My supervisor called me because I “used obscene language in shared customer notes.” She doesn’t know basic corporate acronyms
All of this was done over a teams meeting using shared screen.
She showed me a note in our company wide shared customer note system about a call I had with the customer. The note stated “transferred call, fu, see drop in for additional info.”
She said she was having trouble understanding what I was trying to say. I bounced around different parts of the message trying to clarify everything I could.
And in my mind, I kept thinking that she couldn’t mean the FU. I laughed uncomfortably and said, “I’m not sure what the issue is”
She clarified that the obscenity wasn’t acceptable, and I asked her to tell me what obscenity.
I explain that FU you meant “follow up,” and she claims that I “came up with that answer really fast,” and she was going to have to double check that.
She never brought it up again, I never signed anything, and she left the company a few months later.
Makes me start laughing every time I think about the stupidity of that entire situation.
My job was being threatened because an idiot manager didn’t understand corporate acronyms. And she made twice as much money as I did. I’m just not willing to play the stupid corporate games to advance
Netizens’ comments
- “You came up with that answer really fast” is reminding me of “you didn’t even check” when I told someone we didn’t have any rooms available. You’re right, I didn’t check, because you’re the fifth person who’s asked me that in the last half hour, and the answer has not changed.
- I used to have a folder on my desk labeled “FU on BS accounts”. I swore it meant “follow up on balance sheet accounts.” It didn’t. But I wouldn’t have had to follow up if the accountants didn’t FU on them in the first place.
- Reminds me of when my awful boss years ago claimed she told me to do something via chat and got angry at me. I was so fed up I took a screenshot of our chat, printed it out and handed it to her. Her reaction was priceless.