‘He Messed Up Big Time!’ : Entitled Senior Engineer Lashes Out at Employees A Mere Months Before Retirement, Cue Malicious Compliance

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Eleonora Bader
Dec 31, 2022 12:00 PM EST

The minute you are afraid to engage with someone at work because you feel that they will respond in a reactive way, you have a problem. Although working in a comfortable environment where you aren't belittled seems like something very basic, not everyone has that pleasure. Some people's coworkers, especially ones that are working at a company for a long time, feel like they get a free pass to be an AH. Lord knows why… We tend to make fun of HR a lot, for a number of reasons, but when they actually do their jobs, it can save the work environment. C'mon, we're all adults here. We shouldn't have to avoid mature conversations with anybody. But some people are immature and need to learn a lesson or two, the hard way.

 

While scrolling through r/maliciouscompliance, I happened upon a post titled 'He told me if I had a problem with him, I should bring it up to HR..... So I did' — obviously intrigued to see what the dude had done, I began reading. If you're having issues with someone at work and want some inspiration of how to correctly deal with the AH, take some good ol' advice from Reddit, and more specifically, from this smart dude. 

 

Speaking of coworkers, check out these funny memes that will have you in stitches.

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    Font - Posted by u/Project Gnova 9 hours ago He told me if I had a problem with him, I should bring it up to HR..... So I did MOC 2 Just happened today. So a little backstory. I work for a warehouse that specializes in computer equipment. It's generally very uneventful, everyone is mostly nice to each other, save for one..... unsavory Engineer. He had a reputation for being very belligerent, and almost impossible to work with, but with a couple months left till his retirement, people tended to l
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    Font - And up comes the Engineer huffing and puffing. Without evidence, he started accusing me of messing around with some pallets he was working on. Calmly, I explained to him that I did not, and he can check the camera HE INSTALLLED IN THE WAREHOUSE to see that I did no such thing. He kept on insisting that I did, growing increasingly angrier and started cussing me out in a warehouse full of people. But I did not waver, and calmly insisted he can just check the security footage that he has acc
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    Font - He started screaming and cussing even louder, that he is "50 years older than me", and I can "not f**king tell him to do shit." I said nothing, and watched as the Engineer get redder and redder in the face. Eventually, he yelled "If you have a f**king problem with how I act, bring it up to HR or the Boss" and stomped away. So... I did just that. I made a quick note of who was in the warehouse, noted the time, asked 3 people to be my witnesses of what happened. So up to HR I went, and pour
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    Font - working in that environment, and I do not wish to escalate the situation anymore. I just wanted the incident documented and on record in case the Engineer tried to twist the story to management. HR said they would take care of it. Two hours later, I found out the Engineer was told to go home. And not even twenty minutes later after that, he had been made "permanently working from home." And not even twenty minutes after that, I found out all the Engineer's credentials had been revoked, hi
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    Font - MrBeer9999+2.9 hr. ago HR was probably sick of his shit. I bet someone in HR had already had to talk to this prick and not really gotten anywhere with him. Reply Share Vote eitherrideordie - 3 hr. ago Yeah, but I reckon he made it worse. I imagine there was enough complaints that they figured they'd make him work from home until retirement. But I bet this guy couldn't keep his mouth shut and that led to a total firing. Vote Reply Share
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    Font - KaidenLW 9 hr. ago You did only what he told you to do. The fact that they fired him tells me this wasn't the only incident, that he probably has a history of that. Vote Reply Share SstankNnasty. 7 hr. ago In situations like this there is usually a long history of them being awful to people. The whole business would have known of him. But management can't get rid of people without documented proof with HR. And being close to retirement would make him untouchable without HR records because
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    Font - have an age-ism lawsuit or be accused of firing him to avoid his retirement package. OP just saved the company a lot of money and got rid of a bully. Vote Reply Share ojioni +3.4 hr. ago The company had to dot all the i's. When someone is that close to retirement, firing them looks very suspicious. In the old days when pensions were through the company, it was a common practice to screw people out of what they've worked so long for. Vote Reply Share
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