Sunday, September 20, 2020

VP Pulls Rank and Screws Employee, Gets Canned by Cool CEO


It seems like a rare moment when a higher up at the company doesn't get rewarded for going over the little guy's head and absolutely messing everything up. For pretty much the opposite side of things, here's a satisfying story of an incompetent boss who fired the employee ant the beginning of a meeting, then learned a lesson.

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Text - Posted by u/PJExpat 5 hours ago "No one is above the rules, and I mean no one call me if he pulls rank" oc L I used to work for a marketing company that serviced small and medium-sized businesses across America. It was a multi-billion dollar revenue company. The CEO was a true rags to riches story. He joined the company right after he got out of jail in his early 20s for a small drug charge and worked his way up over 20 years to eventually become the CEO of the company. The CEO strongly b

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Text - He would often say, without sales we don't have the revenue to pay your salaries Without customer service customers will drop us faster then we can bill them Without collection reps we'd lose too many accounts due to non-payment And without sales managers to hold it all together we'd fall аpart And he had a rule EVERY SINGLE EXECUTIVE team member would spend 1 full week of each quarter in the field with a Sales Manager, Customer Service Rep, Collections Rep, or Sales rep. In addition when

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Text - This rule applied to EVERYONE to include the CEO. I know this, cause the CEO personally road along with me for 5 days in the field. He was a legit cool guy (I got a story at the end about this) So...apparently we had hired a new VP Of Marketing from a major brand that I'm sure everyone in this sub would know of. Anyway apparently the first time he went in the field the VP Of Marketing pulled rank on a sales manager and the sales manager reported this directly to the CEO. A new quarter wen

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Text - Text - CEO: PJ I picked you cause when I was in the field with you, you seemed like the kinda guy that wouldn't be bullied or let someone run all over you Me: Ok, well thank you CEO: This VP is new to the company, and the last time he went in the field he pulled rank. I've told him not to pull rank again, and if he does I want you to call me as soon as you can. PJ: I understand CEO: Thank you The VP meets me up, honestly for the first two days everything was fine. However on the 3rd day I

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Text - Text - Now I told the VP what would happen, that it would be a long sales call, and a difficult high tense one. But to let me handle it, I've dealt with the client quite a bit and was well prepared. Now this meeting with the client lasted 2 1/2 hours but I'll get to the point. The client wanted a discount and was threatening to go to our competitor, he wouldn't. That's when the VP spoke up and said "I'm the VP and I'll personally give you a 15% discount on your current plan if you agree t

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Text - Text - I then called my CEO, he saw the name pop up on my cars bluetooth CEO answered CEO: PJ, how are you doing? PJ: The VP pulled rank on me and gave my customer a 17.5% discount on his current plan right as I was about to close him for more money CEO: That's not right, where is the VP? PJ: Your on speaker, he can hear you CEO: Excellent, hey VP VP: Yes sir CEO: Tell me what happend VP: Told his side of the story, which he admitted the truth but also admitted to pulling rank and giving

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Text - Text - CEO: Ok, thanks for your honesty. Your fired. VP: Excuse me? CEO: Your fired, you have a 1 yr probation clause your done you don't pull rank when in the field VP: You can't do this CEO: I just did, you are to get on a plane come back to your office and clean it out, PJ take Mr. VP back to his hotel and drop him off. PJ: Sure, no problem And for the next 20 minutes I had an awkward car ride back to my former VPs hotel. Later in a all hands on meeting, the CEO made sure to talk about

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Text - Side Story on this CEO The company had a data plan, which gave us 4G on our Ipads, Phones, and Laptops. Well the company changed the service plan, and our data plan went down to ONLY our phones and we had to hotspot off that. They said this move would save us $80,000 a month (we had like 4,000~ employees in the field) Well 2 months later we had a conference (we had 3 conferences a year) and after the conference, everyone went to the hotel bar. That's when I approached my CEO with another

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Text - The CIO was there and said "CIO, your going to XYZ area and you will be riding with PJ, pay attention to how he uses his 4G data and if you think we should go back to the old plan where all devices had 4G" The CIO went into the field with me, on the 3rd day at breakfast he said "Last night I called the CEO" and I said "yea?" and he said "I made a recommendation that we go back to our old data plan and ensure all your devices have 4G data, its obviously creating productivity issues and whe

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Boss Responds to Unreasonable Review with Fire


Leaving a review isn't always as simple as saying whatever you want about what happened. Case in point, this lying Karen getting decimated by an owner's response. Some business owners watch their reviews like a hawk, and they make time go into serious detail about what actually went down.

