‘His eyes got real big’: Manager demands IT employee stop fixing laptop and work on ‘corporate equipment only’, employee calls up CEO who requested the repair

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Eleonora Bader
Dec 4, 2023 7:00 PM EST

To put it bluntly, you want to be on an IT professional's good side. Whether your computer begins glitching, your internet goes haywire, or you can't find that email that you just know you sent, something will always pop up in the corporate world, and it is best that you befriend the IT employee. Not everyone is as smart as I am though (please detect the sarcasm), and will say the wrong thing at the wrong time to the wrong person, AKA, the IT employee.

One IT employee was approached by the CEO who handed him his personal computer and asked him if he was available to fix it because A. it was urgent and B. he paid his paycheck. Obviously, you don't say 'No' to the person who is responsible for your salary, so OP said 'Yes', and began working on the laptop.

Soon after, a manager came and asked OP to do something else for him, and OP had to explain that he was currently unavailable, but that he would get to it as soon as possible. That was the beginning of the end for this manager, who told OP to immediately call the person that the laptop belonged to and tell him he could not fix it.

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    OVER di உந்து
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    Call that person and tell them it isn't acceptable to work on THAT equipment before Corporate equipment
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    I was sitting in my office one slow day and the CEO walked in (always a pucker moment even though I'm on VERY good terms with him) and he handed me an (obviously non business) laptop and asked if I could get it back up and running as it had "very important thing" on it that was needed shortly and as I
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    wasn't doing anything and he still signed my paycheck, I said "you got it sir!" Later a middle mangler comes in and asks me to do something and I say "you're number 2 in line" and pointed to the (obviously not corporate) laptop I was fixing.
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    Mangler didn't like that much and demanded I call whoever and tell them that it wasn't acceptable for me to be working on personal equipment. So I pulled out my cell and called.
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    Mangler could only hear my half of the convo but what he heard was something like "hey Tom, I got Bob here telling me it isn't acceptable for me to be working on your personal stuff and he wanted me to call you and tell you...
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    "Oh sure, he's right here, hang on" and I handed the phone to the mangler mangler started off saying "It's not accepabl..." and then his eyes got REAL BIG and the rest of the conversation was "yes sir" and "no sir"
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    He hung up and thundered "why didn't you tell me it was CEO's laptop?!?!?" and I said "you didn't give me a chance and demanded I call them RIGHT NOW!!!!"
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    I got done with CEO's project and went to middle manglers office to see what he needed and his reply was "my cable box isn't working on my tv right now" He couldn't understand why I cracked up laughing.
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    "lemme get this straight, you were complaining because I wasn't working on corporate equipment and you needed to be first in line because YOU COULDN'T WATCH TV?!?!?!" I switched inputs on his tv and walked away.
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    fer_sure 2 days ago I feel like the CEO needs this info so he can rip the mangler another new one. 264 Reply Share
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    grauenwolf 1 day ago tl;dr; Manager finds a creative way to get introduced to the CEO. 42+ Reply Share
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    faroseman 2 days ago No. Keep that in your back pocket until needed. Reply Share 113
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    RockChalk80. 1 day ago • edited 1 day ago No offense, but if my CEO asked me to work on his personal laptop - I'd tell him to off (in polite terms of course) and he'd totally get it.
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    You're not doing the rest of your department favors by blurring the lines between work assets and personal assets.
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    The fact that middle "manglement" thought they could do the same thing is just a manifestation of your department's inability to delineate between the two. 2 Reply Share
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    DukeRedWulf. 1 day ago Glorious! :D 1 Reply Share
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    noeljb 2 days ago That is tooo sweet. One of the best I've heard in a long time. Short sweet and BOOM! Thanks. 43 Reply Share
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    Nevermind04. 2 days ago Middle managers may think they are executives, but clearly that mindset ends when they're on the on the phone with one. 37 Reply Share
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