Barrett50
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I was on Reddit a while back and there were some pretty good stories. I got fired from a job a long time ago and it was kinda interesting. I'll try to condense;
We were a team of about 10 engineers. Two of us had advanced degrees and were sort of the leads. We got a new boss with a PhD, and he was brought in to increase revenue, and reduce costs. He first knocked down the two 'lead' guys to just everyone being equal. Well, OK, so I stopped backing up some of the others with less experience. This put me and the new boss at odds. Next, he was pretty proud of his Mazda RX-7. One day I see him parking his car, and it was nice out and I was in my older Ferrari, and parked at the end of the lot, a few places away from his car. He didn't like that one bit.
We had a really nice eng on staff named John, and he tended to stutter when under a bit of stress. During a weekly meeting, the new Dr boss was getting on everyone for spending too much time, or not setting up billing for some jobs that could be billed, but may be contract support. John was always in the middle of the pack for billed hours but this month he was near the bottom. So, the new Dr boss was getting on his case, and John was starting to stutter in reply. The rest of the guys never bugged John about his stutter and he was always easy-going about it, and no one made any fuss. He was a good engineer otherwise.
So, Dr Boss is reaming out John, and John is stuttering in reply, and now Dr Boss fake stutters back: "Wh-wh-wh-what were you th-th-th-thinking here?" I turned to him and said 'that is enough of that'. He knew exactly what I meant. So he turns away from John and starts in on me. My billable was second out of 10, and my reports were always on time. So we get into a shouting match, and people are coming in from the hall and I'm face to face with Dr Boss and he tells me to get my personal stuff and head for the exit. Well, ok then. They process me out, and I went down the street and got a job with about 15% higher salary. The story got around in the tightly connected industry and Dr Boss was let go a few months later. No one ever saw him in the field again. John thanked me when we crossed paths after that, and we went to the bowling alley after work and had a few beers.
We were a team of about 10 engineers. Two of us had advanced degrees and were sort of the leads. We got a new boss with a PhD, and he was brought in to increase revenue, and reduce costs. He first knocked down the two 'lead' guys to just everyone being equal. Well, OK, so I stopped backing up some of the others with less experience. This put me and the new boss at odds. Next, he was pretty proud of his Mazda RX-7. One day I see him parking his car, and it was nice out and I was in my older Ferrari, and parked at the end of the lot, a few places away from his car. He didn't like that one bit.
We had a really nice eng on staff named John, and he tended to stutter when under a bit of stress. During a weekly meeting, the new Dr boss was getting on everyone for spending too much time, or not setting up billing for some jobs that could be billed, but may be contract support. John was always in the middle of the pack for billed hours but this month he was near the bottom. So, the new Dr boss was getting on his case, and John was starting to stutter in reply. The rest of the guys never bugged John about his stutter and he was always easy-going about it, and no one made any fuss. He was a good engineer otherwise.
So, Dr Boss is reaming out John, and John is stuttering in reply, and now Dr Boss fake stutters back: "Wh-wh-wh-what were you th-th-th-thinking here?" I turned to him and said 'that is enough of that'. He knew exactly what I meant. So he turns away from John and starts in on me. My billable was second out of 10, and my reports were always on time. So we get into a shouting match, and people are coming in from the hall and I'm face to face with Dr Boss and he tells me to get my personal stuff and head for the exit. Well, ok then. They process me out, and I went down the street and got a job with about 15% higher salary. The story got around in the tightly connected industry and Dr Boss was let go a few months later. No one ever saw him in the field again. John thanked me when we crossed paths after that, and we went to the bowling alley after work and had a few beers.