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'I won't sign, come back later': Deputy project manager rejects requests and ignores emails, costs company $250k

Working in logistics is an underappreciated job — this person's work wasn't appreciated until everything started going off the rails. 

When roles switch around in a company, things around bound to slip between the cracks. Especially when there are bosses like this guy, the deputy project manager on an Australian pipeline project. As he stepped in to replace the regular project manager, he didn't quite know who was responsible for which tasks. The OP of this story writes that their regular project manager trusted them to place orders, a task that was "quite time consuming," with a lengthy processing time. While the OP anticipated this delay, the deputy didn't know about it. At least the OP caught the mistakes in their paper trail of emails! 

As one commenter joked, as a boss, you should be nervous when you notice an employee who starts requesting everything in writing. If they're clearly making a paper trail, wouldn't you start to wonder why? It just goes to show that some bosses care very little about the job, and just push their work onto the people below them. 

Check out the entire story below, which was celebrated by commenters (and a few people even added their own stories of workplace compliance). 

After that, this young employee got to fire a person before he could even complete training at his new workplace — because he didn't want her to teach him how to do his job. 

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