One of the managers here...
...gets involved in every project going, even though they're nothing to do with him, and knows enough about everything that's going on to think he's on top of it all, when in fact he's the epitome of (to paraphrase) "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing". Some of his "highlights" include:

-Telling the technicians that they couldn't have fans in their office during 2009's really hot summer as "they actually make the room warmer due to their motors" and "the cables are a trip hazard" - this even though they were desk fans, plugged into the sockets the technicians have on their desks

-Vetoing a project (that he'd signed off initially) for community staff to access our systems on laptops, using remote access tokens. The network had been set up, the staff had been trained, RAS tokens were purchased, the laptops were ordered... and then he decided that it was "dangerous for people to have access to the systems while they're not on site". Even though we all have remote access for on-call purposes

-Getting someone to do a little task for him, ranging from half a day's work to a couple of weeks... and then giving someone else exactly the same job to do, both victims blissfully unaware that they're duplicating work until they try and access something at the same time and realise what's happened. He's done this at least three times that I'm aware of

-He's currently got me trying to eradicate an EIGHT SECOND delay in opening one of our systems. Surely with all the problems the NHS is currently facing, an eight second delay is the least of our worries?

The worst thing is everyone knows what he's like, all the other managers think he's a twat, and no-one does anything about it. Why? What has he got over them?
(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 13:02, 3 replies)

Ah, but an 8 second delay
adds up.

Over a working week, that's 40 SECONDS you've lost. That's HALF AN HOUR A YEAR!!

So it's well worth getting you to piss more time up the wall fixing it that it would cost over the next 30 years if you left it alone.
(username failed moderation, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 13:06, closed)

Hate to be pedantic
but it's a "little learning is a dangerous thing". Alexander Pope. Alliteration, you see. There we are, that English degree has been good for something...at last.
(TheImmortalJenkins, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 15:45, closed)

Well I'm glad I could be of assistance there...
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(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 16:28, closed)