Worker Manipulates Meddling Micromanager Into Annihilating Their Own Work

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    Font - Posted by u/Redeemer_89 22 hours ago & 95 S Pedantic manager picks apart their own work Backstory: I worked for a high street retail chain that, in their infinite wisdom, ditched the store manager position and instead had 4 assistant managers running a store. This led to intensive workplace politics as the more competitive staff kept trying to pull stuff to make out that they were the big dog despite the fact that we were all on the same level.
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    Font - Setting the scene: Our area manager asked each of us to produce a weekly rota so that between us we would have a month's worth of rotas prepared. The most pedantic, least liked and most determined to be the big dog assistant manager took this as their 9 billionth opportunity to try to pick apart our work to satisfy their superiority complex and criticise our work to make out like they were managing the managers. Pretty sick of the constant unnecessary workplace politics I decided to bring
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    Font - Cue the revenge: On the last day before we were due to submit all the assistant managers were in so I took the opportunity to make my own rota from scratch. Having finished it I saved it then produced a second rota to set a trap for my micromanaging colleague. Basically, I copy and pasted their rota so it was an exact replica of theirs. I then let the two other fed up assistant managers know what I've done so they can enjoy the imminent spectacle. That lunch it came time for us all to com
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    Font - Finally, we come to "my" rota. I open up the spreadsheet with the copied rota and lo and behold, it's not good enough. After a solid 5 minutes of them criticising their own rota with my colleagues and I increasingly beaming as we feed off the pure Schadenfreude energy, I explain that I found it interesting that there are so many mistakes with mine when it is exactly the same as the first rota we all looked at. This prompts our colleague to quickly flit back and forth between the two rotas
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    Font - Valdamae 14 hr. ago That is pure gold standard petty revenge my friend. 548 Reply Share
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    Font - brettyrocks +2. 12 hr. ago I guess I'm stupid, but what's a rota? Share 287 lotsofpun 12 hr. ago . 224 Reply Just a work schedule. In this case, they all came up with one week's worth. 58 Reply Share DrScience-PhD. 6 hr. ago and here I thought it was a type of pastry Reply Share
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    Joint - Remarkable-Storm-738 PD 174 . 18 hr. ago 158 Reply Share
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    Font - MicroDigitalAwaker +1. 13 hr. ago If I had a different person make my work schedule independently each week I'd quit in less than 2 months ↑ 79 ↓ Reply Share
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    Font - dotblot 15 hr. ago Too immersed in criticising others' work didn't even realise it was their own. ↑ 53 Reply Share

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