Is Your Boss An Idiot?

Dracos writes "CNN Money is running an article entitled "Is Your Boss An Idiot?" Advice on how to cope with a PHB is prefaced with humorous, though suspiciously anecdotal, examples of how to identify one."

Comments

I work for myself

[Anonymous Coward]

So, Yes my boss is an idiot

Re:I work for myself

[arpy]

So your boss doesn't realise that you're skiving off reading /.?

Oh my god, my boss _IS_ an idiot!

[Shayde]

What a fool! Always late for meetings, never gives any supportive commentary, the pay sucks, the hours are long, and _HE_ gets all the glory for the crap I have to do all day long! What a bozo!

Waiddasec. I work for myself.

Is there a doctor in the house?

one explanation

[Highlordexecutioner]

Well, they give all managers lobotomies. How else would they be able to stand going to meetings for 7 hours a day.

Let's get the anecdotes going

[hype7]

There was an office manager where I worked who had absolutely no idea. He just happened to be the brother-in-law of one of the Directors of the organisation (an ISP).

Other than having a propensity to open up every infected email he received (the best one was when he sent "I Love You" to all the employees), he did some other things that were pretty stupid. My favourite, however was when one of our bigger clients needed to talk to him about something. We looked all round the office, and couldn't find him, so we suggested to the client that they called him. The boss answered the phone, and they had a conversation about whatever it was that was required, though there was a really bad echo on the line. The disucssion was, however, suddenly punctuated by quite a loud "plop!", as if something was dropped into a bowl of water. It then dawned on the client why nobody could find him when we went looking.

He was on the crapper!

This guy had answered his mobile phone to one of our largest clients, while sitting on the john! The client had called the manager in front of us, and we wondered why he at first went bright red and then broke down in laughter.

He didn't tell us what had happened until later.

-- james

Re:Let's get the anecdotes going

[jujuchef]

Small medical IT department of two with a supervisor:

One day while in a meeting with a vendor over purchasing a new server(20-60k), our Supervisor turns to our CEO during the meeting and asks, "What can we afford?"

The CEO quickly responds, "Well first you tell me what we need and then we'll figure it out and I'll decide what we can afford."

Our brave supervisor tacking on but another gem in a long list of brilliant acts, turns to the vendor, "What do we need?"...

Re:Asinine article

[Dot.Com.CEO]

I'm a slashdot reader too, so I sent them an email complaining of the lack of a CowboyNeal option.

I find their wording a bit disturbing...

[RevRa]

"NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - You can't live with 'em. And you can't shoot 'em. "

Apparently they missed their own headlines a few days ago:

"Salvador Tapia returned to the Windy City Core Supply warehouse where he had been fired six months ago and killed six of his former co-workers, police said Wednesday."

Apparently, if you can't live with 'em, you can shoot 'em.

Is your boss an idiot?

[ngyahloon]

All those who work in the White House say: Amen!