'If I’m not her supervisor, then I don’t need to check any of [her] work': Administrative assistant claims she's on par with the CFO, CFO maliciously complies, she gets fired
It's not the best idea in the workplace to claim responsibility when you don't know the first thing about what you're doing. I'm all for the concept of "fake it till you make it," but within reason, and in this case, this administrative assistant was very much not within reason. One of the first jobs I ever had involved teaching subject matter to high school students and preparing them for college-level material. I primarily worked on reading comprehension, grammar, and SAT/ACT-level math. However, once upon a time, a former student asked me to work with them on college-level math that was far beyond my abilities. Like I said, I'm all for faking it until you make it, but I knew my limits. There are some things you cannot fake; otherwise, you just get them wrong. And if you don't have the ability to get the work done well, you're ultimately not doing yourself or anyone else any favors.
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This thread was posted to Reddit's r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit by u/tennesseeaccountant, a young CFO of a small three-person company where the administrative assistant had a ton of power. When she devised the organization structure of the company, she listed herself as an equal to the Redditor, and their CEO signed off on it. This audacious yet kind of iconic woman refused to see herself as someone who reports to the much younger CFO, but this would backfire when the CFO decided to stop checking her work.
Keep scrolling below to learn what happened when the auditors got involved. For more content like this, check out this post about an employee who caused a mass quitting at his company.
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