Holy shit, I don't even know where to start. I've been at my current job for seven and a half years and my most common phrase/question in that time has been, "What fucking idiot came up with that idea?".
I'm a maintenance tech at a wood pellet production plant. It was built about a year and a half before I started. It is currently the largest wood pellet production plant east of the Mississippi and one of the largest in the world.
Let's go back early in my time there.......I'd been there for maybe 6 months. My shift supervisor was a micromanaging midget that thought he knew everything. (I don't take kindly to people that think they know everything.) So anyways, I was working on a press and he was standing behind my non stop barking like the little chihuahua that he physically resembled. Apparently I wasn't going fast enough for him, so he took the wrench out of my hand and done it himself. THEN, he wrote me up for not doing my job. I got a demotion and a $3/hr pay cut. They put me on a front-end loader feeding material to the plant. I came home from work the day I signed the write up and told my wife I was probably gonna find another job. After a few
, I turned to her and said, "No, I'm a better man than he is, I'll be there when he's gone," Fast forward about 2 years, my shift supervisor came to me and asked me if I wanted to go back on maintenance. My response, "I'll do whatever y'all want me to, but I ain't fighting you over the fucking wrench." Back on maintenance for about a year, and then they promoted me to shift supervisor. I'd been shift supervisor for close to a year when the micromanaging midget (now a complete failure as production manager because he refused to listen to his shift supervisors and was STILL micromanaging us) loaded up his stuff and left for good. It took me nearly 4 years to outlast that motherfucker, but I did it. The week after he left, our plant had the highest weekly production tonnage in it's short history.