Story 4: It's like talking to a wall with her. She has no idea how any of this works, yet acts like everyone else is wrong. Even threw Paul under the bus when proven wrong. That's how you lose that sort of position
That's also how you get up into that position. Yeah a lot of people in higher positions usually aren't the best for the job. They just had the connections and they knew how to act like they were good for the job. But once they get in their position they get comfortable on their little throne they let their true abilities and skills show.
Being a CIO doesn't mean that you're technically savvy enough to know everything. What it means is that you're good at finding a team that does know. A team where people complement each other's strengths and weaknesses. You can hear options and decide which option is the best with the information given. You're able to balance the business needs with technology and security. You aren't afraid of being "wrong", and you're humble. You should be someone other people would want to follow; not a tyrant like Karen in this story was.
Story 2- I worked at a convenience store back in 2009 ish and had an awesome manager from Brazil. She was firm, but fair and don't ever piss her off. She went off on a Karen once because the Karen got pissed that I couldn't leave the register to get her chips. My boss literally goes "YOU HAVE TWO LEGS. BOTH OF THEM WORK, DO THEY NOT? GET THEM YOURSELF, DONT YELL AT MY STAFF, *something in Portuguese* AND DONT COME BACK!
Last story.... That Karen was a beancounter put into a technical position she had no business being in. I've seen this happen many times during my state IT career. It never ends well. 😮
The absolute worst kind of manager. Accept no subordinate feedback, close your ears to all warnings of disaster and just blame everyone else when there's a problem. They exist in all fields from lowly fast food shift managers to the top of the heap, sadly.
In my company (state owned) we have one guy on IT whose sole job is to renew our office365 licences. Its been 6 months and i havent been able to send a single email or work on excel. The guy apparently is so busy that he cant come around to renew the licences thus blocking 450 people. Gotta love state companies ahahahah
Historically the first departments in a company that used computers was accounting, hence the IT management fell under the CFO/ Accounting manager. It was well past 2000 before IT management /CIO became a separate title/responsibility in most companies.
I love the moment when they realise how badly they've messed up. 😈 OP#1 being sent back to fix the mess was the cherry on top in that story. Really rubs the guy's idiocy in his face. 😂
Anyone else find it hilariously ironic that in story 4 the correct setup for a backup revealed that Karen was doing some shady stuff that led to her getting fired?
Story one.... My late Dad used to say, "If you do it right the first time you won't have to do it over again." 😅 When my US Navy ship was in drydock for refitting in 1983, my Seniorchief had us squids retile our Electronic Tech shop/office. None of us knew how to do it and really botched it. Way too much adhesive used, so it was oozing out making a huge mess. One of the civilian shipyard workers saw our mess, and taught us the proper way to redo it. Turned out much better the second time. 😊
Story 4 - Every time Karen interrupted OP when he was trying to explain the situation, I kept thinking ‘For crying out loud Karen Shut The Hell Up And Let OP Talk!’
Story 1 - You gotta love it when arrogant idiots try to tell you how to do your job only to have it backfire on them because ‘their way was wrong and your way was the right way’
There was a story on reddit a while back where a manager made a major mistake that could have gotten the company sued, he was sent for retraining and shortly after tried to force an employee with a pacemaker to wear a magnetic name tag over their heart and refused to give the employee a tag with a pin or let them wear it on the other side, only after that second one was he fired
Honestly, knowing how management gets picked, I'm surprised they didn't get a promotion. Management does seem to fail upwards unless the business goes out of business for some reasons.
Story 2: i had a manager like that once. Told a lady that i couldn't go out back and fill a propane tank for her because we were closing and i had to count the registers and make the deposit for the night so we could close on time. This guy comes to me the next day and tells me off for not having a random highschooler watch the money while i drop everything to help this lady. He wonders why nobody who has close for him stocks around for more than a year when he'll come up with hypotheticals and tell you ahead of the time that he'll throw your under the bus every time
For Story 4, you would be amazed at how many CIOs only have a cursory knowledge of IT. They are usually the career manager types who have never worked front line engineering or support.
Story 3. I've something like this when I worked at wally world. A new AM trying to show their authority to employees lower than them. They were told that policy would violate health codes. The AM did not care. Their policies were the new law of store, even though they had no authority to make them or set them in place. In the end the store's co manger over groceries set them straight on what little power they had on setting store policies. A few days later they were fired for trying to set bad polices in produce.
