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IT employee gets 90 seconds of work to cost 15-minutes due to new manager's negligence, Director throws a fit: ‘Be careful what you standardize.’

Elna McHilderson

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Boss demands IT employee follow process to the letter, stalling out a project with a major client and causing frantic messages from their boss: 'No ticket = no work. Bureaucracy over brains'

Brad Dickson

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Guest hacks into hotel's network and optimizes their entire system after seeing how slow the WiFi is, refuses to get compensated: 'Manager was torn between being grateful and concerned’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Boss demands IT send "detailed daily reports" for everything little task they do on the job, IT sends an 87-page novel in response: ‘8:02 AM: Logged into system’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Micromanager bans personal phones at his IT team's desks, but his attempt at control backfires when there's a server crash at 4:45 PM on Friday: 'I was just following policy to avoid a write-up'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Mid-sized marketing firm outsources IT firing the single employee who had been there for 4 years, he gets a job paying $20k more: 'The first week after I left, their main server crashed. The outsourced company took 6 hours to respond, another 8 to fix it'

Brad Dickson

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Tech employee gets skipped for promotion at his first ‘real’ job because he was out sick, gets revenge on petty manager several years later: ‘I love telling [this story]!’

Elna McHilderson

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Loyal employee of 10+ years gets made ‘redundant’ so company's nepo baby employees can climb the latter, gets a new job that Friday and leaves old boss on read: 'The equipment was all signed into my personal emails…'

Elna McHilderson

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Non-tech manager gets power hunger with IT department, ends up eating his own tail when employees maliciously comply and anger company's VP: ‘[He] thought it was a Fortune 500.’

Elna McHilderson

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Non-tech savvy office mom accidentally becomes unofficial head of IT by fixing the Wi-Fi with a bag of frozen peas: ‘Someone asked if I could “optimize the cloud.” I told him I optimize casseroles.’

Elna McHilderson

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‘I was shaking [with laughter]:’ Freelance web designer gets stiffed on the bill, uses a hosting provider error that has nothing to do with him to get the $1,500 he earned

Elna McHilderson

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Gen X has real-life 'Revenge of the Nerds' moment when he uses his computer smarts to redirect 1,000+ junk mail letters to his college nemesis: 'An evil scheme unique to his talents and skills.'

Elna McHilderson

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'Don't mess with IT folks': Entitled employee unapologetically makes his coworker cry, so IT makes his job a living nightmare until he apologizes

Elna McHilderson

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IT teams tries to warn boss after she bans employees from multitasking, higher-ups step in and fire her when productivity tanks: 'We just followed the rules'

Isabella Penn

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20+ IT workers discuss how they would respond to unrealistic demands from the CEO: ‘That choice is a couple of pay grades too high for me to make’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Employee offers to fix store's computer, boss refuses and calls a professional, only to reach the same employee and pay X4 the rate: ‘You fool, I am the professional’

Bar Mor Hazut

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