Perhaps it’s my age, but I have less and less tolerance for managers that are promoted to a level beyond their incompetence and inflict their idiocy on the working cogs of the world.
This installment of dumb things managers say includes an exchange between myself and one of the managers in our sister location. This occurred at our painful “teambuilding” torture session recently:
Manger: “How long have you been in our department”
Me: “2 years. Prior to that I spent 10 years in Marketing, and was in Operations before that.”
Manager: “That’s interesting. What role did you like better?”
Me: “That’s hard to answer. They are so different.”
Manager “This would be an opportunity for you to do some sucking up.”
Me: Dumbfounded but recovered nicely with a very diplomatic take the high-road-kind of answer.
Needless to say, the manager in question does a lot of sucking up.
As if you hadn’t guessed.
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