Making life hell for my boss.

Braznor

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The fucking clown is a micromanaging POS and makes us waste our entire morning regurgitating things we already know. He says it takes only fifteen minutes of our daily time and then spends an hour ranting over one irrelevant crap or another.

The clown does not know what is about to hit him, we gonna make him pay.
 

pete6032

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The fucking clown is a micromanaging POS and makes us waste our entire morning regurgitating things we already know. He says it takes only fifteen minutes of our daily time and then spends an hour ranting over one irrelevant crap or another.

The clown does not know what is about to hit him, we gonna make him pay.
OK.
 

Perknose

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Did he ask you for the status of the status update report yet?
A committee has been formed to determine whether a status update committee is needed to discuss whether a status report on the status update report should be inaugurated.

The title of the proposed status report on the status update report will be decided by a special plenipotentiary, who will be chosen by an emergency, ad hoc, inter-departmental advisory panel which will include, but not be limited to, Janice, our receptionist, the entire after-work cleaning staff, and several, hopefully agenda-free members of the general public who will be abducted plucked off the main pedestrian path that meanders through the company campus.

To better accommodate the time concerns and employee focus needed in support of this vitally important initiative, lunch will be suspended for the duration, and all company bathrooms will be locked.

Greater time-resource efficiency and improved employee morale are the objectives of this initiative.
 

MagnusTheBrewer

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Remember...
Good managers don't work they manage.
You have to invest your time not spend it.
Management earns the bonuses you create.
 
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Remember...
Good managers don't work they manage.
You have to invest your time not spend it.
Management earns the bonuses you create.

I mean, i sense some sarcasm here - but what you're saying really is correct to a certain extent.

The ultimate job of any manager is to oversee the work of his subordinates. A GOOD manager understands all of his subordinates.. and can say "That guy works great if I just leave him alone. That guy can use a slight nudge once in a while to make sure he gets it done"... etc...

Otherwise, if you're not a good manager than the manager will have a ton of work cleaning up after the other's messes.
 

MagnusTheBrewer

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I mean, i sense some sarcasm here - but what you're saying really is correct to a certain extent.

The ultimate job of any manager is to oversee the work of his subordinates. A GOOD manager understands all of his subordinates.. and can say "That guy works great if I just leave him alone. That guy can use a slight nudge once in a while to make sure he gets it done"... etc...

Otherwise, if you're not a good manager than the manager will have a ton of work cleaning up after the other's messes.
Any manager who regularly says things like I mentioned has no clue what being a good manager is.
 

Red Squirrel

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I had an IT manager like that. He'd barge in and would start ranting on about something and then going on about how we and everyone else is incompetent. We had to drop everything we're doing to listen to him rant or he'd get super pissed. We called it soap boxing. Happened at least twice a day. First thing in the morning, and usually near 5 when it was time to leave. I'm not sure about my coworker but I use to put it in as OT whenever he did that.
 

lxskllr

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I make my boss' life hell by never giving a straight answer to anything, and proposing absurdist solutions to problems. Keeps me entertained.
 
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Red Squirrel

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Lol I used to always propose solutions and they'd purposely go around them, only to eventually go with that solution because the crap they came up with didn't work. They were trying to figure out a way to filter internet and I'm like "why don't we just use websense?" and they came up with this shitty solution that involved setting static IPs with the DHCP server and then we blocked different sites based on different IP ranges because some people needed more access than the others. It was a nightmare to manage that and then they gave in and let us have Websense.
 

Thebobo

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The fucking clown is a micromanaging POS and makes us waste our entire morning regurgitating things we already know. He says it takes only fifteen minutes of our daily time and then spends an hour ranting over one irrelevant crap or another.

The clown does not know what is about to hit him, we gonna make him pay.

There are many options

Your boss is on this forum and will read this.
You do something they investigate and find this post
Depending on what you do it becomes premeditated
You end up in jail.
 
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Red Squirrel

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I find the best way to deal with these people is to kill them with kindness. This goes for irate customers too. They WANT you to blow up, and do something stupid, so they can fire, sue or otherwise put you in trouble and make it look like you're the bad guy. If you're always kind, their anger just builds up inside because they are not getting the reaction out of you that they want. It's the best thing ever and leaves me so much satisfaction. The best part is that I'm not actually doing anything wrong when I do that. Of course it can be hard sometimes because some people just have a super punchable face.