Starting tomorrow, my General Manager at my TV Station is beginning a new tradition. Once a month, he is randomly choosing 4 people from different departments to have lunch with him, on him. He wants to “get to know us outside of work. And learn more about our personal lives.”

My station is pretty small (only about 55 people work here) and we all know each other pretty well. With the exception of the GM, apparently!

Well, wouldn’t you know it? But I was chosen to be a part of the first group to have lunch with the GM! One of my co-workers who runs Master Control (that’s where everything you see on a TV station comes out of, all the shows and commercials) is also going to lunch with us tomorrow. He said he can tell the GM all about me:

This is his mini bio of me: “Melissa used to weigh a lot. Then she lost a lot of weight. Now she runs. That’s all she talks about. And she has 14 boyfriends.”

I laughed and told him that wasn’t true. He amended it to 13 boyfriends.

I wish!

Have a good day friends!

My boss is on a rampage about getting our station website updated. Like a fanatic. The company is so cheap that they refuse to hire a web person, so they just make us all do it, and keep piling more and more onto our plates and want us to do more with less. Everyone is stressed out and cranky. He has yelled at me everyday this week.

Monday he called me into his office, started shouting at me, put his hand up in my face as I started to argue back with him and said to me, “this is a one way conversation.”

I had to bite my tongue to keep myself from saying that wasn’t a conversation then, it was a lecture. We kept yelling at each other, even when a job candidate came and stood in his doorway. I was yelling at him at that point. He tried to diffuse the situation and tried to calm me down, but I was on a roll.

I work 9 hours a day, I eat lunch at my desk EVERY DAY. So I decided, I’m off the clock for an hour at lunch everyday. No one will force me to take a lunch, so I’m going to give myself a break. My boss came out and wanted to talk to me and my coworker about something on our website and I actually said to him, “sorry, I’m off the clock.” And I proceeded to eat and mess around on tumblr. I’m not sure what’s gotten into me! But I like the sassy new me!

He yelled at me yesterday, and again today. This morning when he called me into his office I told him that it had been a crappy couple of days. He told me, “just get over it." 

My mouth dropped open and before I could even think, I said, "Well, that’s real nice.” I was very sarcastic. He told me that was reality. He then told me I should be glad I wasn’t on the conference call with the upper management. I told him that it was better for my health, and really the health of everyone involved that I wasn’t on that call. He didn’t have anything to say to that.

Needless to say, I’m looking for a new job. I don’t get paid enough to put up with this crap.

Thanks for listening friends!

Have a great day!

Boss just told me “We’re all one mistake away from being fired.”

Well, isn’t that a happy thought. I just got out of his office and got done being berated for a fairly insignificant mistake. Which then turned into him telling me I am “too happy and cheerful and make the environment a happy, positive, giggly one.” And he meant that as a criticism! I’m not sure where my guts came from, but I informed him that people do better work when they are happy than they do when you evoke management by terror!

I actually said that!

To my boss.

He just told me to cut the chatter and be a leader.

I don’t think I want to live in a world where happiness, cheerfulness and positivity are considered character flaws. Because as I see it, they are some of the best things about me.