'Purchaser had one job....JUST ONE!': Product purchaser gets reamed by the CEO after doubting a diligent employee, afterwards the little guy gets a promotion

Middlemen are a concept created by upper management to keep the underlings in line, but are they even necessary? When a company gets too big or when there are too many little employees to handle, CEOs and other suits like to keep their hands clean of too much extra work, thus, hiring a stable boy to watch the horses while they're away on their yacht. It would be baffling to imagine that any entry-level employee could supersede the genius of middle management, right?

Alas, CEOs will still look down on their herd through the glass floor, wondering if there are any rising stars amongst them–but in our next story, a heroic little guy in a production warehouse proves his worth by accidentally undermining the middle managers above him.

To prove his competency, this particular warehouse employee tried to show initiative in the warehouse, taking it upon himself to help out the product purchaser with inventory shortages. But because the prejudice of the management position blinded his manager, he didn't trust a mere underling. Eventually, that came back to bite him in this epic story of malicious compliance.

Scroll onward to read how this middle manager arbitrated himself and threatened his own position with the company by doubting a diligent employee.

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Posted by Jesse Kessenheimer

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