👀 What's the pettiest thing a manager has ever done to you or someone you know?

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They made a ton of those custom mugs with my photo on it, then constantly left it around the office half filled with coffee so that people would think that I'm a slob that would never clean up after themselves.

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Wait, people thought you made yourself a dozen coffee mugs with your face on them?

Sent an email at 12:03am and then was furious with me they didn’t have a response by 7am.

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Two teams were away on two productions in the same city. The CCO sent all the client personnel, account team members, plus a senior CD, an ECD and an Exec Producer (in addition to the perfectly competent Agency Producer and Junior Producer) to our shoot locations each day to “keep them away” from the other shoot.

The other team was completely left alone. To rub it in, everyone had to meet up and have dinner together each evening. We found out they wanted to protect the other team.

Their spots ended up being forgettable and dull and ours is still in my portfolio. So we got through it, but the stress it put on us and the director relationship was unnecessary.

Made me come back to the office after leaving. It was 6 pm and it could have been an email.

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