re: Subtle things you do to piss off your boss.

My boss has a Sheldon Cooper -like tendency to repeat everything three times, so I cut him off after the second time.

Now that is a good one!

I have 3 jobs, 3 bosses, and am close friends with all of them.

Back in the day I would xerox yellow pages adds for hair club for men, escort services, etc and send them to him while he was in staff meetings.

I say ULL instead of UL

I let her know when she has done something incorrectly. It happens fairly often. Being significantly more intelligent than your boss can lead to a high level of work frustration.

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I saw this book at the mall "How to work for difficult people", every time I heard my boss coming, I'd pick it up like I was reading it. I knew I had won when he snatched it from me and yelled "I'm not difficult to work with".

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As a boss, I'd have snatched it and said "I need this book more than you do. No reading on the clock."

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Subtle things you do to piss off your boss.

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I don't acknowledge him as a leader and have told him he's in the wrong role. I'm sure it pisses him off but he's a powerless pimp that got his job because he was willing to do the paperwork of the role in order to hide the fact that he sucked in sales.

I had turned down the role four different times it was offered because I make 2-3 times his "manager's salary" in commissions. I've outsold him for years by many million$ every year, I have forged extensive business relationships in the government, in the military and in international defense contractors, and have now started making inroads into biotechnology and life science research organizations. He used to sell products to public school systems. He has no clue how to do or keep up with what I do and he's as useless as a set of salt and pepper shakers to a paraplegic.

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My former boss wanted all calls, including his own employees to go through his administrative assistant. Even though his office was a few doors down from mine and he was in his office, I had to call the assistant so she could "patch" me through to him.

The morning cleaning crew accidentally hit his extension from my phone when they were cleaning my desk. I had a stern "talking to" from my supervisor about it.

I figured out we had a spare phone line in a supply closet that no one really knew about. I hooked up a phone and when I dialed my extension, instead of saying the employee's name who was calling, it just said "Ext 244". I would dial his number a few time per day, let it ring once and hang up.

We had countless meetings on it and he put my supervisor in charge to find out where it was coming from. No one could ever find it. This went on for almost a month and then they put in a call to the phone company to find the line. Then the fun was over. Thankfully, he left a few years ago.

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Incredible.