poly_chromatic | ][ grab-bag [ blog entry #528 ]

Boss says: I have to go to [INSERT FAR-AWAY CITY - not far-away as in the next border, far-away like 14 hours on a plane that might have to drop him off at the 10 hour point elsewhere with a layover of 5 hours - which contract forbids me from naming].
I say: When?
Boss says: Today.

This asshole. I need a new job.

ETA, another fine example of why that's true:

YOU HAVE 491 NEW EMAILS.

Dear assistant,
I am an up and coming--

No.

Dear assistant,
We wrote you a week ago about--

No.

Dear assistant,
This is something you won't want to--

Yeah no I really don't.

Dear assistant,
About those photos posted online of you and Mr-

I NEED A NEW JOB.

ETA #2 ~~why am I still awake~~:

Here's a tip for anyone with a PA under them: don't be an asshole, and if it's just a biological necessity for you to be one then don't get a PA. No one deserves you but you.

And then a tip for the people who want to have their projects picked up by my boss (if you don't know who he is already then take that as a sign on its own):

DON'T BOTHER.

Or...what is it in the movies? Don't have your people call our people - Person.

Instead I suggest grabbing the nearest OED and looking up UNLIKELY then copying it down by hand 500 times. In cursive. If you still want to contact him by then, please, by all means.

Go for it.

[ooc: :c devil wears prada ~~oh mr fischer oh~~! 8X replies can be labeled ANON in subject if you want him to not know who's replying to his ~blog-post~ lmffflsf;k ]