fu boss

[THE FEZ MAN]

yea yea i know theres 29999 threads on fu bosses but i want my own.
besides being a fucking OCD jack ass why why why did i have to go to work today, its fucking snowing/iceing/justfucking shittty. yea yea i know i work for a towing company but damn it i dont drive a tow truck and every one that had any sence didnt go to work today, ya know its not man vs wild. its suburbia with some fucking ice, there is no reason to run around all day bitching about the weather, pulling trucks in and out (i run the bodyshop were the trucks are parked, thats another complaiint thread) but blaaaaa blaaaaa blaaaa the sky is fallling were all going to starve because its snowing.... then have the balls to ask me if im going home to play on my quad in the dark in the ice that i cant plow because its all turned to ice and my rock drive way hates it when this happens. he lives above the shop and bitches when im late in the snow drives his plow around all day trying to get every peice of snow but refuses to touch a shovel (as do i) and turns down tow jobs because its snowing, its fucking insane i wish i could get discovery to fallow him around all day he makes old man tuttle and boyd cottington look like the fucking pope. REFUSES to allow me and the other techs to install a computer to keep records or access technical informaton ( why dont i know ever thing there is to know about every car ever made, how it works, how it breaks, and how to fix it all from memory) last week we brought in a toyota prius (yea i made all kinds of great steve c comments all lost on them but i thought they were funny) he didnt want to let us keep it in the shop at night because he was afrade it would burn the building down...... after listing to ESD the other day i think im going to right a screen play about this guy. every day i go to work just to see what crazy stupid shit he's going to do. he drove me so fucking crazy i now go to a shrink every thursday just to complane about him. and no im not going to quit, i have my reasons for staying, my next move is going to be my last

[Cunt Smasher]

Don't NORMAL towing companys make their money on days like today?I heard on the radio this morning about how there have been like 1200 accidents in N.J. recently,plus all the stuck cars,plus the easy money jump start stuff.He is a nut.

[THE FEZ MAN]

He is a nut.

out of his fucking mind

[THE FEZ MAN]

yeaaa im bumping this thread to let you all in on the lateist jack ass move.....

well he owns a very expencive pick up truck. this weekend it gets hit in the rear (custom part distroyed and cant be fixed because he tried to fix it first and is clueless on how to do it right)
this morning he runs into his own snow plow with the front (custom part this time i can fix it but he's clueless on how its done so instead of leaving me alone to fix it he's yelling at me and rideing my ass like a chinese hooker)

all i can do is shake my head

[al885]

i thought you owned some store?

[Glenn Dandy]

Blow a glass Shank and try to lodge it into his temple. Put him in his truck, floor the gas and let em go, preferably toward a gas station.

[thegreenninja]

Blow a glass Shank and try to lodge it into his temple.
Make sure that it's hollow to allow for maximum blood flow.

[THE FEZ MAN]

i thought you owned some store?
i closed my store to take on another project, it was a part time thing anyway. ive worked in an autobody shop for most of my carrier.

[MyKneeGrows]

i closed my store to take on another project, it was a part time thing anyway. ive worked in an autobody shop for most of my carrier.

I'm just bustin balls here, but...

Your spelling sucks.

[THE FEZ MAN]

I'm just bustin balls here, but...

Your spelling sucks.
yep.

well the lateist in the saga,

yesterday i spent my entire day fixing the custom bumper on the truck, at the end of my day a applied a high build primer that has to dry overnight to cure all the way, if not allowed to cure you will ruin the project.

last night after i left my owner decides that im not working fast enough and decides to paint the bumper in my absence

he knows every thing, he's been painting cars for 40 years, he dosent need to read the directions, he dosent need to wait, he can use a 500deg heat lamp on an un cured product to speed the cureing process.

i spent all day repairing the custom bumper, now with a fresh coat of not only un cured black paint, an un needed bonding agent, un cured body filler, and un cured high build primer.

i then at 4;00 he askes me if im painting the bumper tonight before i leave, when i tell him no because he fucked it all up in the first place, he just looks at me like i dont know what im doing.

every thing that he has touched for the last 3 years ive had to re do,

i think im going to sit in the middle of the shop one day on a tire and just douse my self in paint thinner and deisel fuel and start smokeing a cigarette

[Cunt Smasher]

Sorry,sir,your boss is a sack full of cunts.

[thegreenninja]

To my cunty boss: You stupid cunt! Die of an unheard of tropical disease that rots your tits off! You dirty black hole of a cunt, I work three positions at once, and you have the audacity to get all over me about shit I can't control. DIE, CUNTWHORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Cunt Smasher]

Me too X2!Fucking saturday fucking cunt boss asks who wants to leave early.Men\d new guy been working our asses off say we want to leave early.Cunt boss letsd his buddy leave at 10:30

[THE FEZ MAN]

oof, well, i got my thank you, it came in the statement: "damn why did it take you all fucking week to fix that bumper" from my boss that means i fucked up im sorry

[Cunt Smasher]

Sorry,sir.Your boss is a sack full of cunts.Mine too.And god.

[THE FEZ MAN]

well here's the latest,,,,, sorry it’s so long, but, I’ve been thinking about how to word it. this week I’ve been up to my ass with work, Monday morning when I got in I wasn’t there 30sec, and was bombarded with questions about 4 missing wrenches from his tool box, a 7/8 11/16, and two 9mm open end wrenches (there is no such thing in the sets in question) I answered with I’m usual "I have my own tools and refuse to touch yours" and went to unlock my own box. for the next half hour or so he wandered around the shop looking for his "lost" wrenches. then decides that he wants to "fix" the mirror that "fell off" his jeep ( he knocked the glass out of the frame smashing the plow into giant ice burgs that he made in the yard).
buy this time I had started working, in the middle of helping a co worker put a hood on a car, he decides to bother me about were the adhesive was, its been in the same cabinet for 3 years and is clearly marked; "windshield urethane".
since he refuses to leave the heat on in the building over the weekend the tube was cold and its Contains were quite thick, he proceeds to try to force the glue out of the tube, damaging the caulk gun and tube, I tell him, while he's yelling and grumbling about the broken gun, that it is cold and has to be warmed up, a little, put it in front of the heater for a minuet..... he puts the flammable caulk 3" away from the open flame of the jet heater, hilarity ensues. 15$worth of caulk ruined, but the fire and his response was priceless.
after that he goes back to bitching to anyone that walked in the door, and called any one that had been there for the last week, about loosing his wrenches (two of which never existed) after about 2 hours of him ranting he decides he's going to sears to buy new ones (two of which don’t exist) not being able to take it any more I break my rule and open his wrench drawer on my way to the shitter. he owns at least 5 sets of wrenches of varying sizes and shapes, after about 10 seconds of looking I find the two missing wrenches on the holders of another set. my thanks, is a stupid look, he then decides that he absolutely needs to have the missing 9mm wrenches (the ones that don’t exist in the configuration that he thinks he needs) and goes to sears. after two blissful hours of him not being there, he comes back and proclaims that they don’t make the 9mm wrenches in the configuration that he wants. now the key thing that I forgot to mention here is the FACT that he probably goes into his wrench drawer no more than one time a week, and even then its just to see if they have moved around since he really doesn’t work all that much any more. that was my Monday.
while all of this is going on I’ve been preparing a car for paint, a large job but nothing that I cant handle with out any issues, as a matter of fact I was doing quite well with absently no help at all. He tells me that the car is too big to shoot buy my self and he should help me, I decline, he leaves in a huff but…… About 30 mins before i'm ready to shoot the car I notice that it was cold in the shop, he turned the heat down while I wasn’t looking. So I shoot the car and hit a home run, the car looks wonderful. After I’m all done. I turn to my co worker and say “ I bet before the end of the week he wrecks something just so he can paint” that night , as he was playing “musical cars” he runs his tow trucks into one another causing some minor damage, just enough for him to have something to paint. Today he spends all day fixing it, during the process he asks me to “mix up some of that high build shit” although he refuses to accept that the new products that I use are far superior to what he insists on using, and he refuses to even try to learn how its done, but he still insists that I do things wrong. Not 4 minutes after he starts painting he puts a huge run in it, ruining the job.
I left for the day.

