'They said I could consider myself fired': Retail Employee Faces Unfair Termination, Costs Store $30000 Through Malicious Compliance

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Ally Perry • Writer and Editor
May 12, 2023 11:30 AM EDT

Losing a job is a life event that can bring up a varied tapestry of emotions. Many are distraught, and left hoping they can meet their bills next month; others are relieved they don't have to put up with doing something boring around people they hate. 

It isn't the kind of thing that we'd admit in a job interview, but sometimes the worst part about getting fired is that you don't get the chance to stick it to that crappy boss. Lord knows, there are plenty of them out there that really deserve it. Luckily for u/ineedatinylama, they actually got that sweet revenge when their manager decided to unfairly dismiss them.

Relieving the employee of their retail duties when they refused to take on another job, the Redditor proceeded to go home and leave the store unattended. It's not difficult to imagine what happened next. Certain businesspeople need to learn that cutting corners never leads to good results.

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    Font - r/ r/MaliciousCompliance u/ineedatinylama • 10h 1 I got fired, and cost the store approximately $30,000.00 S
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    Font - I was working a 2nd job at our local small grocery and butcher shop, few nights a week to pay for my kids activities. I was hired as a cashier. The person that did the end of day butcher shop clean-up/sanitizing quit. So instead of hiring someone for clean up, the owners decided that the cashiers could just do it between customers.
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    Font - The owner sat at thier office (watching tv and fucking around) and when a customer came in (door bell would ring), they would buzz the phone in the butcher area for the cashier to come check them out. When I came in for my shift at 6pm and was told about the new set up, I told them NO. I was not hired to clean up the butcher area, I was hired to run the register and stock shelves. The owner then said I would clean the butcher shop or I could consider myself fired and they walked away. I s
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    Font - Apparently, the owner thought I had gave in and was in doing the cleaning. So they buzzed the butcher area when customers came in for about 2 hours before someone told them no one was coming to check them out. The stores liquior area, cigarettes and scratchers got emptied out.
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    Font - It was 7:30 and I got a screaming phone call from the owner about how he was calling the police and I was going to get arrested. Yeah, right. Owner did call the police, The owner stated he wanted me arrested as an accomplice to the thefts, because I had left. Cops asked me to come to the store, which I did, and I explained that the owner had fired me, so I went home and the CCTV would prove that fact. The tape was reviewed, and plain as day, the owner said I was fired. I estimate they los
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    Art - SalisburyWitch 9h Maybe he should have got off his butt and done things. Didn't he watch his own security cameras while the shop got cleaned out?
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    Font - vonhoother 10h If it's any comfort to them, they probably would have got fined for having cashiers with no food handling certification clean up the butcher area in between waiting on customers. That can't be legal. The butcher area would end up far from sanitized with all the interruptions, and every bill the cashiers gave out in change would carry salmonella and e. coli.
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    Organism - Inshpincter_Gadget Sounds like a lack of job security. You lost your job, they lost their security! +3 10h
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    Font - ist fusionaddict 8h The owner was going to lose his ass financially no matter what happened here. Because of cross-contamination risks by bloodborne pathogens, butcher shops & meat counters have extremely high health code standards they have to meet in most states, which requires training beyond what a cashier/stocker would receive thanks to the use of disinfectant chemicals. The health board would have had a field day as soon as they discovered a bunch of randos were cleaning the butcher
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    Rectangle - baka-tari +2 10h Damn, that's beautiful. You enabled an amazing amount of damage by simply walking away. Well done!
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    Font - SSNs4evr 9h They may be in trouble too, if any minors walked out with any of the booze. It's still theft for anything taken without payment, but with the owner dicking around in his office the whole time, it becomes a bit more difficult to really be the innocent victim.
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    Rectangle - Rodger_Reddit 8h You change the duties you leave yourself open to renegotiation on pay. Anyway, you get what you "pay" for.
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