'What the [hey] was I supposed to do?': AP Supervisor of small company scoffs at manager who's upset that he can't control the WiFi

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Aug 1, 2023 2:30 PM EDT

Well, well, well. How the tables have turned. We millennials and Gen Z might have needed help from an adult or two when we were growing up and didn't know how to boil an egg. But look who STILL doesn't understand new technology—how many times do we need to show you how to use the remote?

Reddit user u/GoGoNJDevil recently shared a moment with his manager that truly had him "laughing in millennial." It isn't new to OP that this manager is toxic and rude, and, frankly, annoying. He is already on the hunt for a new job. So it wasn't just this recent interaction that made him reconsider his employment there, but it truly does add the cherry on top. OP is the AP supervisor for this small company. The AP supervisor is the "accounts payable" supervisor, so he deals with all the paying stuff, which means he figures out how to pay for the company wifi. So when Comcast had to do some work on their end at 8 am, and it cut out the service, the boomer manager called OP. He demanded that OP call Comast and remedy the issue immediately. Ok, so, like… Just call Mr. Comcast? Say, "Hey man, can you do me a solid??" LOL

Nope, OP just rolled his eyes and tried his best. He called Comcast, and they told him exactly what he thought they would tell him, that there was nothing they could do. He relayed this to his manager, and apparently, now the wifi not working was HIS fault. What a wild rollercoaster of a job it must be to work for an entitled boomer. 

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    Font - Posted by u/GoGoNJDevil 5 days ago My boss just yelled at me because the Comcast Internet is down and I couldn't convince Comcast to turn it back on.
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    Font - Princeton, For background, I'm the AP Supervisor at a small company in NJ. I pay the bills and maintain the finances but have very little to do with the day to day actual meat of the company.
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    Font - Apparently Comcast in their infinite wisdom decided 8:00am on Wednesday is the best time to enhance their network. Since we're mainly remote, this basically means we can't access our servers while they do their work. My boss called me and told me to call Comcast and tell them this is unacceptable.
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    Font - I rolled my eyes but I gave it my best effort and Comcast basically told me that they're working as fast as they can and there's nothing to be done. But they did give me a credit for the next 5 days for the inconvenience. I told my boss
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    Font - that and he lit into me about how what's unacceptable is that I can't get done what's asked of me. I was floored...like what do you expect me to do. He said he's gonna call now but I doubt he'll let me know how he gets on.
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    Font - This is the same guy who last week told me that I need to call him whenever I email him if it's important because he doesn't read my emails. I have an interview at another company tomorrow so I'm just taking it day by day...but what the hell was I supposed to do?
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    Font - Captain BirdEnjoyer. 5 days ago Did you ask to speak to Mr. Comcast directly?
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    Font - Hudwig_Von_Muscles · 5 days ago I had a boss who was on a business trip and couldn't get his rental car because he'd let his Driver's License expire.
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    Font - He called me, pissed as hell, and told me to call the DMV and have them overnight an ID. At 4:45 in the afternoon.
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    Font - I didn't even try. I just called him back at 5 and said the DMV automatically disconnected the call at 5. He wasn't going to do it himself, and the DMV sure as hell wasn't going to let me bully them into mailing an identity document across state lines to... a hotel? Lmao.
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    Font - Maxplode 5 days ago Actually had a boss do this stunt. Basically a supplier very sneakily bypassed us and sold equipment to our customer, cutting us out,
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    Font - my boss(ex) called them in a tirade and during the heat shouted "...do you know who I am??" we all tried not to laugh. He didn't get anywhere either lol
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    Font - yearofthesquirrel. 5 days ago A well known politician from my country was trying to fly overseas. Got to the counter and realised he had left his passport at home. As he was ranting, he said the 'do you know who I am?' line. The guy behind the counter stood up and said to the wider audience
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    Font - "This man seems to have forgotten who he is. Does anyone know him?" The highlight was he was the foreign affairs minister so he kind of should know the deal with flying overseas.
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    Font - . RenzaMcCullough 5 days ago A boss actually crazier than the one who demanded I do something about the weather that was keeping ships from docking in Baltimore. Good for you for not even calling.
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    Font - Ihavealpacas 5 days ago I mean if you can't deal with an outage then yeah, get a backup connection. Otherwise kick rocks and wait for Comcast to fix their shit.
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    Font - . ThunkAsDrinklePeep 5 days ago I disagree. He won't call, and when the internet comes on he'll pretend that he did and this would have been over sooner if OP had done his job the first time.
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    Font - GSTLT 5 days ago I had a boss like this. One similar example was that he wanted daily emails of his appointments sent to him every morning. He used an external appointment booking service that didn't offer this. So I worked with the company to attach his bookings to a google calendar
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    Font - and then had that google calendar send daily appointment emails. The problem: that email automatically sent at 5 am and the send time was not adjustable. This was unacceptable to him and he told me to call google and fix it. I told him there is no call google for a free google service and I had checked with help resources and confirmed that I couldn't change the time. I told
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    Font - him it came at 5 am every day and thus should be easy to find in his inbox. He yelled a lot and stormed out while telling me to call google.
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    Font - I also once hung up on him because he wanted to know where he tweets were and when I explained how to see them on his profile he replied that wasn't what he meant, that he wanted to know WHERE THEY WERE. Idk man, some server somewhere.
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    Font - Thank whatever y'all pray to that I got out of that job pretty quick. I referred to his issue as Old White Man Syndrome where he thought that these massive multinational corporations offering free services were going
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    Font - to give him custom features and service because he demanded thing be tailored to exactly how he wanted them. I told him he could pay someone to create the things he wanted, but that alternative was not well received.
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