The list for March 8, 2013
The Top 16 Signs Your Boss Is Losing It
- How else can you explain the cancellation of "Jorts Friday"?
- Re-labled the FedEx box out front "Daycare" and has been watching it expectantly all day.
- "I want a fresh stool sample on my desk in 20 minutes!"
- Sends you to North Korea with Dennis Rodman as part of a team-building "trust exercise."
- Decided to give up being leader of the Roman Catholic church in order to open Crazzzzy Joe’s Roman Candle Emporium.
- Insists that "profit is the devil’s tool."
- Actually expects everyone to believe that we can add 30 million new people to the insurance rolls and it won’t add a single dime to the deficit.
- The growing collection of boogers on the wall above the urinal are beginning to take the shape of his signature.
- Refers to Martin the CFO as "that slut in accounting."
- Every time your co-worker Jack takes a day off, she posts "Jack-off" on the company’s online calendar.
- Has started wearing a pyramidal aluminum hat to ""channel the cosmic force of just-in-time inventory in order to bring to the table the next generation customer-centric mindset and B2B best practices with regard to moving forward our proactive mission-critical disruptive value-added next-generation technology core competency while increasing bandwidth and fostering a sea change of seamless integration enabling us to sustainably harvest the low-hanging fruit, reach our benchmarks and milestones, and maximize return on investment."
- Insists verbal communication also be in triplicate.
- The "Employee Of The Month" parking space is decided by spork fight.
- Decides your new sales territory by peeing on a map.
- Tries to do an "Undercover Boss" by wearing a cheap handlebar mustache and speaking like Speedy Gonzalez.
And the Number 1 Sign Your Boss Is Losing It…
- Suggests running the assembly line backward as a source of parts.
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CREDITS
Selected from 76 submissions from 27 contributors.
Today’s list authors were:
- Roy Skogstrom, Pepeekeo, HI — 1, 6 (8th #1)
- Donald Johnson, Cincinnati, OH — 2
- Jill Gallagher, Seattle, WA — 3, 8
- Paul Wiley, Westtown, NY — 4
- Bill Muse, Seattle, WA — 5
- Mark Zinck, Grand Rapids, MI — 7
- Travis Ruetenik, Hiroshima, Japan — 9
- Shaune R. Stark, Cedar Park, TX — 10
- Dawson Rambo, Santa Rosa, CA — 11
- Adela Branson, Soda Springs, ID — 12
- Jeffrey Anbinder, New York, NY — 13
- Tristan Fabriani, Passaic, NJ — 14
- Doug Finney, Houston, TX — 15
- Jeremy Shelley, Possum Trot, KY — 16
- Donald Junter, New Haven, CT — Banner Tag
- Chris White, Olympia, WA — List owner/editor
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