'You can find someone else? Okay': Crystal shop owner insists their only worker is replaceable, loses business to them after they quit

Brad Dickson • Managing Editor

Mar 26, 2023 12:00 PM EDT

Many business owners underestimate their worker's contribution to the company's success, instead thinking of themselves as deserving all the credit. After all, it's their company, so they clearly have all the answers—right?.. Wrong.

You're not always going to be able to come up with all the right answers yourself, even if it's your business. A leader's strength may simply be that they're skilled at building a strong team and recognizing when an individual has a particular strength or skill that they excel at, even if the leader themselves knows nothing about the actual trade. Placing key people in the right places will make you successful and earn you enough respect without involving your ego and taking credit for their work and knowledge.

This business owner may have hired the right person for the job, but it was probably through sheer dumb luck. This user, bowie-bunny, shared their story to Reddit's r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit to tell the story of how they dealt with a bizarre boss and ended up taking over her business.

Keep reading to see some screenshots of the original thread below, or visit the attribution links for the original story. For more, check out this customer who demanded one—and only one—bag from a cashier for her things.