Chris’s history of tricky bosses continues with TingTing the cat
Chris Pascoe’s Fun Tales
I’ve been working for a joker this past week. I’ve been employed by a few “jokers” during the course of my working life, including one boss who set up a business with a £35,000 loan, employed me (first mistake) and then spent £30,000 on new cars and promptly went bankrupt.
Good going, but even that probably doesn’t beat the antics of my very last boss who bankrupted his company by suddenly deciding to spend a small fortune on completely refurbishing our offices.
What made this idea significantly worse was that the offices he completely ripped out, rebuilt, recarpeted, fitted with every mod con, adding a partition wall and a state-of-the-art new staff room… were rented… from someone else.
Why on earth would anybody of sound mind spend all his money on beautifying an office which he didn’t actually own?
When the lessor saw what had been done, he evicted us for breaking the terms of the rental agreement. Apparently, you’re not allowed to spend thousands on completely changing someone else’s property… who knew?
Of course, one common denominator regarding these two hapless chaps was that they somehow decided to give me a job despite having had the opportunity to send me packing at the interview stage, so the above statement “of sound mind” doesn’t really apply, I suppose.
The new joker I’m currently being employed by is a very different proposition altogether. For a start, she’s not even human. She’s a cat.
Due to my cat-sitting day job demanding that I undertake cat-sitting duties now and then, cat TingTing’s owners left me at her mercy for two whole weeks while they jetted happily off to the Caribbean (all right for some).
TingTing is a “joker” in the literal sense of the word – a practical joker, a prankster, which is something quite unusual for a cat in my experience.
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