Manager gives employee a formal warning for following a protocol she created: ‘I wrote a detailed breakdown of every single violation’

Narcissistic bosses tend to reprimand their employees for simply following orders.

Why is this a common phenomenon? Well, it probably has something to do with the fact that many poor-performing managers give bad orders. When they see the repercussions of those orders play out in front of them, they don’t know how to handle it. So, instead of taking it like a champion and admitting their faults, they punish their employees instead. It’s much easier to do, if you didn’t know…

Take the boss in this story, for example. They are enforcing a rather unpopular protocol in the office, having to do with keeping employees’ personal belongings off their desks. The employee doesn’t want to write down their colleagues’ “violations” each time they occur, but their boss insists. So, they follow the demands to the letter. The boss didn’t like that one bit.