I work for a market research company in Data Processing dept. Well..my team leader doesn’t know anything…but he got this job based on his experience….When he’s asking me to give him some info on some project i give just a short explanation ..he want’s details ..when i give him details he gets very upset (probably on him) coz he doesn’t know what i am talking about.
I work for a law enforcement agency in Australia in the role of an assistant and had been there for less than 6 months when I was asked to work on a team dealing with some pretty horrific crimes. This team consisted of just 3 people, my boss, an “agent” and me.
The reason I was placed on this team was to organize meetings with victims of crime and allow our agency to talk to them about the progress of the investigation. Basically all I had to do was book a venue, make sure there was tea; coffee etc and make sure invites were sent out on time. I’ve done similar things in the past and this all went without a hitch,dispite my boss spending more time giving me stupid tasks like making sure her dry cleaning was done and getting her lunch everyday! (When I was hired I was told that things like this were NOT in my job description, and not to do them no matter who told me to- but I did anyway)
Mom: Look at the sea lions, buddy!
Little boy: I don’t see any lions.
Mom: Well, they’re not really lions — they’re whales, just like dolphins!
My GM hired a very inexperienced guy to work our theater. She told him (friend of hers) that he would be our next Assistant manager. There’s dozens of qualified people that got passed over so her “friend” could move up the ladder in a few short months and that’s not even mentioning the illegal conflict of interest going on there.