THE NAMES AND LOCATIONS HAVE BEEN CHANGED TO PROTECT THE INNOCENT…
except for Hardip… Fuck Hardip.
This is the email I sent to basically everyone with power in the company, including board members, CEO, CFO and more.
I tender my resignation effective immediately.
I have returned any company property that was in my possession.
My company laptop and Corporate Credit Card is on the desk in the IT Room in Anytown GROW.
My profile has already been wiped from the company-provided laptop.
I have removed any company documents from my personal devices and accounts.
This has been an adventure.
For those who may not know me personally, I am the only I.T. Field Tech in the Eastern Time Zone and have worked for the last year, 4 months, and 18 days to keep the east coast operation’s IT tools working and within legal compliance.
I have enjoyed much of my journey with “Generic Weed Facility #4”, but it is time for me to move on.
I can no longer stomach the disrespect, accusations, and lies of my manager Hardip.
He is a horrible communicator and outright rude to almost all who interact with him.
I went 5 months without even hearing his voice and for a manager that is unacceptable.
Even if he completely trusted me to do my job, which I’m sure he doesn’t, not speaking with an employee on your team for that long is ludicrous.
I cannot recall Hardip saying or writing the phrases “thank you” or “you did a good job” even once in the entire time I have been employed at “Generic Weed Facility #4”.
Not to me. Not to anyone.
My opinion is that if you want your company to succeed, you should replace him with someone who has the capability to learn and grow without retaliating against other employees.
He constantly berates employees in group chats and sends accusatory messages instead of asking questions.
He never asks his employees about situations before attacking them.
He never returns calls, texts, or Teams messages in a timely manner and then blames you for not trying hard enough to get a hold of him.
You will update him on a current situation and months will pass before he suddenly believes it to be a dire situation and he won’t acknowledge that you informed him previously.
He has no idea how long a task takes if there is only one technician working on it. He expects a single tech to run cable and troubleshoot issues as fast as multiple techs, which is unfair and unreasonable.
He gatekeeps all the technology so that he feels irreplaceable, but it only causes everything to take way longer than it should, making all decisions go through him.
He does not delegate responsibility.
He wastes money on tech upgrades that are not necessary, and then prevents purchases of needed items due to “budget constraints”.
He constantly creates roadblocks that prevent employees from being able to effectively do their jobs, then blames them for not getting things done on time when his lack of response (authorization) was the cause of the delay.
He cannot accept any criticism (positive or negative) without retaliating.
He is not a good manager, and if anyone doubts these accusations, please be aware that I am taking a dramatic pay cut just to get this negative personality out of my life forever.
I expect Hardip to drag my name through the mud after I am gone, but I implore you to ask the people that I interacted with if they believed me to be a bad employee. My regular clients always knew where they stood with constant updates, and while I may have temporarily forgotten to do a small task here or there, my tasks were always addressed as well as I could. Nobody is perfect, but I tried my best to do all that I could, and I never stopped giving my best even as I was on my way out of the company.
When he complains that I was slow or lazy, just ask yourself these questions. Was there an SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) detailing the task and how it was expected to be handled? Was it late because Raven575 didn’t want to work or because he was waiting for authorization to travel or waiting months for a part to arrive due to it not being ordered in a timely fashion? Was it done slowly because Raven575 was a bad employee or was the speed expectation based on the estimate of multiple techs performing the task instead of a single tech?
I will probably be blamed for “Generic Weed Facility #15” not being ready for Inspection, but I recommended (while in a meeting with Hardip and HR) that we needed a full-time tech in the New England area. At that time, Hardip responded that “he was working on it”. It is now the end of November, and we are scrambling to get everything done. I was not sent out to New England until the end of November and had 4-1/2 days to get everything done. That just wasn’t enough time to complete the laundry list of tasks that needed to be addressed in all the area’s Dispensaries and Grow facility. This could have been avoided if we had hired someone for that location months ago. As a side note, if you don’t believe that I worked hard while on my last trip, I have included a PDF outlining my trip including GPS data to prove that I did not slack in my efforts to accomplish all the tasks set before me.
Now for the bright side…
Everyone I worked with on a daily basis was fantastic.
Mario Mario is a fantastic IT person and, in my opinion, should be promoted to CIO (Chief Information Officer).
He has a great understanding of what it takes to get things done and isn’t afraid to ask questions and take other thoughts into consideration when making decisions.
Daniel Tiger is a great IT tech and has been very helpful in every interaction I’ve had with him.
The whole NetJargon team is awesome and super helpful and informative.
Every store manager I’ve worked with has been great and appreciative of the work that I’ve done to try and make their daily lives easier and more efficient.
Everyone in the Anytown locations are great and doing their best to make a good product and help each other out.
Bert and Ernie in HR here in Anytown are rockstars and do amazing things to help everyone that they work with.
Princess Diana is a sweetheart, a hard worker for the Inventory Team and deserves all the praise you can give her.
Karl Marx is a beautifully realistic and caring worker that does a great job keeping the Anytown facility running smooth.
Michael Clarke Duncan is a fantastic man with great ideas and a terrific work attitude.
Carrie Fisher is a brilliant chef and manager that is probably not paid enough for the amazing work she does creating the best edibles that I’ve ever tried….seriously, she is a Queen.
I feel like this company can do amazing work and help hundreds of thousands of people with their goods and services, but I also feel like there have been a bunch of mistakes leading to many talented employees leaving due to poor management decisions.
With all that said…
I have learned a lot during my time here, mostly self-taught due to a lack of training.
I hope all the best for everyone that has been helpful and patient through difficult times of waiting and red tape to get things done.
You are all great people…except for Hardip…he should be fired.