If you mess with things that you don't understand, you're going to make one. There's a reason why any leader worth their salt knows to listen and observe when they join a new organization rather than wildly making changes to feed their own ego. Yet, so many managers make the mistake of not doing this, seeking to make their mark on the organization and justify their salary. They might not even have any relevant experience with the industry they've moved into, yet they think they can just walk in the door and tell the more experienced, seasoned productive workers how to do their job better, faster, and more efficiently.
This, of course, ends up not getting the result and praise they were hoping for, instead creating a mess that they don't understand that eventually sees them caving to pressure and hastily rolling back the changes. But they're not going to apologize—oh, no—their ego would never allow for that. Instead, they're going to sweep any trace and mention of their new policies under the rug and pretend that nothing ever happened.
Of course, there's always the chance that the damage is irreversible, and sweeping the changes under the rug isn't possible, as in the case that a key worker is fired or quits—which is exactly the position this boss found themselves in after they foolishly challenged a just-fired IT worker to delete every file on their computer.
Read on to see this story of catastrophic fallout due to terrible management.
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