When your employee is doing you a favor, essentially out of their own pocket, it's probably best not to try and cheap out on them to penny-pinch your way into a promotion.
Alas, some people are blind to a little thing called "good faith" that is essential in any employment relationship. "Good faith" eventuates out of mutually fair, open, and honest treatment by both the employee and employer. It might sound, to a lot of us, like a romantic fantasy dreamt up by an unrealistic optimist (honest and fair?), but it's real. When it works, it can be fantastic and mutualistically beneficial.
Good faith was working well between this equipment operator and his employer for some time. He went out of his way to ensure that things were operating effectively and smoothly -it was off his own back that his other crew members were able to get to and from the site daily. In return, he got a little kickback in the form of his per-diem that he was saving by living out of his transportation vehicle.
When a penny-pinching middle manager decided that he wanted to save the cost of the employee's per-diem he didn't realize it was going to end up costing the company more in the long run.
This thread was posted to Reddit's r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit by a friend of the equipment operator, Redditor u/balles_de_acier, they shared their friend's story to the popular sub with the title "Another Per-Diem Tale..."
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