'End of discussion, do you understand me?': New boss throws tantrum at employee for executing task without the OK, employee malicious complies and gets boss fired

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    Font - You don't upload until I tell you to upload. Alrighty then! M OC Going to try to be vague as I do still work there. So, this happened many, many years ago and the main character is actually someone else. But, most of the staff knew the details of what happened. So, first some background. This company has a production process, and there are cycles of this process throughout the shift. At the end of each cycle, you do an "upload" (not the actual thing). This upload has to be coordinated acr
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    Font - At this company, when we get new members of management either external or internal from a non- production role, it is not unusual for them to go through a phase I personally like to refer to as "knowing just enough to be dangerous" or "dangerous phase" for short. We had a new manager join the company, let's call them Beavis. And they were assigned to night shift, which had become quite reliant on Rockstar in the interim.
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    Font - So Beavis went through a humble phase initially, and everyone really liked them and thought they would do well. Now Beavis had actually take a step or two down from their previous role at another company wanting to do something less stressful. I only mention this because it seemed to fuel the hubris that was ultimately Beavis' demise. So, once Beavis reaches the dangerous phase, the change from humble newby to overconfident jackwagon was jarringly sudden.
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    Font - One evening, Rockstar is doing what they do, and one work team was struggling to be ready for the upload. Now, this happens sometimes, but it's one of the only teams that doesn't necessarily stop production if they don't upload on time. Nevertheless, Beavis freaks out on Rockstar for uploading without them and as Rockstar is trying to explain that we had to upload, Beavis tells them that they "don't upload until Beavis tells them to upload, period, end of discussion, do you understand me?
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    Font - The rest of the shift, Beavis is paying zero attention to the operation. Not sure why they thought that was a good idea after such a contentious exchange, but here we are. All night long, team leads were calling Rockstar asking what was going on and why we hadn't uploaded so we could go on to the next cycle. Rockstar just kept saying, "I'm waiting for Beavis to let me know we can upload." And all night long, Beavis was blissfully unaware of the storm he had initiated.
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    Font - Towards the end of the night, Beavis finally decides to take a look at some operational "dashboards" and realizes something is really wrong. Now, this situation might have resulted in Rockstar getting in trouble, possibly even losing their job, if not for the bonehead decision that Beavis makes once they've realized what has happened. They shut down the shift and went home, without notifying anyone of the debacle or telling the night shift employees that they would need to come in the nex
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    Font - finanon99 20 hr. ago Nice. I bet most businesses would have put the blame on UO and kept NM in place.
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    Font - Unfunny14U OP edited 15 hr. ago 19 hr. ago. One more thing, Rockstar's career projection has been stellar. They are very good at their job. The company honestly should have just skipped Beavis altogether and promoted Rockstar to begin with. They've promoted multiple times since.
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    Font - SunflowerSpeaks +2. 19 hr. ago That arrogance lead him to his demise. I recognize the "danger phase" from the stories my husband shares. I also worked in a factory many moons ago, and saw many people become jackwagons, overnight. Glad UpOp didn't get fired!
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    Product - Pretend_Barracuda300 19 hr. ago Wow. When he went dangerous he went ballistic and got shot down in spades.
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    Font - USAF6F171 +2. just now 8 words to live by: Bad News Does Not Get Better With Age
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    Font - +4.20 hr. ago NM stuffed up once, but what made it unforgivable was walking away without attempting to fix the mess he created. Even the most incompetent management would be wary of a fool who doubles down when he makes an error. Catacombs3
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    Font - Unfunny14U OP 1. 19 hr. ago edited 15 hr. ago Absolutely. But this Rockstar was a very knowledgeable, valuable person, and I think the fact that Beavis just shut down the shift and walked away whistling lent a lot of credence to what Rockstar told them about Beavis' behavior when asked to explain themselves.
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    Font - svc78 14 hr. ago that's when the corporate is filled with useless bureaucrats, but if the real Boss is still around, he will definitely put the interests of the company first. (that's when the boss is the OG one, if succession has already occurred all bets are off)
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    Font - life-as-a-adult. 20 hr. ago My daughter (18 shift lead) made a mistake at work a few months ago and called me upset, wanting to run and hide. I kept telling her that she had to stick around, acknowledge her mistake, and help fix the problem. Months later, she still works there and hopefully will not do that again, but it took a bit.
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    Font - o necronboy +2 19 hr. ago My story is similar to this, but I was the immature hat. I dropped a small, vital, gauge which bounced on my foot and into a drain. I looked around and saw no-one, so I walked away. Next day I'm in my managers office getting a write up one level below termination because someone had seen me. If I had acknowledged my screw up, and got down on my hands snd knees and tried to fish the gauge out and failed then told the boss, I would have just got a finger wagged in

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