Company Screws Employees Over On Bonuses, Ends Up Being Their Undoing

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May 7, 2021 7:00 PM EDT

Greed has an uncanny knack for catching up with people. Especially companies like the one in this fine tale of malicious compliance. It sounds like the company was acting all kinds of shady. Fortunately, they ended up learning their lesson when it was all said and done. It's funny how employees don't want to work for you when you start playing around with their well earned money. 

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    Font - r/MaliciousCompliance + Join u/twinmom2298 · 1d 1 S 1 If we don't like it leave? Okay M Many years ago I worked for a company that the compensation for most employees was base plus bonus. The bonus was approximately 1/4 of annual salary. The year I was hired bonus structure was a simple straightforward calculation and paid annually in January of each year based on productoin prior year. Two years later they decide to re-structure the bonus program. Instead each "team" is given a quota. No
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    Font - The teams were broken down into a team of 2 sales people, another team of 2 sales people and a team of 4 sales people. The team of 4 had a quota that was slightly more than double the other 2 teams but top sales guy (one of the owners) was in that team. In August 4 person team makes quota so in September staff gets bonus on work done for that team. Come October paychecks come out and no bonus for September sales. I ask bookkeeper about it and she says "Well quota hasn't been reached" I sa
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    Font - This is when we find out that top sales person/owner had removed himself from 4 person team and made a 1 person team. But kept quota the same for both the now 3 person team without him and for his 1 person team. That made those quotas almost impossible to reach and meant no one would receive a bonus for any work done for either team. I complained that this was not right and wasn't what we'd agreed to in our compensation package and that by doing this they were effectively cutting the comp
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    Font - Owner tells me "it is what it is if you don't like it you are free to leave" So 2 months later I left, because l'd also told every other staff member what they'd done and why no bonuses had been paid in October by early March all but 2 other staff members had also quit. This left them with an all new and untrained staff. Which eventually impacted client services and deliverability and within a year 3 sales people had left and within another year the company had gone out of business. 2.4k
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    Facial expression - -Codfish_Joe · 19h I worked at a car dealership that years earlier had fired a flat rate technician because the owner thought he was making too much money. He was flat rate- he only got paid for the billable hours he produced, which the dealership made money from too. G Reply Vote ...
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    Organism - MrAvalanche1981 · 22h It amazes me how companies change compensations packages because they're paying the employees too much. T had this happen to me years ago, and I did pretty much the same. Want to cut my commissions by more than half, cool, I'll find a new job. G Reply 1 Vote ...
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    Font - algy888 · 13h I will share my sister's story: She worked at a job on piece work. She prepared carbide sawblade tips with flux and solder which then got baked and attached to a steel blade for sawmills. She got paid per tip. After a couple years she was so fast at it that she could walk and finish all their tips (perfectly) in a couple hours and walk away with a full days comparable wages. Hooray, everyone wins, everything is happy. But wait, now the company is paying her too much aren't t
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    Font - saltzja · 21h I worked at a place and was short of making quota every month for the year. I make quota month 13, fired on month 14. He HAD to pay me commission. Had my dad's lawyer buddy send him a letter. He cried and cried, check came two days later from his wife's medical practice. G Reply Vote ...
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