Story 2- hearing he made complaints about some of the management reminds me of something one of my coworkers said about our upper management and HR, but basically HR isn't there to help the lower guys they're there to help their upper management and to keep face, so if the manager is functionally ensuring the company looks good they won't care how many employees complain and leave. The fact the audit went south might affect some of them but the managers probably don't have to worry too much.
Story 2 - I've had my share of nightmare supermarket managers. When I was in college, I told the store manager in my interview that I had a week vacation planned in about a month or so, and he said that would be no problem. He didn't tell my department manager (Karen), who was in her 30s going on HS mean girl, so she held it against me the entire time I worked there. Karen insisted we clean the deli floor every night with a mixture of chlorine bleach and dish soap. She didn't care that there were warnings on both bottles to not do that. Once I called out sick with a bad cold, and her bestie/lackey called my home pretending to be "Jane from school" and asked for me. "Jane" was pissed she had to cover for me, I guess. She hung up in the middle of my mom telling her that I had gone out to pick up my medicine. I knew exactly who it was, and that was confirmed the next time I went into work. Karen tried to write me up for "falsely" calling in sick because "Jane" told her she was told I had gone out to party. I shot back that "Jane" called my home, using a false name, hung up on my mom in the middle of her saying I was at the doctor, then handed Karen my doctor's note. I got fired when I called in to resign because I was tired of Karen's HS ways. The store closed 6 months later, IIRC.
Once upon a time I worked in a grocery store BAKERY. I unfortunatly shared a space with Deli. EVERYDAY these "Bs with itches" would take my nonstick spray and parchment paper that the department bought (throwing off our numbers), be hard to find to help customers that come to the counter (80% of the time its for them) and then had the gull to tell me that they will train me on the meat slicer SO I CAN DO THEIR JOB FOR THEM! At no point did I ever work in Deli so that was shut down hard. Some people... and this was the whole department!
There's a quote i remember that applies to the Karen of Story 4: "The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man" -B.F. Skinner. I already knew she wasn't thinking at all the second she second guessed OP.
Last story: What I'd like to know is how Karen ever got a job as CIO if she didn't even know enough to already have had all those recommendations in place, especially things like anti-static mats, adequate ventilation, and security. How are you an executive in handling a company's entire information platform and don't even know the most basic of basics?
That's not required. I've encountered plenty of incompetent IT managers of all genders. But how do incompetent men get these jobs (as only women are suspected of sleeping with the right person)?
Story 4: What if Paul knew that she didn't know what she was doing and was waiting on her to f around and found out how badly she screwed up and no longer have a job.
Story number four: Unfortunately, this is quite common when someone gets an ounce of power dropped into their lap. Also, something tells me, she might have done a few special “favors” to get the job because she was clearly obviously highly unqualified. Her losing her job with the chef's kiss to the story. I actually knew someone just like her. Same temperament across the board: obstinate, deeply full of herself, always thought she was right, extremely jealous of anyone who knew more than her and had zero clue what the heck she was doing. It later came to light that her resume was highly embellished but mostly fabricated and had a habit of making everyone's job a lot harder because they were constantly holding her inept hand. It also should be of no surprise to whatsoever she had a habit of using people and piggybacking on to their hard work to make herself look better. Once the smoke screen had been dismantled and after one too many mess-ups, naturally, with her taking zero accountability, she was unceremoniously fired then left with her tail between her legs. And the time that I knew her, she burned a lot of bridges with her totally superior attitude and lack of professionalism. I don't know what happened to her and I don't care.
Saying 'special favours' were given to get her in that position is totally unnecessary and sexist. It really isn't needed to get incompetent managers in their position, it's enough that she was a buttkisser to upper management or just charming enough to scoot by higher management who is not paying attention. Plenty of incompetence around without looking at gender...
Story 4: we hired someone with an MBA to save the company money even if she had no experience with IT. This is Boeing after their merger with McDonald-Douglas and every for-profit healthcare company and insurer.
Story 1. There are businesses that will have a sign that will state various hourly rates for a job. Example Labor: $50.00/hr $75.00/ hr if you're in the room. $100.00/hr if you try to help.
