‘My Boss Was a Liar. I Knew I Was Gonna Quit, but First I Needed to Maliciously Comply’ : Employee Humiliates Lying Boss in Front of Coworkers After Finding Hidden Agenda Regarding Work Training

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Eleonora Bader
Feb 25, 2023 7:00 PM EST

While at work, we expect a certain level of professionalism from our coworkers, including our boss. Many managers tend to have a hidden agenda of sorts, and live in la-la land, blindly assuming they won't get figured out. What was this manager's real motivation for making her employees' lives more difficult? I'm not sure. But she insisted that specific training take place out of State. 

Now, this was back in 2020, when that wasn't really possible. Moreover, there were mandatory 2-week quarantines in place for anyone going back into their State — which this boss fully planned on ignoring. So she wasn't just being totally inconsiderate towards her employees, but also to the entire world. Thanks, Karen. The employees thought it was weird that upper management would want employees to go through so much just for some 'training', but this Karen insisted that there was no remote training available.

She was very much lying, as it turns out. The employee who was really getting the worst of her behavior had decided she was gonna quit. Who would want to stay in that kind of toxic environment? She had a newborn to think about as well, so it was a pretty clear 'Nope, I'm out' for her. But before doing so, she decided to dig a bit… finding out quickly that it was all a fabrication, she did what she had to do.

Scroll down for the full story. For more, check out this nepo-baby employee who tried reporting his boss for fraud — and failed miserably.

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    Font - r/r/MaliciousCompliance Posted by u/Momsgotprobsbrah 9 hours ago Oh, I can quit? Not without the final say, I can't! M OC At my last job, my boss (let's call her K) hated me. She turned everything into a competition; she mocked me publicly; she took credit for my work; she divulged my personal medical information in front of all our coworkers. She was cruel, and needless to say, I avoided her as much as I could.
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    Font - So, now that the stage is set, here's the context. End of 2020, co blazing, I had just had my first baby. I was a nervous wreck my entire pregnancy, working from home and being extra careful. After maternity leave (which was disgustingly short btw), I had returned to the office with some precautions set in place. My boss became crueler to me over those first few weeks back, and suddenly announced that, regardless of any
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    Font - negative feelings toward it, she had decided we all had to attend this training in another state. Keep in mind that there were mandatory 2 week at-home quarantines in place for anyone coming back to my state, but my boss fully planned on ignoring those quarantines and demanding we all would return to the office as soon as we got back.
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    Font - I was carrying a heavy workload and pulling a lot of the weight around the office, and I had some rank. So, I felt fully comfortable expressing my deep concerns to K, telling her that it was peak covid season, and that I had a newborn to worry about now. I expressed I simply didn't feel comfortable going in the middle of a
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    Font - global p mic and asked if there was a remote training I could attend instead. She firmly, ADAMANTLY insisted there was no remote training, and informed me that I could quit if I was that upset with her decisions. It's important to note that she insisted this for weeks, even claiming to have contacted the training organization to make sure. I decided on the spot after that meeting that I would be quitting. But I needed to check my boxes first, which took me a few weeks to figure out.
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    Font - Some time after this meeting and her incessant insistence that there was no remote training, it finally occurred to me to check with the organization putting on the training and ask them to clarify if there truly was a remote training or not. I did, and lo and behold, there WAS - and they had been offering it for months. I asked them to email this information to me.
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    Font - Now to figure out how to use this valuable information, right? Wrong. As soon as I stepped back into the office, K starts fake- empathizing with me out of nowhere, in front of all our coworkers. saying she really wished she didn't need to force me to go to this training. So, I said, "if you feel so bad, let me go to the remote training." She looked at me in surprise, and her face turned beat red. Before she could fight
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    Font - me, I pulled up the email with the information and read it aloud in front of all our coworkers. No one said anything, they just stared, wide-eyed at her while she blubbered like a fool.
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    Font - Long story short, after pulling that fast one on her, I pulled her into a private meeting a gave my notice. She was horrified because, as I stated prior, I carried a lot of the work around the office. But, like she said, I could quit if I didn't like her decisions
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    Font - +3.9 hr. ago She was a lying liar that lies. Reply Share CoderJoe1 Vote Momsgotprobsbrah OP. 9 hr. ago I have SO many stories about her lol Vote Reply Share
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    Font - IceolatedAF 7 hr. ago This was cute and innocent compliance, but honestly, you would have bitten the snake, first, if you'd have reported her for violating the law and spouting your personal medical info publicly in your place of employment. Vote Reply Share
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    Font - Momsgotprobsbrah OP. 7 hr. ago To be fair, that was one of the first things she did, so it caught me off guard. I could have tried to report it, I guess, but I don't think it would have gone anywhere. There was no hard and fast proof, unless people were willing to rat her out. Reply Share Vote
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    Font - kagato87 7 hr. ago People like that often have many enemies. Vote Reply Share IceolatedAF 6 hr. ago Was going to reply with something similar, but you got to it before me. ;) Vote Reply Share
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    Font - StormBeyond Time - 8 hr. ago That image of you reading that email in front of EVERYONE -I'm dying of laughter here. Keep being awesome, and best wishes to you, little one, and the rest of your family. Vote Reply Share
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    Font - Momsgotprobsbrah OP. 8 hr. ago I still smirk about it when it pops into my mind. I could have just quit, but it would have robbed me of the glorious revenge! Vote Reply Share BloodlustyGummybear. 4 hr. ago Don't forget to teach your kid how to be a bad s like you. Vote Reply Share
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    Font - verminiusrex . 9 hr. ago Well done. I never understood the managers that felt the need to poke at their best employees. Especially the ones that obviously have options at other companies. Vote Reply Share
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    Font - Momsgotprobsbrah OP 9 hr. ago I think that's why she targeted me. She wanted to be "the" boss girl in the office. She was only "a" boss girl in the office. Granted, she was technically over me, but I was younger than her and was closest in rank to her. Reply Share Vote
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    Font - Cfwydirk 9 hr. ago These days with good companies begging for good people you will no doubt, land on your feet. Good on you for leaving a toxic boss. Vote Reply Share Momsgotprobsbrah OP. 9 hr. ago Thank you! It definitely felt good. Vote Reply Share ...
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    Font - ultratorrent 4 hr. ago I would have had the company send the email to a dozen coworkers' addresses and the CEO to throw a monkey wrench into things. Vote Reply Share JustNoThrowsAway 3 hr. ago So many places have an "all users" email... I totally would have provided that one. Lol Reply Share Vote
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