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Spent $600 on a fancy scheduling app that my boss never let me use
Back when I was working at that warehouse in Phoenix, I thought I was being smart by buying a scheduling software out of my own pocket to fix our constant double booking mess. My manager said he'd reimburse me after I "proved it worked" which should have been my first red flag. I spent a whole weekend setting it up, even watched all their tutorial videos, and had it running smooth by Monday morning. Then my boss sent out a company wide email saying we had to use his nephew's Excel spreadsheet system instead. That was two years ago and I never saw a dime of that money back, and the spreadsheet crashes every other Tuesday. Has anyone else had a boss sabotage your attempt to make things run better just because it wasn't their idea?
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simon3784mo ago
Oh man, that hurts to read... I once shelled out like $200 for this password manager for our team cause everyone kept forgetting their logins and writing them on sticky notes. Set it all up, trained people on it, and the boss walks in and says we're switching to a shared Google Doc password list instead. That doc got deleted within a week and I'm pretty sure some former employee still has access to our email accounts... At least I got to use your software for three whole days before it got shot down too.
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emma724mo ago
Look, is it really that big of a deal? A shared Google Doc is obviously not great for security, but most small offices aren't getting hacked. That doc probably just had a few old passwords for stuff nobody even uses anymore. The former employee thing sounds bad, @simon378, but half the time those old logins don't even work after a year. I'd just change the passwords on the actual important accounts like email and banking and move on. Seems like you dodged a bullet honestly - training everyone on some fancy software is always more headache than its worth.
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