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'Micromanagement isn’t cheap': Manager demands detailed reports from IT consultant regarding their daily work, causing the company's IT bill to double

Bar Mor Hazut

Employee sabotages outsourced consultant's job in order to hire his friend instead, company finds out, leading to him getting fired: ‘He was taken out of the building by security’

Bar Mor Hazut

IT worker is blamed for coworker showing up late, says it's their fault for leaving on time: 'They’ve basically gotten used to arriving late, and the person ending the shift is stuck covering past their scheduled time'

JR Atkinson

'Everything's down, like everything, the whole system crashed': Computer tech paid $85,000 to save the company after a smug boss fires him, implodes the client database, and begs him to fix it

Jesse Kessenheimer

‘I thought he was joking…’: Mediocre tech who's worked for the company for 3 years preaches about flat earth to the new manager of 2 months, gets fired

Elna McHilderson

'I don't need the money': Pre-retired man re-enters the workforce as an IT worker for "purpose" reasons, but quickly becomes fed up with corporate drama, wants to tell young boss he needs autonomy and flexibility

Emma Saven

IT demands employee submit a separate ticket to get access to each folder they need, leading employee to submit hundreds of tickets within an hour until they give in: ‘Stop winding up IT’

Bar Mor Hazut

IT employee gets 90 seconds of work to cost 15-minutes due to new manager's negligence, Director throws a fit: ‘Be careful what you standardize.’

Elna McHilderson

Boss demands IT employee follow process to the letter, stalling out a project with a major client and causing frantic messages from their boss: 'No ticket = no work. Bureaucracy over brains'

Brad Dickson

'I'm not punishing my kid for doing something hilarious': Teen gets in trouble for outsmarting school's IT director and hacking the firewall, mom applauds her son's intelligence

Elna McHilderson

Guest hacks into hotel's network and optimizes their entire system after seeing how slow the WiFi is, refuses to get compensated: 'Manager was torn between being grateful and concerned’

Bar Mor Hazut

Boss demands IT send "detailed daily reports" for everything little task they do on the job, IT sends an 87-page novel in response: ‘8:02 AM: Logged into system’

Bar Mor Hazut

Micromanager bans personal phones at his IT team's desks, but his attempt at control backfires when there's a server crash at 4:45 PM on Friday: 'I was just following policy to avoid a write-up'

Jesse Kessenheimer

‘Lord of the Pings’: 39 WiFi network names that will make you want to rename your own router

Etai Eshet

Mid-sized marketing firm outsources IT firing the single employee who had been there for 4 years, he gets a job paying $20k more: 'The first week after I left, their main server crashed. The outsourced company took 6 hours to respond, another 8 to fix it'

Brad Dickson

Quiet neighbor unintentionally becomes the apartment building's go-to tech guy, starts to love it even though he's fully 'winging' it: ‘Weirdly, it makes me feel... less alone?'

Elna McHilderson