Boss "Doesn't See Need" For Promotion, Coworkers Stop Doing His Job, Make It Obvious

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Eric Lund
Apr 16, 2022 1:00 PM EDT

Have you ever been denied a promotion for a job that you've already been doing? Especially when the person telling you "things are already covered" is really just saying a thinly veiled version of "but you already do that for free, because I refuse to do it. Why in the world would I pay you more to continue doing my job?" Saying it's a slap in the face would be an understatement. Slaps in the face are preferable.

Just such a thing happened to this guy and his coworker, who were led a line of BS so long that they decided it should be met with strict intervention. And look at that, a position just magically opened up. Isn't it weird how things happen like that? It's such a strange coincidence.

For another tale of workplace justice, here's the tale of a power-tripping boss who reminded an employee that she could quit any time, so she did.

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    Font - Posted by u/Background_Block2714 9 hours ago Don't feel the need to promote one of us b/c “we have things taken care of"? Fine, we'll stick to just doing our job. oc XL Long time lurker, first time poster. Classic story dumb dumb boss trying to short us money, but always so fun to read! I apologize for the length.
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    Font - To provide a bit of the backstory: This happened about four years ago now. Myself and my coworkers(two others) were delivery drivers for a large foodservice company. The lead driver at the time was let go, leaving just myself and my coworker. Naturally about a week after he was let go we started asking our managers when they would be opening up the lead driver position for applications. Their response was simple, and expected. "Not right now, we have a lot going on as we're moving in to t
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    Font - As for the two of us working there: I had about 3yrs on the job experience and my coworker had almost 5yrs in the role. As far as I was concerned he should be the one getting the promotion. Longer tenure, wife and kids(just me and my cat at the time) and the promotion was an additional $1.50/hr. No brainer on my end but him and I both had a feeling they'd want to put me in that position since the big boss butted heads with him a long time ago and they didn't see eye to eye and I tended to
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    Font - Well, about three months after the lead was let go, things settled down and we brought up the issue again. When will the lead position be posted? $1.50 an hour adds up fast and on a flat 40hr work week(4/10hr days classified in a 5/8hr work week) meant at least $132/pay check and more depending on OT, and we almost always had 10-20hrs of OT a check. Do the math. When asked again about the position, we were told the same. "We're working on it, just be patient. As soon as we can we'll open
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    Font - So we continued to wait. After 8 months, $4,224 of base additional pay with no OT neither of us were getting my coworker was getting quite fed up. Typically he only talked about something bothering him when he was really pissed off, and he had been talking about this almost every week for a month. So he called up the manager again, and asked when they were going to open up the position for applications. The response? “You two been doing a great job down there, everything's being handled s
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    Font - The next morning before unloading the trucks we sat in the office, drank some coffee and I told him what we were going to do. We were going to do nothing. We were going to field every single phone call, questions, concern, issue and pass it on off to the big boss. He doesn't thing we need a lead, so we'll just be drivers. So without providing any notice to the manager or the sales reps. Here's a few examples, but ya'll get the point. Routing? Call Big Boss Issue with delivery? Tell the cu
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    Font - Head mechanic calls us to say we need to schedule a DOT or service? Nope. Call the Big Boss, tell him he needs to call the local mechanic or schedule it yourself. Customer calls us requesting early delivery on route? Nope. Tell customer to call sales rep, who will need to call big boss who will need to call us to okay it. But we may not see that call or message for a couple hours, can't talk on the phone and drive. We passed every single phone call and issue ofd to him. For us it wasn't a
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    Font - The fallout? We didn't even make it through the first morning before shit hit the fan. As soon as the first issue popped up our sales rep called me asking why the customer said I couldn't do something. I told her the story and she was PISSED. Not at us, at the big boss. I apologized, reassured her it's not personal, but if they won't pay my coworker to do the job then we will just do what we are paid to do. My sales rep said she will get this taken care of, but she REFUSES to work with bi
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    Font - We carried on our merry way and the next day big boss called us, told us the position was listed asked us each to write up a letter of intent for why we felt like we deserve the position and they would consider our letters and select one of us. Fantastic! Progress! My coworker pretty much wrote down on his letter that he'd been doing that work for 8 months, he has the seniority, contact information and knowledge so he felt he should be considered. I submitted nothing, told my coworker he
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    Font - and I don't want the position. Took a few days but arms were twisted, and my coworker got his well deserved promotion! The real push was the sales rep. We found out a couple months after she had called her vice president, told him this was bogus and refused to have to work with big boss since she couldn't stand him. Well the vice president of sales got together with the vice president of operations and made the magic happen. Malicious compliance: you say you don't see the need for a lead,
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