I was shocked when a friend said this about manager

[crunchymint]

I know my friend has been having a hard time at work, but I was shocked when she said she was tempted to mow her boss down with her car when she saw him walking to his car after work. Obviously she didn't, but I was still shocked that she wanted to.

We all saw things in frustration we don’t mean, especially if the person provoking you is making life hard for you...sounds lol she was just letting off some steam about a hard day. Have you never said something like that in frustration OP?

It was a bit overdramatic. But don't take it too literally.

I'd love to do this all the time!

BakedBeans that really made me laugh!!

People do snap. An ex-friend's husband has been sectioned. He talked about killing everyone at work after he lost his job. He was very mild mannered. He tried. He failed.

No one actually believed he'd try.

I think you should get her to see someone professionally and really push her to find another job. She sounds like she needs support.

She makes one comment and she needs to speak to a professional?!

Jeez what an over reaction.

I have had more than my fair share of bullying in my life. In particular, the three witches from my last job (I am retired now thank god), the shouting ranting finger wagging arsehole that I had to put up with for four years and last but not least the arsehole of a consultant psychiatrist who not only misdiagnosed me but showed very plainly his disdain for me as a person.

My fantasy was to shoot them in the guts with a Purdy shotgun having taunted them first that they were going to die. As I have got bipolar I began to worry about this fantasy although I knew that as I have never been violent it was unlikely I would ever do it. Apart from anything else, I have never learned to shoot and the recoil would send me backwards.

I didn't want to give this violent fantasy headspace, so I came up with something really ridiculous that could never happen. In the fantasy my bêtes noire are walking down the street together and don't know I am behind them. They also don't know that I know a magic word which will humiliate them totally.

I say the word and their clothes below the waist disappear to be replaced by voluminous shocking pink knee-breeches with big red hearts on them. The people around start jeering and catcalling "Oi! Knickers!" When they look down they can see only their normal clothes, so can't understand it.

They also don't know that I know a second magic word which I could, if I wished, say which would restore their appearance to normality.

I choose not to. ( Oi! Knickers! )

I would be quite happy for the OP to tell her friend about this so she can borrow it if she wants to!

Like a PP I also ran over my xdh foot. He deserved it and it’s still one of my most treasured memories.

Stop being so dramatic. What are you going to do, report her to HR and cause a PC shit storm for her as a result of one flippant comment? Pack it in.

I hear her. I have voodoo dolls though. Some people are horrors to work with.

MoKnickers - a virtual handshake to you!!

To joke about killing someone reveals that you are a complete arse.

I remember a while back reading about a man who had an argument with a colleague, he waited for him in a park after work and killed him. He stabbed him to death,so it does happen.He went to prison.

To joke about killing someone reveals that you are a complete arse.

To call someone who jokes about killing someone a complete arse means you are a complete tightarse.

crunchymint if she were planning on doing it she is hardly likely to tel anyone. she was upset and said it in the heat of the moment. not a nice thing to say at all, but nothing to worry about.

i recall a thread on MN ages ago entiled "AIBU to cut of DH's dick with a rusty knife?" or something along those lines. Turns out the OP had discovered evidence he was cheating on her and was understandably very distressed. i doubt for a moment anyone thought she would do anythig of the kind

Rudgie I completely agree that it does but i would be surprised if the murderer mentioned it ato anyone beforehand. although that would not be impossible. just unlikely.

You make me lol so hard about running on u ex foot. Can u let us know what happened after ? My soon to be ex my need to be careful how he talks to me from now on!😂😂

I worked with a vile and bullying manipulative boss. If l could have deleted them from existence l would.

Well in my case I was parked in a car park with no way of leaving except reversing. He’d followed me there, had got out of his car and was haranguing me through my driver side window. I’d asked him several times to go away, leave me alone and let me leave. He refused and uttered the immortal words “You’ll have to run over my foot then”. So I did.

I used to work for a horrible, bullying man. He was grossly overweight and a few jokes went between me and my line manager about said boss choking on a chicken wing and what a shame it would be...

The boss was eventually fired for sexually harrassing a 19 year old boy who turned down his advances.

Cracker...Did you do anything about it?

I worked with a vile and bullying manipulative boss. If l could have deleted them from existence l would

Stephen King's Word Processor Of The Gods would come in handy for a lot of us here, I think.

Ilkboo l might look for that lol
Years later and l still feel the same.

God, I've had SO MANY fantasies of bumping certain people off!... bullies at school, bullying parents, bully boss, bully ex.

Also, a horrid colleague who was sexist and openly vile about women, had no problem in telling me how he w*nked off to teen porn everyday and even admitted to following around young girls wearing short skirts in his car. He was verbally aggressive and very quick to temper, lazy, scrounging and just so fundamentally unlikeable. I've never disliked a work colleague quite so deeply. In fact he pushed me so far I took voluntary redundancy and felt sheer relief at never having to work with that foul man ever again.

Being physically small, fairly quiet and too nice for my own good has attracted many bullies and pisstakers my way. The only way I've been able to keep myself from going off on a murderous spree IRL is to allow my imagination to run wild. And most of the time it really is just fantasy that I've never really meant, the fantasising has just brought me some cathartic mental relief. But, with my bully ex who put me through some serious hell, I actually meant it. I really wanted it. At that time I had grown to truly despise the man and I really wished he could be wiped off this Earth. Only the certainty of a life in prison, and him ruining my life further, kept me from doing it.

Luckily those feelings are well and truly burnt out as it was several years ago. Now I feel absolutely nothing for him. But I shock myself to think how genuinely murderous I felt back then.

But everyone has a breaking point, and sadly I was pushed very close to mine.

Read the preface to SueGrafton’s alphabet detective novels. The motive for her starting to write them was the fantasies she was havin about murdering her exH. Made her a fortune and kept her from ending up in prison