'He confessed he lied on his resume': Programmers band together to get nepotistic managers fired

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Brad Dickson • Managing Editor
Feb 14, 2024 10:00 AM EST

There's this thing that happens in life that you'll see time and time again, where you meet someone in a position of authority and can't help but wonder how in the heck they got there. Maybe they're not necessarily cruel (though that's usually the case), but they'll be so obstinate and incompetent that you can't help but be surprised that no one else noticed. 

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  • The reality of the situation, however, quickly becomes clear: This person knows someone else who was in an even higher position of power, who got them the job, subsequently promoting them to a standing far above where they ever had any right to be. Meanwhile, everyone else in the building minds their own business and looks the other way to avoid drawing any unnecessary attention to themself. 

    Well, when this department manager hired his less-than-honest mate to work as a manager in his department, the programmers weren't having any of it, tanking their entire project so that the managers took the blame and were subsequently fired.

    See this classic internet tale of pro-revenge below, as shared with a popular online community of the same name.

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    Posted by u/Deadlock1989 Pass me for manager promotion and hire your useless credit stealing friend, i'll destroy your career. Long story TLDR at bottom. So this is not my story (got permission to post from the prorevenger himself) but due to nature of events i don't mind my account being made into a sacrificial lamb if it got back to people involved as my account is essentially expendable.
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    So the story, dave (not real name) has been working for an I.T programming company for just over 9 years, getting a good rep as a hard worker and all his colleagues knew him and can trust him to be a big help in times of trouble, like during big difficult projects for major clients. Daves manager (john) was planning to retire and thought dave would be a good replacement so put his name forward as a recommendation and started showing him the ropes of his potential new job just to give him a glimp
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    Some character info. whilst john was a good manager, very people friendly, michael was not. All michael cared about was numbers and reports, he didn't even know who most of his staff was nor did he have very much interaction with them. Back to story, michael had started the interviews to fill john's position, dave being one of the interviewees and dave thought the interview went really well. A few nervous months later michael announces the new manager, it's an outside employment not an internal
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    The new manager (darren) was below useless, he didn't know how to spell 'computer program' let alone write one, turns out he was old friends with michael and michael had helped him fabricate his resume to get him the job. The news quickly spread to all the programmers but there was nothing they could do as michael was the person all complaints had to go through and he buried all of them. So noone above michael knew of darrens incompatents.
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    Darren from day one had been pushing all his work on to others and then claiming credit for the work they had done getting bonuses for completed work he didn't deserve, darren spent his days watching movies, napping, playing games anx occasionally pretending to be a manager when the need arose but never wrote a single line of code. After 3 months of this the extra work load was starting to effect dave and others but talking to michael would do nothing so dave devised a plan to sort it out.
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    Time for the pro revenge, dave had talked with all the other programmers and agreed next time darren pushed a major project onto them to purposely sabotage the work, not in a big way just enough to cause some bugs and glitches that will really light a fire under michael and darren. It took about another month but a really big project came in, immediately darren started pushing his work onto others and stealing credit so the plan was put into action. It was easy to accomplish, especially as darre
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    The project was done, saved and sent to the client with almost all of the major work credit being stolen by darren, it took less than 2 days for the client to call back complaining about how the new program has damaged his systems and was wrecking havoc on his company, the client wanted it fixing and a full refund. The bosses were at michael, michael tried to shift the blame onto darren, darren tried to shift the blame onto the programmers, dave and the programmers just pointed out the program w
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    The fallout. with the bosses coming down on darren for what happened he confessed he lied on his resume and he ratted out michael about how he helped him fabricate it. Dave and programmers denied any wrong doing just stating darren must of damaged the program some how, Michael and darren were promply fired and replaced, dave and the rest fixed the "errors" that "darren" had created and the client was happy. In the end dave didn't get the promotion but left the company a year later for a better j
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    RoseGold88 Aw man. He still didn't get the promotion? What a bummer. Even in stories of revenge I like the magical unicorn type endings Imao 895 Reply Share mnemosandai Hey, he left or for a better job. Who's to say he didn't get a promotion this way? 312 Reply Share
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    ebwoods1 They didn't have a QA team? How did such code even get deployed! Reply Share 33 DeRoeVanZwarte Piet It was probably Darren's task to organise a testing team. 432 Reply Share
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    Copenhagen65 That's a great story. I usually skip these techy stories because they are way to detailed involving coding and programming and I know nothing about it. You gave just enough info to make it great story without being to in depth. 137 Reply Share
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    Zoreb1 Michael was just dumb. When managers hire buddies, they may not be the best candidate for the job but they do tend to have some competence. He hired someone who didn't know how to do the job and it backfired. Lying on the resume is always a no no, especially in large corporations and government departments. I've read cases where someone was hired, worked for years and then it was found out that they never graduated from the college they claimed. They could do the job and have done so for
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    Juggletrain Lmao you just made fun of a guy's spelling ability and wrote incompatents in the same paragraph. 55 Reply Share TheRealNobodySpecial What's wrong with that? It's a perfectly cromulent word that embiggens the story. 38 Reply Share
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    hummingbirds_R_tasty I love when a plan comes together. Reply Share 쇼 3
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    vodiak PSA: It's always appropriate to go to someone's boss when your problem is with that person. In this case Michael is treating employees unfairly and it is appropriate to go to his boss about it. Of course, you can't control what their boss will do about it. They may not agree, or it may get back to the person in question. Reply Share ↑ 4
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