IT worker maliciously complies with a manager's demand to turn off critical servers during business hours, despite warning her against it, plunging the company into chaos: ‘She got dragged into a meeting with the COO and CTO that afternoon’

Whether you're the CEO, the manager of managers, or even the pope…sometimes, just sometimes… a single employee may know better. You wanted staff who were specialized, so don't let your ego take over when those are the people you have working for you. This manager decided that she knows best, and that if things weren't on her exact timeline, they were wrong…Little did she know, she was the one turning the office into a circus run on caffeine, meltdowns, and 3 hours of sleep. 

Despite being warned about the drastic effects of shutting down the company server during business hours, this manager decided, 'Hey, my time, my rules. ' And by doing so, led the whole office into the deep-end without any floaties…No one was able to do any aspect of their jobs whilst the servers were down, so they were basically flushing money down the drain, because she just couldn't listen to the advice of someone 'below' her…So now she's facing the consequences from the CTO, and well, that employee we mentioned earlier…They just got a raise! 

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