Meet the Freak
Beginning of the week ehhh. The only good thing that comes to my mind on Tuesdays’ mornings is: ‘it’s not Monday!’ You know how people talk about their jobs and how much they hate them and how much they can’t stand their bosses? Well, surprisingly I became one of these persons. About 6 months ago I started to consider moving to UK. My boyfriend was already studying in UK and I thought it might be a good idea to do something exciting. After few conversations with my friends and a lot of thinking I decided to go. I was enthusiastic and happy about my decision. Thus at the end of January I actually moved to Oxford. Everything seemed to be great I was there with my boyfriend in a nice apartment. I even managed to find a great job which started on 1st February. Could you want more?
I turns out you could. The fairy tale bubble blew up after first month of my job. The company was nice, but the work load was horribly huge. One of my tasks was to organize administration processes within the company, but each time when I was asking questions no one could answer them. How can I create any processes if even boss doesn’t know who is doing what. Honestly I have no idea how this business could work for such a long time. Anyway the worst was coming…
By the worst I mean my boss. At the beginning he was so charming and nice, but after a while he started to show his other face. He is a real freak!
Few days ago he asked me to arrange electrician to fix his lights. I did it and he agreed that Friday will be the fixing day. Next day I changed bulbs to stronger ones in my room, because it was too dark in there. The result was amazing. The room is so much brighter now. But freak still didn’t have proper light, since it was only Wednesday, so he freaked out 
He came to me and asked when he will have his lights repaired. I told him that he agreed to have them repaired in Friday. This answer kept him silent but only for 2h. After 2h he came back to my desk and frowning said: ‘You know it is so dark in my room. I have to have proper light.’ I repeated my sentence: ‘You agreed to have it fixed on Friday’. He frowned even more and went away, but hahah imagine! there was another but… After 2h I received an email. I couldn’t believe it, but there it was an email saying: ‘I also need light like you do! My eyes are tired. Please make sure electrician will fix everything on Friday.’ What can you reply to such thing? I repeated my sentence like mantra. Only this time through an email and happily the end of working day arrived.
The other day freak was planning to organize stationery. It was always lying upstairs behind ugly green curtain. I arranged someone to make shelves and cupboards, so that green curtain went away and this was my mistake. The freak saw so many stationery thing lying there on shelves. Instantly he started to have so many ideas regarding them. I imagine he looked like one of these cartoon guys with bulbs above their heads. The next step of course was to visit me and ask me to make his ideas come true.
I was downstairs going through my emails sorting out hundreds of ad hoc problems and then he arrived. I saw his smile and though Ohhh noo!! another idea! He started: ‘You know there is so many stationery upstairs. I don’t know how much of envelopes or paper is everyone using. It is so important to know and also I can’t even track how many of them are there because there are no labels on boxes.’ I said: ‘I am looking at it from time to time and it never happened that someone didn’t have stationary supplies’. (It’s worth mentioning that company has only 9 employees.) This sentence made him angry his eyes narrowed and he said: ‘No we have to have labels on each box and a list of every item otherwise we will loose track of it. You should prepare it and also this stationery has to be locked. What if someone from outside will take it?’. He finished this sentence and drilled me with his piggy eyes. I thought dear God there were so many people going through that place for at least couple of years and no one took anything, but now suddenly all thieves from neighbourhood will come to steal his envelopes. Of course I couldn’t said that so I said:’Ok. I will do it’. This made him happy and he left me alone.
You are probably thinking now great why is she moaning if he left her alone and went to his office. Ha there is something else. Freak loves to hear and know everything, so he is always listening when you are talking to someone in person or through the phone. I even bet he is pressing his ear to the wall to hear every word. Actually I saw him couple of times standing closely to the room entrance listening peoples conversation. He is not even hiding it. The best part however is that if he hears something that is wrong in his mind he starts to run through the room to his victim’s room and screams that it’s not like that. Poor victim has no idea what he is screaming and to which word of his conversation he is referring to, but it doesn’t matter to freak. He always knows best. On the other hand if you are not the victim it’s quite funny to see how he suddenly runs with piggy eyes screaming ‘no no no it’s not like that!’.
I think this gave you a bit wider picture of my freak. Now I have couple more weeks till the end of my job and a lot of other freak stories, which will appear here soon.
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