (which was only "every now and then," one former staffer said).
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