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I can’t find an online link to it, but I’ve been reading an article from Sunday, the supplement to the Sunday Star Times. (I didn’t buy it; my flatmate left it lying around.) The article is about the psycho boss<\/em>. I had one of them, followed by the greatest boss I’ve ever had when I moved to Auckland. Then there’s my current job…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The psycho had my direct supervisor cowed, and he acted similarly. One day, while I was at work, my mother fell over in a supermarket not too far away. The supermarket staff called me, and I was able to walk the few blocks to get her. After taking her home, I returned to work in about 45 minutes. After I returned to work, I was called aside and told that while I had responsibilities to my mother, I also had responsibilities to work. I don’t think he was happy a few months earlier when I went home to help admit her to the hospital as the doctor ordered. She hated the ambulances. After she died, I felt like saying to him that he no longer had to worry about me needing to interrupt my work responsibilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can’t find an online link to it, but I’ve been reading an article from Sunday, the supplement to the Sunday Star Times. (I didn’t buy it; my flatmate left it lying around.) The article is about the psycho boss. I had one of them, followed by the greatest boss I’ve ever had when I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"1","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-background"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":89,"url":"https:\/\/shadowfoot.com\/footprint\/2004\/09\/22\/family\/","url_meta":{"origin":99,"position":0},"title":"Family","author":"Brian","date":"22 September 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I tuned in halfway through to TV One's News Debate: The State of The New Zealand Family. The debate needed to be about parenting, not families. I grew up in a loving family. It wasn't a nuclear family, not after my father died when I was six. My mother raised\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Family"","block_context":{"text":"Family","link":"https:\/\/shadowfoot.com\/footprint\/category\/family\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":57,"url":"https:\/\/shadowfoot.com\/footprint\/2004\/09\/05\/lazy-sunday\/","url_meta":{"origin":99,"position":1},"title":"Lazy Sunday","author":"Brian","date":"5 September 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Today was a quiet day. Returned some DVDs, hired some more, including Predator, just to have a background on the nasty for when I go to see Alien Vs. Predator. I wasn't that impressed with Predator, and going by that I would expect the new movie to be a mismatch\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Day to day"","block_context":{"text":"Day to day","link":"https:\/\/shadowfoot.com\/footprint\/category\/verity\/day-to-day\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":69,"url":"https:\/\/shadowfoot.com\/footprint\/2004\/09\/10\/bourne-supremacy\/","url_meta":{"origin":99,"position":2},"title":"Bourne Supremacy","author":"Brian","date":"10 September 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I am too analytical when it comes to movies. I'm also addicted to blogging. While watching The Bourne Supremacy I was thinking about how I would write this up. For this reason, I resisted posting until twenty hours after the movie. A few years ago, I had a flatmate studying\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Movies"","block_context":{"text":"Movies","link":"https:\/\/shadowfoot.com\/footprint\/category\/entertainment\/movies\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":30,"url":"https:\/\/shadowfoot.com\/footprint\/2004\/08\/20\/my_day_off\/","url_meta":{"origin":99,"position":3},"title":"My day off","author":"Brian","date":"20 August 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Friday is my day off, giving me a long weekend. I picked up my replacement briefcase, returned the crutches to the hospital (I'm still limping a bit), and forgot to look at new bicycle options. I did some grocery shopping and got some more\u00a0gingerbread ice cream. It is a limited\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Day to day"","block_context":{"text":"Day to day","link":"https:\/\/shadowfoot.com\/footprint\/category\/verity\/day-to-day\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":117,"url":"https:\/\/shadowfoot.com\/footprint\/2004\/10\/15\/birthdays\/","url_meta":{"origin":99,"position":4},"title":"Birthdays","author":"Brian","date":"15 October 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"On the day I was born Elvis Presley had the both the UK top single with \"Good Luck Charm\" and the UK top album with \"Blue Hawaii (OST)\". Thanks to Alistair for the link. Nine days later and Blue Hawaii had been knocked off the top. I don't know if\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Music"","block_context":{"text":"Music","link":"https:\/\/shadowfoot.com\/footprint\/category\/entertainment\/music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":76,"url":"https:\/\/shadowfoot.com\/footprint\/2004\/09\/15\/my-left-foot\/","url_meta":{"origin":99,"position":5},"title":"My Left Foot","author":"Brian","date":"15 September 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"That title will screw up people's expectations in the search engines. I'm already making the title of each entry a permalink to the individual post, and as a

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