'If you're being serious, I quit': Employee saves Fortune 500 company whopping $20 million in profits, denied promotion, offered 2% raise instead, employee quits

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Eleonora Bader
Apr 10, 2023 10:00 AM EDT

Employees are being taken for granted like the sky is blue, the grass is green, and your grandmother makes the best potato chips you've ever tasted in your entire life (sorry, Mom). Being underappreciated brings up so much sour rage that you ask yourself why the companies still find it worth it to ignore stellar employees, denying them a good salary, better working conditions, and promotions. It doesn't make any logical sense. If somebody is doing a good job, wouldn't you want to reward them, motivate them, and create a comfortable feeling so that they continue to excel?

Nope, apparently not, as this story comes to tell us. A worker took to r/maliciouscompliance, sharing an ongoing case of MC where they had been denied a promotion and offered a 2% raise after saving the company a whopping 20 million dollars. They were still told that they did not 'exceed expectations' in an annual review, which flustered them so much they just quit.

Scroll down for the full story. For more stories like this, here is a trucker who found a sneaky but very legal way to get paid 50 percent of the work while doing absolutely nothing, following his tyrannical new boss's new 'rules'.

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    Font - Posted by u/TaxiCab88 5 hours ago "Just keep your head down." You got it, boss. LOC This MC is currently happening.
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    Font - I've been working for a couple years for some Fortune 500 company in the US. I was hired on to do a job with creating training using a specific (and rather niche) digital adoption software, that for some inexplicable reason took my two predecessors 40 hours a week or more to do. I had never even heard of it before getting hired, but it seemed like easy enough software.
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    Font - After a couple months, I could basically get everything handled for the week within about 3 hours - provided there weren't any emergencies. I started branching out into other technologies and responsibilities, because my boss was fine with whatever I wanted to focus on, provided I ensured my main
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  • 04
    Font - priority of upkeep on the software was done first. I found lots of ways to help out my coworkers and even invented a software program that really helped them automate some very tedious tasks.
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  • 05
    Font - Fast forward a couple years, and I've really done well with this random niche software. Been awarded highest honors at the time from the software company. Had case studies done about my work. Actually singlehandedly saved my company $20 million in production loss alone, according to the case studies.
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    Font - I say all that only to highlight how dumbfounded I was when my boss, who I like as a person, but has never once given me a metric in my entire time here, said at my annual review that I did not "exceed expectations" and that I merely "met expectations" therefore I was only entitled to a 2% raise that year.
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    Font - Um...what? Can't you just give me a tiny portion of that $20 million I saved the company instead of just giving that all to senior leadership's bonuses again? Also, even if I don't have metrics, I would think that if I ever did, saving $20 million, getting an award, and having a case study of my work all in one year just might put me even slightly above those "expectations".
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    Font - Here's the second thing that pised me off. Remember all those extra duties I took on? Well my boss wanted to make those official. I said, "Great! Let's figure out a job title and salary that will incorporate those extra responsibilities." Initially, my boss was on board for that and asked
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  • 09
    Font - me back in September to collect similar job postings for the role I was looking to move up to (interaction / UX designer).
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    Font - I gave my boss what they asked for, and then waited. I followed up on it every time we had a 1 on 1 meeting and my boss told me they were getting to it soon. ...for 4 months.
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    Font - I finally came right out and asked my boss what the issue was because they weren't giving me any real direction on how to get to next steps for this role. My boss then informed me:
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    Font - • It's "tough times" for the company (despite me literally editing a video from the CEO bragging about how revenue had never been higher literally the week before). • Boss hadn't even looked at the job qualifications I sent them.
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    Font - • Boss never even checked to make sure we could make this position happen in the first place, which in my mind should have been their very first thing to do before saying we could go for it.
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  • 14
    Font - ● My newly created metric would include these extra duties (to which I promptly gave a great, big, vocal HELL NO to and made them back down and remove them).
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    Font - I asked my boss about next steps for this now unobtainable position if this is what the reality was. Then I was hit with this line: "Just keep your head down this year, and maybe next year we can revisit this conversation."
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    Font - Keep...my head...down? ....Well, okay then. Cue/Que/Queue/Kyew the MC.
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    Font - I did keep my head down...into job boards, I put my head down into job interviews, when opportunities to volunteer my time at work to help with extra things, instead of offering up my help, you best believe I kept my head down.
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    Font - Remember how I worked on this niche software? Turns out, it's so niche and hard to find experienced people that finding another (better) job wasn't hard at all.
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    Font - Put in my two weeks notice last week. Boss was dumbfounded. They are now panicking and asking me to do crash course knowledge transfer to others, as if I didn't already request this very thing multiple times to no avail for months.
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    Font - I think I'll just keep my head down instead for the remainder of my time. Boss's orders.
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    Font - Necessary_Tip_5295 Enjoy your two weeks and keep your head down. If they did not care, I would say F*&&^ them. Companies only have Loyalty to money, money, and more money. 5 hr. ago Vote Reply Share
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    Font - Jaren_Starain. 4 hr. ago There was a reason your predecessors took 40hours doing the task with the software. It's because they know that the ones who work the hardest are the employees that get ak ed the most. Most do the bare minimum to get paid and keep their job. Reply Share Vote
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    Font - bendekopootoe · 3 hr. ago "quiet quitting" is not done by employees, employees by inept middle management Vote it's a culture forced upon Reply Share
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    Rectangle - comedyER +2.4 hr. ago Hey guys, welcome to my crash course knowledge transfer: The most important thing to know is that you won't be appreciated, recognized, or paid fairly for the work you are doing. But, as soon as you figure the software out, you will be very employable elsewhere.
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    Font - We've got about 7.5 hours of training left. Shall we move to the bar? Vote Reply Share breadslice_BE 1 hr. ago I'd take that course. Vote Reply Share
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FAILS company-profits malicious compliance toxic-workplace-environment quit horrible-management fortune 500 company petty revenge overworked-employee Horrible Bosses 20-million
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