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Text - 20/4/2013 行0 01 I asked a representative for a $9 discount on a screen and this was the reply I got: "Your offer is a joke, and a good part of our reputation is responding to that kind of silliness in kind. You want us to sell this part for less than our wholesale cost - that is ridiculous, I would say on par with the ridiculousness of your question" ..Unprofessional and unwarranted harassment..

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Text - Comment by PRepair Group: I define unwarranted harassment as repeatedly asking for a $9 discount on a part that is being sold with a $0.86 profit margin. Then, going on to explain how your offer is "reasonable", and how we are being "rookies" by not considering your below cost offer. This is like going to a bodega and asking for a pack of cigarettes for $2.50, over and over, then acting surprised when the bodega owner asks you to leave. Asking for the pack of cigarettes for $2.50 takes ba

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Text - him: "Your offer is a joke, and a good part of our reputation is responding to that kind of silliness in kind. You want us to sell| this part for less than our wholesale cost - that is ridiculous, I would say on par with the ridiculousness of your question" | stand behind those words. We go out of our way to help people, and routinely do so at below market pricing because we love what we do. This allows me to retain a clean conscience telling degenerates like themselves when the opportuni

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Things That Seem to Take Ages


Our perception of time can be seriously altered by what's going on, especially if we're under incredible stress, experiencing uncertainty, or microwaving a burrito in a completely quiet house. Time and space can also change based on where you live, as evidenced by this Tumblr thread on cultures colliding over time and space.

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Text - PipelinePunch_71 21 points · 5 days ago Heating something up in the microwave at 2 am because it sounds like a jet taking off in your house

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Text - Text - ExtraMediumGonzo 57.9k points · 6 days ago 12 18 & 41 More The moments after sending a risky text and you see, "So-and-so is typing..", but it keeps starting and stopping. Reminds me of a tweet that went something like: "You ever send a text that's so risky, you clean your entire house?"

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Text - Text - ScottNilsson1 23.2k points · 6 days ago & 7 More unskippable 30 second ad

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Text - Text - Kmm123 20.1k points · 6 days ago 3 5 3 & 8 More Having "Happy Birthday" sung to you

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Text - Text - Cooper_brain 18.5k points · 6 days ago e & 13 More Trying to put my change back in my wallet in line at the convenience store with people in line behind me Or when your card won't read in the debit machine, but you know you have the money in your account so you have to run it two or three more times

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Text - Text - gravityfalls-fan 18.1k points · 6 days ago 4 4 Waiting for someone to get out of the bathroom

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Text - Text - -EDGAR- 16.1k points · 6 days ago Getting past the sex scene while watching a movie with your parents & 2 More

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Text - Text - kaazgranaat2309 14.9k points · 6 days ago 2 2 e When someone says "we need to talk"

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Text - Text - becelav 13.3k points · 6 days ago · edited 5 days ago 3 & 4 More My toothbrush vibrates every 30 seconds letting me know it's time to switch sides. Sometimes it feels like i brushed for 4 minutes and it vibrates again.

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Text - Text - PhoenixsCurse 9.4k points · 6 days ago Before your scores are announced

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Text - Text - Time_Significance 9.1k points · 6 days ago You are on a bus, going home, when 3/4 of the way through you have the overwhelming urge to pee.

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Text - Text - MrFrogmanwerr 8.9k points · 6 days ago · edited 6 days ago Washing machine says 30sec... It is never 30sec:(

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Text - Text - LoneBear1 8.7k points · 6 days ago Being in a CT scanner when they tell you to be perfectly still.

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Text - Text - Xxsarahhah 8.5k points · 6 days ago 3 & 7 More plank Bleenwithcream 2.7k points · 6 days ago + I don't think I've ever experienced the slowing of time until I did a plank. There's some kind of time warp.

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Text - Text - Boogiyg2003 7.5k points · 6 days ago When the traffic light changes from red to green

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Text - Text - danidaliquijote 6.2k points · 6 days ago · edited 5 days ago 93 3 3 My mom had a surgery to save her life and when her surgeon walked across the waiting room to update me those were the longest seconds of my life. About halfway towards me he gave a thumbs- up and wow-happiest moment!

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Text - Text - mousicle 4.3k points · 6 days ago Gotta be drowning or almost drowning. Gordon Lightfoot wasn't kidding when he said the waves turn the minutes to hours. Two incidents still stick in my head decades after they happened, once at swimming lessons before i could tread water and the instructor wasn't paying attention to me and i started going under. It was probably only 30 seconds but i thought that was it. Another time having a Canoe overturn in lake Erie and trying to get it righted.

