'Okay then': Boss takes employee off big project and puts it into incompetent hands, malicious compliance ensues

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    Watch - "You don't want me to do my job? Okay, I won't."
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    Font - You don't want me to do my job? Okay, I won't. L OC Background: I worked for a company many years ago before I got into my current career. I worked at this company for 8 years, starting at 16 in high school. I worked my off daily and quickly climbed into a position of management and was very well liked and well respected by anyone above me or below me. During my last year of employment, I had a new boss. We'll call her Mary. She wasn't my main boss, she was the position beneath him. Her a
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    Font - October rolls around and I start developing my holiday plan. Mary keeps a close eye on my plans and asks lots of questions but she doesn't get in my way. Thanksgiving is over and we're halfway done. My plan was a success so far and I am on track with the amount of product I've been bringing in/the amount of product left on the sales floor based on previous years numbers and how much were projected to sell of everything.
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    Font - It's a couple weeks until Christmas and I'm in the middle of pulling last year's numbers to start my BIG Christmas order. Mary comes in and sees what I'm doing and says "OP, don't worry about that, I'm going to have Amy write the order." I'm immediately confused and annoyed and ask her why she thinks it's a good idea to have Amy (the store receiver) write the order when I am the person who has been doing it the entire time and has been working all the product and I know what's been moving
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    Font - Amy writes the order and after we get it in, I can tell by looking at the pallets that it's going to be a show. For example, wayyyy too much of random product we don't need and aren't going to sell through until next holiday season, at least. Also not nearly enough of our fast movers and not enough to maintain current displays.
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    Font - Here comes my malicious compliance... instead of breaking down these pallets into the designated area of the back room in an organized and intentional manner, like I have done with all of my previous orders every single year, I just leave it on the pallets, wrapped in shrink wrap. The product stays like that for days and I continue to ignore it. Eventually someone (maybe Amy? Doubt it though) breaks it all down and there's stuff all over the place and you can't find anything you need with
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    Font - Next, I allowed all of my holiday displays to go to Normally, I would've ordered to maintain them, but nooo Mary wants to give me a break, so I let them burn. Mary and our big boss take note of this and scramble to figure things out themselves. Next, we're completely out of essentials that Amy didn't order enough of and now it's too late and too close to the holiday for the warehouse to send us any more. Mary and big boss are dealing with angry customers who are taking their business else
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    Font - Finally, the holidays are over and our back room is FULL of stuff that is going to stay back here for quite a long time. All stuff left over from Amy's order. Am I going to palletize and inventory and periodically work all that product? Nope :) cause Mary thinks I need a break. TLDR: Boss wanted to give me a "break" from doing my job and handed my duties off to someone else who didn't know what they were doing. When inevitably hit the fan, I took no part in cleaning it up since I "need a
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    Font - EDIT: Since I didn't make it clear enough, based on the first comment I got, this was malicious compliance because I continued to do the rest of my normal job duties with 100% effort like always. I simply passed on the holiday duties to whoever else because that is what Mary wanted. Mary had a history of stepping on my toes and going over my head and making decisions on my behalf and her telling me she wanted to take some of my stress away was her telling me "I don't want you to do this v
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    Font - EDIT: (forgot to include fallout) Amy just got thrown into a situation she couldn't handle. She wasn't equipped to handle the job and I do feel bad that Mary put that responsibility on her and Amy probably had to deal with the guilt of failing so badly. Mary, on the other hand, was chewed out (once, as far as I know) by supervision when they paid a visit to the store and noted the horrible displays and empty shelves on holiday cooking essentials. That and lots of complaints from customers
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    Font - PotatoMonster20 22 hr. ago Nicely handled! I had a similar thing happen to me, several jobs ago. My boss at the time (the owner, who was a truly awful person), decided to give my main task away to someone who'd literally only just joined the team. She was pissed off at me for standing up to her about something else, and that was her way of punishing me. That job? Returning proof of unused stock for credits from the manufacturers (for a very specific type of item). Bonus. I got to train th
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    Font - I was already planning my exit, so I tried not to care about the insult/take it out on the new guy. I trained them up properly. Went over everything. Offered my notes as a reference for making their own notes. The works. Well, apparently they weren't paying attention. I happened to walk past NewGuy as they were entering those returns into the computer one day, and couldn't believe what I saw. They'd somehow managed to screw up the incredibly simple process.
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    Font - I quickly tried to let them know "hey, you need to..." But they jumped down my throat "leave me alone! I know what I'm doing!" Hey, that's fine. Backing away as ordered. What was that person doing? They'd remembered that I said you need to add each relevant product from that range to the return form. But then weren't actually updating the quantity figure for each item, so each item kept the default value of "1" against it, regardless of whether we were actually needing to credit 5 or 500
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    Font - I don't know how the they didn't notice. But they'd been doing it for months at that point. Another stellar management decision from the wicked witch of the west. She sure got her revenge on me...
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    Font - Aefyns 1 day ago You did right. Sometimes you have to teach your boss how to manage. 112 Reply Share
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    Font - TenspeedGV +1 - 1 day ago You don't have to justify yourself in the thread here, OP. The idiots just try to find things to nitpick because they want to see themselves comment. Great story
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    Font - katmuffincerealnotes 1 day ago . The best type of malicious compliance is letting someone ruin something they thought they could do.

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