My Boss Made Me Look Through the Garbage for a "Missing" Document
My boss was freaking out the entire time as he talked to the customer on the phone, trying to reassure them that we were looking for the missing document. I was literally rolling my eyes into my head because I knew there was no missing document.
It was supposed to be a stress-free day. I was going to leave early, and I was really looking forward to it. But of course, my boss just had to ruin it. He got a call from a customer saying that a document wasn’t showing up in his account. And naturally, I was in charge of this customer, so of course the first person my boss would start pointing fingers at was me. I told my boss a dozen times that I didn’t scan any document. The customer just did one transfer, and that was it. I repeated it multiple times, but my boss was convinced I was wrong—as per usual.
He was freaking out the entire time, trying to reassure the
customer that we were searching for the missing document. I was rolling my eyes
because I knew there was no missing document. He made me and the other workers
look around my workstation and drawers. When nothing was found, he became
convinced I had thrown it in the garbage.
So while he stayed on the phone with the customer, he
ordered me to look through the garbage. And this wasn’t a cute little
trashcan—oh no. This was the main dumpster where everyone threw their trash. By
the end of the week, it was filled to the brim and loaded with all sorts of
weird stuff. Of course, as a good employee who wanted to keep her job, I looked
through the garbage. I overturned everything piece by piece. When I was finally
done, I was so relieved. I told my boss the exciting news: nothing was found in
the garbage.
I hoped he would finally believe me and end the conversation
with the customer. But things hardly go the way you want them to. My boss told
me to look through the garbage a second time—because why not? The customer is
always right, right?
Wrong! I was going through the pile of garbage while my
coworkers were doing their actual jobs, sighing in relief that they weren’t me.
The look of pity on their faces really cut into any pride I had left in this
job. All I wanted to do was leave—to another job, in another state if I had to.
Then my boss came in while I was shuffling through the junk and broke the
“good” news to me: I could stop digging through the garbage because the
customer had found his precious document in their binder.
So there I was, knee-deep in junk. My boss just laughed into
the phone at his pet about how great it was that her father found his stupid
document—while I was left to put the garbage back where it was.
Oh, I forgot to tell you about my boss’s pet. She’s my
coworker, and her dad was the problematic customer who lost his document. Yeah,
I call her the boss’s pet because she is one. A boss’s pet is sort of like a
teacher’s pet—except, you know, in the workplace. And boy-oh-boy, was she the
boss’s pet. The boss lets her get away with everything.
But that’s a story I’ll be telling in my next video.
Until then.
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