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Text - Text - TatterCatYT 3.6k points · 5 days ago The time in between a baby falling and crying. (Thump) ... ... ... WAAAAAAAA

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Text - Text - 50ShadesOfPalmBay 1.2k points · 6 days ago Paying by debit while there's people in line behind you in the grocery store. Will it go through? Do I have enough? What if I looked at my account wrong and I don't have the money? Nono, I do. Wait, what if there was some withdrawal that happened that I forgot about? Oh shit. Was that the right PIN number? The right account I clicked on? -Approved. You sure? Ok, phew /s

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Text - Text - DRW0813 1.1k points · 6 days ago Waiting on a pregnancy test to see the level of fucked your life is about to be.

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Text - Text - Leoprrrd 791 points · 5 days ago I don't know about 30 seconds, but the longest 5 seconds you'll ever experience: getting tased. Source: had to get zapped and sprayed as a part of MP training. OC hurts a hell of a lot more, but the taser makes five seconds feel like an eternity.

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Text - Text - Holaroooo 756 points · 5 days ago When putting a fixed amount of gas in the car in the freezing cold and the pump slows down for the last half dollar.

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Text - hinterloper 509 points · 5 days ago Running as fast as you can on a treadmill

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Text - browneyedgrl26 173 points · 6 days ago Leg cramp

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Text - SingleDadGamer 41 points · 6 days ago Whenever Chef Ramsay calls up a contestant during elimination. "Paula <camera cuts to reaction shots for 30 seconds> give me your jacket". Even worse though is when they delay it first by going: "James <camera cuts to reactionary shots> back in line"

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Text - Notmiefault 172 points · 6 days ago As someone who does intermittent fasting, the final 30 seconds before the clock flips over and I'm allowed to eat.

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Text - I_ama_Borat 22 points · 5 days ago Drawing blood. The doc: "doing good, just two more vials" Me: 0_0

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Text - jdubs2006 22 points · 5 days ago Flushing the toilet at a friend's house and just praying it goes down

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Dude is Absolute Beast on Dance Arcade


If everyone put as much effort and dedication into their passion as this guy has put into mastering this dance arcade, the world would be a completely perfect place. No hunger, no conflict, just perfectly executed spins and poses set to high pitched, catchy choruses.

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Tagged: arcade , wtf , lol , amazing , dance , Video , win

Manager Assumes Employee's Job Is Unnecessary, It's Not


We love a nice nuclear revenge. Especially when the character involved is a presumptuous manager who makes sweeping, wrongful assumptions about just how necessary an employee's job is to the functional flow of a company's operations. This presumptuous manager certainly got humbled. 

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Text - r/NuclearRevenge u/theFoot58 • 327d + JOIN 3 Manager thought my job role was unnessacary, finds out the hard way it wasn't Here is a case of two distinct acts of revenge, combining in spectacular fashion to create nuclear revenge. (thanks to redditors in r/ProRevenge for rewrite help)

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Text - About 20 years ago, I was a sales engineering supporting sales reps at Douchebag Tech Company, (DTC) A new sales manager joins the team, he was a former co-worker from a prior job, a petty little man. Prior were were peers, now he was a manager over the sales reps I supported. I had a seperate chain of command, he was not my manager, but felt he should be. He was resentful of the power that sales engineers in this new company had. In an attempt to show me up he closed a very large deal wi

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Text - Later, the manager calls me in a panic, and we talk with the customer. The sales rep and the rep sales manager totally fucked things up, and sold the customer an incompatible set of solutions. I say that the customer could exchange one bit of stuff for another bit of stuff, everything would work, and they're roughly the same price so nobody would lose any money.

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Text - But the sales manager doesn't want to do it, because admitting he fucked up would make him look bad. And he bitches at me for bringing up price, because that's supposed to be the rep's job. He calls my boss and shits all over me. My boss took his side, and shits all over me too, so I'm like fuck you I quit. A sent a very lengthy, detailed letter to HR explaining how the sales rep fucked up, lied to the customer, and how the sales manager and my boss tried to make me the scapegoat instead

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Text - I move on. Get a new job, do other things. At some point, I'm chatting with an old friend from DTC, and he mentions they fucked up a huge deal that they spent a year on. I'm still bitter about the douchebag sales rep manager and my asshole boss, so I post about it on a forum a bunch of investors use. The stock crashed $13 the next day. This will be important later.

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Text - I find out ABC is suing DTC for fucking up the deal. The deal that the douchebag sales rep manager fucked up, and tried to pin on me. I reach out to ABC, send them a copy of the letter I sent to HR, in which I detailed precisely how badly DTC fucked them over. I talk with one of their lawyers and he's very happy, especially the part in my letter where I describe how the sales rep lied to ABC.

