I hate my smoke detector in the kitchen. Everytime I have to use the oven above 400 degrees, it goes off. Forget about using my wok ! Anyone know a brand that will protect me from the bad smoke but won't go off when cooking?
Simply say, No. Bad boss! And then lightly hit him over the nose with a newspaper.
Is there a Human Resources department at your company? If so, talk to someone there about the issue. Or at least let them know you're going to talk to him about it. Then tell him that you are uncomfortable with his requests and that they are no in your job description. Tell him you'd rather do the job you were hired to do. You have the right to do the job you were hired to do and not just do the crap work he doesn't want to do or other things you weren't hired to do. Be mature and matter of fact about it other than saying you're uncomfortable, don't bring feelings into it. Stick to the letter of your job description.
Both are relatively (pun intended) easy to explain. Special: Space and time adjust to keep the speed of light in a vacuum, C, invariant no matter what the observer or source of the light are, or what they are doing as long as neither is accelerating relative to the other. General: Mass, energy, stress, or some combination of these sources bend space and slow time to cause the effects we attribute to gravityacceleration and attraction. In this theory, relative acceleration is allowed, which is why it's general, the acceleration restriction of the special has been removed. For interesting, entertaining, non math reading on both theories, as well as string theory, I recommend The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene, who has also done a PBS series of the same name.
Monkey f, are you actually cleaning the bathrooms where you work? If you are not only are you endangering yourself, but also the company you work for (since you do seem to have an above-average loyalty to them, as your post suggests). 1. If your company leases their offices, NOONE in your office is ALLOWED to clean the bathrooms. If you were to do something wrong and God forbid the bathroom got flooded/damaged, you or your company would end up paying for it, since it is not your resonsibility to clean it in the legal contract. 2. If your company does own the offices, including the bathrooms, you better be provided all of the benefits that a janitor recieves, not only under their insurance, but also when it comes to being trained and provided access to all of the safety equipment (gloves, ect.). Otherwise you may be endangering both your own well being and your precious company's. To answer the original question, I think it depends on the severity of what is being asked of you, there are some things that you could do in addition, while there are others you wouldn't have the authority to do. And when you get alled out by some higher up, if won't be your boss answering for it, it will be you. Just remember, be polite, but also be firm and ask for respect.
Tell him that you're busy, and then act busy. Also, you could slink around the office humming the Mission Impossible theme and hope that he thinks you're too incompetent to handle extra tasks. Just basically try to qualify as clinically insane, and chances are he'll find someone who seems smarter instead.
