Courtney Strathman:  

at had this been a drivers' test, we would have failed big time! Surprisingly, we made it into town, still driving fast but had now managed to at least obey some traffic laws and lights. One red light bought us some time to figure out a plan but really it was just two girls whining and screaming our heads off. I think we were at Salisbury and 52. The lgiht turned green and we gunned it again. Let me point out at this time, I was driving my mother's car--a Buick Skyhawk, a mini-stationwagon. Nothing nascar about the engine under that hood. We cross 52 and they are still right behind us, you've got to be kidding me, I'm thinking. When are they going to give up? And that's freaking us out mroe b/c they aren't! I make a sharp left and drive by city hall, hoping that some cop cars will scare them off. Nope! I make a couple of more turns and end up in a neighborhood that neither one of us is real familiar with and then! They managed to cut us off. At this point, a lot of expletives are just falling out of my mouth and Leslie and I are somewhat huddled together. These big guys come up to care and then pause, and we hear, "it's just a couple of girls!" "It's just girls!" And they start to laugh at us while we were sitting there with dumb smile on our faces, willing them to leave. Finally, they get into their car and are gone. Leslie and I are somewhat shaken up at this point. It was kind of cool that we were in a pseudo-car chase, that we can very close to getting our asses kicked, yet survived, and that it was kind of dumb too. So we decided to go to McD's for a shake or something to catch a breather. We pull up and as we are walking in, something's a little off. We come face to face with the same guys that chased us! In fact, we actually know one of the guys. By now, it was all "ha-ha-funny" and we had to hear over and over, "if you were guys, we would've kicked your guys' asses!" Just one more day, I gave thanks I was born a girl. Workplace I've had some real crazy bosses! I've had some cool ones too! (Updating this and am thinking how lucky I am to have had such cool bosses. It helped distinguish the crazy ones, rather than make me wonder what I did, when in truth I didn't warrant the crazies's behavior/attitude towards me and others. Yet, knowing what a good boss means you're also not ignorant and left in bliss either. Though if one does have a crazy boss, it's doubtful ignorant bliss would be likely. For all those who have great, mentoring bosses, good for you! No sarcasm intended. For all those who have a crazy boss, sorry. For those who are a crazy boss, please take a management course or two, move on from bad memories a subordinate invokes, and enjoy life rather than trying to rattle another's cage-or several cages, becoming vindictive bullying, nasty persons. Beyond making a schedule, what other managerial skills are being presented and examples set? Yeah, if you haven't guessed, I've had a couple of this kind. But I know I've had better, which makes me smile. Sometimes, I feel sorry for those people if they've never bothered to change their ways. I may delete this soon... It's also too bad about colleagues...there are some really good people out there frat to work with. Then comes along the buffoons, the ones who play nice in order to backstab later, spy basically so as to report to a higher-up and while doing so, they purposefully start conversations moaning & groaning about said higher-ups, then sit back and let any others do the rest. It's scary, but I've seen all this. I've seen rules blatantly disregarded, the rule breakers making deals with bosses so nothing happens. I've doubt this has changed much. Again, I'll probably delete this...