Got my manager fired, took his job
I used to have this boss who was really good at the technical part of his job but had no HR training or people skills. He'd helped build his organisation up from its origins as a two-man operation, helped squeeze a rival out of the market and establish us as the dominant player, but he was clearly better at the operations side of things and didn't really have a personality suited to managing all the people that he was suddenly in charge of. As a result, there was a pretty high rate of attrition.

So one time we were working on an important project - we'd been given this pep speech about how it was vital to the company's advancement and all that - and I was tasked with a humble job of monitoring and collating some stats. I noticed an anomoly, and since everyone was so serious about this project, I took the anomoly to my manager who dismissed me out of hand, not realising that our boss was standing right behind him. I won't bore you with the detail, but it turned out that I was right and my manager was wrong and the boss wasn't pleased.

Not long after that, my manager fucked something else up, or so our boss thought. I privately thought it was an understandable mistake and I was actually with him at the time, but our boss was still pissed off at my manager from when I'd showed him up earlier, so he blamed him and just terminated him on the spot.

So it turned out that I had dropped him in the shit. I felt sort of bad, but I have to admit I thought it sounded pretty cool when the boss told him that he'd failed him for the last time. Plus I got a promotion - result! Besides, who the fuck else could it have been all the way out there on Hoth?
(filthytruck, Fri 19 Oct 2012, 12:41, 7 replies)

Wish I'd read the last word first and then I wouldn't have bothered reading the rest of it and would just have called you a twat outright. Twat.

( 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Fri 19 Oct 2012, 12:56, closed)

I started reading, then read the last word, then read the rest of it.

( M3rx likes the Asian ladies, Fri 19 Oct 2012, 13:48, closed)

I'm choking you, with my mind,
right now.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 19 Oct 2012, 16:31, closed)

I had to Google it....
....which made the whole thing an even bigger waste of my precious time. I have things to do, you know..............
(Colonel Blink is now officially a pretentious prick, Sun 21 Oct 2012, 18:23, closed)

Nicely Done
You had me until "failed him for the last time" Which i happened to read in vader's voice.

*applause*
(Funkwomble XBL and PSN DangerBoy73, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 6:43, closed)

Bizarrely,
as soon as I'd read the first two sentences, I thought "Star Wars", which must be the operation of some kind of B3ta deformation of the brain, because there's nothing objectively Star Wars-y about them. Soon people will be posting genuine stories of bosses and HR departments and I'll still think they're talking about Star Wars.
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 9:18, closed)

Shut up.
You had me at 'doing shit Star Wars replies stopped being funny about 8 years ago by which I mean actually they've never been funny ever, fuck off'!!!!!!!!
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 23 Oct 2012, 15:56, closed)