'New manager tried to back peddle': Employee gets back at snippy new boss who demands he must "be here when the warehouse opens"

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Jun 3, 2024 11:00 AM EDT

Instead of getting to know his new coworkers, one new manager thought he had a better approach. According to u/atomb*mb1945, he started "getting into things that weren't his business and things he didn't know about." 

That's exactly what you don't want to do as you're starting a new job. It isn't going to make a good impression on the current workers if the newbie comes in on day one and starts telling them they don't know how to do their own jobs. It looks presumptuous and pompous on his part. And no doubt his new coworkers started talking about him behind his back. The better option would've been to introduce himself and ask them about their jobs, but some people feel that acting authoritatively is the only way they'll get respected by their peers. 

You can check out this fun tale of workplace malicious compliance, plus comments from people who related to the story. (As one person wrote, it's wise not to mess with old folks!) After that, people revealed the foods they will simply never eat again, like one person who wrote that their sister's lasagna tastes "more like beef mince and pasta sheets drowning in tomato water." 

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    You will come in when this Warehouse opens! M OC I used to work in a warehouse and one day we got a new Floor Manager. He had this grand idea that he was going to make an already functional supply warehouse work even better. It is important to note that all of our deliveries were sent out on time, received on time, no workplace accidents other than the occasional stubbed toe or splinter from a wooden box. This place ran
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    about as smoothly and efficient as possible but it wasn't good enough for the New Manager. He made it a point to check on everyone, getting into things that weren't his business and things he didn't know about.
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    One of his biggest things was making sure that everyone was at work on time. We didn't have a time clock, we just wrote down when we got in and when we left. The New Manager insisted that a punch card system would work much better for us, but the owners weren't willing to invest in that. So,
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    New Manager would spend every morning watching everyone come through the front door. We had maybe fifty people who worked there, so he made sure to count who came in and when. Anyone who walked in the door past 8:05 am got written up. That is when he met the Old Guy.
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    Old Guy had been with the company pretty much since it opened. He knew everything and everyone there. Great guy and everyone liked him. On the second or third day of New Manager watching everyone come in, he sees Old Guy walking in the front doors at 8:15. New Manager rips into Old Guy telling him that he was late, that it was unacceptable, and that he was getting written up.
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    He is yelling in the middle of the warehouse where everyone can see and hear him. Old Guy tries to explain, but gets told to shut up. New Manager tops this all off with an order. "This warehouse opens at eight am sharp every day, five days a week. And I expect you at that door at eight am to begin your shift. You will be here when the warehouse opens! Is that understood?" Old Guy just kinda smiles, takes the paperwork, and apologies stating that he would be in tomorrow at eight am just as he was
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    The smug look on the New Manager's face was picture perfect. He was certain that he had just fixed the biggest flaw in the company. The next day at eight am sharp, Old Guy walked through the door and simply made sure that he was seen. Then he went off into the warehouse.
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    That day was a nightmare. Orders were backed up. Trucks were waiting on paperwork. New Manager is almost in tears because of the chaos. The Owner comes in and starts trying to make sense of the situation with New Manager, and they track the paperwork issue back to Old Guy. New Manager is upset, but Owner is concerned and asked Old Guy if everything is okay? Old Guy just
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    tries to hide his embarrassment saying that New Manager wrote him up the day before and he was told that he had to come in at eight am. Not at four am like he always did to get all the orders and paperwork ready for the day. The day before when he walked in the door, he had been coming in from a break.
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    New Manager tried to back peddle, saying he didn't know, that it was Old Guy's fault. Owner knew better. After that, the New Manager wasn't working at the warehouse anymore, or for the company. He went off to become a New Manager for someplace else. Thankfully, Old Guy knew what was going to happen and had most of the paperwork done for the day already so we weren't too behind when the smoke cleared.
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    I made this as a comment to a different post. Felt it deserved a full story. Enjoy.
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    scalability Old Guy just tries to hide his embarrassment Pretty sure what he was hiding was a sl eating grin Imao, legend
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    DRTVL The moment old guy agrees with coming in at 8AM you pretty much know he would be the guy who always was there ahead of time. Isn't there an old guy like that in every older company? The guy that never takes a break and when he retires you know the s is gonna hit the fan in no time
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    JewyTwoScoops Best kind of compliance, when you can make it a waking nightmare for management and keep most of the fallout from affecting your coworkers.
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    PistolPetunia Do not with old people. They do not give a s
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    [deleted] I know a man who worked at a number of food processing factories in the UK doing maintenance on very specific and very old machines, the complexities of which he explained but I won't profess to understand. He was on the books with his engineering company for decades and was relied upon at confectionary factories in particular, of which there are now a lot less than there once was.
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    The company tried to make his life difficult so that he would voluntarily leave when he was 60, but he knew he was in for a big pay off if they sacked him, so just went about his job ignoring their pettiness.
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    He eventually got his redundancy and retired, happily so. Only problem is - the confectionary factories have a few particular machines very few people know how to tune up and fix. They're gargantuan contraptions full of intricate parts that are incredibly old by industrial standards and as you might expect, they are prone to collapse on a semi- regular basis.
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    Due to this, they pay this man one off repair contracts every time the machines breakdown that are worth more than he ever earned as a salaried employee. All the while he's collecting his pension, sitting on his redundancy, and earning a very good living. Idiots never even asked him to train someone else.
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