Boss Chasing TikTok Fame While Work Burns Down

My boss is constantly on TikTok filming videos during work hours, and it is disrupting the team and leaving important decisions unresolved. I want to stay professional, but it is getting hard to keep things running when they are focused on going viral instead of managing. What should I do?

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Your boss is not managing a team, they are running a low-budget variety show that just happens to have payroll. Important decisions are unresolved, the team is disrupted, and you’re standing there trying to stay professional while the person in charge is auditioning for the algorithm.

If they want the office to be a ring light kingdom, fine. You do not fight a grease fire with a memo.

You outshine them. You go viral at work, on purpose, with the kind of dead-eyed competence that terrifies influencers.

Start documenting the chaos: the unanswered emails, the abandoned meetings, the sacred ritual of everyone else doing their job while your boss practices a dance like it owes them money.

Make the workplace the stage, because apparently it already is. Hit them with choreography that is so crisp it looks like an HR training video directed by a war criminal. Every time they say “Let’s circle back,” you circle back physically, on beat, and keep walking right past them to the actual work getting done.

Then you weaponize the algorithm. Post a series called “Acting Manager While My Manager Acts” and let the internet decide who deserves authority. When your boss tries to reclaim the spotlight, you treat them like an opening act: polite applause, then back to the main performance, which is you making the place function.

Eventually they will either promote you out of pure confusion, or they will attempt to discipline you and accidentally hand you the best content arc of your life. Either way, you win. In a world where leadership is measured in views, you are about to become their supervisor in 4K.

– Uncle Bobby