ummmmmm....I don't think this is acceptable

[cookiepuss]

My boss is leaving again for another useless trip and I reminded him yesterday to have our paychecks overnighted to us today for him to sign...and he was like why? (we get paid on the 1st and the 15th) I said ummmmm...cause the 1st is on thurday and if they send them regular you won't be able to sign them and we won't get paid until the 5th. and he said "oh well that would be ok, I can just pay you on the 5th" to which I replied "I'm sorry that won't work for me, my rent is due no later than the 4th and I'll get a penalty, I'm sorry but I don't have alot left over from my checks month to month and I need be paid ontime" ok. fine.

Today, he signs the checks and tells me that I need to open and account and start a "slush fund" just in case he's ever out of town and can't pay me on time. I said, "well I guess, but I think with a little forward planning we can avoid situations where we would get paid late." Then he proceeded to go on and on about how it might happen and how he can't have staff with financial problems because he knew advisors who got into trouble for it...blah blah...and i said "wait a minute...you mean because the staff was stealing/embezzleing money? And you think I would do that? that's reduiculous, and you know I'd never do that!" He said he knew I wouldn't but he just had to put that out there blah, blah...and the conversation ended with me saying: "you know what, I'm sorry but my personal finances need to be just that personal."

i mean WTF? is it too much to ask to be paid on time? I've had plenty of traveling bosses who made sure I got paid even if they were out of town.
second: I don't have financial problems, I have fucking bills to pay you rich cunt!
third: after working here for six months if he doesn't have enough sense of my character to know that i wouldn't steal from the company..well then I just don't know what to say. to even give that example was insulting, even if he didn't mean to imply that I would stoop to that level.

:mad: :(

[hpdrifter]

I think he is legally required to pay you on time. It seems like he should be. I think he deserves the douchebag of the week award.

[cookiepuss]

he's sort of the douchebag of the century, unfortunately. Were talking about a man who complained to the office landloard that there were too many boats in the parking lot when the our office building is loacted in a MARINA building on the WATER. (p.s. they even make the parking spots realllll long to accomodate....get this...trailers with boats) It doesn't get more douchebag than that. :rolleyes:

[hpdrifter]

Dude, what a tool. I'm sorry he's such an idiot. It can suck working for someone like that. But seriously, you should look into legal action if he's going to give you crap about it.

[cookiepuss]

I'm gonna seriously be looking for another job real soon, like today. There's no doubt he's an idiot, I mean the boats in the marina parking lot story is the tip of the iceberg. There are a great many things he is cluelss about and laws are just one of them.

the one thing I will say that is an advantage of a dumb boss is that in the last 6 months I've got him to almost double my pay from what he brought me on at.(y) But if he's going to start being unreliable about paying me that money on schedule then there is no point in sticking around here. And I don't like him making calls/judgements about my personal life and finances. I don't believe in the whole work/familly "I got your back" thing that employers try to pull on you. At the end of the day, the profits dictate your job security and I don't care how chummy you are with your boss they will fire you in a heartbeat if they have to. business is business and frineds are friends; it's very rare that someone is truly both.

sucks. I would consider looking into leagl action if it comes to that, but hopefully I'll leave before things get that bad. Until then I'll continue to have some really great douchebag boss stories for ya.....
like the time he had an email get returned to him and he printed it out and asked me to re-type it and send it again. :rolleyes: he doesn't know what the forward button is (or how to copy and paste) I guess...Oh or today I had to show him where his "sent" folder is in outlook. :cool:

[hpdrifter]

I'm gonna seriously be looking for another job real soon, like today. There's no doubt he's an idiot, I mean the boats in the marina parking lot story is the tip of the iceberg. There are a great many things he is cluelss about and laws are just one of them.

the one thing I will say that is an advantage of a dumb boss is that in the last 6 months I've got him to almost double my pay from what he brought me on at.(y) But if he's going to start being unreliable about paying me that money on schedule then there is no point in sticking around here. And I don't like him making calls/judgements about my personal life and finances. I don't believe in the whole work/familly "I got your back" thing that employers try to pull on you. At the end of the day, the profits dictate your job security and I don't care how chummy you are with your boss they will fire you in a heartbeat if they have to. business is business and frineds are friends; it's very rare that someone is truly both.

sucks. I would consider looking into leagl action if it comes to that, but hopefully I'll leave before things get that bad. Until then I'll continue to have some really great douchebag boss stories for ya.....
like the time he had an email get returned to him and he printed it out and asked me to re-type it and send it again. :rolleyes: he doesn't know what the forward button is (or how to copy and paste) I guess...Oh or today I had to show him where his "sent" folder is in outlook. :cool:

Dude, is he an old geezer or something? How do people like that make it to the level where they are someone's boss? How does someone that stupid even survive to this point in their life?

[cookiepuss]

Dude, is he an old geezer or something? How do people like that make it to the level where they are someone's boss? How does someone that stupid even survive to this point in their life?

I wish I knew. He's not even a geezer though that would make things easier to explain, he's in his mid-40's maybe even a little younger. I have no idea how he got to where he is today, it's mindboggling.

What's really frigtening is that people give him hundreds of thousands of dollars to invest. that's his fucking job, to handle rich people's money and he can barely send a email. Somehow he manages to get these folks a 15% rate of return, but he thinks logging out of a program means shutting down the whole computer. :confused:

[like2_drink]

cookiepuss, i think i understand the situation from what i read, and screw your boss, but your threads are too long for me haha :D

[Loppfessor]

Isn't there any way you can set up some sort of direct deposit that comes automatically out of the company's account into your own?

[jaymasterfunk]

15% return ain't half bad, I suppose. How 'bout suggesting he pays you 15% interest whenever he's late with the pay checks?

Too bad you're so damn honest. Because a boss as clueless as that has a lot of potential for people who could be morally deviant enough to bend some rules.......... :cool:

[ms.peachy]

Isn't there any way you can set up some sort of direct deposit that comes automatically out of the company's account into your own?
Yeah, exactly. There is no reason in the modern world why your or anyone else's pay hould be held up by his schedule. If he can't be arsed to set up a system himself, he could always outsource to a payroll service.

[MagicCowboy]

I clicked the wrong thread, read this one and thought to myself: "Hmm, so did the boss then piss on cookiepuss' door?"

Geez, I'm an idiot.

[cookiepuss]

Isn't there any way you can set up some sort of direct deposit that comes automatically out of the company's account into your own?

I have already thought of this...
I'm calling the company that does our checks to find out if they also do direct deposit. If they do, I'll try presenting that to my boss but I'm sure he'll have some assnine (sp?) reason why he doesn't want to do it that way. which is fine I guess because I really shouldn't stay at this job and his being difficult will keep me inspired to find something new.