I saw two different managers—unknown to each other—who ignored their actual jobs because they were investing and managing real estate on the side.
They were on their cell phones all day long—they sure looked busy.
Lol.
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Hearing 10% Truth / 90 % Misdirection
i had one manager who sealed himself in his office and spent all his time running differential equation models he built to monitor his retirement funds ...
we eventually had to nuke him via near Machiavellian means to prevent our entire organization from being disconnected from the Internet because he refused to open his door to sign the necessary RFP bid papers for a new ISP vendor ... [longer version of the story is that i was the leader of the revolt, but the manager thought another guy was the leader, a guy who actually died soon afterwards ... occasionally i’d run into the demoted manager who had quit, and he’d bitterly complain to me about the dead guy who had nuked him ... it was hard for me to keep a straight face] ...
ah, the joys of working for a nonprofit GOCO ... [retired now, thank the lord]