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Good advice...I have tried most of it but I am going to try the new bits...

I have never seen such a stubborn guy...He wont listen to me even when I put the actual figures (the fine he will need to pay) in front of him.

If nothing works, I was just thinking of letting him go ahead and use AVG free. I am certainly not going to use it on my machine. And if he complains...I just plan to say "I said so" ...

DOES update automatically, every time I boot

(not that it's a good idea for your company)

because you want to make sure your not using invalid reasons in your arguement or you just blew all credibility for all other arguements.

Never exadurate, never imbellish. Just the facts (ma'am).

:) That is the foremost thing in my mind...Shouldn't say anything that could be held against me in the future :)

My boss once decided to super-micro-manage one of my projects. He was like, "OK, go print out a list of the documents by category." "Now, go through them and manually look for any duplicates." "Do this in Excel, so I can see it." "Now, copy the duplicates over to another Excel sheet." "Check them against what files are on the CDs." On and on and on and on ...

I just gave him indignant look after indignant look as he patronized my intelligence. I was honestly livid by his inefficient methods and instructions! (seriously, I was very pissed)

Well, I finally approached him and asked him why he was micro-managing this project. He explained to me that he liked to get paid just as much as I did. We were going through a slow period and he needed to work on something, so he was helping me.

So, I just let him help. I followed his instructions to the last letter. Hey, I have to get paid too!

Did I have a point here? Oh yeah.... Maybe your boss just doesn't care. He probably doesn't think the use of the software will ever be detected and believes he can worm out of it based on a technicality, probably through blaming someone else in the company like you. We don't always know our manager's intentions and they don't always feel like sharing them with us. However, right or wrong, as long as the buck (or pound in this case) stops with them, so be it!

We just have to sometimes keep our intelligence to one side and let the managers have their way....

After having managed the entire helpdesk and support service (which has been going on for half a year before I commenced with them) for the company for almost 2 years. Knowing each and every customers front to back. Recovered the organisation's from bad reputation and the dodgie jobs they used to do.

New management started, and new manager joined our team. He demanded reports which I've been writing for the past year and a half, I told him it's already there but he got aggro' at me and ordered me to do it in the format he wants. This basically diverted me from my main responsibilities. Took me half a day everyday for almost 3 weeks to complete it.

Then he he kept asking me to add things to it, or if he changed his mind, he would order me to modify it.

Reports after reports, he requested the same piece of information, everytime I would say "it's already there, in the last report". His failure to spend enough time to understand the structure of our current work and client has made me suffered greatly. After so many reports I said to him.....

"Look, I don't mean to offend you, but I think you haven't been reading every paragraphs of my reports, the pieces of information you require and asked for have always been in the last 9 revisions of the reports"

He then got really angry as if I was insulting his intelligence or something. So I gave him the final report an hour later and told him if he is not happy then he is very welcome to walk down to the other floors and promote someone to do my job.

I regret not leaving the company at the time, I was later asked to install pirated software, lie to clients, secretly breaching the service level agreement, and overcharging customers.

I did stand up for what I believed was right, then he sacked for some stupid reasons he made up.

I would rather not work for that company if that company under management changes does some shady deeds. Perhaps that manager is doing it illegally for money.

Just a brief thought, that is all.

-swg

Because that company is clearly heading for trouble, very much big time! Sooner or later (and probably much sooner), they will get caught breaking the law, and then the sh** will well and truly hit the fan. So good luck in whatever new job you have