By SparkOfJade - 13/08/2013 04:07 - United States - Silver Spring

Today, my superior gave me a box of ethernet cables which were previously attached to mainframes storing classified data. He requested I cut them in half so that the residual data would leak out. Not only does this guy make twice my salary, there was no convincing him otherwise. We cut them up. FML
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SparkOfJade 18

First thing first: I'm a girl. I have an engineering degree from one of the top universities in my field, and hold all the necessary certifications and then some. I do have a military background, but I am not in the military any longer, and I now have a full-time job at one of the top IT firms in the country. I'm a consultant, meaning I contract out to our company's clients. The "superior" in question was a higher up on the client side which is why he makes so much more than I do. He's been there at least 10 years. I'm on year 2 with my company. As anyone who's been a contractor will tell you, you can only explain to a client that they are being insane for so long until you do what they ask because they are paying the bills and "the customer is always right" *sigh* I obviously can not tell you which client it was. I'm really enjoying the witty responses, and even the not so witty ones (I did use the proper form of "there," you imbecile.)

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kwyk 23

Maybe he had a blood nose once and his intelligence leaked out

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Bostern 29

Are tinfoil hats part of your work uniform?

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thejimler 9

In Capitalist America, idiot gives orders to YOU!

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Dcm210 19

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lmbachman 23

#34 was making fun of the post they were responding to, not your use of "their" and "there", my dear...

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ThedaRose 15

#34 was replying to #19. Sorry, from your response, it sounded like perhaps you thought that correction was directed at you OP.

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aintlifeapain 21

Ah, the "Superior" with the "Inferior" intelligence. FYL OP, you can never argue with that twisted logic.

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thunderniron 22

Gotta love working for morons. :-/

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kasmol 16

You should have told him that he needed to reboot the cables a couple of times before you could cut them up.

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thatnucca 36

Wow! That's impressively stupid. I wonder what he did during the whole Y2K scare? Smdh

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cheshireau 26

I can't even articulate a witty response to insult your boss. I'm just going to shake my head.

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mattlw 25

I once had an apprentice tell me that the reason my power tool wasn't working properly was because there was a knot in the cord that was preventing the "juice" from flowing. I feel your pain O.P.

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mattlw 25

I should at least mention that thankfully, in my case, the guy was not my boss but my learner.

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IHATEFMYLIFE 26

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valalvax 13

Technically he's right in the sense that knots in cords for things like power tools is bad, in two ways, first it can cause overheating of the wire, and second it obviously stresses the wire, and he could even be right in the sense that knots have eventually ruined the cord... But he is still a moron lol

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