[THE FEZ MAN]

well, today ive decided that my life is living theater.

this morning (friday) i wasnt even out of my truck today, when he comes blasting into the parking lot right behind me, it was raining and i was trying to get my shit together and he's sitting there with the window down yelling at me that he, hit a snow bank out front and "bent" the ground effects on the passenger side, after makeing me stand in the rain and inspect the dammage, he tears off into the shop.
well he bent them alright, all of the custom made aluminum brackets on the right side were smashed up into the custom exaust nearly melting the plastic parts. after about 20mins figgureing out how to get them off they decide to release a torrent of water, ice and road salt into my face as my co workers stood there and giggled. it only took about an hour to fix, but this is the 3rd time in two weeks that he has smashed into something with this truck.

later in the day, one of my regular customers comes in to pick up his truck, and the truth comes out. apparntly he was driveing this customer home, was trying to squeeze his truck thew a hole that was too small, into traffic, and splitting the lane, and yelling at the other drivers while he drove up the sholder of the road. after the smashing, he complained that it was the customers fault because he did'nt get a ride back to his own shop.

the topper of the day........at about 3, i get a call from a buissness aquaintnce of mine and a friend of my owner. apparently she got her van stuck in the back yard of there buissness. i send him out to winch the van out of the yard, (i should have gone) and hour later he comes back towing the van, apparently instead of properly rigging the van for the winch he just hooked something and tryied to yank it out of the mud, during the ripping, he tore a transmission line off and bent the centerlink. after fixing his lateist fuck up me and the other tech. decide that were going to leave for the day, 4:30 or so. as were leaving our owner starts to complaine that were leaving. now every thing has been deleverd, all the work is done for the day, and the owner is on call. not to mention that we skipped lunch.why why why why bitch about us leaving........
so we left.

[Cunt Smasher]

Is the good part of your job worth putting up with that shit? I betcha he's also the type that NEVER accepts blame or responsibility for anything.

[THE FEZ MAN]

yes and no. i realy dont feel like moveing, i like every one that i work with (even the customers) i make decent money for what i do, and bleve it or not he can be the nicest person in the world. oh and its kind of a family buissness, my father and him were buddies back in highschool and my dad worked with him for years (he is my god father, and was my dads best man/his, twice) he hired me right out of highschool back in 90' i quit after 8 months, and went on to stay in the buissness and get good at what i do. i recently came back after being fired from my other shop after 12 years. over all ive been in the buissnes almost 20 years including my VoTech/summer job years. i could have gone anywere, i chose my path. ive been around and done this and that, the confort of where i work is well worth the theator.

to quote the famous Dr. Raymond Stantz: "I've worked in the real world, they expect results......"

[Cunt Smasher]

Gotcha,kinda entertaining so keep em coming.

[THE FEZ MAN]

oh they are going to keep comming you cant make this shit up

[Cunt Smasher]

Why don'tcha sneak down there over the weekend and re-arrange his tool drawers?Maybe trade him some swap meet taiwan specials?

[THE FEZ MAN]

oh i did one better, the other day i switched the order of all his metric wrenches not a lot but enough to drive him nuts. i think the next thing im going to do is swap his streight screw driver drawer for his phillips, yes his box is so big and empty that he can do that.

[NoSurviivors]

brings back some memories of a idiot that I worked with a while back.. I was working in this oil change joint for extra money and there was this fired 'mechanic'. The show off type.. in a quick lube place - need I say more??

As for these days, I'm supposed to meet w/ my boss on Tuesday and decide how I'm supposed to be handed for an inappropriate comment and overall, just voicing my opinion.. I may have a thing or two to add to this thread. I'm getting fucked.

[THE FEZ MAN]

my old boss decided to give me a bunch of shit in front of 2 subordanat employees one day. then told me to get the fuck out if i didnt like it, thats how i ended up were i am. i dont tollerate getting yelled at by any one. as a matter of fact i think the next person that yells at me is getting punched in the face with out warning

[Philly loser]

Words. A lot of them. I'm too tired to read them all FezMan. Here's what I will say. From my skimming, your boss sounds like an ass. For that I am sorry. I have a cunt boss that I can't stand. People are quitting where I work and being taken out of work in ambulances because of chest pains and one had a heart attack from the stress. It doesn't matter. Move their assignments to someone else who already has too much fucking work.
I would love to just walk the fuck out, but the mortgage, the kids, etc. force me to keep eating shit every day and I hate it.
Good luck and I hope it gets better for you.

[NoSurviivors]

that's the gist of it.. if you fall out of step, you'll be replaced with another talking head. Who gives a fuck how you feel. I've been burnt out for the better part of two years. Stressed, dismal social life, and my health hasn't been that great.. I can go on.

I'm a great tech, but I'm sick & tired of being held responsible for other people deciding that what I support can be put off or ignored. I end up having to run around and cover my ass. (and technically theirs, tho there's no accountability) Fuck that. I'm not a damn babysitter. I may as well be replaced with a monkey holding a tape recorder. What I advocate isn't that difficult to do.

I'll charge off 15K + to their bottom line and watch the heads roll that way; and probably still get fucked.

(not trying to hijack your thread Fez.. just can relate)

[HummerTuesdays]

Philly & choke, sounds like it's time you both found a good recruiter. They'll look for the jobs that offer what you're looking for. I never thought an accouting job without overtime existed. My recruiter found one. :)

[NoSurviivors]

Yeah.. I'm probably going to step back to part time stuff or something & go back to school for a short time.. not sure yet.

[THE FEZ MAN]

today he drove from delco pa to morrisville NJ to pick up a part that could have been overnighted to us...... 100 or so miles one way..... he picked up the wrong part again..... ha ha

serves him right. we got a call for the state police to tow some cars of a buizzy interstate 476. i had to go because he wanted to leave.... mother fucker drove right past the accident. i hate driveing a fucking towtruck.

[NoSurviivors]

I get to fight for my job tomorrow.

Lets go... this is gonna be fun.

[opackshow]

Hey Jim B. ASAP painting is a awful company you suck.

