I was just chatting with a friend and I simply said "blogs make life easy...you can write it all down...then let others read it...so ya don't have to re-explain how yer day was....lol"
Oh so strangely true.

Well, today was - how shall I put it...a huge pile of dog poop, on fire. Lemme rephrase - it was a surly black fly on a huge pile of dog poop, I mean it was the festering puss oozing off the 6 crotches of the surly black fly on a huge pile of dog poop. Oh screw it..it was just a shitty day.

Let me paint the background...with puffy little clouds like Bob Ross... At work, there is a project which I'm managing which was due end of business today, for several weeks - and managed well. The deliverable was supremely milestoned and accurately checked. Smooth sailing until ABBA (Asshole Bipolar Boss Asshole) came into the work area and asked what's going on, being interested n stuff (even though he's been removed from the day to day business operations and run of the projects...he's now just a "VP of Sales" - bogus title).

I very cautiously let him know that we were about to send off the final email to confirm signoff on this particular project from the client. He casually asked if I could send it to him to review before I send it. I was like..ok. Fired it off to him. Now being that it was the last day of this deliverable - I had to send this email off. So I knocked on his door to ask if he had a chance to review it ("it's getting late in the day, we need closure to this project", I say). He said, give me like 5 minutes.

So then this where the festering puss starts...

He comes in and immediately starts asking why this project has been done - "we are looking like idiots, don't you fucking understand me?" "I know we told them that it would be done before today, don't make me look fucking stupid!" "I know you are a smart person, but why do you say things that make no sense? I know I'm dumb but I'm not stupid!" "If you cannot understand what I'm fucking saying then you can just fucking leave, I don't have time to be made look stupid" On and on and on...i clocked it, i know because I got yelled at for looking at my watch "Don't you fucking look at your watch, you need to be paying attention to why you should not involve me in these projects"....

This is where the puss on the fly landed on the poop...

So then I realized that this guy has snapped, especially when he berrates me in front of my staff "you should have never fucking asked me to look at the email you are sending, I never asked for that." "you know never to fucking interrupt me, never ask me again for my opinion, do you hear what I am saying?"
This went on for another 20 minutes until one of my colleagues blurted in the truth, which is what he didn't want to hear - and then threatened to fire my whole staff. He stormed out of the room in a total huffy after I said that we needed to finish what we were doing. But before he left, I asked "should I not confer with you with any part of this before I send this out?, or shall I just honor your request to not be involved, I'm confused with what you are saying - I need to be clear on your direction". Then he left just like a 4 year old child in a total huffy.

Everyone in the office and on my staff was visibly upset - what a total dick. He took a complete crap on the already minus 500% morale in the office.

This is where the fly sitting on the poop took a poop, and the poop caught on fire...

So then later before the deliverable was sent, I need to confirm wiht a colleague that the project was updated - and ABBA was in the room (who seemed to have been councilled about his behavior and outragous unprofessional performance art peice he conveyed) and made an incredibly awkward and embarrassing attempt to apologise "I'm deeply ashamed of how I behaved, can you accept my apology?" I looked at him, then turned my head to my colleague and said "I need to to confirm..." then walked out of the room (not accepting nor acknowleging his apology).

Fucking asshole.

He later came into the main work area and made an incredibly awkward and embarrassing attempt to apologise to everyone - we ignored him.
So coming this Monday - I'm going to have a heart to heart sit down with the owner - this is beyond abuse.

Well, it's the weekend. After that abhorrent debacle, I decided to go on a really long bike ride - in the dark, cold and rain. Far more enjoyable than dealing with the wrath of ABBA's paranoid phsychodramatic overpatronizing bullshit. 42 miles. It was foggy - very spooky. I was only about one out of 4 cyclists out there in the two hours I saw. It was strangely peacefull. I felt calm and collected, like a jet cruising at a high altitude through clouds.

Ahhh...the weekend. Will be a busy one, I have to make 4 large batches of Pumpkin Soup for Thanksgiving - will be alot of fun. Xmess shopping to do, bike rides, other errands, haircut, car wash....life is never dull.

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