I worked at a small office supply store in Portland for about 6 months. One slow Tuesday, my manager handed me a jar of 500 paper clips and told me to count them by hand because 'the machine could be wrong.' He stood there watching me for 20 minutes before I just dumped them back in the drawer and walked out. Has anyone else had a boss give them a completely pointless task like that?
I managed a small team at a print shop in Portland and one week we nailed every single order ahead of schedule with zero errors, the owner even bought us pizza on Friday. Then Monday comes and he pulled me aside to say they were cutting my position because they could 'save money' by having a lead tech do my job for less pay. Has anyone else had a really good stretch at work and then got blindsided like that?