By TheGreatSquirrel - 04/01/2016 22:10 - United States - New Berlin

Today, my boss lost the company a very lucrative contract I had worked on for weeks because he wouldn't tolerate the client's "disrespect." The disrespect? Asking him to not interrupt her or put words in her mouth during a conference call with her employees. FML
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TheGreatSquirrel 3

OP here. I'm IT, not an English major, and 300 charas is a limited space. Sorry if it was too garbled. This actually happened last year and was the last straw as far as my job there went. The company had a small sales staff and a policy where tech personnel, working on their own time, could bring in new clients. You got a biannual bonus proportional to how much the client contracted for. At the time, my wife was pregnant and on bedrest, so we really could have used the extra money. I had a friend working for a nice-sized company in the area that needed some IT services. While I didn't get any insider secrets from him, what I knew from general conversation was enough to tailor an offer and know how to present it to the company owner. My boss was the kind of person who saw everyone competent as conspiring to threaten his job, so he insisted on being on the call she wanted to confirm everything before signing. He was condescending to the client, constantly interrupted her, and tried to sell her things that she would never need. It was obvious he didn't know or care what her company needed or wanted. She politely asked him to stop and he dressed her down for rudeness and disrespect in front of her own employees. When she declined to sign a contract with us, he blamed me, even though I'd only gotten about three sentences out. And then I got a job somewhere much better and quit.

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Ewelty3 19

Maybe it's time to find a company where the boss isn't a stuck up, half-witted, scruffy-looking nerf herder.

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kelciimackk 24

Bosses can be asses, sometimes (or a lot of times). Sorry, OP.

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wolf12king 12

If he worked for Trump he would be well off "small loan of a million dollars" imagine how much an employee of Trump's would be making.

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fyvaprold 11

#23: Trump is known for stiffing his contractors. "I renegotiated the price. Pray I don't renegotiate it further"

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TheGreatSquirrel 3

OP here. I'm IT, not an English major, and 300 charas is a limited space. Sorry if it was too garbled. This actually happened last year and was the last straw as far as my job there went. The company had a small sales staff and a policy where tech personnel, working on their own time, could bring in new clients. You got a biannual bonus proportional to how much the client contracted for. At the time, my wife was pregnant and on bedrest, so we really could have used the extra money. I had a friend working for a nice-sized company in the area that needed some IT services. While I didn't get any insider secrets from him, what I knew from general conversation was enough to tailor an offer and know how to present it to the company owner. My boss was the kind of person who saw everyone competent as conspiring to threaten his job, so he insisted on being on the call she wanted to confirm everything before signing. He was condescending to the client, constantly interrupted her, and tried to sell her things that she would never need. It was obvious he didn't know or care what her company needed or wanted. She politely asked him to stop and he dressed her down for rudeness and disrespect in front of her own employees. When she declined to sign a contract with us, he blamed me, even though I'd only gotten about three sentences out. And then I got a job somewhere much better and quit.

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gemstone586 12

Was your boss Michael Scott? seriously, this sounds like an episode of the Office. :) That blows, tho. Great news that you got something better!

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TheGreatSquirrel 3

Not the most socially adept person, but even I know better than to call a businesswoman "lady" in that tone of voice or to tell her that a request is silly or stupid. And that was why he was in tech, not sales.

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PhoenixChick 26

I hope before you left you had a nice chat with HIS boss about lost revenue. That sucks to watch hard work wasted because of an idiot.

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TheGreatSquirrel 3

Yeah, I sent her a folder of all the emails I'd gotten from clients complaining about him. Separately over the two years I was there, they were all dismissed. Together? She was not happy. Especially the complaints from female customers.

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kimsimwolf 8

It sounds like he has a problem with women to me....

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DoomSkuller 28

How do idiots like that make it to a leadership position...

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BloodyGlass 10

Sounds like a boss from hell, glad you got away from that asshole, OP. Hopefully, he got fired or ran the business into the ground.

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