Boss writes employee up to HR for not following instructions, employee proves that boss contradicts himself constantly: 'Sometimes you have to do what needs to be done'

Any wise employee knows that keeping a paper trail is the best way to protect themselves down the road.

This author knew his incompetent supervisor was out to get him. This entitled 45-year-old manchild started to get into the habit of demanding something from the author to be prioritized and then amending his directives constantly. It would get to the point that the author had no idea what his boss wanted from him.

Before things got too out of hand, the author decided to go to human resources himself to ask for some advice. Clearly, this guy's inconsistent behavior was unpredictable, and based on HR's reaction to the author's story, this had happened before. HR told the author to document everything so that if something should arise, he'd have something in writing to prove that he was in the right.

Eventually, something did arise, and the author had that paper trail to prove that he was simply trying to follow unclear and irrational directives from the supervisor. Now, HR was able to easily side with the author, given that he had plenty of evidentiary support.

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