My manager is such an idiot!!!

apatia77 said:
Nah, I don't even know why they employed me here, I am his assistant here but I do like 1h of work every day and the rest of my working hours I browse OcUK forum or some other websites :)

I am happy though that I have this job :) as this is better that having no job :(
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Well done?
 
james.miller said:
*guy doesnt know about technobabble*.


Yeah...idiot tbh :confused:
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Actually he is.

One for not trusting the opinion of his colleague but instead those of a shop floor salesman and the second being that he's an IT manager and can't tell what quality a BluRay film is supposed to be.
 
An IT manager that doesn't know the meaning of 1080p or have any concept of the resolution of an image and thinks that a the cable a signal is put through solely determines the quality of the image.....

Wow he wants the sack
 
PhillyDee said:
The same way most management gets their job. Incompetence. They cannot sack them, so they promote them into a position where they can do less actual harm.
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Yea, that's the way it works in business, we promote the dicks to protect the business and let the feet on the street do all the clever stuff while still being able to pay them poorly and pay the managers better to thank them for their incompetence. Every business has useless individuals, at all levels, but promotion tends more often than not to be based on credible competence not favouritism or protectionism, promise.
 
The term "IT" itself is so vague that I don't think it's worth getting wound up over what an "IT person" should or shouldn't know.
 
Housey said:
Yea, that's the way it works in business, we promote the dicks to protect the business and let the feet on the street do all the clever stuff while still being able to pay them poorly and pay the managers better to thank them for their incompetence. Every business has useless individuals, at all levels, but promotion tends more often than not to be based on credible competence not favouritism or protectionism, promise.
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Oooh, touchy! :p

I have seen plenty of people promoted and are useless at both the job they had, and the job they were promoted into.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427392.600-why-your-boss-is-incompetent.html

:D
 
It's not that he doesn't know what that means, it's that he doesn't know that he doesn't know that. I hate people who just assume that they're right no matter what. Why didn't he take the advice of yourself, who he must know has better technological knowledge than himself?
 
PhillyDee said:
The same way most management gets their job. Incompetence. They cannot sack them, so they promote them into a position where they can do less actual harm.
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This & the fact they couldn't give a monkeys about the staff they are responsible for, they think they are always right.

This 'joke' sums management up to a tee.

A man in a hot air balloon realized he was lost. He reduced his altitude
and spotted a woman below. He descended a bit more and shouted, "Excuse me,
can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don't know where I am."
The woman below replied, "You're in a hot air balloon hovering approximately 30 feet above the ground.
You're between 40 and 45 degrees north latitude and between 59 and 60 degrees west longitude."
"You must be in Engineering," said the balloonist.
"I am," replied the woman, "How did you know?"
"Well," answered the balloonist, "everything you told me is technically correct, but I've no idea what to make of your information, and the fact is I'm still lost.
Frankly, you've not been much help at all. If anything, you've delayed my trip."
The woman below responded, "You must be in Management."
"I am," replied the balloonist, "but how did you know?"
''Well", said the woman, "you don't know where you are or where you're going.
You have risen to where you are due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise,
which you've no idea how to keep; and you expect people beneath you to solve your problems.
The fact is you are in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but now, somehow, it's my fault."
 
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