'Let me go? Fine. You’ll lose millions': New supervisor frames and fires essential engineer, forced to hire them back at insane contract rate

Brad Dickson • Managing Editor

Feb 14, 2023 9:00 AM EST

It's often said that if you do a job and do it well, nobody is going to complain… but do a job well enough for long enough, and it's going to begin to be taken for granted. Soon enough, that second set of duties that you took on to band-aid resourcing shortages will become a part of your normal job description…

You might be doing more work, but at least you have the appreciation of your manager—right? Their goodwill towards you could mean wonders for your career! That is… until they suddenly leave for a new role, and you're stuck with a new Supervisor who is eager to prove themselves and has no appreciation for who you are, your institutional knowledge, or what the heck it is that you even do.

Now that extra work—and whatever extra time it takes—is just a basic expectation. Don't bother arguing with the new Super about it; they're too busy massaging their own ego to worry about how much unpaid overtime you're working.

Well, when Redditor u/PeaceNGrease was caught up in a department shuffle, they landed with a Supervisor who had no understanding of the essential skills they possessed. When their terrible directions and general meddling backfired, the Redditor was blamed and terminated. They'd get their own when the company was forced to hire them back at an obscene contract rate to avoid losing millions.

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For more workplace stories, check out this jerk boss who flat-out refused to accept a worker's resignation.

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