Let’s have some talk about bosses today! Why not – after all, in an ideal world, where everyone is friends with everyone, and pink ponies happily jump across lawns with flowers, the boss is a wise and experienced person who reached their position through hard work and thanks to a variety of masterful skills.
However, even if we take such a higher-up from an ideal world, something can still happen that in the good old comedic tradition that can be described with the words: “Well, nobody’s perfect!” For example, what happened with the immediate supervisor ofthe user u/UnconfirmedRooster, whose story we’ll tell you today.
More info:Reddit
The author of the post works in a funeral home and has to deal with various straps for the lowering machine
Image credits:Gervyn Louis (not the actual photo)
One day their boss ordered new straps – and some time later demanded the author got rid of the old ones
Image credits:UnconfirmedRooster
The employee tried to explain that the new straps were already in action – but the manager was relentless
Image credits:GovernmentZA (not the actual photo)
The author simply hid the new straps and it literally saved the company from work stoppage – as a month later the boss demanded these straps back
So the Original Poster (OP) explains that they work in a funeral home, and the most important piece of equipment they had to deal with were the special straps that are used to lower the coffin gradually into the ground. So, the company had several sets of these straps, but at one point the boss ordered new ones.
Coming to work one day, the author of the post was faced with the boss’s urgent demand to collect all available sets of straps and throw them away – because new ones were coming in. The employee tried to object that the new equipment had already been received several days ago and was already being used at work – but when did the word of a subordinate mean anything to a boss who had entered a managerial frenzy?
In general, the OP received a direct order to collect everything and throw it away. However, they had the patience to take the new straps and still hide them at home. This went on, according to the author, for about a month, when all funeral cases were cremations only… and then, one fine day, a client appeared who required a standard burial – and the same manager suddenly asked how many straps they had for work.
Having received a reasonable answer that not a single one remained, the boss completely lost it, and guess who they accused of incompetence and negligence? That’s right, the original poster! Fortunately, the OP’s foresight saved the situation – because they calmly stated that they would now go and bring the brand new straps, which the boss had so persistently ordered them to throw away. “Certainly bruised that manager’s ego a bit and made him think about what he says next time though,” the author muses.
Image credits:RDNE Stock project (not the actual photo)
And, of course, the main advice not only to the original poster, but to all employees who are faced with an unreasonable or borderline stupid order from their immediate superiors, is to always demand written confirmation of the order from the higher-ups so that you can always confront your superiors with an indisputable fact.
Image credits:cottonbro studio (not the actual photo)
Work & Money
