WHO'S The Boss?
October 17, 2012 A lot of crappy cakes were brought into workplaces yesterday, thereby inspiring a veritable plethora of "creative reasoning sessions." And so, I give you:
The Top Five Excuses For a Boss's Day Wreck
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"Diane in accounting ordered it."
"Er, the extra 'E' is for 'EXPEDIENCY.' Or 'EXCELLENCE.' Or 'EMPOWER..."
"Bingo, sir."
(Please tell me someone else out there remembers that Dilbert strip.)
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"Ah, well, we assume there's a person named Basses Day somewhere on this planet, and we just wanted to celebrate that person's birth! It doesn't always have to be about you, mkay? Please don't fire me."
"No, that's not a mistake! It's our little nickname for you - kind of a mashup between Boss and Moses. Because just like Moses, you lead us through hardship! In circles. Lots and lots of circles. Through a barren wasteland."
And the number one excuse for a Boss's Day Wreck IS...
"Hey, at least you got a cake this time! Remember how we forgot your birthday?!"
Thanks to Michelle O., Alan B., Hazel, Sylvia P., & Jackie W., who are technically all my bosses. Um...look, guys! I got you five pictures of cakes!
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Reader Comments (35)
I do! I remember that post! I also remember another more recent one where Dilbert complains about paradigm.
Sung to “I’m on Fire” by Bruce Springsteen (AKA “The Boss” – sorry, it’s early…)
Hey, everybody, put down your phones
This Nappy Boos cake just makes me groan, (mmm hmm)
It’s looking dire
(Whoa, oh, oh)
You’re all fired.
Tell me now, hey, does this look good to you?
“UnEmploymEnt” has an E or two (mmm hmm)
That’s what I desire
(Whoa, oh, oh)
You’re all fired.
You’ll have time for lots of fishing on Basses Day,
I’m adding eight more hours to your leisure each day.
Right now you’re probably having sheet cake regret
“Boses “ cake’s the cause of all your dread, (mmm hmm)
Make room for the new hires
(Whoa, oh, oh)
You’re all fired.
That’s my birthday desire…
To the tune of "I'm on Fire", with apologies to Bruce "The Boss" Springsteen:
Hey little girl leave that cake alone
Next year bring me one you made at home
Without plastic attire
Oh-oh-oh, or you’re fired.
Tell me now does this cake look good to you?
How do you give a day to “Nappy Boos”?
If I don’t retire
Oh-oh-oh, you’ll be fired.
Nappy Boos's Day!
Does that say..."Nappy Boos Day" ? OMG, Bwahahahaha; oh that's terrible......Bwahhahahhah!!
Hey, at least Dean is having a day, and it's like totally boss.
(sorry if this double posts. IE is being a c***e)
On that last one....I can't be sure those are flowers.
@zoomom -- Uh, that was scary. May I just say I thought your song choice was inspired? ;) We'll have to do a duet (besides this one, I mean...) someday.
I thought it was "bull-poopie bingo." When you got a bingo, you were supposed to stand up and yell "bull-poopie!"
@Sharyn - No kidding! I saw that and thought "Spooky! But very cool. We should collaborate."
So they're not celebrating those ghosts from Mario games? Or that new set of noise-cancelling headphones?
@Sharyn and zoomom XD XD XD what are the odds... those cakes are awful, who on earth is ordering them??
Happy Basses Day is what we celebrate right after Happy Soprano's day and Happy Alto's Day
Hahaha I love Dilbert! Come to think of it, I've never seen Dilbert and Co. on a cake wreck. Do you have any in your collection?
Sharyn and zoomom, pure genius!
I love that both Sharyn & Zoomom came up with the exact same song to play with today! And both are great! I am in awe of you both :-)
Glad to see I'm not the only one that was concerned about the "flowers" on the last cake. They remind me of decorations on the display cakes seen on here that are dusty and gross and have been sitting out too long. Something about the colors.
I love how not only did they use a crappy plastic tie, but they cut the tie in half and made it shorter so it would fit on the cake. And silver icing? Forget the spelling, this is enough of a wreck without it.
