Manager Fires Third Of Team, Expects Them To Work Harder, It Backfires

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mattstaff
Nov 14, 2020 8:00 AM EST

This certainly brings to mind the old saying about how people don't necessarily leave bad jobs, but instead they leave bad managers. One bad manager can completely upend an otherwise enjoyable gig. Just picturing the look on this manager's face by the end of these employees' time with the company is enough to get the laughs rolling. Dude must've been beside himself. 

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    Text - r/ProRevenge + Join u/gaarmstrong318 • 1d 3 O1 S 1 2 Lay off a third of the team and expect us to work harder. We will see about that. So this happened sometime in the 2010's somewhere in the UK (that's all I'm revealing) I worked for a medium sized PLC in a small team that worked with the sales department getting quotes. I had previously worked in another team in a different department in the same company as well. This also includes elements of malicious compliance l'll post this there a
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    Text - So to set the scene the company had recently had some issues with regulators and senior management were either oblivious to the damage they were doing or didn't care. They were trying to save costs but going about it all the ring way. So my team consists of 6 team members and a manager. We were fairly busy and often helped out on other teams as well and they would in turn help us. (This is important for later)
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    Text - So we are all called into a meeting without warning and told that due to declining work tickets they were laying two of us off. They did say two people were safe (the manager and his sidekick) they made us reapply for our jobs including doing a test (following the letter of the law on redundancy), which had nothing to do with our roles. It also became apparent during the process that the company flat out lied or at the very minimum manipulated the data used to come up with their conclusio
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    Text - So in the weeks after the entire team were too busy to help other teams who then stopped helping us, so a huge backlog of tickets also built up. We also got threatened with disciplinary proceedings if our backlog didn't come down. But was also refused any overtime. During the process we had also been admonished for skipping steps in getting quotes (steps that often took a significant amount of time, and served no purpose) So me and two others remaining (not including sidekick who had his
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    Text - One week we had another meeting with HR the sales director and our manager to discuss the issues. We all calmly said "we are sorry but we have to follow the guidelines and rules laid down and this is as fast as we can work" we were also asked to start helping out the other teams again as we should be team players. Again we said "we are sorry but we can't, our workload is too high and it's also not in our contracts that we have to do other teams work" this went on for several months and ma
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    Text - We all calmly said "sorry but we checked the rules for our team and 3 people (out of 4, manager could do what he likes) can be off at any one time." And again stood our ground and all went on leave for 2 weeks each. This caused even more chaos at work as you can imagine. The sales director after this hatched a plan to get the Indian teams (we had offices in India and other offshore places) to be trained up by us and to help us, however they demanded we fly out to spend weeks there trainin
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    Text - We after around a year or so of this (I'm being deliberately vague on timing so please don't ask about it) we all decided to all seek other employment having found we all could not trust the company or manager anymore. And we all found roles elsewhere within a week of each other so all handed our 4 week notices (again to the letter of our employment contracts) and were due to all leave on the same day. Now the female member of the team who was a very learned person and she revealed in all
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    Text - In the final week we are there we move all our digital stuff to one location. Including all my manuals and cheat sheets for my previous team. They both did the same with their previous positions within the company. On our final day we bring in our own external drives and with IT's help download and removed all documentation and deleted the copies on the company systems. We all said our goodbyes and at the end of the day quite happily told our manager what we had done. He exploded and dema
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