Ok more bla for today

Doesn't seem to be my week I guess.

This workplace is petty.

Ok there are 3 bosses and handbagbossman (from now on referred to as hbbm). The two bosses are "my" bosses and the third is not my boss (different co/department). Hbbm WAS a boss but now he's just an "old fart" to quote his daughter.

The notmyboss dude is rude and spoilt and all that jazz... not particularly pleasant and just not nice. None of his secretaries last very long cos he makes them crazy. The latest one left for the UK for a month, and would let him know after the month whether she's coming back or not, apparently she wanted to resign but he didn't want her to. Anyway, so she arrives here this morning to see him at 9, and she tells me he saw her as she was coming to the building cos he was coming to the building ahead of her. He told me when he got in "if X comes, tell her to wait in the boardroom, I've booked it for 9". So anyway, she comes in a little after he does and we chat a little, ppl passing in the reception area chat to her and stuff and cos someone else was still busy in the boardroom (before 9) I didn't phone him, and besides he knows she's coming at 9 (and usually he gallops downstairs to shit on people who haven't booked the boardroom and encroach on his timeslot). So anyway, he doesn't come down and colleague asks "did you phone him... blabla" and X says "nah don't bother... he saw me etc..." and she seemed miffed cos he generally is rude and it's "expected" and it just is so typical that he didn't come down and she wasn't happy with him anyway and stuff blablablabla. So then he phones downstairs and asks me whether she's there and then craps on me basically for not phoning him.

ANYWAY, it was a VERY brief meeting, not a cheerful one I guess - seems she's back in SA but not back at this co.

He probably rushed upstairs to rubbish me to the other boss/es... which isn't out of the ordinary here.

Now a short while ago, a (new) colleague comes in with a cake - it's his bday and he needs the cake cut... one cake (not a complete cake, it's already had slices taken out of it) cut into 19 slices. Tealady's off sick and typist lady says 'nuh-uh' she's not going to attempt that so I have to. She listens to the phone until hbbm comes running downstairs and exclaims that he needs typist lady like NOW and stemmie must sit at the phone. Stemmie is the temp who has been standing in for me on and off, when I was in hospital, when I was in Aus, when I was off sick with glandular fever, etc but left at the beginning of the month I think. But now she's back with the "other" dept. So anyway, typist isn't able to come to the phone, so I phone upstairs for stemmie to come down cos it's like 5mins nothing hectic, just so that I can cut carefully and not have to run and answer the phone with chocolatey fingers etc. So the lady (that boss's wife) says no, that boss has said they've employed stemmie for the month and I must find someone else to do it.

CHARMING.

5 fucking minutes, jees. Like, whatever.

PETTINESS. Fuck you, man. Shit place.