'How could you not foresee this?': Manager forbids security guard from letting visitors enter office without his approval, guard complies, causing manager to miss important meeting when he fails to answer his phone

Some people simply don't have common sense, or even the smallest ability to predict the consequences of their absurd decisions and actions. Unfortunately, a lot of those people end up in high management positions. That means that anyone who has to answer to those managers, sometimes has to comply with unreasonable demands they know would end in disaster, but there is not much they can do about it.

Take the manager in this Reddit story for example. They decided to forbid their security guard from letting any external visitors enter their office without phone approval from someone inside. Even if those visitors are higher-ups who do not like waiting around to be allowed in. This demand led to a mess when important people came for an important meeting with the manager, but he failed to answer his phone and let them in. By the time he got to the office, those VIPs already left, and the manager was forced to take back some of his ridiculous rules…

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