‘HR emailed me about a bug in the ERP system, and I wished them good luck’ : Employee maliciously complies with boss after he tells him to stick to his 'job title'

The correct response to an employee doing good work outside of their job title is 'thank you', but there was one supervisor who has apparently lived under a rock his whole life, instead getting mad at an employee who did exactly that. See, this employee was working at a construction company, his job title being related to inventory. He quickly became good at it and took it upon himself to study the company's cloud-based ERP service that they used for all internal and external transactions. He quickly became good at that too, and the company cut ties with the ERP consultants (who were practically on standby) as a result, to whom they had been paying $5,000 a month.

OP was saving them big bucks. Long story short, there was a new warehouse manager who created a major crisis regarding inventory but decided to pin the blame on OP, because it felt easier. As a result, OP was no longer allowed to work on anything outside of his job title. That created MASS problems, to say the least… and resulted in people not getting paid properly. Of course, this manager came sniveling back to OP, asking him to 'fix it', but OP had other things in mind… cue malicious compliance. Scroll down to read a detailed account of how this little genius outsmarted all his superiors.

For more, check out this server's tale which is as old as time, regarding a rude, entitled customer who cheaped out on his tip.

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