r/StoriesAboutKevin | FIFTEEN YEARS EXPERIENCE? STILL AWFUL!

0:00We're gonna do a little bit of Tarantinoing in this episode and that's just where you look at a woman's feet while bantering about nothing in particular Office politics with the Kevin part number one from our good friend Ninja Kitty Oh, I hope she's in the live chat. She's always in the live chat. Shows out good to see it glad to read your story. Hello fellow bearded Hi, I'm Tiss. It's been a hot minute since I last posted the story here like nearly a year I've been trying to write up a story of some bronies that got banned from a comic store that I used to volunteer at as well as some of the stories from my childhood being raised by a legbeard but a 2022 was just not a kind year in fact if you like starting with my next part I can go into what happened to me last year Since it does weirdly tie in to how I was forced to work with the specimen of this series After all what is life if not a strange series of domino effects leading to greater outcomes that no one would have ever

1:06expected my tale may be tragic, but Kevin's is tooth grindingly dripping with shot and fraud And that's what shot and fraud That's what we're here for honestly the legbeard stuff It sounds dramatic if you need to tell it you could tell it But I'm really in the market for like gross jerky beards at the moment. I don't want to get too emotional on camera no more, okay? Anyway, so let's freaking go this first proto Kevin story Ironically will not feature Kevin instead it features a proto Kevin that I will call Devon I Thought of calling him chemo like Kevin demo, but I was scared that red X would pronounce it like chemo And I did and though interacting with Devon sometimes felt as excruciating as slow dripping poisons directly into your veins at least chemotherapy does serve a larger purpose

2:08Devon would prove to be a disaster of a person to such a caliber that no one could really predict it and he is caused issues that I am still Trying to fix nearly three months later. I'm kind of into Devon is like the delta version of Kevin not in alpha But definitely not a one point oh either so back in mid-January I was working hard to train some of my co-workers to know how to do my job Well, you just train up replacement, ain't you? Don't fall for it at this point in time I was the only buyer in my company and I had been since October Even before my senior buyer moved on to greener pastures I had been the one largely in charge of placing orders chasing down items doing expedites and anytime I'd been out for more than two days the whole office would crawl to a stop with people freaking out as to what to do Without me see that's when you twist some arms. That's when you like I need a pay rise

3:13Now I know that sounds like not so humble bragging but when the top of the food chain comes halfway across the country to thank you Personally for handling an issue with a military project that could have gone real bad Had we not saved a paper trail showing that we weren't to blame for the four-month delay of a project that could have cost a Quarter million then you start to realize what sort of pressure you've willingly put yourself into I hope you're being compensated justly There definitely is some humble bragging and I'm hoping that we're going to move past this in relatively short order Although I will say I'm glad you good at your job and that you enjoy it So as such I was making a step-by-step slide show on how to place orders or Customer supply orders since I was about to go out of town the following week to go on a week long trip with my family It was as I was explaining how to submit info into purchase advisor that the production manager Let's call her Fay walks into my cubicle with a troubled expression. Hey kitty. Do you have a moment?

4:17Yeah, just working on the slides like you asked. What's up? Well Fay perched her lips for a moment looking a little frustrated before finding her words You know how we've been looking for a new buyer ever since sergeant left Yeah, I know you had a lot of people coming in well the good news is that we found someone I must have made a face because Fay reluctantly followed up with well Collegula hired this new guy. I never actually got to meet him Well, that's not good already. He's the friend of a man named Colligula, okay? It's not gonna go well Great name choice by the way. It's really painting a picture for me and There indeed was the rub Colligula is our location manager Colligula had been a little bit of a narcissist, but without sergeant to openly defy him He had gone straight up into a power trip where he felt like he had to prove what a capable leader he was

5:21Hell on the day of the company Christmas cookie exchange slash ugly sweater party He made a female employee cry and then proceeded to passively aggressively shame her in front of the whole team via a mandatory group meeting with a speech that was at least 30 minutes Which could really just be summarized into the phrase if you hate working here so much that leaves Three employees quit within two weeks of this incident. I don't know stupid prizes. I suppose How dare you ruin the cookie exchange slash ugly sweater party? Don't you know office parties are supposed to be fun in some parallel universe? I didn't even want to be here Anyways, the reason for my concern had to do with the fact that Colligula was clearly trying to take some shortcuts Insolving the issue of putting a 29 year old woman with a year of experience and a crumbling personal life in charge of keeping an entire