"Since the team restructured the business unit, Karen was let go, and that in the future we would be dealing with him." This leads one to conclude that Karen's position as CTO was based on something other than technical skills and competence. And to conclude that the "restructuring" was solely to give Karen an out that didn't look like she'd been fired for cause, because otherwise her patron(s) might have gotten upset.
With the audit one - those usually go to people who have more power and need the audits to be passed. The bosses found SOMEONE to throw under the bus for that - possibly even the OP.
Story 3: this made me think of the girl slicing my deli meat that went over a pound by one or two ounces. I said don't worry about it. She told me she had one woman that demanded she remove one slice of meat to make it exactly a pound. 🤦♂️ Karens🤦♂️
The meat is sold by weight anyway, so unless someone knows the exact price per (unit of weight) and has budgeted so tightly that they can't afford a penny over that amount, it's really silly to insist on the exact weight.
I actually got out of the remodeling business because of people like this. Between the 10-20 percent of customers who think they know your job better than you and the 10-20 percent of people who had decided they weren't going to pay for the work long before they even picked up a phone to schedule it, it just wasn't worth it. I installed vinyl, carpet, ceramic and laminate for a large shop for a while but they are constantly going to nickel and dime you to death. I got out of the business and never looked back.
In the last story, I think the Karen's only real qualification was that she knew just enough to be dangerous and coast along on her arrogance. Looks like that train rain out of steam... lol
Carpet tile story: OP, I hope your company charged this idiot a ton extra for all the unnecessary work HE caused. Right! The one thing racists hate more than the people they're racist against, is losing money BECAUSE of their racism. Tattoos comment/story: Up to a point I can understand the manager's POV about tattoos. They can really set some people off, regardless of how innocent they are. But that cannot be allowed to supersede sanitary concerns when working with food. CIO story: Imagine that, a CIO that didn't actually know what she was doing. No surprise.
regardless a tattoo doesnt impact someones ability to work, just ebcause someone else has a pissy attitude to tattoos shouldnt dictate someone being able to work when it doesnt affect them at all
@@bl4ckhearts802 While I agree with you, you KNOW there are people who will go off at others (and their managers) if they show tattoos at retail and other jobs. Why? Because even though they don't, these people THINK someone's tattoos affect them and the quality of work done or for religious reasons.
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Story1. It’s amazing how people who never worked in your field think they know more about it than you do. I am a graphic designer and have run into this many times. One time I devised a graphic for the printed materials for a conference in a vector format so it could be easily sized for various printed materials. The person hired to do the recording wanted a copy in jpg format to put on the CD labels. I asked him what size he wanted, and he insisted I just send it. Then he sized the jpg for the label; and, unsurprisingly, it was blurry. He insisted that I had drawn a blurry file. We went through this several times with him insisting that, because he knew the software to make the photo, that he was an expert and that I didn’t know what I was doing. Finally I got him to tell me the size he needed, so I resized the vector file, then exported it to pdf and sent it to him. He said, oh, that one is not blurry and used it. He never did acknowledge that I knew what I was doing or apologized, though.
the computer story is hilarious. I knew exactly what the op was talking about, I stopped working just to actually do nothing else but listen to the story. she was a complete id 10 t
The adage actually goes: "Pride goes before a fall." Where "goes before" has the same meaning as "travels in front of." But even that's a misquote because the original is "pride goeth before destruction and an haughty spirit before a fall." (The book of Proverbs from the Bible, I believe. KJV I think)
my mom work in IT and half the time when her boss calls all i hear is her trying to calmly explain to him how things work and he just responding that doesnt make anysense despite my mom being top in her field.
I made it early yay i love listening to Darkfluff the goofy voices he makes for the characters is funny and i enjoy it alot when im working on something ive been watching these for year i had to stop for a bit cause i was really busy so i just started watching it again can't wait to see what these stories have in store for us.
Based on the softwares mentioned, the tech story was probably 25-30 years ago. At that time, a lot of people ended up in high tech positions while their background was in accounting or just had a knack for tech. While this isn't an excuse for the CIO's behaviour, as a woman in tech, especially then, she probably had to deal with almost all of the male techs looking down at her or trying to pull crap over her. I worked in IT for 20 years, and I experienced a lot of crap too.
the Tattoo lady, IF the Handbook doesn't include Tattoo's to be hidden or removed that manager doesn't have a Leg to stand on, He can't make up his own Enforceable rules{IF USA}.👎🤔....