Those were boss.
You just don't understand... The third cake was for a boss whose birthday just HAPPENED to fall on the exact same day as Boss's day, so it was a "twofer". And the one below that was actually in celebration of superior quality sound systems!
No, really! I swear! The voices told me so! And they like exclamation points! Plus which, they're never wrong! (Well, except that one time...).
I wonder how many of those people ended up in the unemployment line after "Nappy Boos's Day"?
Sharyn & zoomom ~ great minds think alike! Awesome job, ladies!
CHECK OUT John as a supporting character in his costume in "Mary Worth". You must have a leak since that was drawn at least two weeks ago.
I'm sure Dean is just thrilled that he's included on that cake.
I really wish wreckorators wouldn't abbreviate 'birthday' down to 'B day' - I have absolutely no wish to be reminded of a bidet on what "should" be a celebration!
Isn't it spelled Boss' Day?
I am sending out a telepathic plea to Craig (or, you know, through the interweb; same thing): please get to work in the lab, stat! I believe that is the second time Sharyn has shared a psychic song wreck link with another commenter. These things happen in threes, so we need a device or sigil to protect the bunker from whatever this phenomenon portends.
Here's a quick lyric of warding from Charlie and The Chocolate Factory:
"Bosse's! Boos's!
I want a Boos. I want a Nappy Boos....
and ten thousand tons of ice cream!"
And for good measure, a little Frabjous Day quote from the Mad Hatter as played by Johnny Depp, for no other reason than it is fabulous and fun: "When that day comes I shall futterwacken... vigorously"
Isn't a nappy a baby's diaper? Those white things around the border kinda look like cloth nappies. Was this supposed to be a baby shower cake?
Yeah, Dean, we forgot the cake on your birthday, but we didn't forget the flowers. We wanted you to have both, though, so we just kept the flowers in the filing cabinet under 'B' (for Boss's Day, of course) until we got the cake. At the time, we didn't realize Boss's Day was 6 months after your birthday...
First source of awe: Sharyn and zoomom, parodying the same song. You two need to have a mind meld and take over the universe.
Second source of awe: the spiral decoration thingys on the fourth cake for Boses. "Hey! I know what makes me think of a boss or other authority figure: putrid green spirals, highlighted in orange, with blue mini-spirals adorning them! Perfect!"
And if those really are flowers on the last cake, they're made of human waste product and not fit for human consumption. Erk.
GREAT musical catch, kahie, for cake #3.
Regarding the cake #1, in spite of the color choices, did any one else think that the wording "Boos's Day" would be more appropriate for Halloween? Do ghosts celebrate Boos's Day?
Ah, I remember Bose's day - it was the day I got my awesome new 3 in on DVD-CR-Stereo thing that worked for a few weeks and then went haywire. It was a great day, while it lasted. Full of hope and plans for the future ...
@Andrea -- if it happens a third time, the Mayans may be right about that whole end of the world thing.
Lol at the first cake. Wow. Whoever bought that probably hoped no one would notice and would just cut into it and eat. But I would die laughing seeing it as I nearly did. Ahh boss's day. I am sure they adore getting weird cakes.
Has Theadare gotten ahold of BADKarma? Are we sure about the voices?
I just got done saying all the reasons I didn't get my boss anything for boss appreciation day, but now I'm a little upset I didn't get a Nappy Boos's Day cake.
hangs head
I am an evil, vicious person.
I not only remember that Bingo episode of Dilbert but I once made Office Bingo cards for a meeting. I didn't win.
Once we got corporate-office approved instant messaging*, some of us used to keep track of the numbers of "ums" and "y'knows" on long teleconferences.
I try much harder to be nice now.
(whispering: I fear karma)
*there is no bigger time suck than instant messaging (except Pintrest and that's blocked at work)
Late to the party, but i remember when Tom Davis at SGI created Buzzword bingo & then a few weeks later, it showed up in Dilbert. We all wondered how many of us sent it in :-)