FUCK YOU

[THE FEZ MAN]

well its another manic monday.

not 30sec after i got to work this morning he started to tell me how i should paint my freinds car, paint i should use how to do this and that how i under bid the job,,,, now i got 4000$ to paint his car and put in a headlight. with paint and one part im going to have less than 800$ in the job, the rest is my pay about 1000$, now im not a mathamation or a good speller, but since i have nothing else to do this week, i see him making 2200$ for doing NOTHING, ive been in the body shop buissness 20+ years, 2000$ profit on any job is good, yet he keeps yelling at me that i under bid the job,(that he's not going to touch) i did not under bid the job, i got a fair market price
after his tirade this morning i told him that if he insists on bitching about every thing that i do, every job that i bring in (i dont do it often because of this very reason, i turn down work every single day) im going to drive the car to my house, pick up my truck and trailer and come back for my fucking tools, because ive had it, and if i have to paint the fucking car in my driveway i will, take my 3000$ and build a fucking garage and never come the fuck back, the smart ass i work with turned to me and asked "are you hireing?"

my owner just walked away looking at the ground and started muddering to himself.

this shit is getting old


oh and i forgot to mention that he is incabable of doing most of the things that i can do to the level of perfecton that i can do them, he cant even read the directions on a can of paint and follow them.

[Cunt Smasher]

WTF are you doing? 15 coats,color sanded and 10 coats of clear? Earl Schieb still open?

[THE FEZ MAN]

WTF are you doing? 15 coats,color sanded and 10 coats of clear? Earl Schieb still open?



any car!!!! any color!!!!!! $99.95!!!!!!! no ups! no extras!
http://www.earlscheib.com/

[THE FEZ MAN]

well i thought i would bump this thread.... he (me) has a new project car.... a 1965 falcon ranchero . yea for him. so far he has done nothing but fuck up every thing that he has touched on it.

now i agreed to put floors in it since they are quite rusted and need to be replaced, he wanted to smear the holes with fiberglass and tape,

[Cunt Smasher]

Know how to paper trick(wax paper and duraglas)?

[THE FEZ MAN]

i know all the tricks, i just choose not to do them on my own shit

[Cunt Smasher]

It's the boss's shit,them old Falcons run much better with 500 Lbs of bondo on them.For a super glossy knee deep finish,I would recommend industrial enamel.Don't be too proud to accept a little friendly advice,Fez.I'm here to help.

[THE FEZ MAN]

his fucking girlfriend buys these stupid signs to put up next to the car's at shows. she keeps insisting on putting my name on the bottom, i keep telling her to leave me out of it.
oh and it pisses him off to no end when i do shit right and point out his short commings as a painter and body man, im going to let him paint it the first time, i'll end up painting it over.

[Cunt Smasher]

You know I'm fucking with you,in a rugged,manly,no-homo kinda way,but really,your situation would have me a flaming alcoholic in 6 months.I bet you take care of your tools,I try to,but if I was you a tool would go through the wall 3-4 times a day.

[THE FEZ MAN]

i smoke a lot, the guy i work with drinks his lunch. oh and i have lunch with a shrink every thursday, the only reason i stay is the money and believe it or not the freedom

[Cunt Smasher]

i smoke a lot, the guy i work with drinks his lunch. oh and i have lunch with a shrink every thursday, the only reason i stay is the money and believe it or not the freedom AND THE STORIES FOR WACKBAG
FIXED!

[THE FEZ MAN]

i smoke a lot, the guy i work with drinks his lunch. oh and i have lunch with a shrink every thursday, the only reason i stay is the money and believe it or not the freedom

ive taken up drinking during the week. this morning i come in and he has decided to straighten out the bed of the truck over the weekend, yea im still working on the rancero, i have paying work to do. he skipped the front of the bed for some reason, so i pointed it out to him, he gets pissed and grabs a 9"grinder and starts HACKING at it like a retard with a bat, after about an hour of watching him hack at it i walk over and tell him, very nicely, when he's done with the grinder take his DA (another type of sander) and sand the whole panel (in preparation of me having to fix his fuck up) he flips out on me with his usual bull shit "ive been doing this for 40years" crap. then he breaks the camels back with "thats how i did the sides and it works just fine" before i could stop my self i blurt out "yea asshole and it took me a fucking week to fix that fuck up do it right or just fucking quit" so he gets up and starts yelling about how he cant work with me blaa blaa blaa, i tried to smooth him over but its just not working, he REFUSES to learn, all i was trying to do was show him a better way of doing something and he treats me like some kind of migger that he hired off the street to sweep the floor ive been doing this for 20 years, im sorry but thats long enough to gain the respect of any one, yet not him. quite frankly i dont think im going to make it to the end of the week if the insanity dosent end. now im going to drink a fith of vodka,

[THE FEZ MAN]

Aggggggggg! i cant sleep in anticipation of the fucking fight that im going to get into tomorrow morning, ive decided that he's either the dumbest mother fucker on the face of the earth or the most belligerent piece of shit in Pennsylvania. EVERY thing that comes out of my mouth is wrong..... ive been doing this shit for twenty years (20) thats long enough to gain the respect of anyone, im done being an apprentice

[Cunt Smasher]

Potential dumb question here,but have you calmly and logically explained to him,maybe even shown examples,of how things are fucked up (his work) and how things are 'sposed to be done (you did it)? Even if he's as bad as you say,he's in the business and HAS to recognize the difference between good work and Earl Schieb,right? Prolly not.Continue drinking,sir,but lock up your firearms and give the key to your wife.

[THE FEZ MAN]

ha!!!! like i said, EVERYTHING that comes out of my mouth is wrong.

