Workplace reviews and discussion: KPMG_安侯建業聯合會計師事務所

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Some managers have rather neurotic personalities and periodically have panic or anxiety attacks directed at their subordinates. Their instructions change from one moment to the next, and besides being unclear about how they themselves want to handle things, they would rather rely on laborious, old-fashioned methods than ask for support. They tell subordinates to follow their instructions and manually modify data for an ancient model from the 1980s–1990s on a computer from around 1990–2000—one with “no Bluetooth, no internet, no Wi-Fi, USB disabled, and no acceptance of employee account credentials.” When subordinates say this is very difficult to carry out and ask whether they can be given a work laptop appropriate to the era, the manager then has another emotional outburst. After calming down, they feel they were in the wrong and try to placate the subordinate, but they cannot control themselves and frequently have another episode.

If you encounter this manager, consider yourself unlucky.