My bosses must be smarter than the most them because they refuse to ever put anything in writing.

Tbh, "company policy" are magical words.

I assume if something illegal gets labeled as "Company Policy" (even though it isn't), the company should immediately be held accountable regardless - so terrible managers don't get to throw those two words around as a magic shield to protect themselves from employees being cognitively indisonant, unlike their perfect selves.

Being an "ass" is one thing (making conflicts like it's yoir job).

Paying people preferentially because you and a couple of your buddies like them a bit (bonus points if you spend private time together as well) should be about 3 red flags for everyone involved.

Sounds like an edge case

Consider yourself lucky then.

I have absolutely met managers this dumb. I had a manager quote me in an email reply, with what was quoted in the same email chain and included with the other replies, then forward it (still including all the replies!) claiming that he "rescued" me from a client incident because I didnt reply.

With the reply from me just two emails below.

Yes, there are absolute idiots in management who would 100% reply with this.

Even the dumbest managers

You're overestimating people.

When I was a manager, I refused to discuss another employee with their coworker. If you want a raise, tell me why you deserve a raise for what you do. And I was very careful to only put established company policy in writing, everything else was "let's circle back to that in person when we're both at the office."

Oh thanks we figured it out together

Knew it was fake when I read it but now I see, LLM-generated fake

You can smell the prompt, or the way the model almost took it as a joke

I want some oponions. Regular onions aren't doing it for me anymore.