quick example: he paid a carpenter to make an oak bed floor for the ranchero, the carpenter and i discussed a design, the type of wood, the hard ware to be used, sketched out a design, built templates, and the final finish that was desired. the entire time, my boss was present and saw and heard every thing. basically the carpenter and i built it in our minds using knowledge of past projects (experience) , two weeks ago the wood was done and fit, so he decides that he wants to "clear" it. he knows NOTHING about wood he asks me what i would do, so i explained to him that i have, on several occasions, used different products to do this and that and gave him several options all of which produce excellent results if done properly, he chose the one that i expressly told him was a poor option (clear gloss polyurethane) first he goes to the regular hard ware store and buys a quart of "satin" interior clear, then sprays it out of his antique binks spray gun , which produces less than desirable results, oh and covers every car in the shop with over spray, the next day he comes in and bitches about how it looks, dull and rough, i point out that he bought the wrong product and needs to get the right product at the local professional paint store, he returns with two quarts of the correct product, but a different brand, he asks me what he should use to sand out the floor boards, (he refused to re finish the supports), i suggest that he use my Hutchens 2500mo sander that i have set up for fine finishing, this is an industry standard tool, EVERY painter has one and it is widely recognized as one of the best sanders in the fucking world, not to mention it cost me 300$ 10 years ago. it has vacuum assist and a super smooth 3/32 stroke, this is the correct tool for the job at hand, i put a piece of gray scotch brite on it and break the surface of the clear, all the wile explaining what im doing and why im doing it, now i will admit that i was using my teaching tone but, fuck him i was not being that condescending. before i could finish he goes to my toolbox and grabs my 79$ harbor freight d/a and slaps a piece of 22o grit paper on it and starts hacking at the board cutting thew all the layers of clear tearing the non cured finish and running the D/a up on its edge, ( a votech bull shit move that will fuck you every time you try it) i make the suggestion that he not do that because its going to fuck him, he then just looks at me says "that piece of shit doesn't cut, this is faster" i just walked away. then proceeds to dump more clear all over the wood and starts pushing it around with a cheep 1" chip brush that was soaking in lacker thinner all weekend and looked like CSK's hair, it immediately started to fuck up. he gets frustrated and walks away. the next day, first thing in the morning, same shitty d/a, too course sand paper and vo technique. he goes back to the paint store and gets a different brand of clear again, dumps it on and mops it around, it wrinkles again, next morning, same D/a, same hacking of the finish, buy now its friday, and he's been riding my ass like a Chinese hooker to get the body work done (thats a hole nother story).
so manic monday comes around.... he has painted the car, he was told buy 5 separate experienced people that the car was NOT ready to paint. well he also decided to paint the boards again, this time the gets not only another brand of clear, is was satin, and it wrinkled, again. now he decides that he needs to strip the wood, he asks me and the older guy that i work with what to get, i tell him to get a specific product, and were he can get it, the other gy tells him to get a different product, the wrong product, but its not his fault the company does make the correct product under a different name. he leaves and goes to same paint store, and comes back with deck stripper, that of course dosent work, now the paint store carry s the EXACT product that i told him to get, but not the "wrong" product that the older guy said to get, so he brings back a product that just wont work. he then calls our auto body supplier to order the stripper, i tell him the exact product to get, at the same time the older guy says the other product buy brand name but not the exact product, so instead of ordering the exact product that i told him to get he orders buy the generic name that the other guy says, witch is a paint gun stripper and although it will work it doesn't work well. so the wrong stuff shows up, i then explain that he ordered the wrong stuff and he should get the exact product that i told him to get. instead he trys every thing else laying around including the "wrong" product, that does work, just not well. i explain how to make the product work, via improvisation, basically you have to keep the product wet, i used paper towels and plastic wrap, so him and the other guy just pour the product all over a board and start hacking at it with plastic spreaders, with less than steller results. out of pitty i do a section of a board using my method, it works perfectly but you have to wait for the product to work, there is no way to rush stripper. the owner just walks away, the old guy gives me credit. after all the chemical striping i proceed to sand out the boards using my method, but it includes several different sanders and about 6 hours to strip and sand to a polish 5 8"x50" oak boards. before i left for the day i went up to the paint store and bought a nice paint brush, and applied an over reduced "sealer" coat to the boards. as i was leaving he asks me if he can put another coat on later that night. i tell him no that the coat i put on has to through dry. because of the humidity this week, the water wash and the lack of air flow in the shop at night, that it wont dry right, it will suck up again and look like shit, and that tomorrow morning i was going to put the next coat on. he then tells me he's going to put another coat on anyway and that im wrong. i just told him that he was fucking up and walked out the door.

so, when i get in i notice that the boards have all been moved and the finish looks like shit, so he was good to his word and put another coat on, then he decides to call the carpenter, who comes over and tells him that he put way too much on and didn't let it dry. this was wensday, the boards are still wet as of Friday night before i left, and he was setting them up to sand them again and put more clear on.

now i do understand that its his shop, his car, his project, his business, his prerogative. but i just cant stand to watch someone set themselves up for failure because of there total in ability to accept that some one else might know of a way to achieve a better result or at least a more desirable one. i've worked buy the credo: if you are my equal i dont care how you do a job but it better look like mine or better when your done, but if your not my equal and you choose to do something that will result in a poor or un acceptable result change the way you do it. or do it my way, a proven way. i also believe in learning new ways of doing things, and accept changes in the industry. for fucks sake he wont take credit cards and when i brought my lap top in to access all data i thought he was going to have a heart attack.... you know a computer is the tool of the devil if you touch one it will steal your soul..... and thats what ive been dealing with this week along with all my other work.

[Cunt Smasher]

Well,I'm completely speechless here.And out of ideas.I recommend drinking heavily.

[THE FEZ MAN]

and that was the abridged version, there were several more fuck ups involved with that part of the project, i wish i could put to words the rest of how he went out of his way to fuck up this project, not only have i been struck speechless but dumbfounded buy is inability to learn from his mistakes or accept ANY form of change. i really think what bothers me more than anything is the fact that i know his close personal friends have advised him on several occasions to retire and allow me to run the day to day operations. his reaction is basically negativity towards me, and how i do things, even though most of the things that i do are basically industry standard, its the substandard way that he does things that amazes me yet even though its clear that i produce superior results he still insists that im a fuck up.... and yes ive been drinking heavily

[HummerTuesdays]

Fez, you're too nice. I would have told him how to fix the problem, and when he didn't do it right, just let him hang. How much longer until the wood is totally fucked & needs to be started from scratch again?

[THE FEZ MAN]

well even now the wood isn't going to fit right because of how many times its been sanded, and the shoddy bodywork that he did inside the bed of the truck and your right, about letting him hang, but part of my problem is that this project is taking up 3 bays in my 5 bay shop. all other work stops, his impatiences is amazing no matter how fast i do something its not fast enough for his liking, even though there are some things that cant be rushed, the wood is a perfect example, he has no idea how to do most things "right" and insists that his way is the only way, yet is obvious to even the layperson that is work is substandard, i will not produce substandard work, and thats that, his biggest problem is the constant flow of "yes men" that come into the shop saying how great every thing looks, i want to choke them, there are a few that know what there looking at and will ask him why he's fucking it up but he gets belligerent towards them, he doesn't under stand sarcasm and accepts NO negative criticism like a child. hell ive spent three days last week trying to sand out one of the worst paint jobs ive ever seen, but he thinks it looks great... if i point out how bad it looks and how much work trying to fix it, he just ignores me, walks away, or just says im a snooty asshole and if i worked for any one else i'd starve..... all bull shit ive heard before from the last cocksucker that i worked for, yet when i quit there the place went into the shitter with in 6months and was out of business with in the year

[Cunt Smasher]

What about unhappy customers? I'm not going to accept shitty work.I don't care what he says,if I'm standing there looking at my car with my checkbook in my hand,he ain't getting SHIT until I'm happy. Guy I work with had a guy bump his truck(2005 chevy) low,right behind the passenger front wheel and got a little of the door. Had local bodyshop fix it,was happy. I'm leaving work one day shortly after,look at the truck(white,BTW) the body line is fucking wavy and there is obvious orange peel in the paint. I,being the concerned friend,of course point and laugh. He takes it back and makes them fix it. He is still out the use of the truck for a few days tho'.

[THE FEZ MAN]

most people just dont notice, and in his mind he's right, if it looks good to him it looks good to every one. part of my problem is im super picky, i feel a need to achieve perfection (when its warranted) i just completely refinished a hood on a sl 320, i did it right, and it drove him fucking nuts, now it did take a while but it had to be done that way, full strip, when i was done it was almost perfect, to me, but even then i wasn't totally happy with it. i have worked for some amazing painters, so good that it almost warps your mind and you start to want to turn every part into a truly mirror finish, or a perfect copy of the existing texture, it almost becomes an obsession. not to mention most painters are fucking nuts. my self included.

[PSYCHOMARKFAN]

Fez,


This sounds more like something on Comedy Central. This shit is a thousand times funnier than anything Comedy Central could ever come up with. Did you ever think of writing this as a script for a film or a sitcom?

[THE FEZ MAN]

ive always wanted to set up secrete cameras to record the show. then send it in to discovery or some thing, ive also thought about writing this shit down.... whats really funny is people ask me all the time about how i deal with it, depending on how crazy it is i usually say "this is living theater, you cant pay for entertainment like this" or "i go to a shrink every thursday at 1:30"

[Cunt Smasher]

Really,tho' it's gotta be better than the chopper show,or that awful boyd coddington.

