"You ever been present when your boss fucks up?" Tue Jul-26-16 09:20 PM by Lardlad95
The CEO of my job is in some deep, deep shit, and people are calling for her resignation. I don't know if the board supports her, but she's getting raked over the coals in the media, and she possibly broke the law.
So I'm just sitting back here, going through past emails like, "Oh...shit...she's really bad at covering her tracks if I can pick out where this shit falls apart."
I wish I could go into more details, but the story is still unfolding, and I don't leave my job for a few more weeks.
So...anyone got some stories of seeing their boss eat shit? I'm in the mood for some work place comedy.
BrooklynWHAT Member since Jun 15th 2007 85076 posts
Tue Jul-26-16 09:59 PM
1. "yes. and i didnt enjoy it as much as i expect it" In response to Reply # 0 Tue Jul-26-16 10:00 PM by BrooklynWHAT
to preface this we had been beefing for about 3 months at this point. because in a staff meeting i called her out for making us fill out 2 different excel sheets (extremely time consuming) that showed the exact same information. and she tried to play me like "you've let yourself, management and your coworkers down with your comments and decision to only do one of the things i asked."
***her actual fuckup story***
so 3 month beef. we're in the holiday period. the busiest part of the year these months are her baby. she plans all year to at least make sure her quarter goes right. and this is the most crucial week, right before xmas. so this is the culmination of a 3 month fuckup.
we're there on dec 23rd at like 7 after work. we were going to overnight ship everything (expenses be damned) that we could get out just to make customers happy because the plans for the production load had already gotten us 2 weeks behind. and nothing went right. our biggest machine broke. we couldnt get the packages completed.
i'm getting ready to leave because nothing could be done. so i'm going around wishing everyone a merry xmas. and i'm going to see her because i'm not the one pushing the beef in this scenario. walk around the whole building and finally find her in a big floor with a bunch of boxes, just trying to complete the packages that she could to get at least something shipped. and she's crying. really hard. and she doesnt notice me. in that instant i didn't feel a bit bad for her.
and i did that classic sitcom walkout/change of heart sequence. and i had to try and get her to stop crying. and basically she really broke down and told me why she goes so hard on us.
so from then on we have a much better understanding of each other. and work a lot better together.
10. "I'm currently in an office that sits between two beefing co-workers" In response to Reply # 9
It's awkward as shit, because we have to work together on a lot of things, and everything always devolves into some needling from one side, which leads to explicit name-calling, and then outright yelling.
2. "I had a point last company meeting where...." In response to Reply # 0
...the CEO was talking about positive gains in a slow period where we are missing monthly projections and one of the things he mentioned was something two of my bosses put together which was supposed to save us thousands of dollars a month and while it's working, I had to run the reports and I know that there is another expense that popped up recently that while we are saving money in one lane, we're now losing money in another and the losses are bigger than the gains. The CEO talks about the "big win" and my one boss looked at me with such a "you are the only one who knows right now, feel my pain" look that I felt sad for everyone.
I'm helping to try to salvage the deal. It isn't as much the fault of the bosses as it was a broken verbal agreement on the deal, so even if it catches up... there's still a place to point the finger elsewhere. But man, the awkward look during that meaning was sad.
6. "i was a security manager, my boss the director" In response to Reply # 0
a dude who is technically higher up than him, though not in security, was doing some foul shit, including having drug dealers selling on our property. lets just say we were a party spot. so my boss purposely withheld power from me so i wouldn't find the necessary evidence of this scheme, and he purposely under staffed us. told us we weren't getting applications, when we were. we knew something was up, but had no concrete proof. anyways, it culminated in a shooting on property that left one gang member dead, and a fellow security manager got shot at twice. my director also had kept a really shitty employee, who was a look out for the drug dealers, because that employee had evidence of my director drinking on the job, and drunk on the job. these are just two of his many fuck ups. he ended up abruptly resigning without telling anyone. i ended up working twenty hour shifts for four days because him leaving left too many gaps to fill.
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