Today, I got a heads-up that my boss suffered a death in the family, but was coming into work anyway. I thought he'd be depressed, but it seems he deals with grief with anger instead. I found that out when he yelled at me, threatening to rip my spine out my ass over a typo I made in a report. FML
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Autumn: Leaves and Laughter
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Today, at my new job at a funeral home, my boss threatened to fire me if I didn't "lighten the hell up" while dealing with our grieving clients. FML
Today, I called into work because of a family emergency. My boss was understanding; my coworker? He tore me a new one because his wife wanted him to take the day off, which he didn't because it was going to be a tough day at work. He also threatened to find a way he could get me fired. FML
Today, my spineless shitwhip of a boss made me go fire a notoriously abusive employee. I had to act like firing him was my decision, even though I'm the secretary. Now I get to live in constant fear that the guy was serious when he threatened to find out where I live and kill me. FML
Today, I found out my boss wrote me up because he heard me crying on the phone, and that it was unprofessional. I was talking to my sister, who was telling that me my father had died. Three weeks ago, he was crying about his dog breaking his leg. FML
Today, my boss announced he will be taking bereavement leave due to his father passing away. For some reason I’ll never understand, I got the urge to laugh. I tried so hard to hold it in but it was very obvious. If looks could kill, I wouldn’t be able to write this. FML
Today, I went to deliver some reports to my boss in his office. He was facing away from me and ranting about his "useless employees", so I slipped in and waited for him to put the phone down. Turns out he was talking to himself. When he noticed me, he bitched me out and threatened to fire me. FML
Today, I was working when I delivered the standard "Hello, how are you?" to a customer. He took the opportunity to tell me about his deceased wife, his estranged children, and his anal tearing. After a while, I tried to help someone else, and he complained to my manager. I was written up. FML
Today, my boss mistakenly drunk-texted me and was talking shit about me. FML
Today, I had a major falling out with my best friend. Angry, I sent a short text message to him explaining how I felt. I soon noticed I'd accidentally texted "I'm going to fucking kill you, asshole." to my boss instead. I'm still waiting on a reply. FML
Today, my boss came into the office asked how I was doing and seemed totally normal and happy, then said, "I have to let you go. I heard some bad things about you." He wouldn't tell me what he heard, or from whom. FML
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Feklfekl2222 32
All you can do is grimace and bear it, it's an emotionally charged time for your boss, and he's bound to settle down eventually. Express your sympathies and try to move past it I guess
NomeDMF 17
He needs a healthier way to vent. A death in a family can always be a horrible thing to go through but regardless, he shouldn't take it out on you or other employees.
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Feklfekl2222 32
All you can do is grimace and bear it, it's an emotionally charged time for your boss, and he's bound to settle down eventually. Express your sympathies and try to move past it I guess
CFB_FRS 27
That may be so, but verbal abuse in the workplace is never acceptable.
Feklfekl2222 32
However you can cut your boss some slack if they've just had a death in the family, it's pretty basic human decency
ssnow_fml 20
I would pay to watch this
StickyPickles 33
As I always say, depression is merely anger lacking enthusiasm. Go ahead bury me
tarlax 11
I was pretty indifferent until that rather pathetic "go ahead and bury me". You sound like you have crushing self-esteem issues. Or just a huge chip on your shoulder.
NomeDMF 17
He needs a healthier way to vent. A death in a family can always be a horrible thing to go through but regardless, he shouldn't take it out on you or other employees.
logic_truth 9
Aww. I feel for both of y'all. I guess that's his way of dealing with grief. Just lay low for awhile and try to not get on his bad side even when it's not your fault. He'll get better and past this phase. Chins up for both yall!!! Good luck!!
feven 32
People grieve in different ways. I know someone who laughs when they're really sad.
WOTAN1488 24
Clearly YDI, OP.
Jashie 18
Guys I think that was sarcasm. I could, of course, be wrong...
more4me 27
Probaby but didn't come through.
katachristic 19
Yeah people grieve in different ways but that doesn't make physical threats any less wrong or illegal.
Tripartita 44
I hope your boss finds healthier ways to deal with his grief. Personally, I take the old fashioned walk-along-the-side-of-the-road-and-shoot-BBs-at-cars approach. But I've heard going to the park and flicking kids on the back of their ears then looking away and whistling works for some people, too.
__Kaia__ 12
Huh. I've never heard about flicking kids on the back of their. ears. I'll have to try it. Although I have always preferred tripping little old ladies in public when they least expect it.
Mathalamus 24
Well. That's hostile. Anger is one of the valid ways of dealing with a death, but there could be better methods for him. Also, ripping out your spine from the ass sounds hilariously painful.