Slacker manager watches TV all day in his office then baits his hardworking employee to leave, so he quits on the spot: ‘Yeah, do that’

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Sep 22, 2024 10:00 AM EDT

This engineer was the backbone of the entire department, so when they discovered their slacker manager being completely useless, something in them snapped. Besides, it was about time someone let management know who's boss…

Have you ever worked a job where you were doing basically the entire project with no credit? Whether you're on a group project in high school with the class slackers or if you're the one guy in a hard hat who actually knows how to use a hammer, the results are the same on any collaborative effort–the hardest working member of the group is usually the one with the least credit for the final product. 

That's why, when u/Morty_IS_Rick, a hardworking engineer at a manufacturing company, discovered that his direct manager was slacking off all the time, he was peeved. Like most of us, the original poster (OP) of this story kept his head down and pushed through his work, but finally, after a round of strange, surprise layoffs that left the department with a skeleton crew (and therefore, more work), OP was at a breaking point. 

Read on to enjoy the visceral reaction of an employee pushed to his limit who finally told off a slacker manager attempting to belittle his efforts. 

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    Was told I should go elsewhere, so I did. S tl;dr- engineering manager tells me to work somewhere else, so I left the next day. About a year ago I Was working
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    for a manufacturing company that had mismanaged itself into a zero operating cash scenario long before i got hired on. After all the managers who had hired me in got fired with no notice, i got nervous and started looking around for
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    other employment. At one point, i was trying to update a customer with status regarding some in- process issue that landed squarely in the newly appointed (but formerly as well) Engineering manager's responsibility, and he
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    told me I should never have brought it up and that i should just keep my mouth shut. I told him it was too late for that, and that they wanted a update- but he was too busy watching tv on his ipad, which as far as i can tell is all he
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    ever really did... so i told him that i would just reach out to his contacts for the update myself. He said "yeah, do that. And if you don't like how long it takes me to respond to the customer you should just go somewhere else".
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    Little did he know i had an interview the next day. I have never quit a job with no notice in my life... until that day. Get Timmy.
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    TVLL This is where, when you write your resignation letter you throw the manager under the bus. "Engineering Manager said I should just go somewhere else. I am taking his direction to do so and am resigning, effective immediately. Best regards, XXXX"
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    Morty_IS_Rick OP I set my auto-reply to contact the cfo (who was acting as ceo after orchestrating the firing of that guy) for questions or updates that would have come from me, and sent a very short letter to cfo/ceo explaining that i would not be returning to work on monday-
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    with no explanation. So technically NOT no notice... but it's not like the CEO, Ops manager, Quality/Engineering manager, or any of the other employees he fired got a notice or 'em. I didn't even a pip. really like any of those folks who got fired... but once i saw how went down I knew there was no
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    point in trying to take the high road. Never got a reply to my email, never got a phone call... no questions asked. I think it was planned that i would be fired, and that sociopath got his feelings hurt when he didn't get to do it so he had a meeting to trash talk me and get some kind of satisfaction.
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    Morty_IS_Rick OP Fun follow-up: apparently after I quit the remaining management held a meeting to tell the hourly associates that i quit with no notice. With a little bit of luck, that sonofabitch felt like a real -canoe for at least one millisecunt.
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    Contrantier You did have notice. A manager ordered you to go. It was on him to let everyone else know you left because of his order.
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    arwinda That's why you share this information with others before you leave. Then they can't spin it. Your auto response is likely gone by the time the company deactivates your account.
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    Zoreb1 True. When I retired I left a phone/computer message that said "I shall be out of the office until the end of time. If you can't wait that long, please contact at...for help." Retired on Friday and checked my automated responses on Monday and they
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    were gone (phone disconnected and email gone). Usually when someone leaves nothing is done until it is reassigned. I don't think this was done specific to my message; I think the place had changed policy (a woman who got a job at a different agency had her message (basically the usually 'I'm not in so leave a message') on for two years until she got dissatisfied with her new place and returned.
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    boobookitty2 Hope you are happy going forward and can leave this behind.
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    LooseConnection2 Sounds like Lassie should have just left Timmy in the well lol
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