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Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Horrible IT Boss Story?

Posted by BeauHD on from the popcorn-in-hand dept.

snydeq writes: Good-bye, programming peers; hello, power to abuse at your whim, writes Bob Lewis in a send-up of an all-too-familiar situation: The engineering colleague who transforms into a greasy political manipulator upon promotion into management. "It's legendary: A CIO promotes his best developer into a management role, losing an excellent programmer and gaining a bad manager. The art of management isn't so much about assembling a dream team, helping others be successful, or solving technical problems. It's about aligning everything you do in service of the business -- the business of yourself.'" What tales do you have of colleagues who broke bad all the way to the top?

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  1. Re:Too smart for his own good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    We have whiners like you where I work, too. Usually we just wind up subbing the project out to India and it gets done quickly and cheaply even with a revision or three we wind up ahead.

  2. Horror Story by puddingebola · · Score: 5, Funny

    My boss (CIO) promotes me from his favorite developer to management, of which, admittedly I know nothing. After a few months he calls me into his office, wants to discuss my management style. He feels I'm not being assertive enough. Throws a knife down on the desk says, "Now, I want you to stab me." I say what. He says, "Stab me, go on, fucking stab me." I tell him I'm not stabbing me. He comes around the desk and tells me if I don't stab him, he's going to stab me. Then he gets up in my face and starts screaming for him to stab him. Finally, I snap and pick up the knife and try and stab him. He breaks my arm in two places and breaks two of my ribs. Then he claims in court that I attacked him with a knife. Well, I can tell you, I won't work in management ever again.

  3. documentary by Bruzer · · Score: 5, Funny

    I watched a documentary about a guy who was slacking off at work (not showing up for work actually) and when the performance consultants interviewed him he actually got promoted to manager while they laid off a few of his friends or peers! Some other stuff happened in the documentary but I am pretty sure that was the relevant part.

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    "Tempt not a desperate man" - Willy S.
    1. Re:documentary by tsstahl · · Score: 5, Funny

      You should tell your story with more flair. It would really make the atmosphere around here more fun.