Just another ordinary day in paradise.

[davidthegnome]

32. In addition to owning the hotels..

my boss is what they might call a local slum lord. He owns a few apartment buildings and rents out apartments. Some times the tenants are late with their rent... one day I heard him shouting on the phone (his office is right behind the hotel front desk, which makes things awkward when he's there) "Get the money. DO NOT FUCK WITH ME!". Followed by the sound of the phone being angrily slammed down.

Fortunately, he's usually only around for a few days a month, as he lives primarily in a big house somewhere downstate. He comes, "Just long enough to make everyone miserable" as a co-worker put it one day.

My siblings all live up here too. One is an English teacher in a small town, one is a college student in her fifth (and hopefully final) year of school. One (who lives here with me and mom and dad) manages a restaurant and also works for a semi-local (45 miles away or so) TV station. They are all beautiful, hard working women whom it is my pleasure and honor to know. I'd do absolutely anything for them - as I'm sure they would for me, but they are all struggling with their own financial issues.

I hate jerks, too - especially the rich sort, who can afford to be kind and generous, and simply choose not to be. I don't think slapping my boss would have any effect really, it would be kind of like punching a rock wall. You'd only hurt your hand.