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Text - DTC subpoenas me for a deposition. I have to tell DTC's lawyers everything that I told ABC's lawyers. Lawyer stuff. The day before the deposition, DTC sues me directly. Remember DTC's stock crashing? They're suing me for badmouthing the company and attempting to short their stock. (which I wasn't) However, there's a twist: Because DTC is suing me directly, I don't have to say shit to them at the deposition. Their preparation for the lawsuit goes completely out the window. They know they'r

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Text - They're dumbfounded. No idea how they could have fucked this up this badly. Turns out there were two legal teams: One defending against ABC's lawsuit, and another trying to scare people away from talking shit about the company on the internet by indiscriminately suing their critics. They don't communicate with each other, and the one team didn't mention to the other team that they would be suing a key witness in their case.

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Text - DTC settles the lawsuit with ABC. And they drop the lawsuit against me. And they fire the sales rep, the sale rep manager, and his manager too. 4.1k 83 1 Share

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Twitter Thread: Man Discovers Ancient Computer


Man, oh man, this ancient artifact of a computer actually looks like it'd be a whole lot of fun to play around with. A true throwback. 

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Text - LOCKED John Pfaff @JohnFPfaff · 10h IN Oh. Му. God. An Apple lle. Sat in my parents' attic for years. Decades. And it works. Put in an old game disk. Asks if I want to restore a saved game. And finds one! It must be 30 years old. I'm 10 years old again. >

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Text - LOCKED IN John Pfaff @JohnFPfaff This is tricky, because three decades later I can't quite remember where I left off this round of Adventureland.

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Text - LOCKED IN John Pfaff @JohnFPfaff Hm. I rocked this version of One on One. Could hit a three from anywhere. But the boxes my mom sent have no joystick! Will GameStop have one that fits these ports? >

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Text - LOCKED IN John Pfaff @JohnFPfaff My kids thought things were insanely retro when my wife and I played NES Super Mario on the oldest's Switch. Tomorrow morning their definition of retro is going to shift significantly.

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Screen - BEEST

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Text - LOCKED John Pfaff @JohnFPfaff : 10h. IN Replying to @JohnFPfaff My dad typed up labels for all my floppies, which is really sweet to remember. He was so thorough that he even included... who hacked the games. (I'm the only person in my immediately family who went to law school.) >

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Text - LOCKED IN John Pfaff @JohnFPfaff Hacker screens! And ASCII art! On a 35 year old 5.25" magnetic disk from the first Reagan Administration. >

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Text - LOCKED IN John Pfaff @JohnFPfaff Wow. So this was an old trivia game I loved (Millionware). This screen gets to the point where it says "Say 'Hello' to our contestants Donna." And then the disk drive whirs w its little red light. Then you get "Thank you, Donna." 1984 computer humor.

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Text - LOCKED IN John Pfaff @JohnFPfaff Of course, there is the downside. Here's everything I wrote my senior year in high school, unreadable thanks to the absence of the necessary program disk (AppleWorks). That, though...may be for the best.

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Text - LOCKED IN John Pfaff @JohnFPfaff It's like riding a bicycle. But need to get that 100m dash time down a bit. That was respectable in the 1980s, but not anymore. >

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Text - LUCKED IN John Pfaff @JohnFPfaff This game... never got past the first level despite HOURS of (pre-internet cheating) trying. Now w the web, I have a shot. The music, tho. That classic Apple lle music. >

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Text - "No, look, kids. This computer has.no. hard-drive. The reason those giant disks say 'Disk Side' 1-4 is you had to keep flipping them over as you played." Hi-def Mario Kart 8 for the Switch there for comparison.

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Text - LOCKED IN John Pfaff @JohnFPfaff I FOUND THE APPLEWORKS PROGRAM DISK. Insanely, it had been sitting in the disk drive for 30 years. I took it out without looking at the title. Going w 1995 to avoid any Y2K issues. And look: "folders."

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Text - LOCKED IN John Pfaff @JohnFPfaff Maybe l'll stop complaining about Word's clunkiness. That's a lie-l'm Scrivener thru and thru -but still... >

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Text - Also, in the days before the Cloud, kids, you had to make sure you backed up your backups, bc those floppies could betray you. My dad wrote a computer financial modeling textbook. He... wasn't joking abt backups. Not sure why he went w the fancy Roman numerals tho (w "6" too!).

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Text - Just found this letter my dad typed to me in 1986, when I was 11 and at summer camp. IREALLY WONDER what my theory abt the daily newspaper comics Spider- Man was. My dad passed away almost exactly a year ago. It's amazing to come across something so "ordinary" from him.

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