How do people get to these high up positions if they won't listen? Or keep ignoring advice/orders... Even if it's to save money, if the expert tells you to buy something don't go switching if you lack the knowledge... In the end the store doesn't care if it's the right version (software compatibility) as you can't return software for obvious reasons and a sale is a sale, only if the store installs it for you they might be more vigilant... Up to a point... As for the meat slicers, doesn't the machinery need to 'breathe' and dry for several ?hours? to prevent any toxicity of the cleaning agents getting on-/into the foods? -Sorry ma'am, if I would slice your order now you'll get food poisoning, please come back tomorrow
When it comes to C level jobs it's not about what you know, it's about who you know. They're all mostly incompetent kept afloat by their subordinates, but with the inflated egos of people who don't know what they don't know.
Last story: CIO doesn't surprise me one bit. I worked for a company that had a fairly new CIO and he was the most incompetent jerk that I have ever worked for in an IT position. He didn't know how to do anything other than waste company funds and time. I could literally go on for hours about this douche nozzle, I have PTSD from working at that company. They killed my desire to ever work in IT again. Pathetic...
My guess is the IT Karen got the job either through nepotism, or by being able to fix a small tech problem so lazy people assumed she could fix all the tech problems.
The customer in story 2 didn't do anything wrong. If i went to the deli and they closed 3 hours early for no reason then did have the products i needed, I'd be pissed too.
CIO Karen Story: I'm thinking she didn't fake her Resume to get the Job or didn't have the Qualifications to do it... I'm wondering if she was simply given a Budget to get the Upgrades done and was trying to do the work as cheaply as possible so she could divert whatever amount of the Budget she didn't spend on the Upgrades into her own Personal Account... Was she Incompetent or was she trying to cheap out and Embezzle the unspent Budget? Unfortunately, we're unlikely to ever find out for sure... 😄😁😆😅😂🤣
@776281 And those people often blow it out of proportion. Both of my children are decorated with tattoos and both are very responsible when it comes to covering them up for a given situation.
Story 4: It's like talking to a wall with her. She has no idea how any of this works, yet acts like everyone else is wrong. Even threw Paul under the bus when proven wrong. That's how you lose that sort of position
And good employees
That's also how you get up into that position. Yeah a lot of people in higher positions usually aren't the best for the job. They just had the connections and they knew how to act like they were good for the job. But once they get in their position they get comfortable on their little throne they let their true abilities and skills show.
I had the misfortune of working with several such individuals. It's always exhausting
@@clonescope2433 Or lack thereof.
Being a CIO doesn't mean that you're technically savvy enough to know everything. What it means is that you're good at finding a team that does know. A team where people complement each other's strengths and weaknesses. You can hear options and decide which option is the best with the information given. You're able to balance the business needs with technology and security. You aren't afraid of being "wrong", and you're humble. You should be someone other people would want to follow; not a tyrant like Karen in this story was.
My mom always told me in the '70s, computers are only as smart as the people who program them.
Terrifying thought
Story 2- I worked at a convenience store back in 2009 ish and had an awesome manager from Brazil. She was firm, but fair and don't ever piss her off. She went off on a Karen once because the Karen got pissed that I couldn't leave the register to get her chips. My boss literally goes "YOU HAVE TWO LEGS. BOTH OF THEM WORK, DO THEY NOT? GET THEM YOURSELF, DONT YELL AT MY STAFF, *something in Portuguese* AND DONT COME BACK!
I hope she got paid well, those are the best bosses!!!
Story 4: Karen is a mashup of The Peter Principle, "fake it 'til you make it", and Karenhood.
Last story.... That Karen was a beancounter put into a technical position she had no business being in. I've seen this happen many times during my state IT career. It never ends well. 😮
The absolute worst kind of manager. Accept no subordinate feedback, close your ears to all warnings of disaster and just blame everyone else when there's a problem. They exist in all fields from lowly fast food shift managers to the top of the heap, sadly.
they probably wanted to meet their quota for female hires
In my company (state owned) we have one guy on IT whose sole job is to renew our office365 licences. Its been 6 months and i havent been able to send a single email or work on excel. The guy apparently is so busy that he cant come around to renew the licences thus blocking 450 people.
Gotta love state companies ahahahah
Historically the first departments in a company that used computers was accounting, hence the IT management fell under the CFO/ Accounting manager.