[THE FEZ MAN]

tuesday was a good day....... i finally got some validation to my complaints, the guy i worked with on saturday (side job for a cop friend) was in the shop today, on duty, in uniform, vest, utility belt ect... bitching about having to work today in the heat, so my boss starts spouting off and crowing about how much work that he does.... with " i do more work buy accident in a day than you assholes do all week....." now i think that he was referring to the cops that were standing there, but the old timer that i work with just replies "yea, you got the accident right, but doing the same job over and over doesn't count, you have to produce something that we can actuality get paid for you asshole" it was priceless, the rest of the cops start piling on with: yea your as dumb as "sleepy" (the local bum) you would think after fucking up the fith or tenth time you would wise up.... oh and you can tell that a rookie painted this jeep (we, my friend, painted his first car this weekend, i just supervised) there's no runs in it. (my boss can not paint anything with out getting a run in it) i just sat there and shook my head, every one just laughed at me for it, there is nothing they love more than pointing out that hiring me was the best move my boss could have made... the second best would be for him to retire, and leave me the fuck alone. since we all know the truth, that in the four years ive been there ive made him more money that he knows what to do with, hell i even got a raise.

[Cunt Smasher]

Maybe there's hope after all.But that's not very entertaining.:mad4:

[THE FEZ MAN]

oh dont worry i have plenty of story's, i spent most of my day installing and cleaning moldings, it took me a few hours to get all the clips and nuts and bolts in order then i had to twist and turn in places that my arms arnt ment to turn but i got them all on :rolleyes:, what is chapping my nads now is when i started to disassemble the car i told him on several occasions that ALL of the rubbers are fucking shot, the car is a California car so although there was little cancer rust every thing with natural rubber in it was totally dry rotted, so after i was done doing my "hard" installs today i decided to work on my "soft" installs, gaskets ect.... well when i started to inventory the parts (i did not order or the parts or inventory anything as it came in because every thing that came in he took out of boxes and basically spread all over the place, so i spent most of the afternoon trying to figure out what he didn't order and making lists, dumb ass, started to bitch out my helper about loosing a tail light lens that he never ordered, the kid out smarted him and checked all the invoices (my hint) and the lil fella won, i was proud of him.

[HummerTuesdays]

FUCK YOU to the owner of this company. You don't have a fucking clue about what it takes to run a business because you're too busy picking paint colors or over priced hideous chairs that "look great" but are probably awful to sit in. We haven't had a control in place in the 2+ years that I've been here, and now that we've got some one coming in & cleaning up this mess of shit, you give her a hard time. You give her a hard time because you're beloved outside accounting firm & attorneys don't talk to each other & don't bother to check each other. Fuck that shit. If she leaves because of your fucking attitude, I'm outta here.

It's amazing that people make money in spite of themselves.

[THE FEZ MAN]

FUCK YOU to the owner of this company. You don't have a fucking clue about what it takes to run a business because you're too busy picking paint colors or over priced hideous chairs that "look great" but are probably awful to sit in. We haven't had a control in place in the 2+ years that I've been here, and now that we've got some one coming in & cleaning up this mess of shit, you give her a hard time. You give her a hard time because you're beloved outside accounting firm & attorneys don't talk to each other & don't bother to check each other. Fuck that shit. If she leaves because of your fucking attitude, I'm outta here.

It's amazing that people make money in spite of themselves.


its mind boggling isnt it?

when i started with the shop im at now almost EVERY job had to be re done in some way, or was un acceptable for delivery, after i arived, i HALVED our materials costs, buy eliminating our re do's, and proper mixing technique, yet he still bitches that i use tape to protect things from damage.....


on a side note, i was talking to a friend of mine the other day, and i was telling him the ground hog story, as i finished up, he (my friend) does a huge belly laugh and says "man that karma is a bitch!" my boss turns to me and says, "i thought your dogs name was Duncan" i replied "no it was doc that killed the ground hog" so then he comes out with "well who is karma? is that the girl you were hitting on down in philly?". me and my buddy just started laughing our asses off at him. then my buddy (a toof less hillbilly) tried to explain karma to him, i swear i could here the wind whistling thew my bosses ears.

[Cunt Smasher]

I saw a t-shirt one time that said " I used to be disgusted,now I'm just amused". That attitude has kept me from going to work with a gun before.

[HummerTuesdays]

The shit is getting worse. Today sucked ass. I can't even begin to rant.

[THE FEZ MAN]

The shit is getting worse. Today sucked ass. I can't even begin to rant.

there are plenty of times that i just come home and sit in my parked truck in the drive way for a minuet or two, just to enjoy the quiet inside

[THE FEZ MAN]

i have been broken........

today i delivered a brand new car that looked like shit..... under orders mind you but i still did it.

i am guilty of not reading estimates and only doing what im told to do. yesterday i painted a door off the car, this is something that i do often, to the chagrin of both my boss and the other old timer that i work with (old timers like to "cut in" parts then hang them on the car put the stuff on (moldings door handles ect) then sand the parts and tape up the car then paint it, effectively doing twice the work. and making the job look amatureish)
doing it my way is more efficient and can provide a "better" more "professional" job (usually)
so... a quick lesson in automotive refinishing products and there application.

car paint HATES moisture, both humidity in the air and water that gets trapped in the air lines, it reeks havoc in many ways. it effects how the paint drys mostly, but it can also effect how it "lays out" in laymens terms how smooth it is, but with metallic or pearl paints it also applies too how the metallic is dispersed, another thing that can happen is that the moisture can become trapped in the paint its self making it look "milky" or dull. yesterday in philly the humidity was quite frankly oppressive, and for the last few months ive been having trouble with water in my air lines, these things created the perfect environment for a paint fuck up.... well it fucked up, but having done this shit for 20 years ive learned a thing or two about a thing or two. i thought i had the problem licked :icon_roll, and i kind of did, another HUGE problem i have at work, is the poor lighting, so when i completed the job, it looked fine (under shop lighting) after the job was done we put it out side and it looked ok.....but as my co worker was moving the car i caught a glimpse of it in a certain light at just the perfect angle to see my fuck up .... and holy shit did it look awful :icon_roll, there is NO doubt in my mind that the owner is going to say something, what is the worst part is that its almost impossible to see the problem unless you look at it just right. but, as far as im concerned if it dosent look right from every angle it isnt right, i mentioned it to my boss and showed him and my other co worker, they both said fuck it..... i just have this sick feeling that im going to have to do the entire job over again, and there is nothing i HATE more than re doing paint work because of something that not only did i have little control over (for many reasons including the bad weather, but that could be remedied buy having a paint booth and a mixing machine for paint, both things that my owner REFUSES to buy or even entertain the thought of)
i really hate being a mindless slave, but i just cant fight any more, im a broken man. :icon_cry:

[Cunt Smasher]

Potentially dumb question here,but can you financially swing it to have your own small,but specialized high-end shop? Like the prototype job,for example.Jobs that you can do RIGHT,and do your own way? Maybe just a 1 man operation? Seems like there's enough folks will pay for quality work,and personal attention.Resto's maybe?

