Sometimes, bosses become so reliant on their employees’ contributions that they don’t even recognize how hopeless they’d be without them. This boss clearly became threatened by how much extra work her employee was taking on regularly, so the two had a meeting where the boss told the employee not to take on any manager’s responsibilities. Normally, this would actually be great advice. There is no need for an employee to work that hard and not get paid extra for it. However, that’s not exactly why the boss wanted to have this conversation. It’s not like she had her employee’s best interests at heart. Instead, she just didn’t want it to seem like the employee provided more value to the company than she did because her manager was starting to notice things.
Well, it turns out that this meeting was not the best way of resolving the issue. The employee, who shared their side of the story via this thread on Reddit’s r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit, started to follow their boss’s orders. Pretty soon, their boss had to keep asking them to do a few extra tasks, to which the employee would always reply that they couldn’t take on any manager’s duties. Eventually, the boss’s manager became more and more clued in on this woman’s incompetence and started to investigate their role at the company. Meanwhile, the employee ultimately moved on to bigger and better opportunities.
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