‘So it's my fault you can't save a file?’: Boomer boss blames IT employee for losing important work data, despite boss never saving his progress, leading to an office dispute

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    Got reprimanded because my boss doesn't know how to save a PDF.
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    Yes, you read the title correctly. Just wanted to share the complete idiocy that happens at my workplace. My boss was working in an Adobe Acrobat file and, as the
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    owner of the business, spends many hours working late as well. I had already left for the day and he was still working on an important Adobe file late at night. Of course, he ran into an
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    issue where the file crashed, and upon reopening it, none of his work saved. He was furious over this and then reached out to our IT team for help. They're supposedly a 24
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    hour service, but they didn't do anything to help out that night. Come the next morning and I see all the emails regarding this matter. It was supposedly up to me to call the IT company to
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    handle it, even though that was never explicitly outlined.. plus, he had already alerted them of the issue the night before. I didn't call right away as I was trying to sort out the situation first, and my
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    boss got mad at me for not handling it right away. Long story short, the IT team wasn't able to help because the file was never saved, so they couldn't recover the lost information. He kept
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    arguing with them as if it was their fault though. So, I basically got reprimanded for my boss' stupid mistake of not being able to save a PDF file.
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    Meanwhile, i've told him countless times before that you have to save Adobe Acrobat files manually. He just doesn't seem to listen I guess.
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    My boss makes ridiculous money annually, I'm guessing well over six figures. Just goes to show you don't really have to be that intelligent to be rich Imfao.
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    Boring-Onion • 14h ago Take up your PTO and "COM... Ahh the good old "it's everyone else's fault but mine" excuse. Please tell us you're looking for a new job OP.
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    Fabulous-Barbie-6153 OP • 14h ago i definitely am! it's just hard because the field i studied is sooo oversaturated right now that it's nearly impossible to get a job without connections. so i'm not really sure what other jobs to apply to in the meantime but i guess anything!
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    420medicineman • 14h ago • Your boss a boomer? PDF's are one of boomer's fiercest natural predators in the wild.
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    Fabulous-Barbie-6153 OP • 14h ago yes he's a boomer, this comment made me laugh lol. he's not the best with technology clearly
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    SemperSimple • 13h ago • He.. he never saved the file at any point? HOW DID HE GET THIS FAR WITH TECHNOLOGY
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    Fabulous-Barbie-6153 OP • 13h ago my thoughts exactly!! he uses these programs daily and still doesn't know how they work?? one of the things he said was that "excel and word always auto save” ...okay? those are
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    microsoft not adobe! they are different companies with different programs that have different functions! it's beyond me
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    eviljess 14h ago The current place i work has so many old people that would fail a basic pc test. One woman cried to our president because she was mad i wasn't holding her hand and doing her job for her
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    Just Getting_By_1 • 14h ago • How do people with no common sense and low wattage brain power keep ending up in supervisor/management positions?
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    But I do know better, I have had super intelligent awesome bosses who supported, encouraged, and taught staff new things, now they were pushed out while airheads remained...
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    Pour_Me_Another_ • 12h ago • He's certainly setting it up to where no one would even want to help him moving forward.
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    Pinkflow93 11h ago • • Don't you love when your boss who earns 10X what you make doesn't know how to deal with the most basic things? Because I sure do.

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