Micromanager Writes up Senior Employee for Leaving 3 Minutes Early, Resulting in His Own Humiliating Termination

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    You're Fired!!
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    So you are claiming I defrauded the company by booking an extra 3 minutes, No problem
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    I worked for a water company for 25 years and was one of their most productive repair crews, that is until The new manager Let's call him Mr started. We had a monthly rota where you are on call for one week in 4, for emergency repairs out of hours. On the day in question I started work at 7.30 am on a Friday and finished work at at 3.15 am
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    Saturday morning, so a pretty long a ed shift. I get to work Tuesday morning and get called into the office by Mr Num ts and informed that according to my vehicle tracker I'd left the yard at 3.12 am and not 3.15 am, which is an attempt to defraud the company, As you can imagine I was absolutely fuming at this level of bu t, I told him that at the time I was covered
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    in mud and sweat and just wanted to get home after completing a monster shift for the company and was he genuinely making a st storm over 3 minutes. He said he was making me aware that I could be fired for it. Cue malicious compliance. I said that if we're going to be this petty you can take me off the emergency contact list for extra
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    coverage and I won't be starting 20 minutes early each day either, I'll now be clocking in at exactly 7.30 am and I shall be heading out at exactly 5.30 pm, no deviation whatsoever and you can explain to your bosses why productivity is down and you are struggling to get coverage for emergencies. We'll then see how important your 3 minutes are when they are costing the company money.
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    Little did I realise at the time but the guys job was bonus related and linked to our productivity, which tanked after that because all the other gangs followed my lead, except the brown nose gangs obviously. Three weeks go by with an absolute s t show in customer service complaints about their work not being carried out in a timely manner My productivity dropped from 7 jobs per day down to 4.
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    And Mr gets called in by his bosses. to try and explain w is going on, He tried to spin some story that I'd turned all the guys against him for no reason and that this was the result. Little did he know that I'd actually trained his boss when he first started with the company 15 years before and wanted to come out and find out what we do and experience how hard the
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    job is, he surprised me by working a full month on the repair crews before going back to the office. Anyhow the boss calls me in to find out what is really going on, so I explained how he'd used the tracker to monitor what time I'd left the yard and that I'd guesstimated my finish time and over estimated by 3 minutes because I was absolutely knackered after working a shift from h | on-call. Conclusion, manager was let
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    go for misuse of the tracking system, as it's only supposed to be used for emergencies and not monitoring and we had our on-call system reviewed to cut the hours we were having to work. Edit apologies for it being so long a ed Edit 2 NO apologies for format or spelling and grammar, that's just me. This isn't an English exam it's the freaking internet, get a grip.
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    not-rasta-8913 When will new managers learn not to sc w with veteran employees? Probably never.
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    dertwo I like that. His bosses actually sound like the kind of people that you want to run a company. How many times have we heard that "if only my boss knew what was actually going on here"? His bosses actually did, and gave you the respect that you deserved.
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    CrittendenWildcat That power move turned into an out-of- power move for your boss.
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    SamuelVimesTrained I have to admit - you do not often hear about bosses KNOWING what the work is for having actually done that themselves. You got a good one there..
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    ScheduleCorrect3412 Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
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    Turinggirl When a company cares about 3 minutes you know its a company that needs the reality check. They really need to stop hiring MBA's. Actually having an MBA should be a great indicator to not hire someone.
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    Also I love knowing when someone is from the UK because they spell out a e and say ro (two things I adore) •
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    SuperHyperFunTime Working to contract is so underated by employees. Great work in knowing your value.
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    justaman_097 My experience as a manager suggests that any manager who wants to micromanage time down to that level is majorly p g off time himself and thinks that everyone else is doing likewise. You did the company a major good thing by highlighting what a j k he was.
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    Stu Bidasol You had a manager that came and did the job he was in charge of running to learn how it actually functioned? And did it for an entire month? What alternate reality do you live in because that doesn't happen where I live. The closest we get to that is if our manager got promoted from our ranks into running the job.
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    waukeegirl I think it says a lot for the upper management to work in the field for a month.
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    Javasteam The real story here imo is how his boss's boss is actually a good boss who tries to understand what the crew does and actually checks with the other employees instead of taking bu it from his direct underling as gospel.
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    davechri That's a good one. I love how work hours are flexible in only one direction.
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    stasersonphun Sounds like Nu ts was a new manager trying to "establish dominance" the worst way possible
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    FaThLi Good managers manage people. Bad managers manage the clock. I read that here on reddit a long time ago and it has held pretty true in my experience.
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    Elendel19 I once got a warning for being 1 minute late 3 times in a 6 week period. "Late is late" they said (the time I start is absolutely meaningless, nothing is waiting on me), so now every time I wake up late or think I'll be 1-2 minutes late I just chill at home for a while and come in 15 or 30 minutes late since there is no difference
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    Arenalife Some people know the cost of everything and the value of nothing
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    amcoffee1 One of my best bosses I only seen once or twice a month. He said if everything is going good why would he change any thing.
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    MidLifeCrisis99 I had a manager who told me not to make any decisions without him. Then he went on vacation for a week. I did exactly what I was told. People came into my office many times a day and I told them to go talk to my boss. After he got back, I continued to do nothing. He actually told me things were going much better a few weeks later. I quit.

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