Comment preview: It sounds like *you* are the toxic one. - First off, you're a receptionist. You aren't qualified to speak on what proper billing is, how the paperwork needs to be filled out, or regulations about masseuses. You're a receptionist. - You incorrectly file for ....

Comment preview: At an old job we had a buggy timesheet system that would randomly screw up or just plain not submit people's time. Most people would try to figure out the issue, but boss reacted by threatening several times to flat out not pay people if their timesheets w ....

Comment preview: I would send a stern email to both the receptionist and your boss and, without specifically pointing the finger at the receptionist, say something along the lines of: "Good Morning [Name] and [Name], I was disappointed to learn this morning that [Name] be ....

Comment preview: I'm going through this right now. I was hired as an office manager and specifically told that I was NOT the receptionist, and that if we needed one, we would hire one. My office is right across from the (empty) reception desk because we don't need a recept ....

Comment preview: It sucks, doesn't it? At one of my past jobs I was about 5 minutes late punching in once (it was winter and my car didn't want to start so I got there late) and the boss hauled me into her office to give me a warning about being late. And if I called in si ....

Comment preview: This is all I hear * Receptionist one - I hate you because you're black * Tall designer - I hate you because you're tall * Woman in suite 19I - I hate you because you're fat * Woman in accounting - I hate you because you won't fuck me * Woman in sales - I ....

Comment preview: It's not very interesting. My boss held a company meeting and most of his complaints were that we receptionists were missing things here and there in the (and I'm not exaggerating) 10 excel spreadsheets that ask for much of the same information, formatted ....

Comment preview: There was one guy I worked with at a company who was wound tighter than a grandfather clock and was an enormous misogynist, holier than thou prick to boot. He was also pretty damn smart and mostly good at his job which is why he was still around. We were ....

Comment preview: But that's not what's happening - it's what the boss *says* is happening. What's really happening is that the boss has an over-performing employee who is due for review in the middle of a bad economy, and so he has to make up a scenario in which the employ ....

Comment preview: I had a boss who was probably a pretty sharp, bright guy when he was younger, but by the time I was working for him he was losing it a bit. He bought a mannequin to sit on reception next to our receptionist. He then dressed this mannequin in the receptioni ....

Comment preview: I was a receptionist and I always tried to be polite... the worst part about my old work place was how people treated me. The receptionist desk was always understaffed. There was one person for every ten people and that's impossible if you want your office ....

Comment preview: I'm the IT Director for a group of auto dealerships, but I started as a receptionist at one of them. The Office Manager/Controller was the direct supervisor for the receptionists, and ever since I moved up (I make more money than her) she frequently "forge ....

Comment preview: This happened to me once. Someone told me there was an opening in my department, they saw it on Craiglist. I look and it is my exact position, for 1.5x what they are paying me. I applied, and in my cover letter I explained how my 5 years at the company ....

Comment preview: Fun little story. At my old job my asshole boss was taking a shit 2 stalls over from me. I recognized his shoes. I had just taken a shit large enough to fill a construction hard hat. The toilet plugged and when I flushed, it started pouring out and acro ....

Comment preview: Dickish, and lost credibility with "bosses son" and hitting on the "pretty girl in writing dept". But... I once worked at a company where the receptionist did two things that annoyed the crap out of me: 1) She would start speaking before she actually answ ....

Comment preview: So Sarah is abusive for asking you to do your job? You are the receptionist, and everything you described is perfectly within the limits of what a receptionist would be asked to do. I can just imagine the massive eyeroll your boss was holding in when you c ....

Comment preview: Ok, Alan Jackson story. I was taking an order to a place I went multiple times a day sometimes. I dealt with in my capacity as manager and also went to a bunch of places like this for so long that I got to be pretty good friends with some of the employees ....

Comment preview: At my last job, I had a new senior manager hired to run my division and our sister division. After working with him for 6 months, I had reached my breaking point. He would call at 5:01 to see if I was still there; he would email me at 1 AM (I had a company ....

Comment preview: Yep. This needs to be #1 comment. I lost my job recently due to something absolutely insane they did to me. I'm 2 months into a new job, and I have not told anyone what happened (and my boss is actually a casual friend of mine; that's how I found the job). ....

Comment preview: Just this weekend, my 65 year old uncle was telling me about the last time he had to look for a job. He was a bookkeeper at a car dealership for 30 years, and then the dealership closed down 7 years ago. He was telling me that he went to another dealership ....

Comment preview: I once had a temp job where I was really there to cover the receptionists breaks and do admin/mail the rest of the time. I had no clue what to do on reception aside from transfer calls so if it was any harder than that, I'd tell them to call back in an hou ....

Comment preview: Some kids took a shit in our stairwell and our boss went around all morning questioning people like some kind of detective. Finally when it got to me I told him that pretty much everyone in the office agreed that the kids that were told not to skateboard i ....

Comment preview: My girlfriend has two jobs... teaches at the university she's currently enrolled in a grad program and tutors kids at a tutoring center. At the tutoring center there's a guy there who also tutors. I forgot his name, but he's some guy that really has the h ....

Comment preview: Damn, man. Mazel tov. Wish I could work where you do. Last place I worked went something like this: Him: You're by far our most advanced site tech. You need to stop coming up with solutions for the clients without billing them extra. In fact, just stop, be ....

Comment preview: As an employee, i can say that I did this in the early 2000's and it worked amidst a ton of other layoffs at the old company i worked for. I got to stay! Worth it. EDIT: I am a woman, my boss was a man. I was in my (very) early 20's, he was in his late 20' ....