My boss bans social media at work, including for the social media manager.

I was a tier one phone jockey, and this was my first adult job after college.

So you can imagine how surprised and nervous I was when one day I get an email with the subject

line, Ford, disable Facebook now.

It was written just like that, all in caps, with two or maybe three exclamation points.

Inside there was a long message chain containing an extended rant from our marketing

executive, sent to the CEO, replied to, forwarded to the CIO, replied to, forwarded to my

manager, and then kicked down

to me with no further explanation. My manager did this kind of thing a lot. Rather than open a ticket

in the ticketing system, he insisted we use in a certain way, or explaining anything in his

emails, he had simply forward us an email chain of a conversation he had been having

with some other store or department manager, some exec, or some sort of vendor, and we'd just

have to read through all of it to figure out what the crap he wanted.

This email was one of those, and since it had come from people further up the chain than him,

I had to read through all of his pathetic groveling and deferential boot-looking

to reach the part where he made his unqualified promises about what I'll do in how much time.

Eventually, I surmised the following.

Marketing is upset that his employees are spending work time on social media, and he has decided

that it's all IT's fault.

He wants social media, quote, disabled on all computers,

end quote. He sent this complaint to the CEO, and because it's not good enough to contact IT

and open a ticket to get something done, he has to try get someone fired while he's at it.

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