It was well past 2000 before IT management /CIO became a separate title/responsibility in most companies.
@@kruleworld nah, they wanted a cheap manager who said they could cut costs.
I love the moment when they realise how badly they've messed up. 😈
OP#1 being sent back to fix the mess was the cherry on top in that story. Really rubs the guy's idiocy in his face. 😂
Anyone else find it hilariously ironic that in story 4 the correct setup for a backup revealed that Karen was doing some shady stuff that led to her getting fired?
Story 2: His ego isn't gotta let him realize he is the problem. He didn't stick up for his employees, and people weren't happy about it
Story one.... My late Dad used to say, "If you do it right the first time you won't have to do it over again." 😅
When my US Navy ship was in drydock for refitting in 1983, my Seniorchief had us squids retile our Electronic Tech shop/office. None of us knew how to do it and really botched it. Way too much adhesive used, so it was oozing out making a huge mess. One of the civilian shipyard workers saw our mess, and taught us the proper way to redo it. Turned out much better the second time. 😊
That's a cool story. Did the shipyard worker get ticked when he saw the mess or was he cool?
"If you're going to do something, do it properly." -Bandit Heeler
Story 4 - Every time Karen interrupted OP when he was trying to explain the situation, I kept thinking ‘For crying out loud Karen Shut The Hell Up And Let OP Talk!’
yea i agree on that with you, i would even slap her to shut up and listen, if she interrupt way to many times
Story 1 - You gotta love it when arrogant idiots try to tell you how to do your job only to have it backfire on them because ‘their way was wrong and your way was the right way’
Same rules applies to people who handles your food.
“Don’t piss off the IT department, because without them no company will function.”
Story 3 - That manager shouldn’t have been transferred he should’ve been Fired on the spot!
There was a story on reddit a while back where a manager made a major mistake that could have gotten the company sued, he was sent for retraining and shortly after tried to force an employee with a pacemaker to wear a magnetic name tag over their heart and refused to give the employee a tag with a pin or let them wear it on the other side, only after that second one was he fired
Honestly, knowing how management gets picked, I'm surprised they didn't get a promotion. Management does seem to fail upwards unless the business goes out of business for some reasons.
Story 2: i had a manager like that once. Told a lady that i couldn't go out back and fill a propane tank for her because we were closing and i had to count the registers and make the deposit for the night so we could close on time. This guy comes to me the next day and tells me off for not having a random highschooler watch the money while i drop everything to help this lady. He wonders why nobody who has close for him stocks around for more than a year when he'll come up with hypotheticals and tell you ahead of the time that he'll throw your under the bus every time
Last story Laren reminds me of theshow IT crew when someone who does not even know how a computer works gets in charge of an IT department.
I worked at a company who hired a CIO because his last name was Data. He was literally the worst IT professional we ever had...he didn't last long
Yaaaaaaas more malicious compliance these are the videos I LIVE for. Please give us more and revenge stories too!
Oh, goodness. Microsoft AND Novell at the same time?
Oh for the good old days. Especially the cabling. LOL
For Story 4, you would be amazed at how many CIOs only have a cursory knowledge of IT. They are usually the career manager types who have never worked front line engineering or support.
Story 3. I've something like this when I worked at wally world. A new AM trying to show their authority to employees lower than them. They were told that policy would violate health codes. The AM did not care. Their policies were the new law of store, even though they had no authority to make them or set them in place. In the end the store's co manger over groceries set them straight on what little power they had on setting store policies. A few days later they were fired for trying to set bad polices in produce.
Story 2 - I don’t blame OP for being pissed at his manager, I’d be pissed off too. And OP quitting was the right thing to do.
Story 2- hearing he made complaints about some of the management reminds me of something one of my coworkers said about our upper management and HR, but basically HR isn't there to help the lower guys they're there to help their upper management and to keep face, so if the manager is functionally ensuring the company looks good they won't care how many employees complain and leave. The fact the audit went south might affect some of them but the managers probably don't have to worry too much.
