Work, Annoying, Relatable and Nepotism: Meritocracy

Meritocracy

By Anonymous - 04/12/2023 05:00 - United Kingdom

Today, my boss brought his son in as our new manager. This kid has zero experience in our industry and yet waltzed into a £75,000 job where his sole responsibility is telling me how to do a skilled job I started before he was born. Plus half the stuff he tries to tell me is incorrect. Cretin. FML

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Meritocracy is a lie

By Anonymous - 30/05/2023 00:02

Today, we got a new manager in his 20’s who has never worked our industry before. His introductory speech included, “and you will respect me as your superior.” Our veterans have pranked him three times already and he blames me because mine is the only name he seems able to remember. FML

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Racing rats

By Anonymous - 04/10/2019 20:00

Today, after working my ass off for months for an open supervisor job at my work, I found out that they hired someone for the position. The guy has never worked for the company before, has a background completely unrelated to what we do, and has to be trained as he knows nothing about what we do. FML

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You deserved it 146

By Anonymous - 24/04/2015 17:39 - Qatar - Doha

Today, my boss's incompetent, lazy son got another raise. He only started working here five months ago. Since then he's been promoted twice and given a Bentley as a company car. All this while company profits are in the shitter and the rest of us are facing a wave of layoffs. FML

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Checkpoint Charlie

By VHgolf1989 - 16/03/2022 22:00

Today, I get to go to my new job and have the boss's kid watch me as I do all the grunt work, and he just sits there watching me, only to come and correct me on how to do my job. Oh joy. FML

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I got this!

By promoted - 20/12/2010 05:29 - Australia

Today, my boss quit his job and stopped coming in without warning. Guess who just inherited his tasks and responsibilities without the training or pay associated with his manager role. I was hired last year as a junior system admin. FML

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Sinking feeling

By Anonymous - 06/02/2023 22:00

Today, my boss replaced me, with my 25 years experience, as head chef with her son, who has a GCSE in food studies from 15 years ago and hasn’t even worked a restaurant before. I’m sitting here, watching our customers send food back untouched because it’s so bad. This has ruined us. FML

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You deserved it 103

Mad skills

By Anonymous - 10/12/2024 19:00 - United Kingdom

Today, my son is so naive that he didn’t notice that a company he interviewed for basically used him as free labour during a 3 day “skills assessment period”, after which he didn’t even get the job. Even after I explained to him they'd used him for 3 days free grunt work, he still didn’t understand. FML

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You deserved it 118

By texasbest - 02/09/2015 02:39 - United States - Lindale

Today, at my new job, I walked into the office to hear my supervisor and HR manager talking about how, "the new guy isn't very smart, but we can get him to do the shit work for a couple weeks." Gee, thanks. FML

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Failson

By Anonymous - 17/09/2023 20:00

Today, I gave my son a job as a shelf stacker in one of my stores. He is in his thirties and is so dumb that he has been fired from every other job for incompetence. I don’t want him to starve or lose his flat, but I also couldn’t give him an important job in case he screwed it up. FML

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Bunch of NPCs

By Anonymous - 24/06/2022 16:00

Today, my manager sat me down and insinuated that it's my fault that our new hires are useless. Not one person ever told me that I was responsible for training them. I'm not in charge, and they've been here for weeks. FML

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D J's MOM 17

Monday 4 December 2023 12:29

have the kid email you his bad instructions and follow them. when shit hits the fan you have proof.

angeleyes0724 10

Monday 4 December 2023 13:13

Cue malicious compliance.

Comments

ODBeefalo 10

Monday 4 December 2023 9:42

Given that doing as he says is out of the question, the only 2 options are keep doing your job right, or talk to your boss and let them know you are being given bad information and instructions that could really hurt both production and the company, and that the new kid needs a bit of time apprenticing before he takes charge, and say he has the heart to go far, he just needs to training. managers love hearing their untrained kids are great, and that they could be even greater...

D J's MOM 17

Monday 4 December 2023 12:29

have the kid email you his bad instructions and follow them. when shit hits the fan you have proof.

angeleyes0724 10

Monday 4 December 2023 13:13

Cue malicious compliance.

SirEnigM0nk 22

Monday 4 December 2023 15:37

Gotta love nepotism SMH.

Chazzster 28

Tuesday 5 December 2023 4:46

Start looking for a better job. Then when you find it - Quit and walk away.

Brightside86 30

Wednesday 6 December 2023 3:26

Pretty typical, most managers aren't expected to be able to do the skilled work of the people they supervise. It's one of the reasons he's only making 75k. Try to keep emails and other documentation of what he wants you to do if you suspect this is going to be a problem.