'I gave them process... and panic': IT employee has it with the inefficient demands of his manager, maliciously complies and gets his way

Have you ever worked under a manager that literally has no idea how things actually work in the company?

 

Funny enough, that happens quite often. You can find countless rants online of employees having to teach their own manager how to do things efficiently. The best case scenario with this, is you get a manager who is willing to learn from you or perhaps you're given a promotion! The worst is when the incompetent manager doubles down and continues to just makes things more difficult for all of the employees. Luckily, for this IT employee, he was able to show his micromanaging manager the way via malicious compliance. It took one unhappy CFO for his manager to change his tune. 

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