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This story is about Michael Bay in the Performing and Fine Arts industry, located in Hollywood.
It's been viewed 2,292 times.
So Michael Bay's a bit of a wank. Seriously. I mean, he's a good guy, but he's all with the BOOM BOOM BOOM. He starts every day of filming with a very loud "Explosions are plot!" Which explains a lot, when you think about it.
One day, about mid-way through the shoot, Shia and I were doing a scene with Optimus Prime, and for part of it, like in the first movie where he catches us when we're falling under the bridge? It's like that. I mean, it's not that exact setup, but there's a shot where Optimus Prime physically touches us. So rather than fake it with the CG and the awkward greenscreening (When Michael Bay tells Shia to look at where the robots head will eventually be, he says "Shouldn't we wait for the robots to get here?" Seriously, he's cute and all, but, shit), this time Bay decides to go all auteur and he wheels out a life-size prop replica of Optimus.
In t... (read the full story)
It's been viewed 2,292 times.
So Michael Bay's a bit of a wank. Seriously. I mean, he's a good guy, but he's all with the BOOM BOOM BOOM. He starts every day of filming with a very loud "Explosions are plot!" Which explains a lot, when you think about it.
One day, about mid-way through the shoot, Shia and I were doing a scene with Optimus Prime, and for part of it, like in the first movie where he catches us when we're falling under the bridge? It's like that. I mean, it's not that exact setup, but there's a shot where Optimus Prime physically touches us. So rather than fake it with the CG and the awkward greenscreening (When Michael Bay tells Shia to look at where the robots head will eventually be, he says "Shouldn't we wait for the robots to get here?" Seriously, he's cute and all, but, shit), this time Bay decides to go all auteur and he wheels out a life-size prop replica of Optimus.
In t... (read the full story)
RANDOM: freeze my cat
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This story is about msi in the Biotechnology/Pharmaceuticals industry, located in berkeley, ca.
It's been viewed 1,709 times.
i worked for a very brilliant scientist with very little bandwidth for anything besides science. too smart for his own good i guess...
so i come in one monday morning and find that he's sent me an email...
dear [eos],
on my way to boston for meetings. please check on my cat--she won't eat anything besides the broth i made for her and she doesn't seem to be moving at her usual pace"
this cat "tofu" is (was) 18 years old, so i figure i better get up there and see what's up with the poor dear. when i arrive, i find poor tofu is heaving and every aspect of the poor thing's face is crusted up. i grab the carrier and rush to a local vet for help. the vets let me know that tofu is a very old cat and the best they can probably do is keep the cat comfortable--but that it will probably die in the next 48 hours. i call my boss--let him know the cat is in the hospita... (read the full story)
It's been viewed 1,709 times.
i worked for a very brilliant scientist with very little bandwidth for anything besides science. too smart for his own good i guess...
so i come in one monday morning and find that he's sent me an email...
dear [eos],
on my way to boston for meetings. please check on my cat--she won't eat anything besides the broth i made for her and she doesn't seem to be moving at her usual pace"
this cat "tofu" is (was) 18 years old, so i figure i better get up there and see what's up with the poor dear. when i arrive, i find poor tofu is heaving and every aspect of the poor thing's face is crusted up. i grab the carrier and rush to a local vet for help. the vets let me know that tofu is a very old cat and the best they can probably do is keep the cat comfortable--but that it will probably die in the next 48 hours. i call my boss--let him know the cat is in the hospita... (read the full story)
MOST POPULAR: Long Day's Night
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This story is about 10Plus1 in the Web Development industry, located in Toronto.
It's been viewed 1,552 times.
The largest project I worked on when I was at 10plus1 was a multi-user game environment for a children's clothing company. The name of the company isn't terribly important, as this horror story isn't about the client, nor even 10plus1, but one of the devs on the team, a man named Tristan.
Tristan was in charge of the back-end coding, while I was in charge of the front-end coding. There were a lot of difficulties working with Tristan, though to be fair, many of them were clashes of personality (How many times can a person charitably laugh at a story about how awesome it is to get so stoned over the weekend that you can't move your legs?). He was a competent programmer, and would often quote us method and parameter, as it were, but he seemed to lack a certain creativity with the assembly of the pieces. Reading the dictionary doesn't make you a writer, and all that.
<... (read the full story)
It's been viewed 1,552 times.
The largest project I worked on when I was at 10plus1 was a multi-user game environment for a children's clothing company. The name of the company isn't terribly important, as this horror story isn't about the client, nor even 10plus1, but one of the devs on the team, a man named Tristan.
Tristan was in charge of the back-end coding, while I was in charge of the front-end coding. There were a lot of difficulties working with Tristan, though to be fair, many of them were clashes of personality (How many times can a person charitably laugh at a story about how awesome it is to get so stoned over the weekend that you can't move your legs?). He was a competent programmer, and would often quote us method and parameter, as it were, but he seemed to lack a certain creativity with the assembly of the pieces. Reading the dictionary doesn't make you a writer, and all that.
<... (read the full story)
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