r/MaliciousCompliance HOW I SCREWED OVER A WHOLE COMPANY! - Reddit Stories

Reddit rSlash Storytime maliciouscompliance where New Boss Destroys Everything For Everyone **You really want me to log time by the ticket? **Was denied 2 days of paid PTO, so I took off a whole month. **Denied leave on a day with no work, so I'll take them on days I have work **Hand over all my tasks so you can get rid of me? ok!

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Story 1 00:00
Story 2 15:54
Story 3 19:16
Story 4 21:58
Story 5 25:14

[LUNITICWILL]

that first story with the Boss is a prime example of "train your employees so they can leave, treat them so they don't want to" and then turning into "Management can make or break a company" not the little 'worker bee' that they claim is the issue

[Juggzy]

I’d love to know what goes thru these “bosses” minds when they threaten people with their jobs and think that’s gonna actually make people work harder. And even the threat of giving a bad reference is illegal, let alone going thru with it. I’ve had my jobs threatened before when I bust my butt and walked out on the spot. I refuse to have my job threatened and have never put up with it. My response is ALWAYS “I was lookin for a job when I found this one, I’ll go back to lookin for a new job without a problem.”

[istvanpraha]

Yeah I love when someone tries to treat a real company like an MBA project

[aegonb]

I once had a boss try and cancel my wedding as well. I went above her head, and she got into so much trouble. I never let her live it down, and she would get so angry whenever I would bring it up at relevant times.

[kelly]

This is a great example of why, when the metric starts becoming the target, things go to crap.

[istvanpraha]

As per “how does this happen” question at end of first story- I have a coworker who is very lazy and basically says everything is impossible and he delegated stuff he shouldn’t. What is scary is half of people think he’s so smart and productive! I have more visibility into what he does and it’s not much and any time stuff gets slightly complicated he ignores it. No clue how upper management doesn’t see it

[BrianM-wmvb]

At my old job i was getting paid the least and i was the only guy & i did all of the heavy lifting, then i threatened to quit because of my paid because another woman with no experience got about $4 more starting out & they said, “okay we will pay you more blah blah blah” then one of the nurses was mad bc ive never been late before & was late because my car messed up. Anyways she said i didnt deserve my raise and i said, “you say that but i havent missed a single day & i work so much overtime” then a couple of months later she became everyones boss & a new company took over. The place went to CRAP with a whole new company & office & i put in my 2 week notice after a work meeting. The person over my boss offered $3 more on top of a shift diff & i declined because it was so bad. The nurse that became my boss said to me a few days later that i wouldnt find a better job when in reality, i had already gotten a new job and was working out of my notice before they cut my hours on my last week. So i went in anyways & got in trouble after my last shift and said, “you cant cut my hours out that ive already worked because thats illegal and i have plenty of evidence. Also what are you going to do about it? Fire me?” & laughed & walked out. So they tried to hold my check and i finally got it & the boss right below that nurse asked me to come back & i declined & left with my check. In the past 6 months everyone except 1 person on my shift left, & about 10 people have left on other shifts. One of the people im friends with said, “she(nurse) ran it downhill fast. And weve lost residents(i worked in assisted living). And she just yelled at a few because the food was bland” they lost their best workers, best nurses, and their credibility, i still cant believe i turned down so many job offers while working there smh

[Kinsfire]

With the teacher one, it was probably that the person who complained was a friend of the higher up boss, which the OP might not have known about. Usually when someone bitches and gets listened to like that, it's either a weak-willed boss sniveling that "We need peace in the workplace!" or "Well, my friend/lover/wife wants it, so to hell with the person who already legitimately has it."

[theguywhosbetter]

We had one of those new logging softwares. My team tried to log correctly at first, but after it became clear that the team in charge of the logging system didn't care about us being able to correctly assign hours we got the directive from our boss "Spend as little time logging hours as you can. I don't want you to waste time on that"

[calcustom]

18:33 I worked a job where they required I log time spent on every task, but the software had a 15 min minimum for each log item. They were very specific. I would have to track every client phone call, every email, every page update, every XYZ. Things that took two minutes logged as 15 minutes. I ended up logging 28 hours of work every day. After I finally submitted for pay two weeks later they told me I no longer need to log my tasks.

[TheSonicsean]

I love how all the employees in the first story were like "yeah, bench boss is horrible and is ruining EVERYTHING" yet nobody decides to can her.

[wilsonle]

It pays to stay in contact with your old bosses.

[illdeletethismusic]

that first team before the management change sounds so stable! 16 people, the newest of them 3.5 years there!
completely different at the company i work at.
i"m an apprentice, and already the 5th, soon to be 4th longest in that division.
before i started, just a little over 2 years ago, there were 16 working in that division.
not only did 12 of them, soon 13 quit in that time, a couple people who started after me are gone already as well.

[Realitygetreal]

Logging Time Yes welcome to HOW TO WASTE ENGINEERING TIME WITH AGILE!!

[brianandrea]

Had a similar thing happen to me! US based parent decided that they wanted to globalise operations. Our non US based subsidiary company was operating like a well oiled machine, employed best practice processes and with great team morale. The US based parent, although much bigger, was obviously no where near as mature in its processes however they totally discarded everything that happened locally and attempted to replace with a whole mish mash of their local processes that were disjointed and not cohesive at all. Team morale and delivery quickly fell through the floor. Talented people left at they could see no further improvement or career advancement. When flaws in what they were doing were politely pointed out and better way proposed (nothing radical….just standard industry processes) it was viewed negatively and I was “let go”. Frankly glad to be out of there.

[wedoprods]

lowkey wild how on story 1, the entire company was practically relying on 1 guy..

[prman]

They are trying to bill clients 8 hours a day, even though there are always a few hours a month of company overhead.

[matthewaldridge]

The logging as I do road side pickup and its pen and paper. My manager wanted me to write down all the times of when I stopped on the road to when I finished picking up my last bag on that road. That took almost an hour a day to write down every bag all times and every single bathroom break I took. Thankfully when that manager left I no longer had to do that

[CheatingHeartStories]

And just when you think it can't get any crazier, Jerk Boss steps in with his own brand of madness. But hey, at least someone's getting a golden parachute out of this circus. Here's to finding greener pastures and leaving the chaos behind!

[mrblackkai]

Oh, man. Story 2 reminded me of when I "worked" at a place where you stamped in when you arrived and stamped out when you left. One time I had a thing I had to do outside of "work" and waited there, without stamping out. Of course, I got shewed out because of it. But a few points.
* I worked there as part of idk experiencing work life school project thing, meaning:
* I was a minor/under age
* I didn't get paid
* I also have a clean record, never gotten in trouble
What where the cops gonna do? Talk to me sternly, enforcing me to pay back all 0 money I "earned" by logging the incorrect hours? Nothing came out of it and I never understood why I had to stamp at all, since that was for getting salary and I didn't get one. It is in the same vein of me giving an envelope with cash to someone who are celebrating their birthday, only the envelope is empty.

Now, of course, as an adult I'd log exact amount of time, down to the second. If I worked, that is.