'[He] routinely attempts to fax me when I have no fax machine': Employee baffled by their nepo-boss's odd workplace requests

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Aug 26, 2023 11:00 AM EDT

This employee was surprised every day by the odd way their nepo-boss chose to run a business. 

That's the issue with nepotism hires — they're notorious for being under-qualified and overly entitled. This boss, Kevin, was placed in the vice president position at his parent's company. Though he has an MBA, this OP notes that he "does lack common sense, he also lacks critic[al] thinking and has no ability to follow simple instructions or understand simple explanations for things he doesn't know." What a recipe for disaster! 

From the OP's telling, it seems like they spent half their time at work just figuring out how to do the tasks their boss assigned. Some of these things are just baffling. This boss treats technology like he was born in the 1800s — he genuinely doesn't know how to reply to an email, and he doesn't understand signing into a computer with an ID. So when he assigns his employee to do something, this employee is left utterly confused. 

At least the OP compiled lots of Kevin's funniest behaviors here! Commenters thought the post was hilarious, with many of them marvelling at Kevin's tech mishaps. 

Check out the entire story below. Then, this company parted ways with a client of 50 years — all because a company rep left a bad taste in their mouth. 

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    Font - My boss is a Kevin XL My boss is a huge Kevin. Its pretty spectacular how he has an MBA, is the vice president of a company and set to inherit that company from his parents when they die. (I guess Kevin is the prime example of why nepotism doesn't work.) Not only does he lack common sense, he also lacks critic thinking and has no ability to follow simple instructions or understand simple explanations for things he doesn't know. Kevin has done the following things:
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    Font - He was being interviewed by the local newspaper about his company. In preparation for the interview, he asked me to think of some stories from his childhood and write them down so he could have something to talk about in the interview. I've known him for 2 years.
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    Font - Once walked into my office and handed me a post it with w phone number on it and said "call this guy" then left the building. Did not tell me the person's name, what I was supposed to call him about, or the area code for the phone number
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    Font - Once asked me to send him info I had already sent him 27 times in 2 weeks. It ended up being an email with 26 other forwards to him because he didn't know how to search his inbox.
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    Font - Insisted we switch the company wide email server to gmail so we would have access to google docs, sheets, etc. He then asked me what a google doc was.
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    Font - Tried to tell me guerrilla marketing was when you go out in a field with your product and do demonstrations. He asked me to help him find a large enough field to hold all our products so we could do a demonstration.
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    Font - Tried ask our IT how to access my email by imessaging them on my computer and using my apple ID. I read everything. He will print out an email, hand write a respond, scan it and email it back to you. Hand written email response sent as a pdf...
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    Font - We had placed some animated digital ads online. He tried to print them out and asked me why they "weren't moving anymore." Says there is "no magic number" for the amount of money you should spend on marketing. There is. Its pretty well known and usually taught in college courses that it is 10% of annual revenue.
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    Font - Routinely attempts to fax me when I have no fax machine Tried to fit something that was 3ft in diameter through an 18 in. hole Asked me why he keeps getting emails from Facebook about potential leads. When I told him they get sent to him when someone clicks on our ad and requests more info about the company, a copy of it gets sent to him. He said he deleted the leads because he thought they were "people trolling him."
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    Font - Amazon business contacted me to sell our products on their site. When I asked him if he was interested, he said he had the idea to do something like that before but never got around to it. I asked him what he meant and he said he's always wants to have a website where a whole bunch of companies can sell products on one website. He said he had the idea for Amazon but never got around to it. He was 6 years old when Amazon started.
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    Font - Emptied the shared company dropbox because he thought he was the only one who had access to it. Queue pics from 2007 - 2017 are now permanently deleted. I guess I should stop but I could go on forever. Ill add more as they happen.
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    Font - delicious_infidel He will print out an email, hand write a respond, scan it and email it back to you. Hand written email response sent as a pdf... I lost it.
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    Gesture - YoungDiscord At least its... formal? A+ for effort
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    Font - not-quite-a-nerd We had placed some animated digital ads online. He tried to print them out and asked me why they "weren't moving anymore." The rest has some kind of explanation, but this.. Wow
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    Font - Danmufuka. Wow! Hope he doesn't see this post, print it out, write an angry comment, scan it...and post it here
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    Font - pickleport If Kevin was 6 when amazon started.. Kevin is younger than me. How does Kevin not understand email?
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    Font - russsl8 Insisted we switch the company wide email server to gmail so we would have access to google docs, sheets, etc. He then asked me what a google doc was. OK, this one is very forgiveable. Not everyone is familiar with all the services that Google offers. 1 Reply Share [deleted] I mean, my thing that he wanted to do it specifically for google docs without actually knowing what one was.
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