[THE FEZ MAN]

Potentially dumb question here,but can you financially swing it to have your own small,but specialized high-end shop? Like the prototype job,for example.Jobs that you can do RIGHT,and do your own way? Maybe just a 1 man operation? Seems like there's enough folks will pay for quality work,and personal attention.Resto's maybe?

short answer, no. but the long answer is; these things are in the works.....:icon_roll

i am in the process of selling my boat, this will provide a nice, yet small, wind fall, another problem is i do make decent money at were i am. ive been discussing some of my work problems at my shrinks office:rolleyes: we have come to the conclusion that im nuts... so at this point i cant up and quit my job, but what i can do is clear up some debts and build a garage at my home to help ease my quality issues, i do have several customers that would rather i work on there vehicles away from my currant place of employment, mostly hot rodders that are in no hurry to get there cars back but must have them well cared for and repaired or built to a level that is mostly un obtainable around here. rodders and classic car people are quite fanatical about there cars and need someone just as nutty to work on them. im that nut and many know it, but paying for eccentric geniuses is expensive.....:rolleyes:

[Cunt Smasher]

Exactly what I had in mind. Saw a guy on tv,only painted stuff like Rolls,resto Ferrari's,that kinda thing.Car would end up better than new,every body panel with a perfect gap and so on.Would end up building new panels from scratch sometimes,just to make it RIGHT. Avg. "paint job"? $65,000 and up.

[THE FEZ MAN]

ive seen these things,,, i dream of them, i used to have a customer that paid 200k to have a body built for his 1929 jaguar ss120, and quite frankly i know that i could have done a better paint job. my goal is to have some kind of place to work buy summer

[THE FEZ MAN]

how many weeks notice is appropriate for notification for vacation..... a, week, month? how about two months, written on two calenders, at the end of a month, were you have been staring at it for 2weeks, that you wrote on, over my name, that said "mike OFF", why would i spend last week busting my ass to clear the building, of all scheduled work and a quirky cash job. :arrrh::arrrh::arrrh:

how dare i take off while were open

[Cunt Smasher]

Just proves what a bad person you are.And bad employee. You aughta be ashamed of yourself,mister. And where do you get the balls to think you DESERVE a vacation? Jeebus,the nerve.

[THE FEZ MAN]

that is exactly what the guy i work with said. the lack of time off around our shop is a major stink point, we want to close between xmass and new year, its the slowest time of the year (next to now and post tax time) the owner (no kids no wife, no hobbies other than work) wont have it, what i really get a kick out of is that every day i get reminded that he's been doing it for 40 years but asks and the other guy and me every thing

[Cunt Smasher]

And 39 years since he learned anything new.

[HummerTuesdays]

You realize you're going to ruin your, "I worked X years without a vacation" streak, right? :)

[THE FEZ MAN]

i blew that last year when i took off a thursday and friday to go to las vegas

[HummerTuesdays]

A great big What the EF? to my boss. We get a fucking speech about how we need to step up & work as a team. Our AP person is absolutely swamped because of this new shitty software and I offer to give her a hand. The boss gets wind of this and tells me NOT to help. What the F?!?! Yeah, there are at least 2 people who are her back up & are supposed to be helping her out. Guess what? They aren't. And someone has to. If it takes an hour out of my day to get her up to speed, then why the fuck shouldn't I help?

Damned if I do, and damned if I don't, so it looks like I'll just sit here & post on Wackbag instead of helping out.

[THE FEZ MAN]

A great big What the EF? to my boss. We get a fucking speech about how we need to step up & work as a team. Our AP person is absolutely swamped because of this new shitty software and I offer to give her a hand. The boss gets wind of this and tells me NOT to help. What the F?!?! Yeah, there are at least 2 people who are her back up & are supposed to be helping her out. Guess what? They aren't. And someone has to. If it takes an hour out of my day to get her up to speed, then why the fuck shouldn't I help?

Damned if I do, and damned if I don't, so it looks like I'll just sit here & post on Wackbag instead of helping out.

aint it grand, i got ya beat though, one of the guys that i work with, (i work with 2 other people and the boss who doesnt count) is out with heart problems and most likely wont be back till after the first of the year, so now i have the work of two people to do + fix anything that my boss fucks up..... im really starting to dread going to work

[BCH]

I punched my first boss in the face. I worked there 2 and a half years after that.

[THE FEZ MAN]

I punched my first boss in the face. I worked there 2 and a half years after that.

my shrink keeps asking me why i dont run mine over or drop a car on him

[HummerTuesdays]

my shrink keeps asking me why i dont run mine over or drop a car on him

Because if you wait long enough, he'll probably do it himself? :icon_mrgr

[THE FEZ MAN]

Because if you wait long enough, he'll probably do it himself? :icon_mrgr


eggggzzzzzactly and i thought that he was going to drop a truck on him self all day...

[HummerTuesdays]

We have been battling to upgrade our software which is easily 5 years old and a few versions behind. The owners don't want to drop that kind of change on it. Instead, they want to buy (or maybe lease) a car worth six figures and renovate the office.

gee. thanks. I bet in January we'll be told there's no money for raises or bonuses, too.

[HummerTuesdays]

Fuck you to my fucking coworkers. I'm sick & tired of the stupid fucking questions. I get back from vacation yesterday & even though I've got my office door closed I keep getting interrupted for stupid shit.

Today, I don't get politely interruped, I get BARGED IN ON. I'm trying to catch up on what I missed as well get back into my routine so I've got my door shut AGAIN. I'm going through stuff and cc'ing the coworker that should have been covering me on some emails to a 3rd party. Said coworker DEMANDS that I sit with them because she has questions on the outstanding issues. WTF?!?!? First, I'm cc'ing her on the emails because it's saving me time. Why the fuck should I sit there & say, "AP needs to handle this, here's what the email should say. Now I'm going to email them." Fuck that shit. Then there were files that had NO comments or questions. Of course, I'm supposed to be fucking psychic and just know that there were questions. Um, sorry, but unless there's a note I don't have a fucking clue why shit is sitting in my folder.

Fuck this shit. I think it's time I sit & catch up on wackbag.

[RobeSoup&Tears]

BIG Fuck You to mine.

The asshole never...NEVER!!! looks out for you.

I know someone in HR and they'd tell me that I'd get a 4% standard raise but when my monthly payroll stub comes around, instead of the mail guy handing it to me my boss hands it to me telling me that he fought to get me as much as he could and I KNOW IT'S A LIE!!!!

He recently asked me to help him hide a mistake he made....that's one blue chip I'm gonna pull out of his ass one day....soon.

[Three Hole Puncher]

BIG Fuck You to mine.

The asshole never...NEVER!!! looks out for you.

I know someone in HR and they'd tell me that I'd get a 4% standard raise but when my monthly payroll stub comes around, instead of the mail guy handing it to me my boss hands it to me telling me that he fought to get me as much as he could and I KNOW IT'S A LIE!!!!

My old boss was famous for this... every year he'd try and take credit for Cost-of-Living increases.

He'd call a meeting and be like, "Well, I had a knock down drag out with corporate, and I managed to get you all a 3% raise! I had to fight them tooth and nail. It'll probably put a ding on my record with management, but I'm all about taking care of my people!"

We'd all be like... "But it says right here on our pay statements... 3% COLA (Cost Of Living Adjustment)."

And fatboy says... "Yeah, but the suits didn't even want to give you that!"

And somebody pointed out... "An annual 3% COLA is standard operating procedure. I've worked for this company for 15 years, and I've gotten it every year for the last fifteen years."

And fatboy goes... "Yeah... well... how about those free turkeys I got for you at Thanksgiving!"

The man was a buffoon.

