'I was like okay': Tech employee asked not to push meeting against his advice, costs the company thousands of dollars

Managers often never listen to who actually knows best. Instead, they tend to make executive decisions not based on facts or awareness, but rather based on what's ultimately convenient for them and their sense of authority. This applies to all toxic work environments from restaurants to law offices, but in this case, we are dealing with a tech company.

This Redditor often had to push long Friday meetings to the following Monday because they always ended up having to fix bugs in the system on Fridays. When the higher-ups began to take issue with the constant postponing of meetings, they told OP that they would be meeting on Friday no matter what. Another alternative, of course, would have been to ask OP why these meetings kept needing to get delayed and potentially reschedule them for the following Monday definitively. However, as we said, managers don't always like to listen; instead, they just like to flex their muscles.

In this case, that arrogant decision ended up costing the company thousands of dollars and requiring them to pay OP overtime in order to have him fix the system over the weekend. Seems like listening to OP would have been a much better option in hindsight! For more stories like this, check out this post about how an office tyrant got fired.