AIBU to think my boss Andy is the worst boss EVER! Plus a hero complex and a weird love of clocks?

[MiscellaneousAssortment]

... Ever ever ever to share a museum or more importantly, a job with?!

I was so excited when I started work on the Argentinosaurus and egg exhibit at the National Museum. Who would have thought my first ever job as Junior Curator, prehistory gallery, would have ended up like this?!

AIBU to think my Line manager has yet to show any core competencies for our profession, is a terrible manager, a terrible role model for someone just starting out and most worryingly, is going to lose us both our jobs any day now?!

His hero complex is driving me up the wall, and the way he keeps skulking around that grandfather clock is a bit weird.

I'm also starting to think he might sleep at the museum, given his unwashed and rumpled attire. And his long winded 'adventures' don't seem quite erm, plausible to me?

So, my anxiety levels are sky high, with the white knuckle duster ride of one slipshod work disaster after another on Every Single Exhibit.

Night after night, just when I'm just sloping off for a hot date/ warm bath and an early night, prior to 'the big opening' Andy somehow balls it up again.

Or the other minimum wage zero hour contract slave/ cleaner/ klutz that no one ever sees coming or actually communicates with. And by way of a side point, why doesn't anyone ever tell that poor man what he can and cannot mop/ spray/ squeegee? I try but I have my hands full 'managing up' that cheerful technophobe Andy.

Only tonight was there another balls up with a bucket and a Paraceratherium footprint, but no getting the measurements off the net, apparently that was too tricky, and now he's sent me home whilst rubbing his nose in a disturbingly conspiratorial fashion, it's driving me crazy!

Night after night, Andy carefully explains why none of my ideas will work and that with no prospect of repairing the disasters, we're all doomed, before cheerfully waving me off for a night of nail biting tension and 'ooh will my job still be there in the morning' wakeful midnight musings.

Then when it seems like at last the ruddy incompetent fool has bungled his and my job's out the window, he 'saves the day' again. Single handedly. And improbably.

With a demanding boss (Mrs Pickles) who appears to be a bad combination of The Money and an enthusiastic collector / maker of terrible fake replica artifacts she insists on the dullest centre of an exhibit...

Poor me, I am Jen, Andys Assistant, stuck between the devil and the deep blue sea.

AIBU to resign (slightly after I've gone loco with a dinosaur bone)? Ooh, or rat him out and take over myself?!

[HeartShapedBox]

I quite like Andy's various adventures.

Better than bing bloody bunny, anyway.

Show me show me, on the other hand...

[TheFormidableMrsC]

Yesterday, I couldn't understand how he'd managed not to get squished while observing two fighting dinosaurs from 2 feet away. He then rode a dinosaur. As you do.

[SalemSaberhagen]

Andy always has a slightly desperate look about him. Still, at least he isn't Ben I bloody can't stand Ben

[MiscellaneousAssortment]

Fatima whitbread? Snort!

Cough medicine is a gateway drug, im hunting out the remains of the Christmas sherry as I type...

I loved Hatty, and yes why did Andy keep her out of all those amazing dinosaur experiences?

I wish they'd kept Hatty (strong female role in a position of authority anyone?!) ... But nooo, now it's Mrs pickles, who's husband runs the zoo in the first series I think? And nice but learning Jen introduced as 'Andys assistant'.

By the way, what on earth was going on in the photo/ picture replacement oddness?! First it's a picture done by Mrs Pickles, which took her 'ages' to do. Then it can be replaced by a digital printout of a Dino in a different scene ?!?! What??? Plot holes so big even a child could fall in surely?

Oh reminds self about sherry...

[RubbishRobotFromTheDawnOfTime]

Isn't it pretty obvious it's a kids' TV show? The OP wasn't really trying to hide that. Why bother commenting to say you don't know about it?

No, why would it be obvious to those of us who don't watch kid's TV shows? confused

My kids are teens/adult, so thankfully I haven't had to suffer CBeebies for many years.

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So it sounds like a real life situation to you Worra? Where do you live?

