'He deleted the entire company's website by accident': 20+ Foolish managers whose employees roll their eyes at their antics

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    LIKE A BOSS
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    What is the most Michael Scott thing your boss has ever done?
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    itsfoine Someone from corporate came in to teach us on racism, sexual harassment, etc. My boss thought it would be a good idea to interrupt the presentation and ask us for personal testimonies of time when we felt uncomfortable in the workplace.
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    When no one answered she called out a coworker and asked how she felt that everyone thought she was fat and makes fun of her when she comes back with fast food every day for lunch. The coworker of mine just sat there and started to cry. My boss
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    was like well I thought she knew and proceeded to point out all the office gossip and what everyone felt about each other.
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    ChronicBitRot A bunch of years ago, I worked at a Petsmart that had a very Michael Scott-esque GM. In the middle of our shift one day, he calls all the staff up to the front door of the store where the floor mat has worked its way out into the path of the automatic doors and is keeping them from closing.
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    Standing on the mat, he looks at us and very seriously says, "We have a problem, guys." "I've been here since we opened this morning and this is the fourth time that this floor mat has moved out into the path of the door. Now does anybody know what this means?"
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    Nobody pipes up for this because it's clearly bait for him to tell someone that they're wrong. "This means that we have more people leaving the store than we have coming in." Wut. "The reason that we have more people leaving the store than we have coming in is
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    because we're not providing the best customer service. Once we start doing that, we'll have more people coming in than leaving. Now I want you guys to put on your best customer service and by closing tonight, I want to see this floor mat against the back wall of the store." I...um...OK.
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    truman_chu Gathered everyone in the office kitchen to demonstrate exactly how he liked his coffee made, but pitched it as if he was letting everyone in on the secret to making the perfect coffee and we'd all be thankful to him later.
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    He proceeds to make a completely normal instant coffee in pretty much the only way it's possible to make it.
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    Sullied Voice My former boss just got a promotion and left our workplace. He bought HIMSELF a going away full sized sheet cake, 18" x 24", 80 servings. He cut off a small corner at his going away party and then proceeded to close the cake box and take home the other 79
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    servings instead of sharing any of it with anyone. He was a really good boss and I will miss him but that was pretty typical of him too.
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    TheMcRibIsAlie My boss gave herself an award and proceeded to show it off to everyone higher up than her.
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    lazlounderhill He hired some random migrant farm workers to fix an authentic "Mexican" dinner for our office Christmas party. I grew up working along side migrant farm workers in the midwest, detasseling corn. They eat "poor" people food just like the rest of the
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    working poor in the rural midwest, so I knew this was going to be hilarious. I was not disappointed when he asked them what a certain delicious cheesy/pasta dish they served us was called, and they answered "Mac n' cheese casserole".
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    C [deleted] He was spelling his name over the phone to someone and when he got to the "i" in his name he said "i, as in... um... I."
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    hologramkitten My boss started dating her boss and they both ended up leaving the company
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    doctorjones31 Boss wanted to give his tie to one of my coworkers before a meeting to look more professional. The company we were meeting with don't wear ties, our company doesn't wear ties, both companies know this.
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    My coworker was wearing a lumberjack style shirt. So my boss wanted him to wear a formal tie with a short sleeved, lumberjack style shirt... to look more "professional".
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    OLD Nº7 ro50 BRAND When he pages someone over the intercom he instructs them to report to "the senior vice president's office" instead just saying "please come to Gary's office". We have like 20 people that work here. Everyone knows it's him when he starts the page. He likes hearing his own voice and title.
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    Part_of_the_Infinite My grandfather passed away back in February. I flew back east for the funeral, and when I got back my boss was talking to me to see how everything went and touch base. The extent of the conversation was this: Boss: "How was the funeral?"
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    Me: "About what you'd expect from a funeral. It was a nice service." Boss: "Did you see........the...body?" Me: "Yes."
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    saintexuperi Trying to pick the company health insurance policy so he "polls the leadership team for input" at an executive all-hands. CEO states that we're all young and healthy so no one needs things like dental, or optical. Half of our executive team is wearing glasses. He moves on.
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    gfjq23 Remodeled our breakroom with a $4000 fridge, ping pong table, espresso machine, and old arcade. After the red ribbon cutting/party, he announced due to the tight budget, we wouldn't be getting our Christmas bonuses.
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    NOT_Yours He told a group of his employees "We, as management, have the right to mismanage."
