Posted by denised in The above title is a mash-up of my blog title and one of the most talked about comedies released last weekend. Hangover was a box office hit and your typical guy fare full of debauchery, depravity and base human behavior. As luck would have it, the same words can also be used to describe any day in the life of my previous employer. Here’s a breakdown of the similarities between my Really Bad Boss and job and Hangover the movie:
- Like the movie, my job started out fun, interesting and exciting. And like the movie, it quickly spiraled downward into a comedy replete with drunkenness, rampant stupidity and partial nudity
- Hung-over can be used to describe the state of my CEO as he warbled his way through his annual sales presentation the first year. The following year he was just plain drunk
- In Hangover the movie, after a wild and crazy night of partying, someone is missing and no one knows where he went. At some point in the company’s history, common sense and good decision making went missing, and no one has been able to locate them since
- In Hangover the movie, there’s a tiger in the bathroom. In my office there was always a jackass in the conference room
- As one critic proclaimed, in Hangover the movie, all the women are “whores, Barbie dolls or shrews.” At my former company, that description fits the men to a tee
There is one major difference between the movie and my job…Hangover the movie was a hit.
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