Manager Nightmare

THE boss from hell was mine until I walked out a few weeks ago. He is the General Manager of a retail esbablishment. One day as the store room was being cleaned and things being tossed into the dumpster I noticed a box of beautiful little dressed teddy bears that was going to be trashed. I had recently spent alot of time in the neonatal intensive care unit at the hospital before my baby nephew passed away. I knew that the hospital could use these bears and the clothes would just fit preemie babies that had died. I asked my boss if we could donate them to the hospital, he replied curtly "no" and went into his office. I thought about it for a while and went in behind him. I pleaded, if we can't donate the bears can I please just have the clothes off of them, I offered to deliver them myself anonymously so no one would know where they came from. His reply was " This is not a charity organization, the go into the dumpster"
I thank GOD every day that I am finaly away from that little dictator.

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Walk the Planks (08/28/2005) During January of 1987, I was working at a 7-11 convenience store. The store had a beautiful display of teddy-bear Christmas paper with bows and ribbons that matched. It was time to take the Christmas display down and get rid of the leftover wrap and accessories. The four employees that were working that night, myself included, wanted to take the wrapping paper and accessories home to personally use the following year. Of course, we weren't allowed to. The assistant manager, who was the manager-type person on that night, told us that she had to throw the wrapping paper and everything else that went with the paper in the dumpster; she said she could lose her job if she just let us take it, that the store would consider that stealing. It had to be written off and thrown out. The dumpster was outside, and the assistant manager said, "I'll leave this stuff outside of the dumpster. On your cigarette breaks or when you leave work tonight, if you're going to take any of it, take it. Don't bring it back into the store, though. I don't want to know what happens with it." Needless to say, the wrapping paper and accessories were equally divided between the four of us that were on that night. The assistant manager knew that we were taking it, but she was, at least, nice enough to understand and to give us that. I can't believe the jerk you worked for, who wouldn't even do something like that for hospital charity! yesfan (11/26/2005) You don’t have to ask for things that are in the Dumpster (or set next to the Dumpster). They are yours for the taking! Don’t bother asking Ebenezer Scrooge for a piece of coal.