'There was zero cooperation': Employees team up to make coworker lose important client

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    Font - 'This was something like a $10k order and it was the bosses' new big client. Not my problem.'
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    Font - The tale of Sty Coworker M OC I worked in the office at a manufacturing plant. I handled shipping and receiving, the office pet who I refer to as Sty Coworker handled truckloads. Another coworker handled big jobs that required a third party.
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    Font - The owner was a d____ and constantly thwarted any attempts to address problems. He took great joy in being sadistic and making everyone's life h Sty coworker joined in this effort. He fought against any meetings, or team effort at work. So everyone ended up managing their own orders which meant a lot of fighting when you had a rush job. There was zero cooperation.
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    Font - We couldn't even do reasonable things like color coding paperwork so the floor knew it was a rush job. Another employee and myself had tried to institute a system that when an order was completed, the plant supervisor brought the paper work to the office to be finalized so we knew it was done. That way, we didn't have to check on orders constantly to ship them or walk on the floor. Nope. When completed, the order was left in the warehouse with the paperwork on top.
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    Font - The day before Christmas Eve rolls around. Everyone is sort of swing off. Boss left early for the holiday and had a new customer with a big truckload shipment. It's S y Coworker's order.
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    Font - Friendly Coworker and I see the order get completed, paperwork laying on top. Then the foreman (who hated Sty Coworker too) moved the order behind a bunch of smaller orders. We watched him do this while smiling. It got buried in the warehouse as the plant tried to finish up everything before the long holiday.
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    Font - Friendly Coworker and I exchanged glances, shrugged our shoulders and walked away. This was something like a $10k order and it was the bosses' new big client. Not my problem.
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    Font - Sty Coworker realized it at 4:45 but didn't have enough lead time to get the truck there. So there the order sat while Sty Coworker panicked. He couldn't say either because he just argued that everyone needed to be responsible for handling their own orders and he didn't want our "interference." I think I even said, "I don't want to interfere."
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    Art - Now, I could have suggested we ship in individual boxes and eat a lot of profit but keep the customer, but it wasn't my problem.
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    Font - The Boss returned and was ped. He questioned whether we saw the order which we explained we didn't even know it was due to be trucked out because we never saw the paperwork. "How would we even know what orders are moving through the plant? I only know about my orders."
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    Font - Cue ten minute scream fest about how he is sick and tired of people saying they don't know what is going on.
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    Font - We lost the client. Sty Coworker kept his job. Owner refused to institute a policy that paperwork gets returned to the office.
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    Smile - duffelbagpete So he yelled but did nothing to fix the problem? Genius business strategy.
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    Font - sociallyvicarious How on earth is this company still operating? Good grief. 46 Reply Share flavius_lacivious OP The owner's family is very wealthy. They have been propping it up for ten years.
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    Font - craash420 Great Petty Revenge but weak on the Malicious Compliance, I'm going to call it a draw. That plant sounds like a place rife with malcontent, it would be a shame if it burned down.
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    Font - BrobdingnagLilliput +1. I see the malice in ignoring the paperwork move, but not compliance, unless you count not implementing reasonable processes because idiots won't agree to it as compliance.
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    Font - <WAN OF THE DOG. THE CAT IS NOT TRUSTWORTHY EITHER jbuckets44 They complied with orders not to "interfere" (or help out) with co-workers' workloads e.g., rush order of new customer. Thus, it never shipped and customer left.
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    Font - Suspicious Meat6696 Certainly compliance as all past efforts to improve process was denied at Owner's direction.

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