So, yeah, I have been losing my mind over this one. I have been stuck on this brutal project for the weeks. Like, the kind where you start questioning every career choice you have ever made. My boss apparently decided the problem was not the workload or the lack of the support, but that I must be getting “lazy.”
His solution? He tells me to install this app so he can see my screen all day. Literally, watch-my-screen-like-a-livestream Big Brother style. I straight up told him, “Don’t hire the remote workers if you do not trust them.”
But he kept pushing and pushing, and honestly, I just did not have the energy to keep arguing. So fine. Whatever. Install your creepy app. But I decided, if he is going to treat me like the child, I am going to have a little fun.
So the second the app activates, I pull up the YouTube and search for one of those dramatic “Matrix code green hacker aesthetic” videos. You know, the ones with the lines of the fake code flying down the screen. He connects. I make it the full screen.
He goes DEAD silent. Then: “…What is that?” I just say, perfectly calm, “Just warming up.” Dude LOSES IT. Starts calling for the IT like I am about to nuke the network from inside my home office.
IT joins the session, sees the screen, pauses for a sec, and then goes: “…Sir… that is just a YouTube video.” I swear I could hear the soul leave my boss’s body. I think it was a funny prank, but when I told a friend, they acted like I was rude or out of line.
So… be honest with me, was this actually funny, or am I 100% getting written up tomorrow? What would you do in my place?
