Inviting Disaster

I work in a print shop, and my boss is a huge control freak and also a know-it-all. One day, she got tired of me questioning her orders and told me:

Boss: “You are no longer allowed to question what I tell you. Just shut up and do what you’re told.”

A couple of hours later, an invitation came in from the non-profit group that she’s a member of. In the customer’s email, the location of the event was spelled correctly. But she thought it was wrong, and rather than googling it, she just made me change it to what she thought it was supposed to be.

So, having been told to shut up and do what I was told, I did. And we printed 150 invitations with the WRONG event venue name on them and delivered them to the organization.

The organization that she was a part of.

The next day, they called, upset because they had sent us the correct information and got cards with the wrong info.

Boss lady asked me what happened:

Boss: “What happened here?”

Me: “You told me to change it. So, I didn’t question it; I just did what you told me.”

And the funny thing? She was donating the job. So now it cost her TWICE as much.