Pussywhippled
05-16-2007, 01:48 PM
I started my business in 1994 and have made up my own ways of doing things ever since, after all I am the boss. But to date my best decision I've made was hiring Bruce Sampson.
Bruce is a loyal employee who works for free and never causes any problem but rather handles them unknowingly.
Back in the year 2000 I started getting upset with all of the BS phone calls and people coming into our office looking for the person in charge of... and when there was a problem I needed someone to blame as well.
So to place blame and responsibilty on someone other than myself I MADE UP (fictional character) a name of someone responsible and in charge, Bruce Sampson.
Even though I'm the owner of the company, there are days when I can pass for the company driver.
I have even made deliveries to customers yelling at me where have you been? We've been waiting all day and told them, "Hey I'm just the driver" and then they have no other option but to apologize to me.
We have kept this Bruce Sampson thing going for the past few years given his name out 1000's of times and blamed him for many of our mistakes.
Now with it being 2007 Bruce gets phone calls and receives mail daily when he doesn't really exhist. When people call they ask for Bruce and we tell them that he is on the other line or out of the office, but we can take a message for him.
I am glad that Bruce doesn't do sales, otherwise I might have a problem on my hands missing sales calls or even have to pay him comission.
I am waiting for the day that a creditcard shows up in the mail with his name on it, lunch for everybody...
Bruce is a loyal employee who works for free and never causes any problem but rather handles them unknowingly.
Back in the year 2000 I started getting upset with all of the BS phone calls and people coming into our office looking for the person in charge of... and when there was a problem I needed someone to blame as well.
So to place blame and responsibilty on someone other than myself I MADE UP (fictional character) a name of someone responsible and in charge, Bruce Sampson.
Even though I'm the owner of the company, there are days when I can pass for the company driver.
I have even made deliveries to customers yelling at me where have you been? We've been waiting all day and told them, "Hey I'm just the driver" and then they have no other option but to apologize to me.
We have kept this Bruce Sampson thing going for the past few years given his name out 1000's of times and blamed him for many of our mistakes.
Now with it being 2007 Bruce gets phone calls and receives mail daily when he doesn't really exhist. When people call they ask for Bruce and we tell them that he is on the other line or out of the office, but we can take a message for him.
I am glad that Bruce doesn't do sales, otherwise I might have a problem on my hands missing sales calls or even have to pay him comission.
I am waiting for the day that a creditcard shows up in the mail with his name on it, lunch for everybody...