Employee Fired and Told His Work Is Worthless, Gets Better Job at the Competing Firm

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    Font - r/r/MaliciousCompliance Posted by u/Thinkstopsay 15 hours ago 2 3 3 No value in your work S OC D So I have a friend let's call him Bill. Bill was an analyst for a small firm. He was always punctual and friendly and been there 15 years Bill is a quiet but friendly soul. His work is outstanding and is data is both useful for gaining income from customers and the way they work as a firm.
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    Font - Bill is the type that quietly approaches the relevant mangers demonstrates the data and quietly goes on his way. His data is good too and managers use it regularly. The thing is the Bill doesn't get any credit for it. Bill doesn't mind though as he is happy in his work. The firm decide it's need to be efficient and calls in a consultancy firm. They reviewed all the staff and work they do.
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    Font - Bill is called into a meeting and told he will be let go. They tell the changes will occur in a month and he will stay on to than. When he queries why he is been let go he is told his work is not valuable and does not contribute to the workforce. He is told his work is worthless to the firm.he is plainly told if he didn't do it no one will know. The exit package is generous and he still has four weeks worth of salary. Bill quietly goes on his way and hatches a plan.
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    Font - Bill decided as his work is worthless he will not continue to do any work for them. He spends four weeks not doing worthless work but researching the opposing firm. He applied and lands-a job with the opposition and starts a week after leaving the firm. Bills is at his new job when he receives a phone call from his previous firm asking where this months data is. He tells them 1. He got made redundant- most of the staff didn't know 2. As his work was labeled worthless he didn't do any wort
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    Font - Bills new company increases revenue with Bills help and he found out that from a former colleague that revenue went down 2.1 million at his old firm the year after he left. 155 Comments + Award
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    Rectangle - wolfie379 14 hr. ago S4 Old company learned the hard way that trying to get out of paying its Bills costs a lot of money.
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    Font - life-as-a-adult. 13 hr. ago Ah, the old we don't understand what you do, so it couldn't possibly be important logic.
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    Font - be_an_adult 9 hr. ago It's funny because I would expect the opposite: "we don't understand what you do so we can't hire it out. Carry on."
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    Font - William Morris420 - 8 hr. ago It seems that because Bill let others take the credit for his work. With them claiming to do all of the reports. That Bill literally seemed to do nothing and had retired in situ. It's not even like he was the friendly old boy who hangs around the office and doesn't do much but quoetly knows everything about early dialects of LISP, FORTRAN, Pascal and a few other obsolete programming languages. Which just happen to run the companies backbone systems. So when a
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    Font - wolfie379 6 hr. ago Would love to be a fly on the wall when those who claimed credit for Bill's work had to answer to their bosses why "their" work wasn't being done.
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    Font - YakInner4303 13 hr. ago I really hope they gave the consultants a 1 star review somewhere. Actually I hope they burnt their management structure to the ground too, as clearly they're even less useful than bill was supposed to be.
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    Font - Greg TrompeLeMond 11 hr. ago Mgmt so useless they don't understand what their employees do and pay someone else to tell them about their own firm.
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    Font - BrobdingnagLilliput 10 hr. ago LIFE PRO TIP: Anytime someone at your company makes your life easier, tell their boss. Even if it's their job to make your life easier. ESPECIALLY if it's their job. This story is why.
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    Font - Unicorn1879 hr. ago Document it. Emails are now stored for years. Any of those silly employee "shout outs." Anything and everything. Vote Reply Share schooli00 1 hr. ago Actually, a lot of companies now have short email retention (emails older than 3-6 months get deleted) policies to reduce liability in case of lawsuits Vote Reply Share
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    Font - the-magnificunt. 9 hr. ago My company paid millions of dollars to have a law firm do research to tell them employees were being treated unfairly and that there was a very big equity and harassment problem. If they had simply looked at the hundreds of reports from employees saying this exact thing (with examples) every year, they could have saved that money. But regular employees don't know anything. /s

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