My Manager says to 'SHUT UP and WORK'... So I Do Exactly that and Make Her Life a Nightmare
Am I the Jerk?
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🗓️ 12 November 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Just do your job and shut up. |
| 0:02.3 | No problem. |
| 0:04.1 | The software company I worked for got acquired. |
| 0:07.2 | Some people were let go, some were added, and some teams and functions were restructured. |
| 0:12.2 | Prior to acquisition, we had a multiple hats situation where you basically did whatever was in your capacity. |
| 0:18.8 | Teams played to each other's strengths and one person would |
| 0:21.6 | generally take a client from the first demo right through the configuration, implementing, |
| 0:26.1 | and training phases of the software. Some of us had strengths in technical areas, others had more |
| 0:32.1 | than a decade in the client's subject matter. Clients would give us some feedback or wish lists. We'd talk amongst the team |
| 0:38.7 | about how the functionality could be added or changed, make a functional mock-up, and then |
| 0:43.2 | bring that to the development team for polish and integration into the production code. |
| 0:47.3 | It worked wonderfully, like 100% positive feedback and nothing broken when it went to production. |
| 0:53.3 | We had a good rapport with the dev guys and some of us were able to write queries or code |
| 0:58.0 | portions that would save them from having to ask a billion subject matter questions. |
| 1:02.7 | When we weren't dedicated to a task, we'd handle support calls. |
| 1:06.5 | Clients would call up, receptionists learned who to pass things to based on clients, and |
| 1:10.7 | the nature of issues, |
| 1:11.6 | and resolution was typically instantaneous unless the problem required research. Clients loved |
| 1:17.2 | that and had the understanding that if we couldn't resolve their problems right away, it was |
| 1:21.5 | because we needed to look into it. After the acquisition, the parent company reorganized |
| 1:26.2 | things into a much more rigid, |
| 1:27.7 | you have one job, kind of scenario. The trouble was, with the people they let go, I was the |
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