Inspired by Jecius' post
Dear Ex-Boss,

After 7 years of working as xxxxxx, and quite genuinely saving/making quite a lot of money for the firm (despite being a non-profit firm) and by doing so, keeping many of us in jobs, your arrival there took a few of us by suprise. However, if the powers-that-be there decided they needed a new IT manager, then so be it.

However, I feel I should explain what the word manager means - or in fact, what it doesn't mean.

It doesn't mean berating ideas that would have saved the firm money or ideas that would have bought in money - simply because you don't understand them.
It doesn't mean that you will be well liked by people for making jokes about me behind my back about my 'fanciful fairy-tale ideas' (like using FTP or using the WWW to allow customers access to their accounts - admittedly, this was 1999-2000 but it was hardly a huge leap of the imagination even then was it?) when you think other managers (most of whom were aware of the huge sums of cash I'd made the firm over the years, and were (and a few still are) indeed, friends of mine.

It doesn't mean stopping any future pay rises/bonus payments for me (and 2 others from a team of over 40), because you are threatened by what we can do - using the excuse that 3 years before you joined I was seriously ill and had 12 days off of work through it. Yes, three years before you even joined the company. You even admitted that you knew that in the previous and subsiquent years I had taken no days off at all - not even my allowed holiday quota due to being stupidly busy. I'm hardly a serial sickie-taker am I?

It doesn't mean berating me because I was the only one willing to visit other offices pretty much anywhere in the world at a moments notice to get things done, then to come back and have reduced pay because "I wasn't clocked in through the clock in the main office". How.the.Hell.could.I.Be? I was 5000 bloody miles away in our Chicago office sorting out yet another of your cock ups, two weeks after the arrive of my fist child, you petty idiot.

That one just made you look extremely foolish and petty in front of the whole firm - I wouldn't be suprised if they still talk about it now, 10 years later.

Still, after not very much of your childish behavior I decided to leave - only to have you try to force three months notice on me. I hope you enjoyed turning up at the meeting room 70 miles away for my 'exit interview' to find me not there - I was sort of toasting you in the pub round the corner from our main office with, yep, the Bus. Dev. Manager you so freely slagged me off to regularly.

It's funny though, don't you think, that less than 6 weeks after I left there, you were escorted from the building by security guards.

I'm sure that had nothing to do with the sharp drop in profits from the customers that I had cultivated and pandered to etc... I'm sure it had nothing to do with the fact that, having checked out your previous record of employment, that nearly everywhere you had 'moved on' from, had actually gone bust.

Seriously, for your sake and others, choose another career - management isn't for you. Especially IT Management. You're not good with people, and you sure as hell aren't good with technology (case in point, I had to explain what an FTP server was to you when you neeed to transfer huge documents - reader: His decision was that FTP was too new a technology to trust (60's??), and duly printed off about 40,000 pages of info, boxed it up and couriered it to our client in the US!).

Good luck in that gutter - you should have remembered that the branches you step on on the way up, are the branches you hit on the way down.

Your friend, that director you got the job through, described you as 'World Class' - he forgot the "Mistachioed Idiot" on the end. Still, oddly, he went the other way as well. If you're going to commit fraud, at least have the intelligence to cover up your tracks.

Seriously, you should consider a career in McDonalds - IT, Managment and Crime you simply don't have the brains for.
(dchurch bah, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 9:34, 3 replies)

Cheers for the inspiration quote :)
I know someone who failed a job interview with MacDonalds and is now a manager in PC World.

Yet another reason to shop somewhere else :)

Dodgy managers seem to be the bane of the millennium by the looks of it. A senior position to tell others how to do their jobs without actually doing it themselves.
( Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 10:53, closed)

Yep
In all my working life I have experienced this, until I got my current job 4 years ago.

Although very serious most of the time, my current boss is extremely clever, knows his stuff well and ideas and suggestions are taken on board and acted upon if they are good - indeed, if they are good, the sugestee (is that actually a word), will get a 'reward' - usually a few quid.
(dchurch bah, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 11:35, closed)

I like this
doesn't even come close!
(Lizard King, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 13:54, closed)