My Manager Be Like 💀 Funny Office Humor | Employee Animation Meme | Original Audio: Corporate Sween

[blakenoir]

So I’m a consultant, we meet internally Monday to discuss what the work load is for the week. I then have to take that log and send it to my client for his meeting on Tuesday, that he has with different people of my company. So they can take that log, and meet with us Wednesday. Which I then have to screenshot what “gets done Wednesday” so I can send it to the client Wednesday EOD… so he can take what I send him for his meeting on Thursday, with different team members of my company. I kid you not this is bananas. This kind of reminded me of this video, with all the logs, but I get the point you’re making with the alternate candidate, which is pretty funny as well :)

[jwills]

This is a boss getting ready to fire you and is trying to know what they should tell your replacement to do. Surprised people didn’t catch that with the mention of ‘interviewing a new candidate’ right after 🤣

[SemkOld]

An activity tracker means your manager is looking for justification to fire you.

[ArgDu]

And then you start entering "filled in activity log" at the end every page.

[Mokona]

Left a team lead job because people wanted me to keep track of my team of 30 like that. Helps absolutely nobody, not even the bosses paranoia

[lazyfoxplays]

I had a boss once make me do a daily checklist where I had to input everything I was going to do and everything I did. I made sure I included every minute of the day in it, and everytime I inputted something into the checklist I also added “Checked checklist. Inputted into checklist. Doublechecked checklist” for every transaction.
After a week I no longer had to do checklists, as we saw that almost an hour of my day became checking and filing out the checklist.

[Flurpz]

"Dont get defensive!" I really hate this term at work.

[jamesnoneyabizness]

Anyone else smell a "We're generating a paper trail, because we want to fire you for a reason we can't _legally_ fire you for, so we're going to use *this* as an excuse instead"...

...or, is it just me?

[ricucci-hillmusic]

Its the "a way for us to collaborate" that gets me. So patronizing

[jasonphelps]

"OH, and the interview today is TOTALLY not your replacement so don't worry about".

[atelierbohemand]

"Chat GPT I fucked around all day, played video games and actually worked on this one thing for 20minutes. Can you write me a detailed activity log of the for 8 hours that makes me look good?"

[Treblaine]

"look, there's not going to be any record of what your manager or foreman tells you to do but there will be a record of what you admit you did. So if anything goes wrong it'll be your written confession against your boss's biased recollection."

[FrancoCastro]

I would fill my activity log with
“Applying to new jobs”

[japandi]

This happened to me and my team on the back of nearly the whole team complaining about 1 person not pulling their weight. So instead of having the awkward conversation with them, we went through 12 months of activity tracking and still that 1 person hasn’t changed or been dealt with. Great stuff… really insightful.

[NA-dros]

Yeah, I'm not doing that, fire me please.

[Liusila]

I’m just realising my previous shitty workplace tried to fire me 3 times in a row but gave up every time because I was actually doing so much. They ended up replacing me with 2 people after I finally decided to leave. Bastards.

[johnceniceros]

Anytime an activity tracker comes up it's basically a precursor to firing you, re-org or "downsize" - if HR is mentioned then yea, dust off that resume... oh and ditch the two weeks notice once you get the new job.

[I-Broke-Your-Mailbox]

"spent my lunch break talking to an employment lawyer"

[Ed_Gein_crafts]

If that ever happens to anyone, start looking for a new job and don't give a two weeks notice

[krevor]

Shit you not.

In the early '90's was when I first encountered a "Minute by Minute" tracker. Did my first task, made the entry, noticed that the whole process took 2 minutes. It was a data entry format, so copy-paste (which had been fairly recently created) was not an option. So I documented that, which took a minute. And documented that because I had to account for all of my time, but each documentation took a minimum of 1 minute, asked "WTAF?" (brevity translation to the conversation) I replied that I had to account for ALL of my time according to directives. The rest of the office personnel heard what I did and some how actual work came to a crashing halt (virtually no billable hours), but the "Minute By Minute" forms were all faithfully filled out....until the program was terminated at the end of the week.