Once upon a time I worked for XXXgard in Philadelphia. There was an ogre there that somehow made management. She was a fire breathing monster of a person. As soon as she set foot in the IT department she began hurling her brand of management which included talking down to subordinates and insulting the technical decisions made in our network based upon some article she read in the dentist???s office, for her teeth were of the finest flesh tearing pearly whites money could buy. After one week under her domination two of my team resigned giving two weeks??? notice. Her pleasure in causing pain was so great she did keep them the full two weeks and tried to manage them directly, going around me to make sure bleeding was not staunched as these poor hapless engineers endured. Having enough of this I walked into her office and placed a neatly printed resignation consisting of only one sentence. It stated to this ogre that I resigned effective immediately. I was there only four months my valiant team had been there for years and she the ogre had been there for one week. After I left she was fired and I was asked to return and the other refugees similarly asked to remain. Since I had landed in a great new role managing one of the largest teams of CCIE in the country I was pleased to move on. The remaining team saw good health and prosperity and lived happily ever after.
My shortest job and my shortest notice sent me down the CCIE Agent path and it started with an ogre!