Story 2 - I've had my share of nightmare supermarket managers. When I was in college, I told the store manager in my interview that I had a week vacation planned in about a month or so, and he said that would be no problem. He didn't tell my department manager (Karen), who was in her 30s going on HS mean girl, so she held it against me the entire time I worked there. Karen insisted we clean the deli floor every night with a mixture of chlorine bleach and dish soap. She didn't care that there were warnings on both bottles to not do that. Once I called out sick with a bad cold, and her bestie/lackey called my home pretending to be "Jane from school" and asked for me. "Jane" was pissed she had to cover for me, I guess. She hung up in the middle of my mom telling her that I had gone out to pick up my medicine. I knew exactly who it was, and that was confirmed the next time I went into work. Karen tried to write me up for "falsely" calling in sick because "Jane" told her she was told I had gone out to party. I shot back that "Jane" called my home, using a false name, hung up on my mom in the middle of her saying I was at the doctor, then handed Karen my doctor's note. I got fired when I called in to resign because I was tired of Karen's HS ways. The store closed 6 months later, IIRC.
Once upon a time I worked in a grocery store BAKERY. I unfortunatly shared a space with Deli. EVERYDAY these "Bs with itches" would take my nonstick spray and parchment paper that the department bought (throwing off our numbers), be hard to find to help customers that come to the counter (80% of the time its for them) and then had the gull to tell me that they will train me on the meat slicer SO I CAN DO THEIR JOB FOR THEM! At no point did I ever work in Deli so that was shut down hard. Some people... and this was the whole department!
Story 3:
It makes me wonder if some folks heard about the phrase of :
„If it ain’t broke don’t fix it”
💯 the commentor in the response to story 3 worked at Publix.😂 They pull shot like that all the time.
You would be surprised at how many IT managers don't know anything about IT
There's a quote i remember that applies to the Karen of Story 4: "The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man" -B.F. Skinner.
I already knew she wasn't thinking at all the second she second guessed OP.
Last story: What I'd like to know is how Karen ever got a job as CIO if she didn't even know enough to already have had all those recommendations in place, especially things like anti-static mats, adequate ventilation, and security. How are you an executive in handling a company's entire information platform and don't even know the most basic of basics?
The manager for IT becomes the CIO, not the veteran IT.
The Karen in the software story, she didn't fool anyone for the position, but definitely slept with the right person for it.🤔🤣
That's not required.
I've encountered plenty of incompetent IT managers of all genders. But how do incompetent men get these jobs (as only women are suspected of sleeping with the right person)?
Story 4: What if Paul knew that she didn't know what she was doing and was waiting on her to f around and found out how badly she screwed up and no longer have a job.
Story number four: Unfortunately, this is quite common when someone gets an ounce of power dropped into their lap. Also, something tells me, she might have done a few special “favors” to get the job because she was clearly obviously highly unqualified. Her losing her job with the chef's kiss to the story.
I actually knew someone just like her. Same temperament across the board: obstinate, deeply full of herself, always thought she was right, extremely jealous of anyone who knew more than her and had zero clue what the heck she was doing. It later came to light that her resume was highly embellished but mostly fabricated and had a habit of making everyone's job a lot harder because they were constantly holding her inept hand. It also should be of no surprise to whatsoever she had a habit of using people and piggybacking on to their hard work to make herself look better. Once the smoke screen had been dismantled and after one too many mess-ups, naturally, with her taking zero accountability, she was unceremoniously fired then left with her tail between her legs.
And the time that I knew her, she burned a lot of bridges with her totally superior attitude and lack of professionalism. I don't know what happened to her and I don't care.
Saying 'special favours' were given to get her in that position is totally unnecessary and sexist. It really isn't needed to get incompetent managers in their position, it's enough that she was a buttkisser to upper management or just charming enough to scoot by higher management who is not paying attention. Plenty of incompetence around without looking at gender...
Story 4: we hired someone with an MBA to save the company money even if she had no experience with IT. This is Boeing after their merger with McDonald-Douglas and every for-profit healthcare company and insurer.
#2: Bad managers stay because their bosses are just as bad.
Story 1. There are businesses that will have a sign that will state various hourly rates for a job.
Example Labor: $50.00/hr
$75.00/ hr if you're in the room.
$100.00/hr if you try to help.
"Since the team restructured the business unit, Karen was let go, and that in the future we would be dealing with him." This leads one to conclude that Karen's position as CTO was based on something other than technical skills and competence. And to conclude that the "restructuring" was solely to give Karen an out that didn't look like she'd been fired for cause, because otherwise her patron(s) might have gotten upset.
In the last story, she wasn’t allowing him access because when she finally does, it’s proven how inept she is at her job.
