While stories about Bob keep us amused, we do realize that many folks out there have equally intolerable managers, with equally bizarre excuses for not showing up to work. So we invite you to submit your “Where is Bob?” story.
Simply email your tale of misery to submit.whereisbob@gmail.com. And as long as we are mutually anonymous, there is no need to let facts get in the way of a good story. We promise to publish the best absentee manager tales, while keeping your identity secret.
Judging by this string of comments on the Reddit submission of your blog…
http://www.reddit.com/comments/6vtcp/tales_of_an_absentee_manager/c05084f
…you might want to go to further lengths to disguise your coworkers and place of employment, lest you get Dooced or one of your coworkers does. Please don’t take it down entirely, as it’s an entertaining read!
start completely ignoring him when he comes in, then start locking him out of the office.
move his furniture around slightly, get him a subscription to some girly mag and have it sent to his office.
rig up is email so it all gets sent back to him “undeliverable”
you really need to get rid of this guy asap, before he goes postal on you, although i really enjoyed the stories.
M former boss… would release gas standing behind a secretary and if we dared say anything he would just say….”its natural”.. ….Good times.
Farts up the server room during the day because he thinks it’s a safe place to do it (not too many people go in there). One day the IT guy goes into the server room and smells the stench. He thinks that there’s a dead rat is in the wall. Calls the exterminator, who tears the sheetrock apart, but can’t find the dead rat. We’re all standing around watching them tear apart the server room when the manager walks in. One of the guys says, “They’re looking for your fart.” The exterminator hears this and shakes his head. He insists there’s a dead rat in the wall. No one could possibly produce this odor. Never does find a rat though.
We all know the truth…
While I find your writing style to be very entertaining, Bob is really not nearly as bad as my coworkers. You have inspired me to try my hand at writing my own tale. I also work for BPU (Biggest Public University). :) The people I work with make Bob look like upper middle management material. I’m a technical grunt in a 4 person department, and I have 4 levels of management to report to… Just to give you a taste…
Where is Bob?