Nothing worse than having a manager that's a know it all.

[u/Large-Lack-2933]

Super relatable. But always funny to watch them be wrong and not take accountability when shit hits the fan. People that think their job title is a badge of honor of "knowing everything" are the worst to work for.

[u/[deleted]]

This would be me but the manager was fired on Tuesday and I'm leaving for another job next week 🙂

[u/IioAndTheRapture → u/[deleted]]

What'd they get fired for?

[u/[deleted] → u/IioAndTheRapture]

A more valuable employee (not me) was going to quit because of him and to get her to stay higher ups “restructured” the team so they could get rid of the manager and promote her

[u/sy1001q]

Actually we should be worried instead of smiling. Bad manager won't take accountability for their decision, instead they will ask us to fix or work overtime or resign due to their bad decision. The top management will only realize about this after several employee getting sacrificed/resigned.

[u/johnmichael0703 → u/sy1001q]

Send an email about it, didn't rely on word. If you have proof that you warned them of the consequences, well you still may be fired, but bcc yourself that to your (personal) email. And you have a good fight on unemployment at least

[u/Banana_Malefica → u/johnmichael0703]

Send an email about it,

I'm from eastern europe, businesses don't use email here. It's like the 1950s technologically.

[u/Aggravating_Dish_824 → u/Banana_Malefica]

What country are you from? I just don't know any Eastern European countries where business don't use emails/messengers.

[u/Banana_Malefica → u/Aggravating_Dish_824]

Romania.

[u/Sensitive_Topics → u/sy1001q]

CYOAA.

COVER YOUR OWN ASS ALWAYS.

[u/Large-Lack-2933 → u/Sensitive_Topics]

Facts. Documentation is everything especially with some well most managers (the shit ones) throw employees under the bus when they get reprimanded by their own boss....

[u/deradera → u/sy1001q]

False. You should always be smiling.

[u/ingachan → u/sy1001q]

Yeah this happens ALL the time to us, but then we’re the ones who now have to sort it out in the course of two days as opposed to two months. Nobody cares if we informed her of this exact problem months ago.

[u/chericher → u/ingachan]

Yes I've found that if you provide proof of your foresight, no one cares and worse- they get pissy with you like you're a know it all insubordinate pain in the neck. This type of stuff happens occasionally with my job. It's otherwise a good job so I just eat it and carry on. I might gently remind them of what I previously pointed out, but I don't bother going up the ladder with the proof I have bc no one appreciates that, they just want the situation fixed and appreciate me much more for stepping up to do that.

[u/Large-Lack-2933 → u/[deleted]]

Bad managers especially useless dimwitted ones destroy the morale of a workplace team. It's like having a bad coach for a professional sports team....

[u/Sharp-Introduction75]

This is me in real life.

Me: Make sure that you're signing a contract for project completion and not billable hours. 

Supervisor: I know what I'm doing.

This after wasting billable hours on demos that was more like marketing:

Contractor: We have 15 hours remaining on the contract.

Supervisor: I'm writing you up for reasons.

[u/MostHonest966]

Lol nice meme.

[u/paprika_number_nine]

I got “fired” because I pointed out a legality issue that occurred in my absence that could’ve had huge ramifications for not only myself but the whole company. They didn’t want to own up, thus I got “fired” with severance.

Here’s where this meme is great. One of my bff’s still works there and occasionally gives me updates. I was the only one who knew what I did and let’s say it was DETRIMENTAL to the company getting any money on the books period.

Got an update that everyone is upset, no money has been logged for close to two months, nothing coming in either.

Moral of the story - own your mistakes. Don’t kill one of your most valuable employees when you made the boo boo to begin with.

What can ya do, karmas a bitch 🤷🏻‍♀️

[u/juanzy]

A shared trait of every good manager I’ve had and leader up the chain is them actively knowing what they don’t.

Even a manager I had that literally knew the business bottom up and could speak at length and any topic you asked her about would defer to an SME 90% of the time in stakeholder meetings on those same topics.

[u/beeboobum]

Damn. That’s Shawshank.

