Seinfeld places a lot of importance on where the gang works and who it works with, except for Kramer, of course. Elaine, Jerry, and George are seeing struggling at their workplaces with their bosses. Some of the bosses are pleasant. Others, not so much. George is known to have drugged one of his bosses, but he certainly loved eating Calzones for lunch. Thanks Mr. Steinbrenner!
Seinfeldexperimented a lot with the bosses as minor characters. The eccentric Mr. Pitt will always be remembered for his Hitler-esque talk to annex Poland spring, J. Peterman for his charm, Steinbrenner for his love of Calzones. There are a number of bosses that the gang worked for. We decided to count the best of those, today.
Susan Ross
George found himself a woman who championed his show at NBC headquarters and dated him on the side. Jerry and George got hired to do the NBC pilot solely because of Susan Ross. Russell Dalrymple placed a great deal of confidence in Susan’s judgment. In turn, Susan had faith in George. Susan liked George, she was behind the idea.
What NBC executive walks into your apartment to give you the good news only to be vomited on? Susan didn’t mind Kramer’s vomit. She stood by the show and made a strong case to Russell Dalrymple, still.
Calvin Klein
Kramer barged into Calvin’s office to talk about his stolen idea of perfume, The Beach. One of Calvin’s flunkies had essentially stolen Kramer’s idea of bottling the smell of the beach. A year ago, Kramer had walked-in to Calvin’s office with this idea. Only the flunky had laughed at him.
Neither of the guys wanted any trouble. As Kramer complained, Calvin found his face interesting. He went onto praise Kramer for his live and graceful body. Calvin went on and on about how lean, but muscular Kramer was. At one point Calvin used the word “spectacular” for Kramer. Calvin and his two executives got Kramer into the studio immediately. Next thing you know Kramer was on the magazine for the underwear advertisement. What an amazing boss C.K was to Kramer!
Justin Pitt
Justin Pitt, formally known as Mr. Pitt was Elaine’s uptight boss who hired her after exclaiming the word, “Charmed!” Later the two sat at Monk’s Cafe to discuss terms of Elaine’s employment. Justin Pitt found Elaine to be an uncanny copy of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, even the eyes. He immediately offered Elaine to be his personal assistant, with the same pay as Pendant. Mr. Pitt may have acted nervy with Elaine, such as making her look for a perfect pair of socks, removing salt from his pretzel sticks. But he did amend his will to include Elaine as a beneficiary.
Mr. Pitt thought of Elaine as a part of his family, she had come to be like a daughter to him. He wanted to make sure Elaine was taken care of after he was gone. Pitt and Elaine were like father and daughter. Unfortunately, a slight misunderstanding led Mr. Pitt to fire Elaine.
Mr. Tuttle
Mr. Tuttle worked at a small and fairly progressive company called Sanalac. Sanalac had a prestigious pool of clients. Tuttle conducted a friendly interview with George. He found him funny and very quick. Tuttle proceeded to say how he’d like George to have this job. After Tuttle uttered “of course,” he was cut by his secretary. Tuttle shook hands with George and that was that. So George didn’t know whether or not he had the job. He just showed up to work while Tuttle was away, claiming to work on Pensky file all week.
Mr. Tuttle only reprimanded George after discovering George had done nothing all week. George took it upon himself to quit. “Ta-ta Tut-tle,” said George before storming out of there.
Mr. Lippman
For a boss who hated his water ice-cold, Mr. Lippman wasn’t so bad. He always had a smug look on his face. Lippman mostly seemed unimpressed with Elaine. Maybe because Elaine made unimpressive decisions, such as that biography of Columbus.
But he did assign Elaine the responsibility of finding a reader at Pendant Publishing after one of their readers left. Elaine hired George. It’s another thing, Lippman had to fire George for sleeping with the cleaning woman. We love Mr. Lippman for throwing that sweater on George’s face.
Sid Farkus
Sid Farkus hired George as a bra-salesman in “The Sniffing Accountant.” He wanted to know if George had sold a woman’s line before. Sid immediately offered George the job at E.D Granmont. He wanted to see him start work from Monday at 9 am. Had it not been for George’s perverted habits, he’d have made it to the top at E.D Granmont.
As soon as George was appointed, he walked out of the office and touched his higher up by her coat sleeve. She was quick to call on Sid. We couldn’t blame Sid Farkus there. Sid was good to George throughout the interview, minus the firing incident.
Mr. Kruger
Kruger headed the Kruger Industrial Smoothing. After the interview, he could have gone either way on George, but he ended up hiring him. The reason was simple enough, he didn’t care! Just as George got hired, he saw Kruger’s beach family photo, with him photobombing them. It was at the beach, during the summer of ’89, Kruger and his sons had taken all of Goerge’s stuff and thrown it into the ocean. They had ended up blaming George for it.
Kruger was lazier and nonchalant than George could ever be. His company was horrible, there was no management whatsoever. Kruger Industrial Smoothing was known for the botched Statue of Liberty job. George could go hog-wild in there!
Russell Dalrymple
Russell Dalrymple played The President of NBC. He considered hiring Jerry and George to do a pilot for the network. He held his NBC executives at high esteem. Russell was smart, calm and composed. He posed a lot of intelligent questions to George and Jerry. Russell began by enquiring about George’s work background.
Very humbly, Russell asked if George had written something he and his executives might know. He had his reservations about George’s idea of reading on the show, but he did want to know about the stories. For a guy who’d been ambushed in his own apartment by George, Russell was pretty considerate to give him another chance.
The Postmaster General Henry Atkins
The Postmaster General drove all the way from DC just to talk to Kramer. Such was the work ethic of the man. The story goes something like this: fed up of unending Pottery Barn catalogs, Karmer decided to cut the mail altogether. He went down to the post office and made a stink about the mail. Newman tried to warn him in ways, indirectly telling him he may be kidnapped one day and that’d be it.
Finally, Postmaster General took Kramer in, to question him. The poor man had to cancel a round of golf with The Secretary of state just to talk to Kramer. In addition to being pretty damn serious about his job as a postmaster, Atkins was a General. And it is the job of a General to, by God, get things done. He threatened Kramer to continue getting his mail and left him with a warning.
J. Peterman
J. Peterman undoubtedly has to be the winner amongst all the bosses on Seinfeld. He was fun to be around. He wasn’t the kind of boss who’d comfort you if he saw you crying on the roadside. But he would ask you about your coat, which he indeed designed. Peterman was anything but cruel. He’d traveled throughout, Burma to Mexico. He used his travels to advertise products in the J. Peterman Catalog.
Peterman was funny, charming, witty and eccentric. He was the kind of boss who’d drop everything to take you to watch The English Patient with him. He’d fire you if you didn’t like it, and rehire you if you agreed to go to Tunisia to live in a cave. Evidently J.Peterman drew inspiration from escapades.
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