Too late for the "Bad Boss Contest"

I stumbled across this while nosing around Yahoo! and it turned out to be fairly entertaining, however I think I could have contended for the title.

The web site is WorkingAmerica.org and they were having a contest for the the best, or worst depending on how you look at it, story about a bad boss. Apparently, this web site is dedicated to the working class American. Very patriotic indeed, but the contest was pretty cool and the winner got a vacation trip out of the deal.

However, I think I could have contended for the title except for the fact that the public voted and the winner had a story about her dentist boss docking every employee's pay because all of the appointments cancelled on 9/11.

Since I probably shouldn't even tell my story I will anyway because it's classic and needs to be told.

Anyway, in the building where I work a new office was being constructed breaking up a huge room that was being used for storage. At the same time we were hiring a new employee who wasn't going to be able to access our rest room facilities because they are down a fairly large flight of stairs in the basement of the building.

This is an elderly woman who was hired and my "co-worker" thought he would go to our boss and see if we could put in a small restroom upstairs. This wasn't just for the new employee. Besides myself and my "co-worker" our 10 employee crew includes two 60 year-olds, four 70 year-olds and one 80 year-old.

So these stairs are definately a hazard to say the least and to top everything off, the founder of the company I work for was KILLED in a FALL down these STAIRS.

Needless to say, we felt that this was a no brainer. The guys were already there building an office and we could just have them do it.

So when our boss comes in one day my co-worker pops the question. He asked if we could build a restroom upstairs since our new employee was unable to access the restrooms and since they are dangerous with the elderly employees who have to use these stairs several times a day. He said that it would be terrible if one of them fell.

Without batting an eye our boss says, and I quote, "That's why we have insurance."

Tell me that's not a winner of a story for this little contest. It's child's play.

So it looks like Bratch will be taking a trip shortly after they revisit this little contest. And that's just one story I have, if they make it an annual event I'll be a world traveller in no time.