Amateur boss upset with assistant because she doesn’t understand how math works: ‘This is the most ridiculous thing she has gotten upset with me about’

Let's get one thing straight: bosses and supervisors are, by default, always right. They just are. It's an unspoken law of the universe, like gravity or how toast always lands butter-side down. Regular employees cannot possibly grasp the towering intellect required to manage others, let alone to understand advanced concepts like spreadsheets, emails, or basic arithmetic. Supervisors, after all, are practically celestial beings who float above the mundane details of the working class, dispensing wisdom to those lucky enough to fall under their watchful eyes.  

Take numbers, for example. To the unrefined employee, numbers are what they are: they add up, they average out, they do their thing. But to a supervisor? Oh no, numbers carry deeper, more nuanced meaning. When numbers don't magically align to their expectations, it's not the numbers that are wrong. It's you. You, the humble employee, must obviously have failed to understand the subtle art of math-as-interpreted-through-management.  

Which brings us to the poor office assistant trying to do their job. After being transferred to report to a brand-new supervisor (AKA someone who has never managed anybody before but now has a shiny title), things took a turn. 

Where the assistant's old boss trusted them to do their work and move on, this new supervisor had other plans. Every task, no matter how simple, suddenly required intense scrutiny and her every move was like a goldmine for micromanagement. 

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