I have a boss at work who is 80. Before I started everyone said he was an asshole. He was a total cunt to me for the first week so I just started calling him a stupid old cunt. Telling him to fuck off and he actually started calling me names back.
At first he didn’t know how to take it but then he did and now everyone says how much better he is since I started working there.
People would come to me and ask a question. I would just tell them do what ever they want but they would say “ John will go off “
I would tell them if he does just tell him I told you to do it. Let him tell me off when I get back from deliveries. He never tells me off. He never asks me why. He just knows I’m helping him everyone and everyone likes to laugh and enjoys work now.
I asked the guys in dispatch one day do they ever wonder if I’m ever serious or do they just look at me and laugh. They still don’t really know how to take me 9 months later but they do enjoy it when I start telling everyone to get fucked and do some work
We have a very similar work environment! I work with a little Irish guy, late 50s. He's a major ball buster. If you don't know him... he can definitely be a cunt. But once you know him, you realize its just his weird sense of humor. He's the first one to give you a hard time for fucking up, but he's also the first one to tell you how well you did. He can definitely be a little much at times, but at the end of the day he's a good guy!
Like 2 months into me starting there we were all working in a group and my phone kept going off. So eventually I picked up and my girl told me her mother was rushed to the er. I hung up and he didn't even flinch, he said "is she coming to get you" I said yeah if that's ok, he gave me a dirty look and said family is far more important than this fucking place!
I was fucking shocked!
I mean... for my boss to say that? As I was getting my shit ready to go he said to text him and make sure everyone was ok, and don't worry about coming in tomorrow. (I should say we were in the middle of big project, installing sprinkler heads) but that's the day I realized what kind of man he really was. He wants you to work, and work hard! But he also knows what's actually important in this world. We've had so many people get hired and quit. Bitching he works us to hard, or the job is to physically.
Meanwhile it's the only job I've ever had where I don't absolutely dread going in every day.