My team lead hired someone without me. I found out days later, from a coffee sho
By George Barnett Reid 👀 · October 12, 2026 · Curated by George's Blog
My team lead hired someone without me.
I found out days later, from a coffee shop in Colombia.
> Three months running the agency from South America on a budget Dell
> Peru, Colombia, Patagonia — signal was optional
> Some weeks I did genuinely zero hours
> My team lead had run Amazon ads daily for 10 years
> He needed another ads manager, so he went and hired one
> I read the message when the wifi came back
My first reaction was mild panic. My second was that he'd picked better than I would have.
That's the whole thing, isn't it.
Everyone says they want a senior hire, then builds a job where nothing moves without them approving it.
If your Amazon person can't make a decision while you're in a dead zone, you didn't hire a senior operator.
You hired a pair of hands and a bloody bottleneck 😂