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Awful awards dinner with our MD

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JustJacobs · 25/07/2025 19:11

I won a Q1 award along with a few others and one of the ‘prizes’ was a lunch with the MD at a fairly posh local restaurant. This took place yesterday.

I was shocked by how the MD spoke about various subjects. I’ve had minimal dealings with him but was so taken aback.

A comment about the change in catering supplier at our office - says it’s healthier now and ‘that’s reflected in the waistlines of many of our colleagues’ and that he was considering making a weight watchers subscription a flexible benefit!

He said he has been doing these lunches for years but had to change venue due to a previous restaurant being part of a hotel which temporarily hosted asylum seekers. It re-opened but he says he won’t attend out of principle and then went on a rant about the government being woke and rolling out the red carpet!

His other comment was about ‘dole dossers’ and saying his SIL is a lazy sod. Just bizarre.

AIBU to be a tad perplexed?!

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GrumpyInsomniac · 25/07/2025 19:12

Well, I’d be dusting off my CV. Ugh.

Soonenough · 25/07/2025 19:13

Sounds like a guy out of a very bad sitcom. Unless you want to quit just walk away when he starts .

Arlanymor · 25/07/2025 19:15

Sounds like the opposite of a prize to me. That said he could win an award for being a prize plonker.

Ugh.

Hopefully you don't have much to do with him if you like your job and want to stay? I once worked with an awful MD, but our company was tiny and I had to see her on a daily basis. I stayed for the shortest time I could and left a year to the day I arrived.

JustJacobs · 25/07/2025 19:28

Arlanymor · 25/07/2025 19:15

Sounds like the opposite of a prize to me. That said he could win an award for being a prize plonker.

Ugh.

Hopefully you don't have much to do with him if you like your job and want to stay? I once worked with an awful MD, but our company was tiny and I had to see her on a daily basis. I stayed for the shortest time I could and left a year to the day I arrived.

Yeah I do like my job, and fortunately my dealings with him are minimal!

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Arlanymor · 25/07/2025 19:49

JustJacobs · 25/07/2025 19:28

Yeah I do like my job, and fortunately my dealings with him are minimal!

I'd stick at it then - only might need to reconsider if you have more dealings with him or if he says something that is truly outrageous and can't be just written off as 'Silly duffer', but is much more offensive.

TryingAgainAgainAgain · 25/07/2025 19:51

What kind of twat offers dinner with himself as a prize?! The hubris.

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