[THE FEZ MAN]

wow its almost been a month......

the lateist:

i have needed a tool box in the worst way for at least two years, damn harbor freight......

anyway, i am sick and tired of needing a tool box and a place to weld, so i decided to build a welding/ fab station. i went to the supply house and harbor freight bought all the materials, and a small tool box. i show up at work on friday with the stuff, i start laying it out and my boss shows up, now instead of saying "cool idea, you need a tool box and we have needed a place to weld for years" i get; "what the fuck are you doing now? what the fuck do you need that for, why the fuck dont you just buy a tool box you cheep fuck." (he just bought the largest tool box that snap on makes, its empty and takes up half a bay and cost him 11,000$ the box he bought retails for 15k) and the coup de gras "where the fuck are you going to put it?"

now i dont even know were to start my defense to this barrage of idiocy, but i will give it a try, since i had an audience i felt the need to toss it back at him with gusto. i will give my response,

i just stared at him for a second, looked at his buddy that was standing there and replied, "if you did something around here other than bitch about every thing that every one else does maybe you would under stand the concept of what im trying to achieve. i need a toolbox, we (i point to the guy that i work with) need a suitable welding station, some thing that every shop that owns a welder has except us, and its on fucking wheels, i can put it were i need it, thats the idea of a cart with wheels, so i dont have to walk back and forth to my tool box 1000 times a day, and what i want cant be bought, so im going to make it because i can. OH and do your self a favor, if its in your way i would suggest moving it, because im building this thing so fucking heavy that if you run into it your only going to fuck up what ever your driving." i think that is what pissed me off the most about his little snide comments, its not that im cheep, its not that i dont need a tool box, its not that he has no clue about what goes on in a "real" body shop. its that he's pissed that i built something that he's going to have to move because EVERY WINTER all of the fleet must come inside every fucking night. he will put customer cars outside at night in inclement weather, just to make a parking space for the plow jeep so it doesnt get snow on it :arrrh:

[THE FEZ MAN]

today i spent about 4hours pulling the counter shaft and main drive gear out of our 34ton tow truck winch, someone ripped most of the teeth off the main drive gear, that now has to be special orderd from norway, i had to build a tool and figure out how to dissemble a winch that i have never worked on before, now i will admit that he did offer to take the truck to ohio and have it fixed, but, quite frankly other than being HUGE parts. the job is relatively simple and any one with basic mechanical skills could do the job.

so far ive been told: "you cant fix that" "you'll never get that 100' of 1 1/4" cable into that tire" "you'll never get that bearing out" then it was "that shaft is never going to come out" "your tool is never going to work, and your going to fuck up the shaft" after that it was just blaaa blaaa blaaa. so now what? the cable is in the tire and out of the way, the bearing is in a plastic bag, the shaft is in the freezer, and my new tool is in my box, oh yea, now im just waiting for the fucking gear...... im going to take photos of the gear, the teeth that were broken off (9 of 12) are the size of my fucking finger, how much abuse does it take to snap the teeth off a gear that is over 12" in diamater, and has to weigh at least 30lbs:arrrh:

[THE FEZ MAN]

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i145/mikefeathers/12507006.jpg

isn't that special

[THE FEZ MAN]

bump.........

all i have to say, is if it wasn't for "know it all mother fuckers" like me,


IGNORANT, BELLIGERENT, BULLY, PIECES OF SHIT LIKE YOU, WOULD DROWN IN THE RAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Cunt Smasher]

I been keeping up with this thread since you started,and I guess I've seen it with other people,but just don't understand how people don't fucking learn.How many times can you be right about stuff,he fucks stuff up,you get things done even if you gotta make it yourself? Jeebus,what a dolt your boss is.I've had people work for me that I knew were better at things than me,I tried my best to keep them happy.

[THE FEZ MAN]

it is the master slave mentality of most shop owners, that is why they are the owners, they cant work for any one else. that and most are so self centered that they dont care who they piss off, or shit on, they are right, they are the boss. the last guy that i worked for (and this one from time to time) used to love to take me out front and point at the sign and tell me to read it, after the a while my response was, "yea but who dug the hole and put the fucker up ass hole"... that put an end to it at my last shop. the major problem with this guy is he is mentally ill and a functionally illiterate, he inherited the building from his father and held a borderline monopoly for many years in our town, he also is smart in that he just pays people to do the things that he refuses to learn, quite frankly i feel sad for him

[roche]

I have also been following this thread and I have one question. If someone else has asked, forgive me. Why can't you go somewhere else?

[THE FEZ MAN]

i have my reasons for staying, one being that he can be the best guy in the world, its just the price is quite high, also the place is like my home, i grew up there for the most part, i went away and returned 15 years later, hoping that things had changed, they haven't. i should have left the first day, when the abuse started, but instead i stayed. now that ive been back there almost 5 years i dont really feel like leaving, what i really want is for him to retire, and just let me pay him rent, or lease to purchase, every day his friends tell him to but he refuses, what is really funny is that when he was out sick for 10 weeks we made more money than in the 6 months before that. it drives him crazy when problems arise i just take matters into my own hands , what really burns his ass is when i make money, ive tried to explain to him hundreds of times that i used to run my last shop, and i did it well. that's one of the things that got me fired from there, i was making money not doing the shitty work that i had been doing for years and collecting the money that was out on the street, we used to be like a fucking bank i dont think any one paid for there shit on time, and we did any shit no paying job that came in the door. i put an end to it, but in the process i tossed out some of our "best" ie worst, customers and didnt give two shits. that really pissed off my old owner.

[THE FEZ MAN]

bump.....


well fuck you to me......

for the first time in 20 years i painted something the wrong color..... worst part about it is i think it might be my fault..... oh lordy lordy i made a fucking mistake..... maybe if i didn't get bitched at constantly about every fucking thing, i would have not made a simple error.... buy doing what i thought i was supposed to do..... bah.

[Cunt Smasher]

But does it look good?

[THE FEZ MAN]

But does it look good?

well yea. as a matter of fact it looked great..... i repainted it the color that i was told to the other day, not only did the color not go with the truck, dick head decided to paint his lawn chairs right next to it, so it ended up with black overspray all over it.


the lateist addition too the saga.....

ive been working on and off on a 66nova (my camera broke so ive been short on photos)

He has done NOTHING to the car, other than bitch about it (its his fucking friend i just offered to help the guy out, he the owner, has done most of the work) the owner is in no hurry to get the car finished because of the extent of the job, and money, the owner recently was laid off from his job, stripped it down as far as you can go....... now i have paying work to do, yet im not working fast enough, he (my owner, i no longer call him a boss)

im "dragging it out"" im wasting time"......

well, if "dragging it out" means, sanding the car to make sure its straight then well yes i guess i am. if wasting time is doing paying customer work and his own bullshit, that well since he's been doing it for 44years should be capable of doing him self, well yes than yes i guess im wasing time. yesterday while i was primeing the car he had an audience to start yelling at me about how long its taking..... and how he's going to paint it.... i just blerted out "you cant paint a fucking lawn chair with out fucking it up why should (the owner) pay you to paint it 5 fucking times when i can just do it once.... of course he blamed the chromate primer that i use on bare aluminum for his paint problems not his painting and prep tecnique. NO ONE wants this car done more than me, im sooooooo fucking sick of listining to how im doing it "wrong" ie "right" what an ignorant beligerant jack ass

[Cunt Smasher]

Take a vacation week,but spend it at the shop so all the "experts" can show you how it's done.You seem to have more patience than me,I would put down my tools,say "show me or STFU."

