Going to an “All Manager Level” meeting next week all about the firm’s brave new positive 3-year expansion plan. Just had a “catch-up” meeting with a man who may very well be my new manager, yet to be announced. Having posted online that he has walked 20 miles for charity and accepted all the electronic congratulations and plaudits, he tells me face-to-face that he only actually did 15 miles and that was because someone phoned him to find out where he was, otherwise he’d have found a handy pub and only done 10 miles, timing it to look like he’d done the actual 20 for which he accepted sponsorship money. The worst of it is that he tells me all this as though he EXPECTS ME TO ADMIRE HIM FOR IT. So now I may be having to report to someone wh’s not only a liar, but a fraud as well… 👿

Drink a lot of water, and then ask yourself one question……

“Where are his shoes?”

😆

Thanks, Captain.

its a test

he wants to see how loyal/ honest you are

That is so cool – it means he’ ll respect and admire you when you only do half the work expected of you

Blackmail him.

Just file him as a bit of a pri**.
There are plenty about, he is just another one.
Move on.

Oh dear sounds like you are going to have a ego maniac as your manager … 😯

its a test

he wants to see how loyal/ honest you are

It might be this.

Or, if that’s the way he treats people/responsibilities/commitments then it begs the question: how will he treat his staff? will he ask you to lie for him or ask you to behave dishonestly in dealings with clients/customers?

Get a 30 mile event organised and make sure someone else insists he takes part. I can almost hear the conversation now….

“oh go on, you did so well with that 20 miler you did the other week/month/year*. Just think of the look on the faces of the children/fluffy bunnies/orphan donkeys* when we give them a giant comedy cheque….”

*delete as appropriate

As someone else does the insisting it wouldn’t be traced back to you and you could be on hand to make sure he completes the event, suppers and raised cash for a worthy cause, everyone’s a winner 8)

Next time if he cracks a joke you need to laugh loudly or better still laugh loudly before he finishes because he might be expecting that from you … hahahahahhahahah!

Too late. I asked him at the end of the meeting if he was going off home to get some excercise machine time in and he said: “Not tonight, she’s got a headache”.

All I could muster was – “Oh, er – ah.”

this guy sounds like a stereotype, are you pulling our collective leg?
edit: poor show on his part though if he’s real.

Were you telling him, ‘sick to the power of rad’ stories before this and he’s taking the p###? 😉

Mr Woppit – Member

Too late. I asked him at the end of the meeting if he was going off home to get some excercise machine time in and he said: “Not tonight, she’s got a headache”.

All I could muster was – “Oh, er – ah.”

You miss the opportunity there … you could have a least laugh a bit … ahahhahaahha … then point one/two finger(s) at him and say “good one that”. Like this …

Have you finished tormenting freddedsafetybra on FB yet?? 😆

Who? Me? 😉

Leave a copy of ‘The Strange Last Voyage Of Donald Crowhurst’ on his desk.

edit: that is not[/b] a euphemism for ‘turd’.

Does his logic also apply to any overtime you might need to take in the future?

With regard to his charity walk, you should have replied “So it IS true, yeah I’d heard the rumours, I mean, who hasn’t, but dismissed them. So I take it the rumour about you and the llama is true too?”

And regarding the partner joke you should have quipped “Odd, she was fine when I spoke to her just now!”

bigyinn – Member

Have you finished tormenting freddedsafetybra on FB yet??
Was aimed at the OP, sorry binners

I worked for a guy like that once. Put up with it for long enough for our MD to discover what a cock he was and sacked the to$$er on the spot.

Idiots and bullshitters always get found out.

(I took his job in a moment of delicious irony…)

I would have just said something along the lines that if people had sponsored me to do something I would feel really bad about not completing it and claiming I had – not confrontationally – just let him know of your personal standards

Sometimes I have worked because of a boss.

Sometimes I have worked despite a boss.

I think we know which category you’ve just landed in. His day of Karma will come.

So now I may be having to report to someone wh’s not only a liar, but a fraud as well

That’s modern banking for you.

I like wombat’s approach – would be even better if suggested by you in front of the whole team so he can’t get out of it but you are looking him in the eye at the time. Then if it is a “test” you’ve neither publicised his failings nor ignored them, and if he’s just an idiot you get to watch him squirm a bit!

Of course it could just be he is pointing out the total pointlessness of sponsored charity events.