My boss is, sometimes, a big meanie jerk.

[pen_grunt]

I already expounded on this in gwangi's journal, but I think it's worth widely sharing. For people utterly sick of Harry Potter, read no further. Don't worry, I don't do spoilers.

My boss burst into my office yesterday, announced that he had downloaded the Harry Potter book from the internet, and proceeded to tell me 3 major spoilers. Just out of the blue. Didn't ask if I WANTED to hear them, he just felt compelled to share them with me.

I'm not even that finicky about the book being spoiled since a majority of the pleasurable experience for me is in the reading and the journey--but I kinda wanted to kick him in the nuts.

He looked SO smug and superior. In this instance his need to do this is indicative of a generic need to be a jerk sometimes. My boss doesn't even (and won't ever) read the HP books. So he did it JUST because he thought it would bother people, not out of excitement or a desire to discuss the book or connect with its readers. He just loved the idea of having that knowledge and spoiling the ending for everyone else. He took pleasure in the fact that he knew how it all ended before everyone else. I repeat: He hasn't even read the HP books!

What a sadistic fuck.

I think I might put decaf in the coffee pot at work just to mess with him.

Comments

[irishsbuffy.livejournal.com]

Dont take too much of what he says as truth. (not that your boss is a liar) but I have read a number of spoilers and all of them have had different endings. People are silly.

Give him decaf for doing that

[pen-grunt.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm not particularly worried about it--though he did show me the six-hundred-and-some page PDF that he downloaded...which looks pretty legit.

Either that, or someone went through a HELL of a lot of work (hundreds of pages worth) to make a story that could pass as a HP book...just to mess with people.

[irishsbuffy.livejournal.com]

He deserves decaf for life for that... that sucks ass

[lisa-e-is-me.livejournal.com]

Wow, that was super vile of him. I don't get why some people choose to act like an asshat simply because they can. And further, why are those people usually the ones that the better people end up working for? Not fair.

[pen-grunt.livejournal.com]

Ugh, I know. This particular boss is probably...hmm...65% good and 35% evil, if I had to break it down like that. There's not really a sorta-good-sometimes part with him, he runs hot and cold. When he is good, he is really, really good. When he is bad he is horrid...just like the nursery rhyme.

This was a particularly jerkish thing for him to do. I've noticed the general patterns of bosses tending to be jerks--and I think you kinda have to be a little bit of a jerk (or self-centered) to really advance in a company sometimes--or even to come off as "the boss". Just one of the reasons that I'm not all that interested in being anyone's boss.

[irishinmn.livejournal.com]

Screw decaf .....

Go with extra strength laxatives .....

[gwangi.livejournal.com]

So is gloomchen right about the lameness of the spoilers? Because if so, I'll be a lot less uptight about it. I just don't want a book 6 type thing again.

[pen-grunt.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they're pretty tame spoilers...

They're not anything unexpected, at any rate.