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    kevin0594 We had a day very similar to Diversity Day. Strikingly close.
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    [deleted] I work at a fortune 500 company. In the middle of an important meeting which was based around my boss, she leans over to me and whispers "I'm organizing a flash mob for later this year. I want you to be a part of it"
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    GsoSmooth He has fallen asleep while speaking with me. and signing some paperwork. Then when I woke him, played it off like nothing happened. Regularly spills coffee all over himself.
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    Hung up on his daughter while she was telling him over the phone she was accepted to medical school, with nothing more than an 'OK. bye'. Gets out of confrontational conversations with other department heads and clients by mumbling incoherently or with irrelevant statements. They usually don't know how
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    to respond and he just sort of slinks out of it. The list goes on... Edit: I said the list goes on and it does. These aren't all Michael Scott- like things... just.... quirks. He's not a fan of headsets. Doesn't like how they feel. Has fairly loud conference calls in our open concept office.
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    Almost constantly looks disheveled. Shirt buttons misaligned (or not all buttoned), pants tucked into socks, suit jacket collar folded under itself, fly undone, etc. Regularly spills yogurt on himself. Forgets that he told you to do something, then gets irritated when you do that thing.
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    Sometimes responds to generic company wide emails with reply all. Often providing hilarious and personal information to approx.1000 people. Awhile back he informed everyone of his plate number and car model when reminded to update parking info with reception.
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    the_glutton Invited about 15 people over for a cookout (all of which RSVP'd) and 2 showed up.
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    chelseamorning91. Realizing I'm a little late to this....but still, I can't resist... I am a teacher and my school principal can be INCREDIBLY Michael Scott-like. One example includes... The day before Christmas vacation...students had just taken semester finals and had a half
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    day of school. Teachers were SWAMPED with grading the finals and grades were, of course, due the following afternoon. After the students left for their half day, teachers were told we would have a quick meeting followed by scheduled time to grade our assessments. Much to our relief, the meeting appeared short and most of the afternoon was scheduled for
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    grading. When we got to the meeting, however, our principal excitedly announced that the whole afternoon schedule had been a LIE and that we must all cover our eyes and walk to the science lab. After reluctantly following these bizarre instructions, we all found ourselves in what my principal
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    called "winter wonderland" where we would spend the next three hours participating in a gingerbread building contest. She locked us in, told us she would be back to judge at the end of the day, and LEFT.
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    TL/DR: My principal locked all of the teaching staff in the science lab and forced us to make ginger bread houses on the busiest grading day of the season.
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    OneFishySniper My dads boss once said he would give all employees something to boost encouragement in the workplace. They all got camo baseball hats with 'GIT R DONE" written on them.
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    wonderfulmeg My old boss knew we were all stressed and overworked, so he thought that the best way to get us to relax was to have... a drum circle. In the middle of the office while we were all trying to work.
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    He kept trying to get people to join in, even people who were on the phone. Eventually it was just him sitting on the floor hitting bongo drums...
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    soomuchcoffee The CEO called a company-wide meeting with no details provided. We were all to meet in the auditorium for a big announcement. People were freaked out. Like what the is going on? Did he sell the company, do we have jobs? What the ?
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    Everyone shuffles in and the CEO and the half a dozen other execs are at the front of the room. "We had a record breaking year, help yourself to some sodas and cake. Also I am taking the executive staff to the Bahamas as a reward. We'll be out of the office next week."
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    Weakest round of applause I've ever heard.
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    Moronic boss was urging us to hurry up: "we've got to get this done RSVP!"
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    bittyp My boss is like Michael Scott's weird brother. -He regularly asks me and my coworkers to set him up on dates -Holds "meetings" and by meetings, it's him going through his okcupid and Tinder profiles so we can help "judge" the girls
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    -If he's on the phone with someone and doesn't wish to continue the conversation, he will make a weird comment like "I gotta go but let's talk later when you're in my basement after I kidnap you" -If you're eating lunch, he'll stand behind you and stare at your food until you offer him some, which he will then reach onto your
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    plate and start touching all your food to find the "perfect fry" -Will answer all questions in an Arnold Schwarzenegger impression There's a thousand more things he does that are so cringy and I could go on and on
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    [deleted] I was told the following in my yearly review: "You did everything we asked of you, but not the things we didn't ask of you" It was said in a very critical tone.
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    locks_are_paranoid He deleted the entire company's website by accident.

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