Nepo-hired manager uses her computer-illiteracy to push around employee, so employee quits and changes her autocorrect to only make typos: ‘2 years later… [she couldn’t] undo it'

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Mar 19, 2025 10:00 AM EDT

The funniest part about managers who don't know how to use a computer is their audacity. Like, do you really think you can just use your employees as if they're an old sponge and act all entitled and not feel any consequences of your actions? It's almost too easy to mess with someone who has no idea who their tech works. For instance, this guy simply changed his entitled manager's autocorrect to not be so correct on his last week of working for her. She obviously had no idea how to change it back, but she had also burned so many bridges in her IT department, that no one was willing to help her. He heard that two years later, she was still asking people to help her figure out what is wrong with her computer and everyone refuses. 

 

Maybe if you were being such a toxic manager and all-around person, you would have had that figured out for you in a second! Or maybe it wouldn't even have happened to you in the first place. Or, maybe if you had even the slightest bit of tech savvy, you'd at least know to Google it yourself… 

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  • It also didn't help that this manager was a nepo-hire, as were most of the higher ups—according to this former employee. This was in the early aughts, so times were different, but being entitled and disrespectful is timeless! They may have just invented the terms “nepo-baby” and “Karen," but don't let the hip colloquialism trick you—these kinds of people have been around since the creation of our human society. 

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  • "Autocorrect on my old boss' assistant"

    Late 00s. Just out of college I got a job working in an office. My boss was very cool but her assistant (let's call her Suzanne) was horrible. She was a nepotism hire (as were most in that company) so she really wasn't great at her job but I think she tried to overcompensate for that by being really
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  • aggressive when she asked for things. Very protective of her duties and took them uncomfortably seriously. (Like Dwight and Angela rolled into one).
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  • She made my job h I while I worked there. Always telling me to drop everything to help her with "something for the director" (which was all of her work bc she was the director's assistant) and criticising all my work with the most trivial "feedback" even though she couldn't do any of it herself. On top
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  • of that if I ever refused a request because I was busy she would go around telling people I had an attitude problem and was a sexist because I felt insecure taking orders from a woman (which was not true― the director and my direct supervisor were women and I worked very well with them). Finally she
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  • would continually say r cist things casually (she said she always assumed our black coworker "pulled himself up by his bootstraps and worked his way out of the ghetto" even though his family was wealthy and he came from overseas. He had a fancy accent- idk what she thinking) Also I'm
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  • Asian and she always came to get me to help with tech stuff bc my "people are better at that sort of thing", and she always said "herro" when she saw me.
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  • During my last week there, she decided to pull me into her office with a long list of things she wanted. me to fix on her computer before I left. I was swamped with off-loading all my tasks but she passive aggressively pressured me into it.
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  • A little background, the IT dept hated her. She called them non stop every day to complain about how her computer was too slow and she needed it to be faster and refused to listen to them when they told her it was just old. "I see ads all the time saying if you install this your computer will be faster!!!
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  • Can't you do something like that?" she would yell back. (Idk if anyone remembers those virus- a pop-ups) so at some point they told her if she clicks the tool bar and drags the window around. the screen while she waits for something to load it'll make it work faster, just to give her something to do
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  • so she'd stop calling them. So on my last day, while I was on her computer fixing things, I also went into her word and email programs and set up lots of auto replace settings.
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  • For example, her name (slightly altered for deniability) was Suzanne Clipper and I changed it to autocorrect to Susie Clippit. She started every email with "dear" which I changed to "dearest". She always signed her emails "regards" and I changed it to "regrds". I also went in and changed "you're" to
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  • "your", "they're" to "their", etc. I can't remember the full list but I just frantically did as many as I could when she wasn't looking. My coworker who worked there for 2 years after I left told me she called him into his office to see if he could undo any of what I did and he told her he didn't know
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  • how. Apparently she called IT and they told her they couldn't help her and gave her the dumbest workaround ever which was to write the full email out then type all the words. she wanted to replace into the url bar of her browser and then cut and paste it back into her word doc or email. My coworker said
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  • he would randomly walk by her office for months after and see her slowly typing one letter at a time (as if doing it carefully would stop the replace from triggering) and then yell out in frustration as the word changed when she carefully pressed the space bar.
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  • TLDR my old boss's computer illiterate assistant made my life miserable so I changed autocorrect on her most used programs.
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  • Useless890 When my manager came back from vacation one time, I had changed a setting in her computer so that when she pressed a certain command, it said one of her most used phrases. Five of us worked in one room with her so we all heard it. It was a joke and she took it as such.
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  • AuFox80 Oh Suzanne don't you cry for IT OkStrength5245 'cos IT comes from your desktop on my knees.
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  • platypusandpibble That's the epic, perfectly deserved revenge.
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  • Wonderful-Pen1044 That is diabolical!! Love it!!
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