...and so, it has begun...

DAY ONE - MONDAY

i'd been preparing since last week. i knew that once boss2 returned from his vacation, he would ask me to email him his powerpoint presentation, that he'd asked me to prepare the week previous.

this, along with other requests are clearly not in my job description, and i had even firmly stated, that i would like a revised job description from him. this discussion took place back in december of 2002.

when i sat in his office, discussing the fate of my job description the first time around, he shifted his eyes from corner to corner, and shakily responded to my query in his overconfident voice, "i don no-. i habu nebah maydu suchu deskuripushon. i donno howu longu eet wood tayku". he then shrugged it off by playing dumb. oh wait. he is dumb.

anyhow, i'd been getting pretty tired of being expected to complete miscellaneous tasks that took away from my actual duties, so i drew the line this past monday.

on that very morning, like an emaciated soldier, he stiffly stomped over to me while i stood at the copier, and he bellowed:

"[bluefunk]-san!"

to which i "mmhmmmm??"ed.

"willu yoo email tsoo me za sing i asku foh lahsto week?"

"what??"

"zatto sing? yoo noh?"

"what??" - i knew what he was unsuccessfully referring to, but decided that i wanted to hear him speak a fully coherent sentence for once. but obviously he couldn't-

so finally, i retorted, "oh, the powerpoint presentation? i will email that to you when you give me my job description."

he staggered back half a step in shock, as though i just hit him with my gaze just by looking up from the copier.

"whah?" the slight shakiness to his voice was back.

i gave him my nicest voice, "you know. the thing i asked for many months back?"

"oh! oh kay...so yoo email whenu i gibu jobu deskuripshon?"

"yes."

boss2 spun around so quickly i thought he was going to topple. he marched quickly back to his office.

a part of me felt guilty for doing this, but i attest that to the fact that i had to resort to his own tactics to seek justice.

for the remainder of the day, i braced myself for anything that could happen. but boss2 holed himself up in his office, and simply mumbled quite audibly.

...continued to next entry...