Scapegoat

[taerowyn]

About 70-75% of the time I like my boss, but every once in awhile he seems to go out of his way to be a jackass. At the moment he seems hellbent on making everybody in the office uncomfortable and me the scapegoat (Goody!). There's the matter mentioned previously about the possibility of over 60% of the office getting let go, but not me because of the position I hold, despite the fact that I've only held it for 3 months.
Now, to add to the fun, he just told, my absolute favorite coworker that if things continue as they are, she is going to lose her job as they will have to offer the position to somebody else who is losing HER job but is well-qualified and has a longer standing with the company than my friend. He tells her this then leaves for lunch. THEN he calls me and tells me I can't leave until after she does "just to be safe." Which forced me to make the connection to the call he had me place this afternoon to a locksmith to have the lock on the door changed. So I am now, on several levels, the bad guy and the scapegoat. Gee, thanks so much oh boss o' mine. Cause everybody already liked me so much to begin with. Sigh.

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Update

[taerowyn.livejournal.com]

Scratch "going to lose her job" She DID lose her job. She randomly came in on a day off to do some stuff on her computer and he decided "Hey, this would be a good time to fire ______." My God! I think that could have been handled a wee bit better. I think the real shock was the time frame (about two to three hours) that it took to go from "she might lose her job" to "Bu-bye."