[CalleighDoodle]

I thought Hatty was Andy's boss .

I too thought it cruel he never told hattie about the clock. Nobody told him to keep it a secret.

[StillStayingClassySanDiego]

No it's not obvious it's a kids show.

Some of us have done our time watching tat on the telly.

these threads are a pain in the arse.

Need more coffee.

[StillStayingClassySanDiego]

Take it toTelly Addicts.

[Playthegameout]

Yabu ds i loves Andy !

[DontCareHowIWantItNow]

Isn't it pretty obvious it's a kids' TV show?

No it isn't

[VenusInFauxFurs]

I love Cbeebies threads. Even though my dd is an adult and my nephews and nieces are all past cbeebies age. LOVE the Topsy and Tim rage on other parts of the board.

I was shocked on a recent date that a 48 year old man who 'd never had kids didn't know who Justin Fletcher was.

[lighteningirl]

I love these threads
1 they are a great in joke if you get them
2 the pompous thread police arrive and generally get spanked by those in on the joke
3 it shows me a different view of the world or is this case a world I have escaped

Twenty five years later I still twitch and shiver in horror at the Thomas Tank Engine theme song which played every two and half minutes for an endless awful chickenpox black death day in 1991

[colleysmill]

What did happen to Hattie?

[bakeoffcake]

My word, I sincerely hope you've had some sleep OP and the cough medicine has worn off

[SatsukiKusakabe]

They've switched things around, seems Andy's been promoted. Like Postman Pat before him he seems to emerge from his acts of gross incompetence a 'hero', so they've put him in charge.

Is Mrs Pickles married to Mr Pickles who was his boss at the zoo?

I always thought there was a frisson between Andy and Hattie "I knew I could count on you, Andy" maybe things got awkward and they arranged a transfer.

Perhaps he did show her his clock.

[Bettercallsaul1]

On a children's show, Satsuki? Surely not!

[MiscellaneousAssortment]

"Perhaps he did show her his clock"

Ooh naughty Andy!

I must have been gone with the fairies last night to post in AIBU :)

The Andy content I'm still wearing without shame though. His promotion is undeserved and Hattie I hope has gone on to better things as she was the only one holding that museum together! Perhaps she's on a dig in Eygpt, or hiking across the steppes of Kazakhstan.., using her own well packed rucksack for a change. Honestly the cheek of that man, stealing her well equipped and maintained rucksack all the time! He seems to have got a slightly weirdy quasi magical bag with items like a ladder squished inside... Snorts again. He has to rely on magic now and children's willingness to believe in his 'sort of science sort of cheating and made up' world. Hattie wouldn't have allowed it.

Have spend my day catching up with work at home whilst snotty child mooches about feeling sorry for himself.

I'm not looking forwards to another coughing, snot and phlegm filled night though. Bet DS asks for Andy again.

And the worst thing... Drank the dregs of the Xmas sherry last night and now the house is dry. Waaaah.

[lizzydrippingsghost]

i only opened the thread cos i read a weird love of cocks
leaves thread in a huff

[AllThePrettySeahorses]

I wish they'd kept Hatty

Has she gone?

I always wanted her and Andy to get together in lieu of me because I think he's hot

[ManneryTowers]

You would give Mr Bloom one though. Come on. Lovely

[RatOnnaStick]

This made me laugh OP, due to the fact that I, too, have had various prehistoric and/or dinosaur adventures in my ears for what seems like Ever. I asked DS1 in the car what his favourite tune at the moment was and he said Andy's Prehistoric Adventures, followed by Andy's Dinosaur Adventures, followed by Ghostbusters.

We met Andy at a festival thing one summer. He's lovely actually and was very nice to my children who froze to the spot in awe.

[SatsukiKusakabe]

mannerytowers "meet the veggies" is not a euphemism.

[CalleighDoodle]

When my dd had chickenpox at 9months old, i ended day one of the pox by thinking id love to live in Baby Jake's house and have a holiday home in Balamory.

[ManneryTowers]

Phnar phnar....knobbly russets anyone?