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January 24, 2007
David Brent 2.0, or You Think You Have Troubles at Work?
Sexism, sleeping with superiors, all-day porn ... someone has questions for Ask Metafilter about his David Brent 2.0-ish boss:How do I deal with the most unprofessional and innapropriate boss? I'm about 7 months into my first full time job out of college. My boss is constantly innapropriate and unprofessional.
Lately he's made it point to pick fights with my co-workers and me, calling us liars, lazy and slow. He complains about his job constantly and demands to look at our paychecks because he "swears we get paid more than he does."
He brags about how he dropped out of high school, and we should have "never wasted our time in college." He's made numerous racial slurs against clients, and has made suggestive comments toward us females that work in the office.
Just yesterday he threw a temper tantrum and started throwing things across his office, and slamming doors and drawers. He's gone weeks giving us the silent treatment before.
I guess the icing on the cake was when looking at the history of his browser while he was on vacation, I found that he's watches porn all day long. I guess I can't really report this because I shouldn't have been snooping. Or can I?
As far as business dealings are concerned he fudges sales numbers and monthly goals in order to make himself look better to the corporate office. He even fell asleep during a meeting today.
I like where I work, It's a job that wouldn't be so bad if he wasn't there.
Talking to his supervisor is nearly pointless because they live together. (I know, that's unprofessional as well)
I can't take it any longer. I'm not sure what to do. Is this what I should expect in the real world? How do we get this guy outta here?!
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Frankly, aside from the fact that I can't believe this query is legit (it all seems like too much of a muchness), a small Sony digital voice recorder hidden in a pocket, and a quick save onto CD of her boss's browser history, and she would have a slam dunk seven figure harrassment settlement in her pocket. With that in mind, I don't know why she feels so helpless.