By: Harisheldon

Harisheldon — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 12:58:30 +0000

I agree, a “competent” boss can be very scary, especially when they are a genius in their own mind.

By: TomLiotta

TomLiotta — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 20:20:49 +0000

I think I could give a couple stories that are scarier, but I don’t feel comfortable discussing either one because of major embarrassment to involved parties. But I can sympathize with trouble with bosses.

A less scary story was brought about by a Deputy Commissioner of a state Department of Education. He was brought in to take control of the IT office that was previously under Administrative Services. The story given to us was that he was very “competent”.

One weekend he decided he should apply a set of updates to the Department’s Windows servers. The updates applied okay, but Monday morning no one in all of the Department could print anything. He’d neglected to read enough to know that updates needed to be applied to the client workstations first for at least one of the patches done to the servers.

All of IT spent a pretty messy day cleaning up PC by PC in whatever priority order the various bosses could work out.

That one doesn’t come up to the scary level of a court-martial. Still, “competent” bosses can often be scary even in regular office environments.

Tom

By: brubensteintt

brubensteintt — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 18:56:20 +0000

Wow, doubt anyone can top that story — it’s not every day your boss threatens to put you in jail, and has the power to actually do it.

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