If you're going to make a big deal out of buying me lunch like it's some special thing that I'm supposed to be in awe of, please find in in your heart to buy me more than $6 worth of shitty chinese food. What, are you saving up for a third home? A fourth boat? Fuck you, you rich, cheap piece of shit.
This doesn't say much about my prospects for a raise, does it? Nor does the time I mentioned in passing that I had to buy a bottle of wine on the way home for a recipe, and you made me take home a water bottle full of wine instead, since it was just for cooking, and I shouldn't be wasting my money on a bottle of wine. Dude, I have six bucks, thanks. You were just trying to be nice, I know, but you're cheap right down to the bone.
Sincerely,An employee who thinks you're cheap.
― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Sunday, 13 February 2005 09:25 (twenty-one years ago)
― Mr. Burns (Burger), Sunday, 13 February 2005 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)
― C-Man (C-Man), Sunday, 13 February 2005 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 13 February 2005 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)
In search of answers I reread your post. Now I 'get it'. It's so simple, I can't understand why I missed it the first time! You are pissed off at him because you want to be given much, much more than what he gave.
Here's an idea. If you want some sympathy, please explain why it is that you have earned much, much more than what he gave you. Lacking such evidence, it is all too easy to draw the inference that you are an selfish ingrate and a lout. Do you see?
― Aimless (Aimless), Sunday, 13 February 2005 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)
― C-Man (C-Man), Sunday, 13 February 2005 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 13 February 2005 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)
What exactly have you done to justify a raise? Steal time from me by posting on ILX? You had an opportunity to make your case to me when we went to lunch. I see potential in you and wanted to get to know you better and to talk about the job and your prospects and to see if you were interested in contributing more. But you seemed to view it as free food, a reward you were owed.
One of the ways that I got "rich" was by eating $6 worth of shitty chinese food for lunch. I am trying to encourage such "cheap"-ness in you, both to help you be successful the way I see it, and because I am insulted by your talk about your fancy bottles of wine. I didn't "make" you do anything. But if we have such different values, maybe you're not the right person for my company.
Sincerely,A Boss Who Is a Little Too Busy For Boats, Martini Lunches or Complaints
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 13 February 2005 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)
I should get over my fear of carrying around plastic bottles of wine, I guess.
― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Sunday, 13 February 2005 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)
No, he really does have three boats. I didn't make that up.
― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Sunday, 13 February 2005 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)
― youn, Sunday, 13 February 2005 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)
No, no! He brought his wife! It was strictly social. It was very much a "you did such a good job, we're buying you lunch" lunch.
― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Sunday, 13 February 2005 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)
Yeah, I'm bitter all over. I guess I started this thread to have something to do that's less scary than asking for a raise.
― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Sunday, 13 February 2005 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)
― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Sunday, 13 February 2005 18:16 (twenty-one years ago)
― come on sock it to me, Sunday, 13 February 2005 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)
― paulhw (paulhw), Sunday, 13 February 2005 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 13 February 2005 22:22 (twenty-one years ago)