6:26company's finances It's a living this shortcut included putting Faye in charge as a supervisor to my department That way I was answering to someone but that meant just another thing on Faye's plate to top it off Colligula was going behind our backs when finding a new employee Just as Faye and I were getting on the same page and learning to truly communicate Which showed that he wasn't interested in knowing what purchasing needed since clearly Colligula King of cables knew what was best King of cables. I think I missed something man I sighed a little but gave Faye a small smile. Well, hey, maybe it's a good thing I mean it would have been nice if he asked for our input, but what can you do? Did he say anything about our new buyer? All I really know is that he was a buyer for insert important airline company for about 15 years

7:29That's a freelancer of sorts and Devon's supposed to start the Monday after he come back from your vacation She then gave a little bit of a playful smirk before saying are you sure you need to go for the whole week? Oh, no, don't you do that to me Faye? Don't you lay that on me? I gave a small snort before rolling my eyes and turning back to the computer After all the bullshit that this divorce has put me through I need to get the hell out of town for a week besides I don't think even Walt Disney himself could keep my mom from dragging me down the floor at this point I've just about finished this slide on how to use the suggestion list to place your orders while I'm gone I will start the slide on how to manually input POs and if I have time then I can make one for customer supply parts If I hear anything about that list you gave me then I'll let you know Slides we making a PowerPoint presentation. Oh Man I know people still use those

8:29Faye said thanks kitty. Keep me posted with that she walked off and the rest of the week proceeded more or less as usual So fast forward two weeks. I walked back into the office expecting to meet my new colleague I was told that he would be in the cubicle next to mine, but it was Distinctively empty, okay weird, but whatever it wasn't my place to worry about if someone was on time or not So I shrugged it off and proceeded to mine my own business some odd 20 something minutes later the doorbell rang I went to the door and they are stood who I would soon learn was Devon Late on your first day, huh? Thought a good start Devon was a scraggly and worn down individual I'll shortcut my description of him by saying this you know how in Japanese dramas You tend to have that one office worker who looks like he's been working on a combined total of five hours of sleep for the entire week

9:34And there's really only being kept alive via can coffee and three packs of cigarettes a day all while looking Longingly to the stairs that lead to the roof It's so oddly specific But yes, there's a fine description So picture this poor barely-kempt husk of a man whose dreams died Long before the blade of his razor dulled too much to tackle the whisper of whiskers on his upper lip and put him into Cackies and a sloppy dress shirt He stood a little hunched over almost like he was uncertain if he was in the right place He gave a rye and nervous little smile before speaking up I I Were manager. I think their name starts with an a Bro, you probably should have made a note of some of this stuff

10:36Yes, I'll come in on Monday, and who do I ask for? Annie's late already two red flags one more and you're out of here buddy boy I felt my face scrunch up as I thought this over now Even if I am using altered names to protect the bearded the innocent and my job We don't have any managers whose names start with an a phase real name could sound like it starts with an a if you missed the first letter But I proceeded to press on did you happen to speak to someone before you came over? Yeah Do you happen to know if it was a man or a woman that you spoke to? He gave me the human equivalent to the dial tone and I smiled politely at him uh I'll tell you what why don't you come in and I'll see if I can find either fey or collig you that's them fey Yeah, baby her but calligraphy hired me he

11:39Who Calligraphy hired me Yeah sure whatever dumb dumb sit on down, okay? I'll try to teach us up. I blinked for a moment Colligulus IRL name might be slightly unconventionally spelled but it's phonetic enough to not mess it up And this guy completely whift our boss's name honestly. That sounds funny to me if anything We're like hey, go say hi to him make sure you greet him by name. He loves that uh Just see if you're correct him Still this guy was new and I suck it remembering names. So I don't know who am I to judge? I mean that's the whole reason we're gathered here, isn't it a bit of judgment? It's fine I returned the polite smile to my face. Oh Oh So you're the new purchasing team member nice to meet you. I'm kitty Fey said you'd be next to me. So I'll show you to your cubicle so you can settle in and then I'll go find her

