'Time is money': New boss enforces efficiency policy, backfires as employees start making mistakes, boss's job is on the line

Sometimes, the best kind of leadership is stepping back when things are working perfectly fine.

Here, we have a new boss who came from a more fast-paced startup environment. He decided that the best way to get his team members to like him was by enforcing an entirely new policy without their input that would prioritize efficiency over everything else, including quality. This was the kind of guy who didn't like any hint of hesitation, so this Redditor complied, albeit maliciously. He knew that as soon as quality suffered, clients would eventually become aware, and the new manager would have to explain himself to his boss.

Well, the inevitable happened, and thankfully, the Redditor kept receipts to ensure that there was no world in which he was taking the fall for the "efficiency policy" his team leader enforced consistently. Keep scrolling below for the fallout after the higher-ups got involved. For more stories like this, take a look at this post about a nanny who started to suspect that her horrible boss was tracking her every move.

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