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Boss: We have thousands of bad orders that must be fixed now! Me: No we don't. We have 121 bad orders. Boss: There are thousands of them! Me: No there aren't
by edw519 13y ago
Boss: We have thousands of bad orders that must be fixed now!
Me: No we don't. We have 121 bad orders.
Boss: There are thousands of them!
Me: No there aren't. There are exactly 121 of them. I'm sure.
Boss: I'm not going to argue with you!
Me: Good. Because you'd lose.
I fixed 121 orders that night. The next day my login & password wouldn't work.
- msh 13y agoI might be dense, but I dont get it.
- opendais 13y agoHe was fired.
- sejje 13y agoDon't call the boss out when he's wrong if it's not important.
- noir_lord 13y agoHe got fired for the cardinal sin, proving the idiot boss an idiot. In theory you are supposed to be able to tell your boss he is wrong (and a good boss will appreciate this) in practice it depends on the boss.
- ShaneOG 13y agoI think the "screw up" was disagreeing with his boss, and thus losing his job.
- FireBeyond 13y agoTangential to this, in the middle of the dot-com boom, a downsizing. Company meeting: "Here's what's happening, layoffs, etc, etc. When you go back to your desk, if you find your login is disabled, take a moment to pack your desk and come back to the Conference Room." That's how they "notified" people. You got to play a lucky jackpot game of logging into your desktop after the meeting to see if you still had a job. Straight out of Dilbert.