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Welcome to R slash pro revenge, where a Karen faces justice.

Our next Reddit post is from crafty bureaucrats.

I used to work at a hospital data center in the Network Operations Group. We physically sat in a room 24-7 next to the servers to make sure things didn't catch on fire,

we monitored for alerts, and we did routine things like swap-out tape backups, but it was pretty simple work.

This was ostensibly a tech job, but there were people who had been there for many years

back when you had to change out printer paper and run a command from an IBM mainframe.

I was on really specialized hardware and software that was difficult to apply elsewhere,

so it had become a dead end job.

And because there were people who weren't really tech savvy at all,

we weren't given much responsibility. You can't tell some people that they can log into a server

and tell other people that they can't. So we were reduced to the lowest common denominator.

Lowest common denominator, you say? Meet my new supervisor, Karen. She'd been there for over 20 years

and got the job solely based on seniority. She was a sociopathic narcissist and one of the most

unpleasant people I've ever encountered. Shortly after I was hired, we were bought by another hospital and combined

data centers. Karen was demoted to a shift lead and had to work with us in the 24-7 rotation.

She was very bad at her job, and our responsibilities diminished to very little. We had no agency

to fix any problems of our own because it had to be a problem that Karen could solve.

And Karen was both lazy and stupid.

After a couple of years, I was promoted.

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