Bad Manager Takes Charge In Coup, Causes Time Card Mutiny

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Eric Lund
Nov 29, 2021 6:00 PM EST

We see it time and time again: a completely nonfunctional manager seizes power through treachery only to rule with a stupid fist. In this case, it was the complete misunderstanding of having a functional pay logging system that tipped the people into a full-on revolt against the Red Queen. Redditor u/Curious_cat0070 posted to r/MaliciousCompliance to share how the Red Queen, a supervisor at their company, attached herself to another frustrating boss they called Dan the Dirty and inspected OP's office, wreaking havoc along the way.

The Red Queen wreaked havoc on how employees record their time worked on time cards in the office, even enlisting office spies who reported employees who took too-long coffee breaks. How ridiculous is that? OP said that they and others at the office combated this ridiculousness by altering their timecards so on paper, it appeared their entire days were spent filling out the very same timecard. While The Red Queen attempted to hide this malicious compliance, everything eventually caught up to her and she was fired.

For an amazing story of office malicious compliance, here's the saga of employees getting back at their unhinged CEO.

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  • 01
    Font - Posted by u/Curious_cat0070 2 days ago The Red Queen oC M The Red Queen was number 2 in our office, a person who rose through treachery, backstabbing, personal connections and incompetence. You know, the typical way a manager moves up. She spent 27 months as a line worker before deposing her supervisor in a coup. In this industry it usually takes five years to get to a point where one really knows what they are doing. She then attached herself to an office boss known as Dan the Dirty, doi
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    Font - So, when Dan the Dirty came to our office he dragged the Red Queen with him. It was a three month honeymoon where the office was being inspected so she kept her fangs hidden. The day after the inspection report came out it was open season on the staff. The report did say that it was a very productive office. Well, several things came out within days. This was before we had electronic time cards so she wrote up a 17 page rambling procedure on how to log your time. AL staying in town was on
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    Font - Also, you had to log time by the minute in spite of the fact that the system only took 15 minute increments. People were taking 21 minutes of leave and signing out at 5:19. It drove HR insane. In the procedure, if you came back from coffee after 15 minutes or lunch after 45, you were on leave. You could only take lunch between 10am and 2pm unless you had express written permission in advance from her (we're a 24 hour organization). People on the night were getting daily written authorizat
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    Font - Here's the malicious compliance part - one type of log entry on your time card was "doing the time card." Huge swathes of employees began putting "doing the time card" on their time card. So, your entire day could be "doing the time card." Night shift employees began to only work between 8 and 5 and all night productivity stopped. It wasn't long before productivity ground to a halt in the office and panic began to take hold in the Ivory Tower. Unfortunately, the Red Queen countered by doc
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    Font - productive when you can work ten times harder to destroy productivity and make it only seem you're being productive? But word did get out and an inspection was scheduled. In a move befitting Game of Thrones, the Red Queen threw Dan the Dirty under the bus and fled to a Connecticutt office before inspection and then utterly destroyed that office. I wrote one of many letters to HQ, saying that Westeros had nothing on our organization and that a day in the office was like an episode of Game
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    Font - CustardCandle - 2d I had a similar thing happen where my old sales supervisor at a BBQ shop frequently visited Subway for meals. The old supervisor grew fond of the subway server and her "exceptional customer service". She invited her to work at the BBQ shop in sales and mrs subway had excellent numbers to the point where she was leading sales figures after 3 months. Not long after that Mrs Subway saw an opportunity to use her impressive figures and cold heart to oust the sales supervisor
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    Font - So 6 months after hiring her favourite subway worker, the sales supervisor was made redundant and Mrs Subway was promoted to "Sales Manager", slightly different title but essentially the role of the person that gave her an opportunity. ** business went downhill because although Mrs Subway could sell very well, had very little organisational skills and we lost several commercial contracts due to delivery and stock issues
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    Font - Kementarii · 2d I worked with a Red Queen at one stage. She'd been moved into our department to "troubleshoot", particularly in the area of staff costs. I would guess that, like your Red Queen, she'd never really worked with a shift work/24 hour operation before. And she'd been sent to an airport... One of the first things she did was ban overtime, unless permission had previously been granted (by her) before the overtime was started. In her opinion, staff were staying at work unnecessari
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    Font - It was implied and accepted that if you were on the last shift, and an aircraft arrival was delayed, you would just suck it in, do the overtime, and hang around until either the delayed plane arrived, or the morning shift arrived. It wasn't really feasible to have a flight arrive an hour or two late, to find nobody there to open the door, unload the bags, etc. We tried to point this out to Her Highness, but she insisted there be no exceptions. I think it only took 2 or 3 midnight phone ca
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