.. what it costs to send an E-Mail to South Africa

Tell him it depends whether you send it via eShip or ePlane.

Let me guess, this boss is a "project manager".

How old is your boss? 70?

When I was about 20, I had arranged for a courier company rep to visit our warehouses so we could try to secure discounted shipping rates all around North America. This was a big and important deal because it would allow us to make profits on shipping and probably increase our market share by 30%.

One of the owners of my company decides he wants to talk with the rep as a show of power.. He asks, "How much will it cost us to send a 60lb box to Atlantis?"

The rep just about craps a brick and everyone within earshot cringes. Then he asks "I'm sorry, where did you say you were sending them?"

I couldn't stand the cringefactor so I bailed him out, but man was that ever embarrassing. The boss was a true idiot btw, it was not just a slip of the tongue.

Send him to the store to buy a left handed screw driver? Or a long weight?

Make sure he puts a postage stamp on his monitor. Two for out of country or it won't go through.

Catfish, if your company's success is dependent , in any way, on the skill of your boss............look for a new job.

I don't care how old the person is , or what their level of education is, they should be responsible to have a basic literacy in such areas.

It's sad when you're "the expert" of your company....

Well, at least the stories I'm reading are a bit civilized. I mean, the way it was handled.

Not a boss story but still...

A friend of mine working for a company selling derivatives in the financial district of London told me how he mistakenly asked his boss a question about a differential equation. IIRC he phrased it badly. Memory's bad but I think it was a misunderstanding. Something like taking the period of the option for the delta(rate) in the differential equation. (<--Trying to recall how it was phrased badly. Statement is supposed to be false. Don't ask for the details I hate ODEs/PDEs)

Anyway the point is, he wasn't that stupid but the question came off as stupid and the boss literally humiliated him in front of everyone on the floor.

Point is though, there are days when people or circumstances are messed up. Now, if you have a constant stream of stupidity, that's another matter.

Lapsus



Like when the Office Manager came in my office and asked me if I had an "alligator" he could borrow while clasping the fingers on his hand as if he was grabbing something.


Ah...pliers?

Oh!...yeah...that.

OMFGWTFBBQ!

I LOVE that short. So painfully true is not even funny.

That one never stops being funny!

The other day I went to this new hardware store that has two floors. I needed to buy a box of nails that was on the second floor. The escalator stopped working while I was on it, and I was stuck on it for about an hour before they fixed it and finally got to the second floor.

After buying the nails and taking them home, over half of them were defective as flat part of the nail was on the wrong side.

I don't know how this new store will survive.

Those are for the other wall Silly.

Where can I order chem-light batteries? I don't have time to shop Amazon, because I'm backed up with getting these exhaust samples.

FARK......I have been IN THAT MEETING several times

Goddam i'm this feckin' "expert"

Not even kidding, the first time we were on our way to Hawaii, a couple of E-6 sailors, aviation types, asked me in complete seriousness what the exchange rate was of American dollars to Hawaiian.

Remember this?

http://www.tamingdata.com/2010/07/08/the-project-management-tree-swing-cartoon-past-and-present/

We used to pass this around like a bad cold when I was at a dotcom company in 1998-2000.