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10 hours ago
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Why?
It's a bit distressing and depressing but I have come in this morning to discover that The Boss has borrowed my shiny new rubber, drawn all over it with a blue pen and broken it in half. I don't know just why she has done this but it feels like some sort of threat.
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If that's the rubber that was half of the shiny "new accounts system", maybe she felt that the "new accounts system" needed to be compartmentalised, but then she got confused as to why breaking a rubber in two would be helpful, and that's her dramatic rendering of the Blue Screen of Death?
ReplyDeleteI don't know whether to be more worried that this occured to me immediately upon reading your post, as though it were simple common sense, or that my own "new accounts system" is mainly comprised of those mini Post-It notes stuck into a filofax - I mean, bits of paper that fall off, what could POSSIBLY go wrong....
Hmmm.. I was about to call shenanigans pointing out it can't possibly be the same rubber as no one can rub both ends down and inflict this much damage over just one evening/morning...
ReplyDelete..but then I remembered who we're dealing with...
I have to wonder how many dozens of pages of accounts The Boss must have erased in order to have eroded the rubber by that amount (comparing it with the previous picture).
ReplyDeleteIf you do go Sage, be careful which you go for - you might end up longing for a return to "the book".
Rats! Anonymous beat me to it.
ReplyDeleteHey, maybe she didn't do that damage at all - maybe your "new accounts system" was hacked?!!
ReplyDeleteHang on, you guys are onto something here. I think the woman has stolen my Shiny New Rubber and replaced it with this one. It's a sign of how far gone my mental state is that I'm now mentally re-enacting that scene from A Few Good Men.
ReplyDeleteI WANT THE TRUTH!
Either that or she stayed here late last night furiously rubbing the thing. Either way I'm not happy.
There's no way that's the same rubber - I know this not from the degree to which it's been rubbed away, but from the way the ink has soaked in and faded (especially visible on the piece on the left).
ReplyDeleteI know what I'm talking about: YEARS of sitting in class drawing on rubbers with a blue ballpoint pen has made me a rubber forensics expert. I also think it may have been scratched with the point of a compass (the horizontal lines on the piece on the left), and judging from the way that those scratches have become slightly dirty, I would say that they were made some time ago.
She is fucking with you, in her own unique way. For whatever reason, she's taken away your nice brand new rubber and replaced it with that hacked up, scribbled on piece of shit.
Personally, I would be incandescent with rage if my boss did this to me. I would be beside myself. So I think you should confront her and ask her what happened. Preferably with tears in your eyes. You need to take your dealings with her to the next level.
Synchronicity there, lookatmystuff! :D
ReplyDeleteYou HAVE to confront her.
ReplyDeleteYou HAVE to shout "I WANT THE TRUTH" and if she shouts back "YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!" - my God. I will be delirious with joy for a long, long time.
In response to Edward, don't go Sage - go Quickbooks or MYOB. Sage, for your purposes, would be like swatting a fly with the Boss.
ReplyDeleteI think the rubber is a 'present', like my cat likes to leave. When she starts leaving dead rats, worry.
Ok so I may have been on to something with the shenanigans but selfishly it makes me feel so much better now that the pencil and rubber in the new accounting system match. I can stop the malfunction in my brain now..
ReplyDelete..my god, she's affecting us all! Love it.
She has obviously been doing some reading about accounts and realised that double-entry bookkeeping is the standard, so obviously you will need two rubbers.
ReplyDeletePersonally, my (somewhat childish) response to such an act, would be to locate the original shiny new eraser on her desk when she was next out for lunch, and swap them back. Then sit at my desk boldly, openly, and with an air of innocence, using my nice new shiny eraser ...
ReplyDeleteArrrrrrggggghhhh I don't know how you are not dead with frustration
ReplyDeleteI would love to be the management consultant employed by your overlords after the 10+2 meeting. I have a sneeking suspicion that I would find the pair of you barking mad (in different ways) and I would recommend a sandpit and water toys in the office. Oh and the banning of all stationery. However, gold stars and catching people doing things right will be in operation.
ReplyDeleteI would lose it. Godspeed, SK, Godspeed.
ReplyDeleteShe gave you the new accounts system yesterday - and now she's decommissioned the old accounts system. Simples.
ReplyDeleteFight fire with fire!
ReplyDeletePetty revenge is the aim....
-Break up all the staples in the stapler so it jams alot.
-Snap the leads of all the stolen argos pencils but replace them so its only noticed when you try to use them.
-subtly slice through rolls of selotape so it keeps breaking when you try to use it.
-swap the label on the black ink pad with the label on the red ink pad.
-Deliver an uppercut to the base of her nose driving cartilidge through her frontal lobes.
These small minded petty act will have you feeling better in no time.
now it matches the pencil. she's OCD. there's no other sane explanation.
ReplyDeleteit's a good deal we don't know where to send Care Packages or you'd be up to your fuzzy bits in shiny new rubbers and pencils!
ReplyDeleteI shead a tear of halarious despair reading the last entries.
ReplyDeleteOh, but The Boss is off tomorrow, y'see. JUSTICE SHALL BE DONE.
ReplyDeleteIs it at all related to the ritual of the bin?
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