Boss gets humiliated at the company-wide meeting after ordering their employee to delete a critical Excel doc: 'No one is saving her anymore'

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    rɅ r/MaliciousCompliance Posted by u/Defiant-Lion8183 Delete it? You sure? OK! M OC So I am a fiend for excel spreadsheets. Absolutely love them and even bought an extra extra wide monitor for home so I can see them in all their glory. My
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    Boss keeps telling me that she's an "advanced excel user", she can run macros, she can do pivot tables, she knows formulas. Not once have I seen her create or manipulate a spreadsheet in the 6 months I've worked for her.
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    So I had a Template on our Teams chat that we used every week, it was automated to within an inch of its life to tell us about the companies health. We've been using it for the last 4 months after I was given approval by
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    the boss to make it live, gave her a tutorial and everything. This was for the admins to all see it and I'd only need to update the raw data once a week instead of send it manually to who ever wanted it on a given day (Up to 4 times a day usually).
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    Took out about 6 hrs work a week having it set up like that. Well the boss told me to take it down because a different department who hadnt seen it, was worried about personal data when one of the admins told them about it. There isnt anything like that in
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    there, and anything that isnt open access is password hidden anyway. Our IT team has to be formally requested to add a new member to our teams chat, the spreadsheet is password protected, the tabs are password protected and the whole company is locked down hard anyway.
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    So boss orders me to take it down and delete it "Run a fresh one for anyone who wants it". So I explained there wasn't anything in it that was "personal or private data", but got told nope delete it.
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    Tried to explain we use it amongst the admins every day and it has all these built in features/tables etc. Nope delete it. So I did. The fall out? Read on
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    Cue today Boss says to me her big boss meeting is presenting figures to the executives tomorrow. She starts quoting figures that are wildly out from the true numbers, I questioned where they came from and she shows me a Frankenstein report that is saying the exact opposite of what she thought.
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    Run by someone not even in our department... I tell her the accurate grand total and show her how I got there with a simple table and some screenshots I had of the original shared spreadsheet. She asks for access and I tell her its been deleted.
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    I explained why and even showed the meeting notes where she had approved its use after viewing it. She denies any knowledge of it, but wants it back. I said It would take me 2-3 days to make it again due to my workload increases.
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    I saved a copy of the template, but no way am I telling her that. This will give me breathing room to get the backlog out of my queue while she thinks I'm working on it. Let her sweat through that Executive meeting knowing every figure is wrong, no ones saving her in this team anymore.
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    CaptainBaoBao 5 hr. ago Arrogance and incompetence often travel in the same sinking boat. Vote Reply Share ... nderflow 4 hr. ago To paraphrase a recent Reddit comment, egotism is an anaesthetic for stupidity.
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    MalyceAforethought. 3 hr. ago I'm currently a GM in a small non-profit. My director is a former CFO and also claims to be an excel expert. She still prints out and checks my spreadsheets with an adding machine. A machine. adding
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    alexaboyhowdy 3 hr. ago But... Even a child can run a mouse over a column of numbers and see the total at the bottom of the screen! ✰ Vote Reply Share MalyceAforethought 3 hr. ago Yup. Did I mention she's still using Office 97?
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    eragonawesome2. 3 hr. ago Was once in a similar position where my boss was telling me to get rid of something I knew we needed for a reason that didn't make sense. After a bit of back and forth I simply said "No, I will
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    not be the one to get rid of this resource" and that firm "no" from me, the dude who normally does whatever he's told to do, made them back up and think for a second about the issue and actually listen to what I was saying
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    MyblktwttrAW 4 hr. ago I will not recreate work. You said delete it, even after I explained it's true value to you and the co. You wanted it gone, it gone for good. I wiped from my memory too.
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    Aaron Render · 3 hr. ago Did you include time to identify, address, test, validate, and certify issues around "personal or private data?" Seems like that might take another week and coordination with an entire suite of "stakeholders."
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    MomToShady 2 hr. ago As someone who also loves Excel, couldn't understand why there wasn't a backup until I got to the last paragraph. Had a new manager like that just before I left and it was hard seeing her not understand what the reports I prepared had value. She was fired shortly after I left due to her "my way only" attitude.
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    PatrickRsGhost - 2 hr. ago There's a running joke that Excel consists of nothing but dark magic. And it's true. If you know the right formulas, macros, and functions, that spreadsheet could predict 100 years' worth of future.
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    Me, personally, I would have moved the spreadsheet with the raw data to either the internal hard drive (if you had it saved to a cloud or network drive) or to an external, removable hard drive, depending on the size.
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    ElBurritoExtreme 2 hr. ago Take two weeks to come up with a fresh one. It was JUST that important. Really amp up the scale of her incompetence. DD
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    Jeullena 4 hr. ago Make sure no one can replicate it easily. Take it with you when you quit working there.
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    Defiant-Lion8183 OP 4 hr. ago . I'm friends with the head of IT, he knows how toxic she is and is going to wipe my laptop when I hand it in. No back door saving her Everything I have is stuff I found or produced through the social network I created there. She kiss arses to executives who can't help her with what her team actually does
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    llynglas 1 hr. ago Whenever a boss asks for something to be deleted, or any change that you know is going to cause havoc, get it in writing/email.
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    doonwizzle 2 hr. ago miscommunication seems to have added unneeded stress. sounds a bit like those old telephone games where the message gets all mixed up by the end. hope everything clears up soon with minimal hassle.
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    1lluminist 2 hr. ago What? No, you bill for overtime to redo it all Vote Reply Share ... WinnipegHandshake69 1 hr. ago This is pure gold. Bravo!

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