Ok, just need to freak for a second.
Background - Today is my assistant's last day. I was planning on taking her to lunch as her "goodbye" since this company thinks that you're committing Treason if you ever leave for greener pastures. Boss decides that he wants to get her a cake (which is shocking, but he's only being this generous because she's moving, not just up and leaving) and he'll have Wife pick it up (he does not tell me. HR tells me this). He doesn't tell said Wife anything about it, either. I ask/remind her yesterday. She flips out because Boss never mentioned it to her. I try to stay completely out of it, while dodging the shrapnel (she's pissed off as it is because Boss has her covering the phones while my sister is on Maternity - that's a WHOLE other story, but can I just say LEARN HOW TO TRANSFER INTO VOICEMAIL!!!!).
Fast-forward to today...
Boss's Wife comes to me after lunch saying that she has the cake and she's going to go get it out of the car, but then she pulls out attitude because SHE:
"shouldn't be the one doing this"
and that there were
"6 other people who quit and we didn't do anything for them"
and that SHE
"shouldn't have been the one responsible for getting the cake"
and that if
"you people want to do stuff like this then YOU need to do it on our own".
(like nails on a chalk board when she says that to customers..."You people owe us money"...)
WHOA, take a step back before I put you in your place!!!!!!!!!!!!
First off, HONEY! - YOUR HUSBAND, the BOSS, told HR that HE wanted to get a cake for my Assistant. HR told him that he SHOULDN'T because it sets a precedent and unless he's going to do it for everyone, he shouldn't do it for anyone. He announced that he was anyway and that Wife would get it.
2nd - NO ONE ASKED ME and I'm her Boss! If you asked me, all this trouble could've been avoided.
Now she's throwing all this attitude at me today. BULLSHIT. She bought a freaking tiny cake, She wants nothing to do with it, HR wants nothing to do with it and I have NO FREAKING CLUE what to do with it. I can't tell everybody to come because there's not enough cake, but there's WAY too much for just Me, Assistant, 2nd Assistant and replacement person.....UGH! I was just going to take her to lunch, easy-peasy, no one else the wiser, good-bye, good luck.
Don't even get me started on Boss's Wife's feelings on "going away parties".
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Haha, have fun with that. I’m not jealous in the least!
You are making me grateful for the dysfunctions in my workplace. Just sounds weird to have all the angst over simply wishing someone well when they move on. Having a cake for someone who leaves should not be legislated by HR or anyone else, unless you are working in a prison.
Whoa, that's messed up. Sometimes I miss having a job and then I read things like this and I'm kind of glad I don't anymore.
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