What is the easiest task your boss is unable to do?

[Amelia Peabody]

Mine has sooooo many ( program voicemail etc. ) but the winner is:

Use dry correction tape. You run it on the paper and it covers. Period.

He will come to me and have me "erase" stuff like "Page 1"....
Honestly how hard can it be??

So what does yours need help with?

 

[MusiqChic99]

My boss used to not be able to email. He had no clue. Finally someone taught him....thankfully!

 

[ilovedisney1]

Sorry but that is

 

[DisneyBlonde]

Make eye contact? Speak to others as if they are human? Not make my skin crawl?

Ex-boss. Thank you very much.

 

[Philagoofy]

"So what does yours need help with?"

Not finding some minuscule thing to pick at in my work.

Actually, he usually has a good reason & he doesn't micromanage but when I do have to show him something I've done, I have to second guess myself, "did I do this right?", "which little thing is he going to find to criticize?" and even though he has a good explanation, it's not always really that important. A few times, after finding something to pick at, I held my ground & he admitted it was ok that way. But he's patient otherwise and I appreciate that.

Here's an example. He said that when I type an email, I shouldn't put two spaces after each period. How can that possibly matter? Why would anyone look that close. I've been typing that way for way more years then I'd like to admit, I'm not going to try & change now. My co-worker mentioned today that he told her also.

 

[NMAmy]

Use dry correction tape. You run it on the paper and it covers. Period.

He will come to me and have me "erase" stuff like "Page 1"....
Honestly how hard can it be??

I actually had to do this for someone the other day. So, apparently, Amelia, you and I hold the secret for dry correction tape use. It's nice to have a special talent, isn't it?

 

[Darsa]

Spell. That is the major thing my boss can't do. The myriad minor things she can't do I won't get into because it does crazy things to my stress levels.

 

[Hoodie]

My current one is ok, but my last didn't know how to turn on the computer. She could log on and use it, but didn't know how to physically turn it on.

 

[DisneymoonJess07]

She has no idea how our tech support works at all - and likes to pretend that she has this power to call them and make them come to us on command. For instance, she told me that she got the guy to come this morning for a problem, even though when I talked to him yesterday he said next week. In reality, he might be able to make it Friday morning, but that's certainly not today!!

Also, she doesn't budget for technology needs, so any time there is a problem, it's a crisis.

 

[Michelina]

Once my boss's assistant was out and he needed me to show him how to make the text red in Word!

 

[Mrs.Toad]

(this is an ex-boss, too, thankfully!)

Get up off his sorry butt, and/or pick up the phone to talk to you. Seriously, if he needed to talk to someone, he'd watch until they walked by his office, then yell out their name. If you didn't just happen to walk by within 10 minutes or so, he'd get annoyed. I don't know why it was so hard for him to pick up the phone that was about 18 inches from his hand and dial someone's extension to talk to them, but I guess it was. Sometimes he'd just yell names out his door in the hopes that someone heard him, usually his secretary did, and she'd call the person to tell them he wanted to talk to them.

 

[diznygirl]

My kids know how to use dry erase tape!

I was out sick and my boss called me at home to find the paper clips. But he did know how to use them.

 

[Fintastic]

My old boss used to walk RIGHT by the copy machine, drop papers on my desk, and ask me to make copies. I'm not talking a bunch, either. He could have done it himself in the time it took him to assign the task to me.

 

[Handbag Lady]

His job.

 

[ZephyrHawk]

Actually, my boss is pretty savvy, but I did blow him away once with my amazing use of "shortcut keys".

 

[Teresa Pitman]

I recently did a contract where the boss had finally mastered email, but could not figure out how to send attachments. He always worried that if he sent a document to someone by email, then he wouldn't have the document any more. So he'd call in the IT support people to come and attach documents to his emails for him.

Teresa

 

[Amelia Peabody]

I actually had to do this for someone the other day. So, apparently, Amelia, you and I hold the secret for dry correction tape use. It's nice to have a special talent, isn't it?

Oh yes - we should be on America's Got Talent. The Hoff would love us and every boss in the country would be amazed at our abilities.

 

[delilah]

I am a boss, a physician. I have all kinds of support staff that I pay to do all kinds of things to help my business run more effectively. You can bet your sweet patooty that I know how to do many of things that I pay my staff to do. But, 65% of my collections goes for overhead, and 75% of that goes to payroll, and I don't pay anybody to sit around and look pretty. I certainly don't pay anybody to behave disrespectfully. One ex-nurse in my office once told me she was "too busy" to schedule an MRI for one of my partners. Well, let me just say that she has plenty of free time now.

 

[cepmom]

use the intercom...or should I say he does know how, he just won't. He will call me on the phone and ask me to page the receiving guy to go outside and get carriages. The time it took him to call me and tell me to do that, he could have done it himself

 

[lucas]

Some of these are too funny!