Does anyone work for a really mean boss, especially as it's near Christmas?

How mean is this? I finish tomorrow for Christmas (I'm a temp secretary), and since I started here, I've had no desk and have had to 'desk share' when someone isn't in the office for the day. I have to keep swapping all over the place. The desk I'm at now, the person's coming back to it later today, so I have no desk for an hour. My boss says, "Well, as you've an hour before you go home, you can help me stuff letters into envelopes". How mean is that? You'd think she'd let me go home, as I've no desk and near to Xmas.

I've had some real scrooges in the past and they always complained about employee morale and productivity. They werent smart enough to realize that they were the problem. I moved on and used them as examples of what I would never do as a boss. Have a good holiday and leave a little lump of coal on the desk of the meanie boss.

Welcome to the working world

What a meanie

YEp and I'm only 15 and shes a ***** and she is going to make me work on christmas Take your anger out on her picture throw darts at it or something

i haven't met a boss that was nice

Oh how awful, your boss expects you to actually DO YOUR JOB until quitting time instead of letting you leave early. What kind of demon makes her employees do what they were hired for instead of paying them to sit around wasting time on Y!A and going home early??

You're only a temp, why the hell are you complaining.

You are a temp and were treated accordingly. You get paid by the hour. You should work that hour.

Sorry, mine isn't mean just CHEAP! His idea of our Christmas bonus is letting us work for him on Christmas!!! Way too generous! Oh and we don't have to wear our ugly uniforms! Good luck! Maybe for a New Year's resolution you can look for a new job! Sorry for you having to work with crabby people

Welcome to the working world! The boss is the boss and as much as it may suck, you do what they say, or you don't work. Everyone has things they don't like about their jobs. Even people who are doing what they've always wanted to do have SOMETHING they don't like about it.

Just don't let the boss bring your spirit down! Merry Christmas!

Not as mean as yours, but Christmas is just another day on the calendar to many of them

THAA NOT MEAN AT ALL I WORK IN A BUSY OFFICE AND STUFFING ENVALOPES NEEDS TO BE DONE OTHA WISE THOSE INVOICES WONT GET SENT AND U WILL NOT HAVE A JOB ITS PROBS BECAUSE ITS BUSTY ON THE RUN UP TO XMAS AND NO 1 HAS TIIME TO SHOW U THE ROPES YET DONT WORRY TO MUCH I STUFFED ENVALOPES ONE DAY I ACTUALLY MADE THE TIME FLY BY

Evil boss.He should let you do what you want to do, where you want to do it, and how you want to do it. Maybe you should get a jod at the north pole with santa instead.

no but my cousin works at andys and since last year we have not seen him only for a day! we only see him for 1 minute cuse hes rushing getting ready for work and he works mon tues wed thurs fri sat sun and all over again even on holidays like xmas even on his b day! i coudnt even say happy b day to him! and when it was my b day he was only there for 5 minutes then said bye i gtg to work happy b day! and he has 2 younger brothers that cry when he leaves and talk bout him 247 and he only see them fpr like 3 mins and im his younger cuz hes got tuns over younger cousins and well u get the point we never see him he just turned 18 in october and his moms always worried bout him

YOUR A TEMP ....your not under his/her permenant employment. they dont owe you special treatment. your there to work ... thats why your there and why they hired a temp service . you should be more concerned with getting more hours instead of when you get to go home.

Do you deserve it? I mean...even though you're a temp...have you ever taken the initiative to work an extra hour? Or even an extra 15 minutes? Welcome to the working world. Your boss is a business person and trust me business people give NOTHING for free...not even time off.
Have you tried to develop a working relationship with your boss and displayed respect? Have you given her a Christmas/Holiday card or maybe picked up donuts or timbits for the entire office before? Kill with kindness...you'll get so much further in life. Be thankful you have a job. So many people are out of work. Good Luck!

Your boss should definitely let you go home early..... PERMANENTLY.... as in, You're Fired, don't come back.... lazy little b*tch

What is it with people, they get hired to do a job, then b*tch and complain because they are actually expected to do the job they're being paid for... and then b*tch and complain that they're not being paid enough for the job they're NOT doing. I mean seriously.... you're a temp SECRETARY.... stuffing envelopes is CERTAINLY within the realm of the job description of a secretary.... Its not like she asked you to clean toilets or something..... geez!

Atleast you have a job and you are making money for christmas presents. I wouldn't complain about that. Doesn't sound to hard, and christmas isn't until next week. So chill for now and stuff envelopes, you are getting paid. She would be a mean boss if she didn't pay you. And by the way, you are a temp, bottom of the totum pole!! Welcome to a thing called life! Jessica S. the 15 year old is an idiot! She isn't old enough to get a job and she is answering this question?! HAR HAR HAR!!

The real question is do you want a job and a pay check or do you want to go home. If you did not want to work that hour you should have said so and went home.
No the boss was not mean, it's a business decision, nothing more nothing less

My dear girl. You have just completed lesson #1 about Temporary Help. Why do you think you have not had a desk? Because you're temporary. Yes, you are the official "Go Fer". You know. Go for this, go for that. Temporary helpers are just that "temporary" and are lower than the trash can next to the chair they are sitting in. I've been there. I remember having one boss who like you on my last day had me straightening out the break room because there were no more "useful things to be done". She said "before you go, straighten out the lunch area so our regular people don't have yada yada yada". Hey, I got paid the hourly wage up to the minute I left. So suck it in, do your "temp" best job you can and make sure you get full wages for your work. If you want a desk. Go find a PERMANENT job. Been there. Done that. Good luck and just remember this: at least you have a job. There are many who don't and would take your "temp" job any day.

Well, as a temp, why not just ask your agency for a new placemnet, tell the agent whats been going on as they may want to blacklist the client

I think my staff would agree I'm quite a nice boss, I've bought them all gifts out of my own money, given them an early finish tomorrow despite the fact that they've already been given extra days free so that they don't have to come in between Christmas and New Year ( I will be covering the department from home and am happy to do so so that they can have a decent break). They've also been given a lunch, a party and a cash bonus by the company and yet some of them are still moaning because they have to come in tomorrow at all even though they will also be getting gifts from the MD. What is wrong with you people?? You are paid to work, you are not doing anyone a favour by turning up yet you are so ungrateful to have a decent job in a clean,warm environment that many people can only dream about. Grow up and stop being so damned greedy.

I think you should be glad to have a job. There are a lot of people who would gladly desk share and actually WORK if they could only have a reliable paycheck.

Shame on you for being so self-centered.

And you think this is mean? She's paying you and expects you to work. That's life.
If this is the meanest you ever see, consider yourself most blessed.

Personally, I think that you're just being way too "picky" on this one. After all--it's only ONE HOUR! You've gone this long without a desk, and you're finished up with this assignment anyway, so what difference does it make?? Use it to "chit-Chat" with your boss while the both of you are doing this. You just may find out that she really isn't all that mean, but rather--she is under a lot of pressure from HER boss.