The manager would have been much more clever had he said "You're right, I'm not the boss of you...because you're fired!" lol.
Actually I do have a story.
I was working as a waitress for a greek restaurant that had recently opened. I was a great waitress, in fact every waitressing job I acquired after this one (which was my first) found me an invaluable employee. But I digress.
I was a college student at the time and I happened to work with a woman who was...well quite a bit older than me. In fact she was even older than I am now. She had a problem with me from the very beginning, though I will admit that one comment I made did not help the situation. I think it was something along the lines of "Have you always been a waitress?" Fairly benign, but since she wasn't my biggest fan to begin with, she took this to mean I was calling her old, or some such thing. Needless to say she was downright rotten to me after this...for a whole three days until I was called into the manager's office. Who told me that piggyback rides through the restaurant by other employees was not appropriate behavior. Um, what? I had not ever had a piggyback ride by any of my co-workers at any point. Of course I stated this. When I learned who I supposedly got a piggyback ride from- a dishwasher who went by Opie- I knew exactly who had made up this story, since the older woman was also not a big fan of his either. I declared this to the manager, told her that the entire story was a fabrication because this woman disliked both myself and Opie (from what I remember of Ope, he was a funny guy, though sometimes his humor ran on the offensive side, and apparently he'd offended said Older Woman)
I was told by the manager that as it was my word against a respectable employee who had been there longer she was forced to make an executive decision. Needless to say, I think I was more pissed off that I was essentially being called a liar on top of an irresponsible employee.
I walked out and watched as Opie walked in. I knew what was about to happen and a grand idea occurred to me. When he came out, he was red in the face and immediately said, "That fucking bitch, is she here today?" Conviently for her, she was not. Or at least if she was, she was in hiding. I calmed him down and said, "Well, if we're going to be fired for something we haven't done....
He completely agreed. We were both still wearing our uniforms as he gave me a piggyback ride through a full house, and of course him, being well him, said a great deal of "lovely" things about the restaurant and its food as we made several passes through the dining room.
Hahaha! Thanks for reminding me of this story, that was some fun times!
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LOL. Awesome story! It was so awesome to have a job you did not need. That WTF attitude gives you so much power to stand up to nonsense.
Did Opie land on his feet?
I somehow missed this reply, the last two weeks were really hard trying to keep up with everything, but happily things have gotten back to normal :)
I agree, it was actually fun to work during that time period, when you could do like @meesterboom's post and tell your boss to 'shove this ten foot pole up your hole" hahaha!
Sadly, I lost track of Opie, we knew each other before social media and I don't recall his last name, so I can't even look him put him up and check. But he was a really smart kid (smart asses generally are LOL) so I'm pretty confident he turned out just fine :)
Ugh, I hate judging by seniority. Makes you think why she was still a waitress at her age, huh. It's great that you fulfilled the fabricated story hahaha!! I really enjoy reading about grand exits like these. Makes me wish I had been fired more hahaha!