'He ignored my warning': Boss overrules financial viability worker's warning, costs company $8 million

Some executives are all about sales, insisting that profits will increase exponentially if they sign on more and more clients. They offer the greased-up salespeople absurd bonuses for signing new clients, at whatever the cost, without bothering to make sure that those contracts are actually going to be serviceable at those rates—or profitable in the long term. And, let me tell you, you don't know pain until you've worked at the servicing end of a company that has made this mistake, impossibly trying to keep a contract serviced that wasn't viable in the first place.

This is a story of one of those companies and an employee who tried desperately to right their boss's mistakes until they were forced to comply. If there's one takeaway from this story, it's this: When you're employing someone specifically to ensure your contracts are serviceable… you'd do well to listen to them—not blindly overrule them for the sake of a sale.

Keep reading for this brilliant tale of pro-revenge and malicious compliance, shared by Redditor u/infinitiumvortex. For more, check out this boss who told their worker they could quit at any time; they took their advice.

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