'Hand over all my tasks so you can get rid of me? Ok!': IT Manager successfully lands $200k payout when new boss plots their redundancy

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Brad Dickson • Managing Editor
Mar 18, 2024 6:00 PM EDT

Getting fired stinks, but tricking your new manager into firing you so that you can walk away to your new job with a generous redundancy payout has to be the best way to get let go from a position. That's what this employee managed to do, playing along with their new boss's apparent plot to get rid of them and ensuring that they qualified for a cushy redundancy payout that would see them well compensated.

When their new boss started, this IT Manager found themself the target, quickly realizing that their boss was plotting their removal from the company in order to put one of their cronies into their role. Since they anticipated trouble, they began to look for new jobs, quickly finding one just as their boss made their move. Luckily for the manager and unluckily for their boss, the reasons given for their firing qualified them for the company's generous redundancy package. 

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    ONE HUNDRED UVUURD STA OFAMERIC FOR THE FOR ALL DEBTS PURALTEN JULY 4. 1776 AND PRI PRIVATE URAL R 00 D SERVEN 883 D 4795266F "Come my last day, I happily accept the $200k payout. ONE 100 LARS MTF RICA STAT
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    r/ r/MaliciousCompliance 3 hr. ago • Tazwegian63 Hand over all my tasks so you can get rid of me? ok! M Not sure if this is exactly MC but here goes. A few years back I was the IT Contracts and Supplier manager at a large company, been there 25+ years and had a LOT of corporate knowledge, having worked in multiple roles over that time. Also was very well paid due to length of tenure and experience at the company.
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    A new a'hole boss gets hired and proceeds to get rid of people he doesn't like and hires his buddies into various roles. The workplace culture took a nosedive pretty quickly. I knew my time was limited as I wasn't in his inner circle. Seeing the writing on the wall, I started looking for and applying for other roles. The a'hole boss gets me in their sights and decides to get rid of me, looking to move one of his recently hired buddies to my specialised role (he doesn't even understand what I do,
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    He tells me he wants to move me onto an upcoming project and to finish off what I am currently working on and not take on any new work. Through all my contacts across the company, I knew there was no new project or even significant budget for one, but I'll do what I'm told. I wrap up my work and tell him I'm ready for the project. He says sit tight, it's not far away, and 'don't start anything else! So I sit at my desk, applying for other jobs and waiting.
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    One of the jobs I applied for comes through and get an offer on a Friday morning. That same afternoon the a'hole boss comes around and says, the project isn't happening, and as you have nothing else on your plate, we will have to let you go. Yahtzee! I know there is heaps of work backed up and the is going to hit the fan soon when contracts aren't renewed, services cancelled, etc. I also know my employment contract and they will have to pay a generous redundancy - because the boss told HR my rol
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    I say, ok, I guess you will have to pay me a redundancy too? Sure he says, not knowing what he has agreed to. So I go through the redundancy process and at the same time accept the offer of the new job. Come my last day, I happily accept the $200k payout (his face goes pale when he hears of the amount, because it comes out of the teams budget), walk out the door and into the new job the day after. Love my new job, less stress, great culture, a great team, wish I'd left earlier, but then I wouldn
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    is hitting the fan, 4 weeks later, I hear the and they advertise for a new person for my old role as noone knows what to do, because apparently my job was 'easy'. He didn't even ask me document what I did to hand over to anyone else.
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    Knowslittle 3h ago • To a lesser extent this was me. Specialized role. Wasn't enjoying the new management so I expressed I wasn't happy in my current role and had planned to leave at the end of the season. Basically if I did something good they took credit, if something they did went wrong assigned blame. Transfer denied so I was stuck in the no win position. Suggested training a replacement for which I was completely willing as I did care to not make my coworkers lives more difficult.
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    Pulled aside for a meeting discussing how I don't tell them how to manage and to basically up, do your job. So I stopped approaching the subject or reminding them I was leaving. Removed materials, charts, notes I had developed to make my job easier. If they didn't want me training no sense leaving behind personal cheat sheets. It took 3 to 4.months to find a suitable replacement. Today they moved business after they burnt through the available labor pool and any good will from the locals. 1 Repl
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    • night-otter 2h ago Entire department was laid-off. 2 months later I get a phone call "Can you comeback?" "What's the offer?" "Contract position, same rate of pay." "Benefits?" "ummmm" "Anyone else accept yet?" "ummmm" "Then you know my answer." 1 B Reply ↑ Share ...
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    Not_In_my_crease 3h ago These are the best I love these. Perhaps more fallout? talking to coworkers maybe? ↑ 1 3 Reply ↑ Share
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    CowLegitimate8691 3h ago • Now this, THIS, is a juicy malicious compliance. Beautifully done. ↑ 1 B Reply ↑ Share
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    Able_Cat2893 48m ago Much smaller job, but I had a similar situation at the end of 2005. I was a bartender at the same tavern for 13 years all together, under one owner for 2, another for 9, then the last 2 for that boss's wife after he passed on. She was around 80, had no knowledge of the business. I had worked at several different bars for close to 25 years before that one, had owned my own for 3 of those 25 years. She had me do
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    the management job, no raise, for starters. I already knew I didn't like her, but felt bad for her because of the situation. I loved the bar and her husband enough, I was determined to make it work. She became impossible to deal with, but I stuck with it. She decided a new hire (bad news person) knew more than me. So, she fired me. The day she did, I was in the middle of a shift so when I left, I had a full bar. They asked me
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    where I was going. I told them to a bar down the street to party because I just got fired. Every one of those people but 3 came with me!!! New hire stole her blind and no one liked her. Old hag tried once to talk me into coming back. I unloaded on her and didn't even consider it!!! ☆ 1 B Reply ↑ Share
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