Old school boss demands all IT logs get printed and put on his desk every morning, backpedals after getting buried in paperwork: 'I stacked it all up in a massive teetering pile that was about two feet high'

Analog is all the rage right now, but some automated computer processes should stay on screen. 

IT logs are one of them. 

There's one thing that every employee dreads, and that's paperwork. However, this boss had a supreme distrust for any paperwork that wasn't printed on real 8.5"x11" paper, and insisted that his workforce follow his example and print everything out. As if paperwork days could get any worse, this hair-brained printing scheme resulted in a monumental mountain of parchment stacked up on the boss's desk. Was this what you wanted, Boss Man? Like a house of cards, this pile of paperwork was over 3ft high after the first day of this boss's new mandate, and it was equally as precarious. 

Bosses have a utopic vision of how the workplace runs, but it's rarely accurate. 

Although good managers are down in the trenches with the workforce and therefore have a solid grip on their business's day-to-day reality, higher-level bosses lose the plot as they get promoted. It seems the more commas in your salary, the less you truly understand daily workflows. Increasingly detached from daily operations, bosses can make some sweeping, silly decisions that drastically affect the rest of their workers, and no matter how well-intentioned, if their choices are misplaced, it makes for chaos down below. 

This boss was tired of misunderstanding his IT team's logs. With technological advances of the last 30 years flying way over his head, he was baffled by the "secretiveness" of computer logging and insisted that his team print everything out on paper. And I mean, everything. 

If you've ever worked with computers, especially back-end logs, you'll know that printing off every tech command is going to be a colossal waste of paper, but to the crew of snarky IT guys, malicious compliance was the only way to teach their boss that his demands were totally and completely off base. 

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