"Effective Immediately", the Saga

[Dark-Star]

Do you have a Moron for a manager? The kind of guy or gal that seems to have been socially promoted from 'special class', or who is pickier than Goldilocks with OCD?

Read ye the saga of"Effective Immediately" - and after you have finished going , , and , thank the powers-that-be you don't have someone like The Colonel heading your company. But if by some horrible chance you do, please feel free to share your experiences.

OP note: those are currently or were once in uniform should *really* read this.

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Effe...mediately.aspx

[Andrew B.]

Did they raise this man in a lab and then let him loose to see how he deals with freedom? I can see why so many people quit.

[Aethian]

Did someone forget to tell him that he's not a general anymore?

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Sounds like my former manager Harry; especially the cutting everything "unnecessary" and coming down on the employees.

Such as cutting floor help to less that the minimum needed to get work done and provide customer service in a timely manner, only one person on break at a time because we had so little help, no more wearing Green Bay Packers shirts or jerseys on game days, and if anybody complained he'd just claim he had a big stack of applications on his desk and if you weren't going to toe the lie, he'd happily hire somebody who would.

Added bonus: He was carrying on a relationship with one of the peons, and whenever she fucked up somebody else would be yelled at for it (Ask me how I know!).

Not fun, and after he was mercifully sacked he became the store manager at OfficeMax. Thus I have made it a point to avoid that store like the plague.

EDIT:

One of the other stories on that site (which I have now bookmarked), "Meet Burt", reminded me of Bungee Boss.

Only instead of root beer laced with vodka being his "only vice", his vice was any kind of alcohol. And cough syrup. Also chewing tobacco.

And instead of passing out and pissing in a plant, he left the store unlocked and un-alarmed on Thanksgiving night.

Similar but different, I guess you could say.

[Dips]

He reminds me of the division chief when I worked in the research lab. I didn't report to him, thank Gord, but he LOVED to post amusing memos in the conference room where I ate my lunch.

My favorite was the one where he made accidentally dropping even one of the little leftover circles of paper from hole punching on the carpet a fireable offense.

I think somebody reported that one to HR because it came down and nobody ended up getting fired.