12:41He did not return the greeting nor did he give me his name Have a mystery man. Whoosh I showed him to his desk before I scurried off and I let fey know that our newest team member was here You'd think that she'd be thrilled But she furrowed her brow and checked her watch he only just came in he said he'd be here at 730 and it's past 820 She stood from her desk in the warehouse and asked that I joined her and the new guy in the meeting room So we could all be introduced properly and I'll see you can probably dress him down for being an hour late Uh Your first day It's crazy. So the first meeting itself was pretty unabentful Besides Devon reiterating what we already knew 15 years of purchasing experience last job with a major airline company Was hired by Collegula I also got his name about halfway through the meeting

13:42His name was asked at the beginning and it took fey asking him at three separate points to You know answer that basic question. That is really weird. Something's off about him Learn that he was married with a kid and then his wife had threatened to divorce him if they continued to work at major airline company Devon said that he has a hard time separating from work and personal life And how he's thankful to be back working in an office He asked about my commute time and when I relayed that I have to drive 40 minutes just to get to the office Devon scoffed and said I would never work that far off again I'm so glad I worked just five minutes down the road Okay, so far all of this like not very tactful, but I don't know if I could be like okay That's the third red flag you're out of here. He's a weird guy You want to watch that guy real close, but Although maybe he could pull it around, but then wouldn't really be a story hmm

14:43Devon's short statement about his commute got a look from fey and I The obvious is because this dude was nearly an hour late to work on his first day Despite being five minutes down the road The other reason was because fey knew that this was sort of a sore spot for me I had been only 15 minutes away But with me being mid-divorce and paying off some hefty medical bills Well, there was a reason that I was now stuck with an hour plus commute back and forth Five days a week this new dude obviously didn't know that though And I wouldn't step a smile to politely say oh That's pretty lucky for you. Hopefully I'll be in the same boat soon And then he's like oh you want to come over to my house. I made spaghetti I'm a spaghetti No, I would hate that more than anything the rest of the meeting was pretty out of

15:44Entiful and as we all left the room fey did pull Devon aside to chide him for being so late Before asking him to follow me to my desk to learn how we do things in our company As well as some of the tips and tricks to get our system to work since Devon had never worked with our OS before What do you want to bet he's lying about all 15 years? Haha This pseudo training ended up being a different kind of uneventful You see Devon had brought a notepad and a pen to learn how the system worked Both went completely unused. I'd check in with him to see if he had any notes or questions and he just replied with No, it seems pretty basic and uh Yeah, that seems easy enough Okay, good then you're off and running buddy and they'll be back asking you for advice within the hour So all righty I'll admit that my job really isn't too complicated

16:45But he was definitely far more interested in babbling on about his own life to the point that he'd interrupt me in order to talk about his family Kind of sweet cutting during sometimes a little bit annoying Uh He reiterated that he and his wife had worked And a major airline company together for several years and how she threatened to divorce him if he did quit his job and seek employment elsewhere He spoke a lot about his son while revealing nothing about his kid outside of the general good feelings towards his child I heard a lot about his life story and he never once asked me any questions Not about life not about work He just wanted to talk about himself endlessly Well somehow also saying nothing at all Yeah, I like to eat food and breathe air sometimes and I listen to music Okay, cool. We're all having a human experience aren't we? It's interesting that the wife was was bringing up divorce

17:47She didn't want Kevin to work with her that badly or Devon whatever He was probably just making her look like an asshole every day at work I get that By the end of the day Faye asked what I thought about Devon He's uh friendly He likes to socialize Did the training go well? Uh hard to tell He didn't really take any notes or ask any work related questions After a while I just sort of ended up doing my usual work while he chatted at me in the background He said he understood what was going on But when I asked if he wanted to try any of the things I was showing him he said Yeah, I'm good and kept on chatting Uh That is hilarious You know phrase it as a question you order him Okay now demonstrate what you've learned Kevin This is supervisor position powers Faye only pressed her lips in concern and took note

18:51For the next few weeks Devon would show up whenever he could You might think I mean that in the sense that things would come up and he would call out No, no he would just roll into the office at any time that he felt like He was confirmed for a 730 start time But there were many mornings I'd get to the office long before him And he'd have some half-assed excuse for being late At one point Collegula did a company meeting praising Devon despite him having literally done nothing at all See that's the secret Devon is secretly a horse and Collegula is waiting to marry him right In fact as I was looking over some of our recent orders I was noting a pattern Any order placed with Devon was unconfirmed Prices were just all over the place He was sending requests to the wrong vendors Think ordering fans from a place that specializes in wires Despite our suggestion list naming someone else for those particular items

