by Zan Smith

Created on: May 07, 2008

Ten Reasons Your Boss Hates You

10. Your Boss takes the office out to lunch and you order an two appetizers, extra fries, a side of onion rings, dessert and two entrees, and ask for a doggy bag ahead of time to take home the extras. You order more office supplies than anyone else in the office and when you are questioned about it you infer that the cleaning crew may be taking some of your things and say 'but I can't prove it so I didn't want to say anything".

9. You come in 10 minutes late every morning and complain loudly about traffic even though you live closer to the office than anyone else, extend you lunch hour by ten minutes every day and leave 10 minutes early on a regular basis. You find a way out of all extra circular office events or say you'll be there and don't show up.

8. Your answer your cell phone during meetings and exclaim "Honey calm down!" as you run out of the door, then everyone can hear you laughing in the hallway. You text message under the table, then you try to pretend that you aren't and if you are caught, you say it was business. You spend a very long time locked in the office bathroom.

7. You wear flip flops on casual Friday and when you are reprimanded you say "But these are Ralph Lauren!". You take off your shoes and walk around the office barefoot because "these are new shoes".

6. You point out typos, comment on grammar and correct mistakes of other employees in public memos and point out that "I minored in English at Duke University". You correct your boss in front of other employees, then smile.

5. You always leave the paper jam in the printer and everyone knows it.

4. In the year that you have worked there, your aunt, uncle, grandmother, grandfather and grandmother on the other side have all died and your dog was run over and always on a Friday or before a Holiday.

3. You never answer your phone, let everything go to voice mail, and nervously click out of whatever you were doing on the computer if someone pops in to ask you about something. You are the first one in the office to have the latest news.

2. You come in on Monday in sunglasses, reeking of cologne and in the same clothes you wore on casual Friday and change in the bathroom. You then proceed to drink all of the coffee, but don't make more, and you are caught taking a bite out of someone else's lunch in the refrigerator.

But the Number ONE reason your boss hates you:

1. Your father owns the company and your boss can't fire you.

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