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Back in my younger days, I once had a project manager who was asking me to make a significant network infrastructure change but refused to tell me why the chang
by tsaoutourpants 13y ago
Back in my younger days, I once had a project manager who was asking me to make a significant network infrastructure change but refused to tell me why the change was necessary and basically told me to do as I was told. I messaged a coworker to see if he knew what was going on, and dropped in that the PM was being a "fucking cunt." I was unaware, however, that the co-worker and the PM were troubleshooting an issue together and the PM was staring at his screen as my message came through.
The PM brought the issue to the CTO, but somehow I didn't get fired. Ended up apologizing (obviously a poor choice of words :)) and moved on. Never made that infrastructure change.
Key takeaway: if you're going to talk shit, don't do so in writing. ;)
- tsaoutourpants 13y agoAlso, I had a friend with a similar (perhaps worse) story. His company sent every employee an e-mail about being on time, to which he pushed Reply to All and typed "FUCK YOU!" He laughed to himself and went to push the Discard button, but accidentally hit Send in the process. He was about to try to ExMerge it out of Exchange when he heard a BlackBerry vibrate and realized that no amount of ExMerge would get it off the BBs. He spent the next hour going door-to-door apologizing, and also managed to not get fired.
- lostlogin 13y agoDamn iMessage is a shocker for this. Coworker sends out group message saying big boss wants xyz and includes big boss in the group. Someone always misses that its a group message and sends an expletive or sarcastic reply. I am also guilty.