William Pietri4d ago

For The Flip, I need to write both an employee handbook and a volunteer handbook. I need your stories of That One Guy.

My theory is that an awful lot of those manuals exist because of incidents where somebody did something stupid but not covered, so the boss rolled their eyes and said, "Ok, Terry, I'll write it down for next time."

So please give me your best dumbass-colleague stories. Think of them as handbook test cases. I'll open source the results!

Show threadTyrone Slothrop4d ago

@williampietri A few years back, one of our business administration colleagues won an internal prize for realizing significant cost savings on IT services.

Everyone was happy until the internal network at the site went down. Someone called the support company, only to learn that the SLA had recently been revised, and the target to bring the network back up had been changed from 4 hours to 4 weeks.

Everyone ended up working from home for a month.

Show threadmarkc568
@slothrop @williampietri @jalefkowit Lol I dunno why this contract is massively cheaper, but let’s run with it!
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Show threadTyrone Slothrop4d ago
@markc568 @williampietri @jalefkowit „This contract is expensive, and we’ve never used it so far! Optimization potential!”