The image is formatted in a tweet with image format. The caption says “handle with care” over two pictures. The first picture is of an Amazon package with “fragile” written in sharpie. The second picture is on the inside the box with a paper and the text “a middle manager’s ego” on it.
I had a boss who never gave me a raise, didn’t believe in reviews, and had long rambling meetings where he just said whatever he was thinking. Sometimes it seemed he forgot we were there, and he’d start arguing with himself. He was more “the insecure nerd who got the CTO position because he was the only IT guy when the company started.” His management was so incompetent, that they called him “Tallest,” based on the Invader Zim joke.
I quit, gave 30 days notice, set about training my replacements and one of the bosses fired me 2 weeks into that period. They ended up owing me money.
It basically let me take a year off of work and just try out different kinds of art.
Back when I was working retail, my boss had a thing about clip boards, thinking they looked important or something, I was doing a stock check of the section I was I charge of using shockingly a clip board. He came out started complaining he NEEDED the clip board right there and then, took it off me and proceeded to walk around the rest of the day with said clip board with some plain paper clipped to it. It was really strange I have no idea how he was even our manager, he couldn’t even cash up let alone do any of the daily paper work our assistant manager did it all.
It always baffles me that no company has enough clipboards, despite them costing about a dollar each.
Worked with a guy who was told no by the CFO for one of his lame promo ideas, and his response was to slam the phone down, grab a wooden yard stick, and start whaling on one of the fake columns out on his show floor for several minutes before it broke in half and he stormed out.
I’m currently working on a cleanup project, and another manager with whom we closely work volunteered some of his people to assist.
After providing a status update to my manager this morning, I let him know that I was unsure of the status for one of the people from the other team. I hit her up on teams earlier and asked, but she’d been away for over 22 hours and hadn’t responded. He tells me to call her, so I do, and leave her a voicemail.
“Call until she answers. No answer is unacceptable unless she’s on PTO.”
