'You can't fire me; you should fire her instead': Employee gets boss fired during HR disciplinary hearing designated for himself

Eleonora Bader

May 28, 2023 10:00 AM EDT

When management fails to step up and do what is required of them to create a change in an employee's behavior, you bet it won't go unnoticed, even if by the employee themselves. In this case, an employee we'll call Ivan was the type of hopeless that not even a boot camp could fix, and the only employee more hopeless than him was his own boss, who we'll call Karen. Ivan was called into a disciplinary hearing by HR along with OP, Karen, and a few other employees after having 50 complaints filed against him in the span of one year.

To say he wasn't a model employee would be the understatement of a century. Ivan sat quietly throughout the whole meeting as the complaints were read aloud, sulking, a mysterious gleam in his otherwise forlorn stare. At one point, his boss Karen said, 'Ivan, we all have to obey the rules', which was apparently Ivan's cue for malicious compliance, as he replied, 'I agree, but per company policy, I can't get in trouble'. There was a moment of confused silence before Ivan launched into a factual rant that pulled his boss under the bus in exactly one instant.

Talk about an uno reverse card… this woman had no idea what hit her. Scroll down to read what happened next. For more stories like this, here are employees who also engaged in malicious compliance after their boss told them they weren't allowed to use their work phones during their time off the clock.