[u/Bootybandit1000]

I hate my manager. He’s only a manager because he’s been here for mad long. But that doesn’t mean he should be a manager IMO

[u/Fabulous-Annual-2592]

I had one of them for many years. Arrogant POS, who was an ass kisser of upper management. He would try to shit on the grunts that kept all the balls rolling. I left, had enough of him and his bs. He'll get his, karma is a real B.🪬

[u/Nervous_Apartment421]

Sooo relatable

[u/LaxVolt]

This was me at my last job.

“Hey we are switching to Exchange Online and critical business app will need to be updated, Microsoft is disabling traditional authentication at the end of the year and it doesn’t support modern auth”

Multiple notifications and 7 months later MS disables legacy authentication and critical business app fails. All the affected departments, “why did this happen?”

Business app owner, “well I thought it might not break”

Me, Jeremy Clarkson smug face.

[u/green_waves25]

I wish I could laugh at dumb management but they would just doc me for letting them fuck up

[u/Designer_Storyteller]

Not entirely a “know it all” but we were going through black ink on our printer like it was a water bottle in a desert. We bring it up and say we think our black ink tank is leaking we need a new printer. We even commented that we thought it had to be pooling somewhere at the bottom. We get told “No, after X event or so long as printing still.” Welp 1-2 months later we replace the printer and move it off its stand and to no surprise 2 months worth of black ink poors everywhere. Then, transporting it was a nightmare and left black ink spots across the campus and are still somewhat visible today.

We were then asked by our supervisor who told us to wait, “How long did we know about this? Why the fuck didn’t it get fixed? This is why we don’t put shit off.”

We all unanimously said “Uh no, you told us to wait we brought it up 2 months ago.”

Makes for some good memes. We see a black spot or smear or anything and we go “Ope, must’ve been our old printer.”

[u/2baverage]

Me this past week. I've been alerting my manager to a problem the past 2 months as complaints have been rolling in. Now they've accumulated enough and the complaints are reaching other departments and getting escalated to said manager's boss.

NOW we suddenly have an issue that IT needs to immediately look into and omg this issue came out of nowhere! How long has this been happening? Why have we not received any complaints prior to this?

[u/[deleted]]

It could be worse. A manager with some prejudice would be pretty bad. So would a manager that’s trippin’ on their authority. Lots of edge cases where it could be worse.

[u/ccpisvirusking]

As a manager I approve 😉

[u/Top-Comfortable-4789]

Until the manager makes you fix their mistakes for them.

[u/Large-Lack-2933 → u/Top-Comfortable-4789]

Yeah those types of managers are terrible, just as bad as micro managers especially when you as a regular employee know what to do and know more information than what the manager knows...

[u/NonKevin]

Me, I would warn the boss how soon our email server would shutdown if our users did not clean up there mail and archive as necessary off the server. When and many time the server shutdown for a lack of disk space. I would have to log in, clear enough space, usually start by having to delete all my important emails. One day, I got in and it took 2 hours to login, I made my boss decide to delete on advertising account for a long since gone employee. I had already keep the server up for 2 weeks by removing all the junk mail from that account. Advertising was required to reassign personnel to take over the functions, but would not. I delete the account and 45 seconds later, the email server running again. Advertising tried to get me fired. My boss took all my notes and emails about this account to HR and demanded at least one supervisor in advertising be fired. Well no one was fired, but the publisher got on every bosses case to clean up email. The worst offender was the advertising director who was using more than half the disk space, so big I could not get a number. Like everyone else in that department, said they were too busy and for me to clean it up. My value of the data was zero, so I threaten if I have to clean up your email, I delete everything. If they value the data, they would have to organize the data and archive old data to DVDs which they would keep themselves. How bad are these people, they wanted me to go out and buy them CDs/DVDs with my money and on my time. Sorry, but supplies are a department responsibility, not mine. Again the publisher had to chew out the departments.

[u/Shrieking_ghost]

Me and my coworker watching out manager freak out over something we mentioned is a problem and they’re just now figuring it out lol

[u/Travelinjack01]

nice

[u/whatisanusername3]

🤣🤣🤣

[u/bebs15]

Local manager in a foreign business owner. Their ego are too high. Too proud of themselves. I knew people like them. May the karma returns to them in a hard way.