19:56I mean I guess the vendors are gonna send the list back with corrected pricing and stuff like that But I don't know man like you're just making everybody's job harder Why must we do these things? Eventually corporate decided to bring Devon into headquarters For a week's worth of training since they realized he was causing a lot of issues Two days after coming back from his corporate training He tried having me order a military grade item for a government contract off of Amazon Saying this part isn't available anywhere else And kiddies the only one with authority to buy off of Amazon in this office He had been given the task of buying this one item And spent four hours trying to find the part I mean he did find it eventually and completely the wrong place and a hundred percent over price Uh, but he did find it Devon whined to pay about the impossibility of finding this part

21:01Which I managed to find and purchase and confirm shipping from the vendor that we had in the vendor's list Look on face face was almost on par with Kenshiro from fist of the north star Yeah throttling him sounds pretty good right about now I'll be honest with you I don't like it that too much Two days later Faye pulled me into the meeting room to inform me that Devon was no longer a part of the team At least some things happened fast, you know This man who had been brought in to be the head of my department lasted two and a half weeks In that time he attempted to do some work But mostly he just caused more issues than he solved I'm still cleaning up his mistakes three months after his departure Faye also took this time to let me know that she was pushing for me to become the head of my department I mean you're the only one in the department. How are you not the head of it already?

22:06What is this? I would be outraged I'd be lying if I didn't say that that had me super excited After nearly four months of managing the purchasing department alone It would be amazing to be paid a living wage That could turn my life around plus I like validation Yeah, I picked that part up from the post But I'm not gonna begrudge you for it I'm not ashamed to admit sometimes a little good job kiddo Is all it takes to string me along on whatever bullshit I've been dragged into I beamed for the rest of the day excited for the possibilities that lay ahead of me So do you get promoted? Do you get your very own little Kevin to boss around? And And this is when Kevin entered the arena with a company wide email declaring that corporate decided he was now in charge of head league purchasing Wait kevin's been there the whole time just just waiting in the wings Guess so okay

23:07I'm gonna leave it there for now. I have a few other stories. I want to write up But I promise to get in some office Kevin stories as soon as possible I've only been dealing with him since February but god The amount of insanity that I've had to deal with has been just wild I also apologize if this lost steam towards the end current Kevin has been a drain on my mental energy So it's taken me a lot longer than I'm proud to admit to even get this much out In the meantime be good to each other remember that you are loved and you deserve to be loved I don't understand how he lasted the two weeks He also got his congratulations from collicula But I guess it wasn't enough to hold up under any sort of scrutiny Military very specific about their start times okay. That's why I I had to not do that anymore I don't think devins cut out for it either. It's time to pack it in. It's time to pick maybe another job Walmart greeter. I don't know. I don't know what you meant for okay. You gotta find your own path

24:11What I do know this ain't it You know maybe this store a little bit short maybe this store you need a little bit more Kevin cringe So how about we cover this update story there's two parts but they're short but I think it'll beef out the video nicely So let's do that right now Kevin made a really stupid decision and screwed multiple people out of their jobs. Oh, there's unfortunate There's also an update. Yeah, that's how I know about it So my wife has been a hairstylist for many years and over the past few years has worked under fantastic sams in two different salons owned by our man of the hour Kevin Kevin is successful at hair cutting business. I mean, I guess everybody needs a haircut sometimes Kevin hated fantastic sams You own two of them He also hated every landlord that he dealt with even the nice ones before my wife moved to her current salon

25:12The one she previously worked at had Kevin put a padlock on the dumpster Because he wanted to claim it as his own even though they shared the dumpster with two other businesses So yeah, that assured me that Kevin wasn't firing on all cylinders That is such a weird thing to be protective over you know I One day Kevin decided to break away from fantastic sams to make my wife's current salon his own Oh snap what should have been a great opportunity for a new business to thrive Turned into a nightmare for not just him, but everyone else involved You see what Kevin failed to mention to everyone is that he broke his contract illegally by violating a non-compete Haha Now I'm no legal expert But from what I understand a non-compete basically means that once you buy a well-known business You can't open a business of the same type that competes with it

