Employee Told Not To Mention Typo, Company Loses $90K

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Eric Lund
Nov 7, 2021 4:00 PM EST

When the hierarchy gets overzealous and cocky, things can get out of hand real fast. This employee found themselves under direct orders to not double check a coworker's work, and low and behold, they wasted a whole bunch of money. At least there are times when all the blame falls on a supervisor, like this incompetent manager who demanded worse customer service and got all the blame.

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    Font - O r/MaliciousCompliance · Posted by u/TheOldAngryAnus 20 hours ago * 2 18 e19 3 18 17 Angry because I keep asking for clarification so we aren't wasting money? Have fun explaining why we just blew $90k for no reason. oc M I worked in the logistics department of a fairly large company. My job is to check our system for orders that come in and to arrange the shipping for them. When the orders come in, they include the date that the material needs to be delivered by. There are times that our
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    Font - There is one material planner who has a history of inputting the wrong date. I had to ask her a number of times in the past to verify the date, and she would go in and correct it. there were a few dates that looked wrong, so I emailed her and asked her to confirm. She flipped out saying that she isn't making those mistakes anymore and I am wasting her time. She reported me to my manager for not following the process or my work instructions, and he flipped out saying I am going against our
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    Font - A month or so later, I see an order come into our system. A huge order with a combined weight of 30,000lbs. I check the need date and it needs to be delivered in 3 weeks to Colorado, and it's currently in India. I know what project this is for and the need date definitely isn't right. This stuff has at least 2 months before it's needed on site due to build delays. The material planner never updated the need date to reflect those delays. so what do I do? I check the work instructions my bo
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    Font - So I get in touch with our logistics company and it's going to cost close to $100k to fly the material from India. That's $90k more than shipping it via ocean. I set it all up and once it gets loaded on the flight, I send the material planner the documentation. It wasn't even 2 minutes before she calls me flipping out. I tell her I planned the shipment to deliver by the date she requested, and there is silence. After a long pause I say “is there anything else I can help you with?". She ha
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    Font - HR and upper management launches an investigation and I'm cleared of any wrong doing. I was specifically instructed to not go outside of the work instructions my manager wrote. The material planner is written up and my manager gets in deep shit because he forgot to add an approval process for shipments over $15k to his wonderful work instructions like his manager had asked him to.
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    Font - Edit: to answer a few common questions/comments • I left the company a little while after all of this happened. • A lot of people are saying they must have been sleeping together, but I know for a fact they weren't because they had never even met in person before. They worked in different parts of the country. I think that makes it even worse because they were just acting like that because they were miserable assh s.
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    Font - • some people are saying I let my ego get in the way and wasted $90k, I should have said something about this to make sure the date was right. I should have, but when managers don't empower their employees to raise questions and use common sense, this is exactly what happens. I was threatened not long before this for asking questions, I wasn't going to do it again.
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    Product - breakneckridge 20 hours ago That's so dumb. Who wouldn't want someone doing a very quick confirmation of their numbers? Vote Reply Share ... TheOldAngryAnus 2 20 hours ago 3 2 S E 2 Someone with a giant ego who can't take any criticism.
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    Font - Jamie8765 19 hours ago 3 I am a logistics coordinator at my company, and I run up against similar situations: little kingdoms fighting to one up each other and project blame for misunderstandings. One day last year I caught a typo that would've caused us to ship a large trial order a couple months late, to Tesla in California I believe. (anyone in automotive will agree Tesla is extremely anal about scheduling) When I asked our then materials manager about it, she was very snarky and dismi
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