Dear recently-promoted boss,
You're a joke. Literally a joke. People use your name as a punchline if they need to illustrate someone who is a fool.
Your attempts at management have made you a David Brentesque parody who is at best laughed at, most certainly never with.
Your directives are either ignored absolutely or carried out only when someone is fed up enough to show that by following your instructions to the letter, nothing happens but time is wasted.
Those snide little remarks and emails - pathetically accompanied with a grin or a smiley face so you can claim they're not actual bullying - are being systematically reported to HR.
The backstabbing and trying to pit one colleague against another is well known and discussed between staff the moment you try it so nobody's fooled and worse, the manager you've been sucking up to in the vain hope of riding his coat-tails to the top thinks you're an incompetent buffoon and only keeps your farcical lapdog arse around because you're stupidly willing to work 14 hour days in the mistaken belief it's getting you a legup.
It's not.
This place runs in spite of you, not because of you and it was well noted at all levels (when a number of staff pointed it out) that productivity and morale went way up last time you took a holiday.
People are quitting because of you and those left are ALL (no really, *all*) looking for an exit.
And it's because of you.
For the love of God, please stop acting like such a wanker and go back to being the normal person you were before fate handed you a promotion you're not capable of dealing with.
( difficultchild, Thu 4 Mar 2010, 22:47, 5 replies)

seriously
Do you work with Jamie Heaton?
(gibbosgoneaway, Thu 4 Mar 2010, 23:38, closed)

Wow
We must work together.
(McChinaman banned, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 1:11, closed)

Hold your hand up...
So I can pick you out in the office!
(Mr_Smig, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 12:45, closed)

copied and pasted into email to arse 'new' team leader, cheers!
(LarksaLordy, Sat 6 Mar 2010, 22:03, closed)

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Yeah, I got passed over for promotion once too.
( Not Pineapple anymore, Tue 9 Mar 2010, 13:44, closed)