26:13He went into this knowing it was going to be a problem and still was stupid enough to go through with it anyways Yeah, maybe they just won't notice Haha You serious? Yeah, Kevin's I just love Kevin's bed. How did you get this dump for real? So fast forward to a little over a week ago now Fantastic sams finally had enough and forced Kevin to close down his salons my wife as well as like 34 other employees under Kevin were now basically screwed until future notice Hahaha Ah How did he think this was gonna go? Jesus There is hope though a new owner as well as the general manager slash smarter person in charge are Working together to put a sale through to get everyone back to work as I write this today is the final day The banks have come to a decision

27:16Yay hooray for the banks the heroes of the hour Hahaha Now I'm really hoping my wife gets her job she applied for unemployment to try and make up for lost wages If her salon doesn't reopen yeah, it'll suck for a while But I'm confident with her skills she could find a job elsewhere pretty easily Tailed the art Kevin doesn't know how non-compete work and now people are out of jobs Hahaha It really does suck that he sunk like so many people at once and and for what reason You hate fantastic sams because they've handed you a thriving business model and they request that you put up some signage Things are going well and he just torpedoed it Oh Okay, so there's fallout one more post here. Let's get into that one right now Kevin ran a business into the ground and is taking no responsibility In update

28:17So I posted a little while ago about the salon my wife worked for and the former owner of that salon Kevin Violating a non-compete that he had with the company fantastic sams to make the whole thing short Basically, he knew about the non-compete and ignored the consequences until it blew up in his face There's more to that story, so I guess just consider this an update So since then there was this new guy that came in and tried to save the salon well they backed out And now my wife's general manager is taking over as the owner for a brand new location So pretty soon she is going to be working again But still three weeks out on your ass. That's that's got to hurt when you live in paycheck to paycheck, you know Anyway, here's the part where Kevin comes in the man is putting all the blame on fantastic sams And not taking any responsibility for what he did He started to go fund me that supposedly would help payroll, but I guarantee it's only for himself

29:23How is he such a bag of trash that's why he made it in the business world That's how I know I ain't ever gonna really be a millionaire, you know I don't have what it takes to step on this many next All I want to do is live comfortably and I don't need to go fund me to do that at least not yet And even though fantastic sams is supposed to be Woulded the village of this story Kevin recently posted something to my wife and all her other co-workers about someone who owns a fantastic sams somewhere Doing a thousand dollar sign on bonuses and supposedly he himself will pay everyone weekly Jesus the absolute cajonus on this bendejo My guy you filed for bankruptcy How the hell do you think you could afford to pay people and just magic it out of the air Uh I saw you made a redimpose did you link my go fund me

30:25Yeah, I don't understand what he's trying to do So yes, Kevin made a really stupid decision which led to a bunch of his salons closing down And a bunch of people added their jobs temporarily and he just doesn't seem to think he's at fault at all uh What's even worse is that this is like a 50 year old man who now has to sell his house Leave Minnesota and move back in with mommy and daddy in South Carolina Holy god you screwed your whole life Kevin Uh, I guess that is some sweet retribution for the the chaos that you've caused Mommy and daddy's problem now problems coming home to roost again 30 years later That's about all to this update every time my wife tells me about something He said I just want to track him down and punch him in his stupid face I don't think he really ever read the contract that he was supposed to read

31:25He just signed it. He's like this means I could do whatever I want right Uh, obviously he ran some successful businesses. He's not completely gone upstairs But I think it is correct. He's not firing on all cylinders The fact that this man is more successful business-wise than me Actually, I should take it as a good sign. It means we've got more upward mobility than old Kevin here Everything he built fell out from under him because it wasn't stable You see surely YouTube is a stable business model Oh lord anyways, I do hope you enjoyed the video friends if you did I hope you like comment and or subscribe maybe hit up them Social media's you know tiktok twitter discord whatever else My patreon patrons my youtube channel memberships always keeping to help me afloat every single month Thank you to those beautiful people And also thank you to the people who hit the thanks button at the bottom of the video or the the paypal link of the description

32:28Or whatever you want to do. I'll take you money anyway. I could get it One of your dollars worth like three four mine you go ahead and strap like that dude. It's hard living out here, okay But I appreciate yeah, whether you can support or not. All right. I want to be clear about that I hope you'll come back see what we're cooking up for tomorrow in order to do so keep yourself safe at the wash your hands Always remember friends that you are loved you are worthy you definitely definitely deserve it And I shall see you in the next one so until then bye bye I won't stop till they hear me now I won't stop till I wear the crown