[THE FEZ MAN]

see that's the kicker, he cant, but thinks he can, if you point out the short comings of his work, he blames someone else, the materials, ect....... and see's NO difference between the quality of the work of others and his own, its NEVER his fault. one of the major problems in my shop is the never ending cavalcade of "yes men" and "oh thats so cool" he takes credit for the work of others, or just pay's others to do the work that he is incapable of doing or even comprehending, no one ever works fast enough, yet he accepts complete garbage from others, but will point out a mistake or flaw in either my work or the work of others in the shop with vigor, yet if you point out one of his countless short falls he starts a fight. he's a spoiled child, if you dont do it "his way" your wrong, even if your results are far superior, he loves to berate and throw out sales people or technical advisers from our suppliers.

example, i was having issues with some materials (that he insisted on using) i asked my jobber to have the tech service representative from the company to come down and look at the problem and explain to me why it was happening. well..... my jobber shows up with the tech..... it was a woman... he threw them out before i even had a chance to talk to her, his response... "what the fuck does that cunt know about painting cars......"... hey asshole, i dont give a fuck if she wants to paint barbi dream houses, if she knows why the paint is fucking up that's all i fucking care about.... jack ass. its just insane, it doesn't bother the other guy that i work with, i find it insulting, to the point of rage, to have someone that is completely clueless telling me how to do something, ive been building my motorcycle for the last few months, i am building most of the tins myself, out of carbon fiber, making plugs, molds parts ect. completely rewired the bike repainted the frame basically took the entire thing apart and am rebuilding it every nut and bolt, my way completely custom.... all he has to say about it is that its taking too long and i will never finish........ i have tried to explain to him a thousand times that i am doing everything myself, and that i am buying NOTHING pre made if i can avoid it, he just doesn't seem to get it. i bring parts and molds in and he just walks away calling me an asshole. quite frankly its getting old, not just for me but every one, he's slowly putting us out of business buy being a belligerent asshole to every one that walks in the door. i think that he's going insane.

[Cunt Smasher]

Whole 'nother level of assholery when you can't admit your wrong,specially when the proof is right in front of you.Tough spot your in.I guess they hire any shithead off the street for those tech support thingys,huh.Good thing he threw them out.Waste of time.

[THE FEZ MAN]

after he thew her out, i just looked at him and said "you know that precious Centari that you love so fucking much? Yea, a good friend of mine was part of the development team for that in the 70's while SHE was an intern, for Du Pont as a matter of fact SHE..... designed the packaging for the hardeners..... oh and buy packaging i mean the solvents that suspend the polyisocyanide catalyst, not the fucking can jackass"

(oh and i know you were being sarcastic, i just love to tell that story)

the other day he asked me if i could make doors for one of our tow truck body's out of carbon fiber... i said yes, of course i can, but your going to pay me 300$ a piece for them not a penny less. oh and it would take at least a week if not two...... that was the end of that

[gleet]

Like I said before, there is a reason tool boxes have handles. Grab it and go.

[THE FEZ MAN]

if i leave he wins.

[4.6CrownVic]

put poo in his office

[gleet]

And if you stay, what do you win?

[THE FEZ MAN]

an ulcer, a drinking problem, and a weekly visit to a shrink

[THE FEZ MAN]

i feel like a total tool...... he's firing/laying off my helper tomorrow, and i haven't told the poor kid...... fucker was bitching at me the other day (i call it beating me) about the kid to make me agree to firing him, i do not agree with the firing, but im not arguing with him about it, because if i do im going to get a beating every time that the kid doesn't kiss his ass or step and fetch for him.... its gotten so bad that we call the kid "toby" as a roots reference to how boss man treats him. its kind of sad, the kid is a tad lazy but i cant completely blame him, he just cant do anything right in my bosses eyes, but what the kid doesn't understand is that no one does anything right

[gleet]

I once worked with a kid who was fresh out of school and was a lazy dumb fuckup. The boss told me the kid was out the door at the end of the day. He mentioned to the kid to get to work that morning. Kid came to me bitching that he had been working so hard these past 4 weeks, he thought he really needed some vacation and might go ask for some. I said I totally agree, go ask now. He didn't make it til afternoon. Boss and I had a laugh later.

[weeniewawa]

I once worked with a kid who was fresh out of school and was a lazy dumb fuckup. The boss told me the kid was out the door at the end of the day. He mentioned to the kid to get to work that morning. Kid came to me bitching that he had been working so hard these past 4 weeks, he thought he really needed some vacation and might go ask for some. I said I totally agree, go ask now. He didn't make it til afternoon. Boss and I had a laugh later.

does he work for the government now or XM?

[gleet]

does he work for the government now or XM?

No idea. He did try out to be a fireman but couldn't lift the ladder. He saw Karate Kid a hundred times. He showed me a hold where he twisted my wrist or something, promised it would drop anyone to their knees. It didn't hurt so I didn't drop. Then our lives drifted apart.

[THE FEZ MAN]

oh trust me ive fired other people in the past, but i do kind of like this kid and i think that after a year or two he could be a productive member of our "team" (oh do i hate that term) to be like me and to be part of my "team" (yick) it takes time, ive had several kids over the years fall right into line and work out great (till the "owner" got pissed and fired them or forced them out when it was time to pay them more) hey this is my "fuck you boss" thread..... and well fuck you boss. your going to have to hire some other kunta kinta to wash your tow trucks because im not going to do it any fucking more

[stevethrower]

oh trust me ive fired other people in the past, but i do kind of like this kid and i think that after a year or two he could be a productive member of our "team" (oh do i hate that term) to be like me and to be part of my "team" (yick) it takes time, ive had several kids over the years fall right into line and work out great (till the "owner" got pissed and fired them or forced them out when it was time to pay them more) hey this is my "fuck you boss" thread..... and well fuck you boss. your going to have to hire some other kunta kinta to wash your tow trucks because im not going to do it any fucking more

Team is bad... but when the company I was working for got bought the second time in two years... and I started hearing "synergy" I knew that place was going right into the shitter...

[THE FEZ MAN]

HA! the fucking pussy didn't have the balls to fire the kid..... HA HA fucking pussy, i wont do it he's going to have to man up and either let the kid go OR QUIT FUCKING BITCHING ABOUT HIM!!!!!!

[HummerTuesdays]

FU to my boss. Nothing I ever do is right. Even when I hand in a report that ties, I'm told I should have run a different report as support. I'm told "don't transpose numbers in the file." Well no fucking shit. But when you make a mistake, it's OK because you're only human. Go fuck yourself. Your just as condescending as the people you bitch about. I wish I knew I'd be reporting to you before I took the job.

[Debbie1125]

My boss was a big pain in the ass today (and working from home). E-mails every 15 minutes about the previous month's production reports. I didn't get a damn thing done this morning and even worse, I didn't get to hear but 5 minutes of O&A.

[THE FEZ MAN]

tps reports????


oh and thanks for bumping this thread.. but i will have to say that my life has become just a tad more bearable at work... my boss decided to take the advise of his doctor and is now on adavan and lexipro!!!! yea better living through modern chemistry, now i just have to keep an eye on him to make sure he doesn't fall asleep at his desk, fall over and hurt the desk