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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Aggravating_Dot_5217 on 2025-06-13 12:10:19+00:00.
He did it again. RA (The Egyptian sun god). This time we were all called into a meeting to start project planning for a new project. The entire team from all over the world gathers to start the planning. I had called the meeting as I would be doing the senior project manager. Up to this point, there had been documents floating around, discussing the specs of the project.
I just want to have a side note. I prepared an online document for all the team members to contribute to, to try and make planning easier. RA asked one of the team members to download a copy of the document, and he added his thoughts to this document. He got somebody else from the team to do the same thing. Before I knew it, there were at least 4 copies of the document floating around, and none of them agreed with the others. Two of my staff members battled to try and make head ot tail of these documents and get their points into the document.
Back to the story. Every time that I started speaking, RA would interupt me like I was not even in the meeting. He told us how the project would be run, where the milestones would be, how much budget we had and gave ridiculous deadlines.
I tried on numerous occasions to tell him that his ideas wouldn't work and it would run into problems, only to be interrupted with how things will run. We have an AI that transcribes the entire meeting for the attendees and emails a copy to all the participants.
I spent a great deal of time working on the plan and making sure to put all his "ideas" into the project plan. It was distributed and RA signed off on it. He gave us the OK to start the project. 10 days into the project we were 3 days behind the schedule.
RA calls the entire team to a meeting and proceeds to berate everyone. He asks where we got these ridiculous deadlines. I told him that he gave them to us. I got the "I did not" - blah blah blah.
I opened the transcript from the previous meeting and showed it to him. The fun was that he blew his top for about 5 minutes, then accepted that there was a problem. He told us to put everything on hold and redo the project plan properly. The team chased him out of the meeting, and the team made a proper project plan.
Once fixed, the project was a success.
Edit:One omission that I left out is RA is the CEO.