Boss denies employee's request for resigned worker's accounts, assigns to coworker, then begs original employee for help when coworker struggles: 'Every part of me wants to tell them to pound sand'

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Isabella Penn
Jun 8, 2024 9:00 PM EDT

There's nothing worse than trying to voice your opinion and stand up for yourself at work, only for the conversation to be one-sided and your boss to ignore your concerns completely. That's exactly what happened to this employee. After one of his coworkers resigned, he went to his boss to say that he was capable of taking on his coworker's accounts. He had been working at the company for a while and was ready to prove himself. Only for his boss to pass him over and give all the accounts to another coworker. The original employee tried to offer to split the accounts between the two managers, but the boss wasn't having it. That is, until the coworker who acquired the accounts started struggling to keep up with his workload. Now, the boss is begging the original employee to help out, just like he offered in the first place. But you won't believe the offer the boss gave him. It perfectly warrants the original employee's notion to tell them to "pound sand." 

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    r/antiwork ⚫ 14 hr. ago . mchockeyboy87 Got Passed Over at my job. Now they are looking for help. This is a vent, not so much a bashing of the company I work for. More of a I told you so...
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    A Co-Worker gave his resignation where I work. I work in sales at a building supplies company, and we are basically account managers. So after he resigned, his accounts (10-12 million book of business), got moved to a co-worker of mine, and I got completely passed over...again...
    via u/mchockeyboy87
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    I voiced my frustration to my bosses on why they couldn't split up his book of business between the 2 of us, but it fell on deaf ears, Basically got told "Well you got the last big account that we brought on, and now it's his turn to get rewarded". So that was that.
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    Now a few weeks later, as I suspected at the outset, my co-worker that got all of his business is struggling to maintain his book of business as well as the co-workers that got basically handed to him. And now my bosses are coming to me pleading with me to help my co-worker out with his workload as he is struggling maintaining both.
    via u/mchockeyboy87
  • 05
    If I agree, I would get about 1/3 of the book of business that was given to my co- worker. Which would equate to a big increase in commission (about 35-40k annually), which is nothing to sneeze at. But the fact that they are coming crawling back to me to take this on, when I made it
    via u/mchockeyboy87
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    fully aware to my bosses that I could handle the entire book of business, and demonstrating to them that I could handle it, I was still passed over. Every part of me wants to tell them to pound sand, and that you dug this grave. yourself. But it's also a lot of money to
    via u/mchockeyboy87
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    pass up because they couldn't come to the realization that I was the better choice. This has basically led me to the "quiet quitting" stage of doing absolutely just the required necessities of my position, and not going above and beyond anymore for this company.
    via u/mchockeyboy87
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    I guess I am just looking for not so much guidance, but if other people have been in this position, and if they swallowed their pride. I have also recently started looking at other employment opportunities elsewhere. As it is now clear to me where I stand within this company.
    via u/mchockeyboy87
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    EDIT: TO clarify, the last "big account" that we landed have done next to no business with us since they came on with us. They haven't even done 500k with us since they came on over a year ago. But I was sold the line of this account doing 5-6 million a year with my company.
    via u/mchockeyboy87
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    International_Egg 193 23h ago Take the new business. Absolutely kill it. Start looking for new job.
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    JDL1981 23h ago I'd prefer to get forty k more a year than feel morally righteous, personally.
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    LaughableIKR • 23h ago Ask to swap books. Take the 10-12M one and swap it with yours since your 'big one' is doing 500K not 5- 6M
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    Juggletrain • 22h ago A way that doesnt involve being their or not getting money would be negotiating. Try to get 50% of the accounts, pull some argument that it should have been split before or something.
    via u/Juggletrain
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    tennesseejeff • 21h ago Request they either split it evenly 50/50 or you get to pick the 1/3 you get. Remind them they know you can do it. Your job it to help the customers to the best of your ability, not to help pad a co-workers paycheck.
    via u/tennesseejeff
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    TrogdorBurns 21h ago. If they want help you should get to pick which ones you permanently take over. If your co-worker decides, they will pick the easiest ones and stick you with the hard ones. Picking the right ones is worth negotiating for. I would rather have a million dollar account I have to talk to twice a year as opposed to a 10 million dollar account that I have to hand hold for a couple of hours every week. You can guess which "big accounts" are going to be offloaded to you.
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