She didn't want anyone potentially spying on her, because that's what she liked to do.
I have a big chain store management story to fit right in... 5 managers in a row... what a hell hole
STORY 2: Bad managers, like that, stay in those positions because most talented sociable people don't want those positions.
Story 4 - The only one masking their incompetence is you Karen.
With the audit one - those usually go to people who have more power and need the audits to be passed. The bosses found SOMEONE to throw under the bus for that - possibly even the OP.
Story 3: this made me think of the girl slicing my deli meat that went over a pound by one or two ounces. I said don't worry about it. She told me she had one woman that demanded she remove one slice of meat to make it exactly a pound. 🤦♂️ Karens🤦♂️
The meat is sold by weight anyway, so unless someone knows the exact price per (unit of weight) and has budgeted so tightly that they can't afford a penny over that amount, it's really silly to insist on the exact weight.
I actually got out of the remodeling business because of people like this. Between the 10-20 percent of customers who think they know your job better than you and the 10-20 percent of people who had decided they weren't going to pay for the work long before they even picked up a phone to schedule it, it just wasn't worth it. I installed vinyl, carpet, ceramic and laminate for a large shop for a while but they are constantly going to nickel and dime you to death. I got out of the business and never looked back.
In the last story, I think the Karen's only real qualification was that she knew just enough to be dangerous and coast along on her arrogance. Looks like that train rain out of steam... lol
I think the problem with IT is most people can't understand it so when someone else says they do they go good I'll leave it all to you.
Carpet tile story: OP, I hope your company charged this idiot a ton extra for all the unnecessary work HE caused.
Right! The one thing racists hate more than the people they're racist against, is losing money BECAUSE of their racism.
Tattoos comment/story: Up to a point I can understand the manager's POV about tattoos. They can really set some people off, regardless of how innocent they are. But that cannot be allowed to supersede sanitary concerns when working with food.
CIO story: Imagine that, a CIO that didn't actually know what she was doing. No surprise.
regardless a tattoo doesnt impact someones ability to work, just ebcause someone else has a pissy attitude to tattoos shouldnt dictate someone being able to work when it doesnt affect them at all
@@bl4ckhearts802 While I agree with you, you KNOW there are people who will go off at others (and their managers) if they show tattoos at retail and other jobs. Why? Because even though they don't, these people THINK someone's tattoos affect them and the quality of work done or for religious reasons.
Story 1 the numberson the bavk of the tiles are batch numbers. I used to work for a big well know tile company. lol
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Aww, I feel so deflated now
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Last story:
Yup! Karen is indeed an IT personnel. She works under Pennywise. 😂😂😂
Story1. It’s amazing how people who never worked in your field think they know more about it than you do. I am a graphic designer and have run into this many times. One time I devised a graphic for the printed materials for a conference in a vector format so it could be easily sized for various printed materials. The person hired to do the recording wanted a copy in jpg format to put on the CD labels. I asked him what size he wanted, and he insisted I just send it. Then he sized the jpg for the label; and, unsurprisingly, it was blurry. He insisted that I had drawn a blurry file. We went through this several times with him insisting that, because he knew the software to make the photo, that he was an expert and that I didn’t know what I was doing. Finally I got him to tell me the size he needed, so I resized the vector file, then exported it to pdf and sent it to him. He said, oh, that one is not blurry and used it. He never did acknowledge that I knew what I was doing or apologized, though.
the computer story is hilarious. I knew exactly what the op was talking about, I stopped working just to actually do nothing else but listen to the story. she was a complete id 10 t
How some bosses get their jobs is a mystery.
The old adage: pride cometh before the fall
The adage actually goes: "Pride goes before a fall." Where "goes before" has the same meaning as "travels in front of." But even that's a misquote because the original is "pride goeth before destruction and an haughty spirit before a fall." (The book of Proverbs from the Bible, I believe. KJV I think)
I barely understood a thing from that last story, but DANG! You showed her!
I have no idea what's happening in story 4, but it's entertaining.
Last story. Reason why incompetent people are put in significant role. DEI.
So what's the excuse for the non-DEI? Those have been the majority IME
@@jojo-pkcould just be DEI adjacent
@@phantom8926 best way is still good old nepotism and cronyism.
@@jojo-pk seems you've found your answer then
my mom work in IT and half the time when her boss calls all i hear is her trying to calmly explain to him how things work and he just responding that doesnt make anysense despite my mom being top in her field.
