'Knock ‘em down a peg!’: Estimator for a niche construction manufacturing company puts his micromanaging managers in place with one ‘car-less’ mistake

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    AR TECH A small pot shot at my micromanaging managers
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    A small pot shot at my micromanaging managers I work at a niche construction manufacturing company as an estimator. It's one of those that require math skills, a minimum of a 2-year engineering degree, and attention to detailed, consistent production. They will train anybody who is capable, so it's a great job in this sense. The rub, however, is they offered me around $4.00/hour below the living wage in my city, and do not have a generous paid time off policy for all employees. I don't mind the
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    We had an engineer meeting where they presented a new system for us that introduces tiers/levels based on your experience in the job. When management got to a section titled "Grammar/Spelling/Carless Mistakes," they began to get condescending about having to include this. Our boss Garrett would say things like "If we're having to check your spelling like I'm your English teacher, then we have a problem." So I said "Hey Garrett, what is a 'car-less' mistake? How can I avoid making a mistake witho
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    AcrobaticSource3 • 2d ago Lol, you're gonna get fired, but it was worth it 304 Reply ↑ Share Iron Man OP.2d ago It looks like they're trying, but I'm one of their best employees right now surprisingly. 220 Reply ↑ Share triflin_fellow • 2d ago New job time. 100 Reply ↑ Share
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    Vandreeson 2d ago • Too bad they don't pay you like you are. 13 Reply ↑ Share StinkypieTicklebum • 2d ago It's your attention to detail. + 9 + Reply ↑ Share Dripping Snarkasm • 1d ago Oh, I bet they'll find a vehicle to make it happen. 43 ⇓ Reply ↑ Share
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    Suitable Jelly 5149 • 2d ago Grammar police always get instant karma'd. Can't say why - I guess karma just really 1 grammar 78 Reply ↑ Share Iron Man OP.2d ago So much carma ing hates carless 57 д Reply ↑ Share . 1d ago dreadpiratewombat Be sure not to give any notice when you leave and if they chastise you for burning a bridge, tell them you could carless. 16 Reply ↑ Share
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    . _ wildwing _ • 2d ago Had a whole PowerPoint presentation on how attention to detail and precision was important. This was done and present by the QC department. Went and asked the shop head why they did an importance to detail presentation with an error, be it grammar, spelling, or word/icon placement, on each slide. My department knows when I've signed off on a document we've had to review, there are nearly always edits. What I don't get, is how NO ONE will use spell check.
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    VonAether 1d ago . Thank you for unlocking a terrible memory. I did a side gig at an ISP back in '96. At one point one of the VPs was in our office to use one of our computers for some reason. He was editing a Word document. For him, a red squiggle did not mean "fix the spelling," it meant "add this word to the dictionary." I knew memos from the VPs tended to be error-ridden, but I never thought I'd witness someone actively sabotaging the error checking process. What can I say, I was young and n
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    BeautifulPhantom1 • • 2d ago Edited 2d ago Reminds me of the head of safety at my last job. She would do these monthly safety presentations where she would try to use big words in order to make herself look smarter than she actually was. Unfortunately, when it came time to give her presentation, she couldn't actually pronounce these big words, much less explain their meanings to the people that didn't understand them. In the end, she made herself look less intelligent in her efforts to look smar
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    lapsteelguitar 2d ago • I guess your output will drop as you spend more time avoiding those carless misteaks.. 20 Reply ↑ Share pmousebrown 2d ago Went to the parent presentation for my grandson's first grade class. I politely pointed out as we were leaving that the poster on learning goals about learning to spell correctly had the word correctly misspelled. 16 д Reply ↑ Share
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    DynkoFromTheNorth 2d ago If Garrett was smart and quick-witted, he would have said Thank you OP, I'm glad someone is paying attention! to save his own rse. But no. Opportunity missed. Good luck on the job hunt! 14 Reply ↑ Share
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    danger_of_biscuits • 2d ago Had a manager send a document back with a furiously written note on it, which simply read: 'BAD SPELLING! THIS NEEDS TO BE AMMENDED!' The joke was entirely upon him - there were no spelling mistakes anywhere in the document. Ө ○ ↑ 17 ⇓ 17 Reply NPHighview • 2d ago ↑ Share ... In annual reviews, I've gotten dinged *twice* at separate companies for using "too big words." I guess that's what comes from a lifetime of reading. Who'd-a thunk it? 22 Reply ↑ Share
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    charlesga 23h ago That reminds me of a story my dad told me. His native language is Flemish (Dutch) and he worked in Brussels which is bilingual in theory but most people speak french. At one time someone sent out a mail complaining that too many people make spelling mistakes and they should run spell check before sending mails. This was decades ago when spell check was not running continuously but had to be run manually. He replied to all recipients: "To avoid spelling mistakes, from now on all
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    Ha-Funny-Boy • 1d ago I had a really great manager at one time that was "English as a second language." As I was the best writer in the group, he would give he his business memos/letters/et cetera to rewrite. It made him look better and me look better to him. 243 Reply ↑ Share
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    Sweet_Ad_8178 • 1d ago A senior manager instructed me to check the "witting guide" on formatting letters. It's a 35 page writing guide. Eventually, after multiple middle managers kept getting forms of the same letter sent back for correction, we were told the "CC" format was wrong in the template we were GIVEN TO USE. But the manager couldn't just simply say it's C: not C; ↑ 2 3 Reply ↑ Share

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