New managers with something to prove are the worst.

They usually have all the power, but not enough knowledge about the company to know what they’re doing.

But what would you do if even your coworkers sided with a clueless new manager?

Let’s read the whole story

and see what this man’s girlfriend did.

Everyone else wants the meeting first thing in the morning? Okay!

So, this story is being stolen from my girlfriend.

She works at a company that provides warehousing, product prep, and direct to consumer services to other companies.

It’s a big responsibility.

She works in their office, dealing directly with several key accounts, but also has a few lines that she manages.

The lines are responsible for prepping and building shipments.

The line workers will gather in the morning and wait for their daily assignments, as well as any direct to consumer orders, from my girlfriend.

This detail is important.

They had a system that worked well.

The other office workers help manage some accounts, but do not manage the lines or direct to consumer orders, nor do they know how to.

She comes into work one day and finds out they have a new director, and he wants to start organizing, streamlining, etc.

Ya know, the things the new important person does to make it look like he’s giving it his all.

Of course, he had to try to ruin what was already working.

His first order of business is to have a mandatory daily meeting at 8 am with everyone in the office that “will take no longer than 15 minutes”.

My girlfriend requests that the meeting start at 9 am instead, as the warehouse workers will be doing nothing but waiting around for their assignments otherwise.

The director, probably not wanting to look like he’s playing favorites on his first day, puts this to a vote, and *surprise* the other people want to start first thing in the morning, as they have nothing else to do at that time.

So my girlfriend says “Okay, if they want to start first thing in the morning, that’s no problem!”

She just had to wait and observe.

Next day, the meeting begins as soon as everyone arrives, and as they gather and the director begins talking, they hear the various lines start calling my girlfriend’s name over the radio in the distance.

Five minutes go by, and now people begin wandering into the office.

Ten minutes and a small group forms. Fifteen minutes, and people are coming and going patiently waiting for her, as she is ferociously tapping her pen on a clipboard.

At this point, the director pipes up with a less than sincere “Well, you look rather anxious, so if you have someplace to be, you can go if we’re keeping you.”

He was about to learn a lesson.

She responds with a candid and rushed “thank you so much” and runs away to take care of her lines and process consumer orders.

The new director, after this conversation, spoke with the owner of the company.

To his credit, the director later that day sought out my girlfriend and recapped what she missed at this meeting, which ultimately ran for over 45 minutes.

He also explained that the owner of the company informed him that she has the most responsibility of anyone in the office, generally can be relied on for anything, and is hands down his best employee.

The meeting is now at 9 am.

She deserves a raise.

Let’s see what Reddit thinks about this.

Oof.

This commenter shares their thoughts.

It could have been worse!

This is why she’s the best.

Another reader chimes in.

Yup.

Soon, he’ll want to have a meeting about the meetings.

New managers who make changes without first observing how things work are walking red flags.

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