I made it early yay i love listening to Darkfluff the goofy voices he makes for the characters is funny and i enjoy it alot when im working on something ive been watching these for year i had to stop for a bit cause i was really busy so i just started watching it again can't wait to see what these stories have in store for us.
Story 2 is probably Fred Meyer because they combine the bakery and deli
Story 4 - it’s like arguing for arguments sake.
Like any question is seen as a personal attack or something.
That's how authoritarians think: any question of their authority is seen as insubordination.
yesss r/maliciouscompliance, i cant stop myself from watcing ur videos for hours anymore lol
Based on the softwares mentioned, the tech story was probably 25-30 years ago. At that time, a lot of people ended up in high tech positions while their background was in accounting or just had a knack for tech. While this isn't an excuse for the CIO's behaviour, as a woman in tech, especially then, she probably had to deal with almost all of the male techs looking down at her or trying to pull crap over her. I worked in IT for 20 years, and I experienced a lot of crap too.
the Tattoo lady, IF the Handbook doesn't include Tattoo's to be hidden or removed that manager doesn't have a Leg to stand on, He can't make up his own Enforceable rules{IF USA}.👎🤔....
How do people get to these high up positions if they won't listen? Or keep ignoring advice/orders...
Even if it's to save money, if the expert tells you to buy something don't go switching if you lack the knowledge... In the end the store doesn't care if it's the right version (software compatibility) as you can't return software for obvious reasons and a sale is a sale, only if the store installs it for you they might be more vigilant... Up to a point...
As for the meat slicers, doesn't the machinery need to 'breathe' and dry for several ?hours? to prevent any toxicity of the cleaning agents getting on-/into the foods?
-Sorry ma'am, if I would slice your order now you'll get food poisoning, please come back tomorrow
Yayyyy! Thank you boys! Be safe and stay out of trouble! Please dig up some I Do work here please.
Story 4: I think Karen probably figured that since she has a home computer it made her an IT god or something :)
Great stories
The classic non-technical people managing the technical staff situation. Just isn't a good strategy any way you slice it.
When it comes to C level jobs it's not about what you know, it's about who you know. They're all mostly incompetent kept afloat by their subordinates, but with the inflated egos of people who don't know what they don't know.
Last story: CIO doesn't surprise me one bit. I worked for a company that had a fairly new CIO and he was the most incompetent jerk that I have ever worked for in an IT position. He didn't know how to do anything other than waste company funds and time. I could literally go on for hours about this douche nozzle, I have PTSD from working at that company. They killed my desire to ever work in IT again. Pathetic...
She said she's a CIO, and she doesn't have any idea that Novell and Windows Server are two different things?
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Yay an actual person
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#2 story.. Sounds like Walmart..
My guess is the IT Karen got the job either through nepotism, or by being able to fix a small tech problem so lazy people assumed she could fix all the tech problems.
The customer in story 2 didn't do anything wrong. If i went to the deli and they closed 3 hours early for no reason then did have the products i needed, I'd be pissed too.
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You absolutely need admin rights to install software on Windows servers. I've done it hundreds of times.
CIO Karen Story: I'm thinking she didn't fake her Resume to get the Job or didn't have the Qualifications to do it...
I'm wondering if she was simply given a Budget to get the Upgrades done and was trying to do the work as cheaply as possible so she could divert whatever amount of the Budget she didn't spend on the Upgrades into her own Personal Account...
Was she Incompetent or was she trying to cheap out and Embezzle the unspent Budget?
Unfortunately, we're unlikely to ever find out for sure...
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same background and same old thumbnail? yeah you're definitely cooked 😂
Story 3: OP is the asshole for closing early. Highly unprofessional
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Story #3: Tattoos are just....meh. I mean, depending on what kind of job you have, having tats showing isn't that big of a deal.
It is for some people a big deal. Food safety is a bigger deal for everyone and absolutely trumps a personal distaste for tattoos.
@776281 And those people often blow it out of proportion. Both of my children are decorated with tattoos and both are very responsible when it comes to covering them up for a given situation.
Story 4- old story
Story 4 is a repeat.
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S2: MANGLER ALERT! perfect example of an idiots failing upwards into management
I had $1000 per Indian contractor on the final bill as an a hole tax