Dear Pascal,
Your boss is not the only mental, cheap, mannerless person!
My boss is worse, I'll tell you the things we CA Final students do in our office!
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2. Do his personal work, like paying his personal bills, buying his groceries, carrying his books, shifting around his furniture in the office, dusting, even sweeping the office floor. (one girl has scrubbed the office floor)
3. The boys in my office have given him back massages.
4. On the top of that, he wants to eat half our lunch (that fat pig)
5. We also have had to make tea for him, we stoppped making tea for him and requested for the chaiwala to supply us tea for which we ourselves pay.
6. My NORMAL office timings are 9am - 6pm (he extends even these timigs, saying "its my office, you will do what I tell you to do, otherwise, GET OUT RIGHT NOW") or he marks us absent for that day as "punishment" and cuts Rs. 50!!!! If I sit for 7 hrs, he cuts Rs. 25!!!
7. He has even removed the soap from the bathroom, coz "its not of any use to the office, since we use,we have to buy our own"
All this for Rs. 1500/-, no conveyence, no public holidays, we get our cheques after the 16th of the next month, he says he has no balance, when actually he earns in lakhs p.m.
If we refuse to do any of the above, he threatens us (all sorts of threats). The main problem I face is that our staff (articles) are not co-operative, Each fear for themselves. So I have to shut up. You must have heard "Sanghatan mein shakti hai, akele mein phat - ti hai". I can tell you a lot of horror stories, I can write a book!. The CA Institute takes the side of the CA's, whom can we complain to....?
WE ARE TREATED WORSE THAN SERVANTS AND THE INSTITUTE HAS MADE THINGS WORSE BY CANCELLING TRANSFERS! WE ARE TRAPPED.
All I can say to you is HANG IN THERE DUDE, Look at my condition and console yourself, you are much better off. All the best!!