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...This is the same person who never answers his phone before 9:30 a.m. because he hates having to listen to all the "whiny people-crap excuses" the slacker employees come up with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Talk Back: Office Horror Stories | 3/20/2006 | See Source »

...BlackBerry-how about my boss writing emails during my annual review! I stopped talking and he looked up at me like I was dumb for not continuing. He starts waving his hand, gesturing, while telling me urgently to "Go on." What is that about? Not to mention his phone-answering. During a meeting he was sitting in on, with one of my biggest customers, he picked up the phone and made a call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Talk Back: Office Horror Stories | 3/20/2006 | See Source »

...last, and just most annoying, of all, he will walk into my tiny cubicle, not paying attention to what I am doing-oftentimes when I am on the phone, mid-sentence with a customer-and whack me on the arm to get my attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Talk Back: Office Horror Stories | 3/20/2006 | See Source »

...There's this guy I know from Stanford. He was chief operating officer of something called PayPal, which was sold to eBay for $1.4 billion. Now he wants to get into moviemaking and wants to make Thank You for Smoking." I told him my absolute rule is to accept phone calls from people worth $1.4 billion who want to make my novels into movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Break into Movies in Only 12 Years | 3/20/2006 | See Source »

Shin Corp. owns Thai mobile-phone operator AIS as well as a major television network...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brother, Where Art Thou? | 3/20/2006 | See Source »

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