rSlash - r/Maliciouscompliance How I Tricked My Terrible Boss Into Getting Fired!

Episode Date: October 18, 2020

r/Maliciouscompliance In today's episode, OP works at a tech company, and his boss has to come along with him on a ride along. The boss does something incredibly stupid and ends up costing OP and the company a lot of money. So, OP maliciously complies with a command and tells the CEO what happened. Looks like somebody is in trouble! If you liked this video, follow my podcast for more daily Reddit content! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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or visit connectsontario.c. Please play responsible. Welcome to R-Slash, a podcast where we'd the best post from a cross-reddit. Today's subreddit is R-Slash malicious compliance, where a high-ranking executive at a company gets himself fired. Our next reply is from a drunken Scott.

The school I go to is well respected in my country, so it wasn't uncommon for venues to request to display a student's work, or to ask students to sing live for them. On the occasion in question, the largest art gallery in the country, Gallery X, had asked my school to submit inspired art to be out on display. The school agreed and said they would submit five pieces of work, one piece per year for years 9 through 13. I hated art growing up, but it was a mandatory subject until you got to choose your subjects in year 10. Needless to say, I dropped that subject ASAP. Despite hating the subject, I still put effort into my work and some of it wasn't that bad. However, at the same time,

I wouldn't hide away from expressing my views when we were given a task that I didn't see a point to. Even if the teacher was an air shot, needless to say, my relationship with the art department faculty wasn't the best. My teacher at the time particularly had it in for me. He was one of those teachers that had this view that their subject should be your most important subject, regardless of your future ambitions. If he thought that you weren't prioritizing art, then he would make your life hell.

Again, I hated art as a subject. He knew this, but I would still do any work he set out to the best of my ability. We had just finished a project where we had to mix different pigments to create our own unique color. Being color blind, I struggled a lot as I literally couldn't differentiate between half of the pigments. I gave it my all, but ended up giving up halfway through the project. My teacher hated me for giving up.

In his defense, he had tried to make it as easy as possible for me, but I hated the subject and saw a way out so I took it. My teacher was beyond mad. When we went to hand in the project, he gave me a lecture about how I need to put in more effort and work harder because the quality of the work was unacceptable. Remember, I literally couldn't see half the project. Once that project was finished, my teacher told us that Gallery X had asked us to create some inspired art. We were basically shown five different paintings that we were supposed to recreate in our own way. There was a big

fuss about this. People were saying that art schools would be giving out scholarships, that there was a $10,000 reward and other nonsense that 14-year-olds make up. But nevertheless, everyone wanted to be the one to have their painting and gallery acts. So for the next month and a half in my art classes, we would work on our piece. After the first week of working my piece, the excitement of the new project wore off, and so did my eagerness and lessons. My teacher noticed this and went from complimenting my work to yelling at me about what I was

doing wrong. By the fourth week, I was over the project and just wanted to be done with this. With two weeks left on the project, my teacher pulls me aside to tell me that my work isn't good enough and I need to improve it. I tried to improve, but he kept on belittling me. So out of arrogance and spite, I made art my most important subject until the end of this project. I dragged myself to each lesson, quietly working myself to the bone, counting down the days

until the deadline of the project. After what seemed like a year to 14-year- old me, the second to last lesson arrives. This lesson wasn't for final touches or anything like that. My teacher had decided that he would review what each student had done well and what they could have improved on. He walks around the classroom complimenting everyone's work until he gets to mine. I don't remember exactly what he said, but I'm pretty sure none of it was positive. I do remember, however, how he finished talking about mine.

You can tell that OP hasn't given this any thought and hasn't taken this seriously. This stung, because, yeah, I'd lost interest in it, but I'd still worked hard in lessons and given it my best shot. The bell went off, and I soaked out of class with my tail between my legs. The last lesson finally comes, and I can't wait to be over with this stupid project. This lesson was the big one too. The judges from Galerie X were coming to school to judge all the work. They come into our class and do all the formalities. These all look so good. I have no idea how we can decide on only one, etc. Then they start walking around

the room, lettering to each other. The whole class stood silently at the back, trying to hear what they were saying. They do a full lap of the room, then walk back over to my spot. I don't even notice this, as I had tuned out after they looked at the second painting. They then asked a teacher whose work they were standing over. He looks at them almost in disbelief as he gestures to me. I snap out of my daydream and just smile politely with no idea what's going on. The judges then confer for a while on my teacher and I frantically try to figure out what's going on. Finally, after about 5 minutes of mumbling, they say they want a short list of my artwork to potentially be shown in Gallery X. I look at them in

shock, then yet again smile politely and say thank you. I cannot begin to describe the look on my teacher's face. I don't think I've ever seen someone more confused, angry, and disappointed all at the same time. My teacher then begrudgingly thanks the judges and walks him to the door. He thinks the beginners they leave then stumbles back to the class. He doesn't even congratulate me on my work. He just defeatedly says me on my work. He just defeatedly says, could work everyone as a reward I'll put on a documentary for you all to

watch. And he did just that, not saying another thing until the end of the class. Later on that week, I got an email from GalleryX asking for my permission to display my work, which I happily said yes to. To sum it all up, the artwork that my teacher disrespected and said that I put no effort into was selected from among 192 options and got featured in the biggest art gallery in the country. OP, what I want to know is, how did you avoid becoming in sufferably smug every other class session after that? I would have come into art class every day and been like, golly, jeet teacher, I just can't wait to start today's lesson. I just love our class because

after all, I'm just so good at it. Wouldn't you agree teacher? Oh, you don't agree. Well then, how did I get my artwork featured in a national gallery? I mean, have you ever gotten your artwork featured in gallery x? Our next reddit post is from Acapella. I'm the sole communications and social media person for a small company. I went to school in this field and have done it professionally in a few different spheres. My boss, on the other hand, doesn't even know what a Facebook or Twitter page looks like and what any of the buttons do. Yet, she still micromanages me all day every day and I'm going crazy! I

always schedule our email campaigns spread out enough so that people aren't getting bombarded, generally one per week at most. This is one of the most basic rules of communication and should be common since even if you don't have a degree in this. Multiple times she's demanded that I post something immediately, even though the next few slots are already filled with posts that are more time sensitive. She always tells me to just send both in the same day, and I've explained to her numerous times that this is a terrible idea. In nice terms.

Well, I gave my two weeks notices past Monday, so I don't care anymore about fighting for what's best for the company. This time, I said I was going to push back each of our scheduled posts by one slot, so we can post the listing for my job vacancy immediately. Because for once, the new post actually is more time sensitive than the others. Once again, she tells me to post both the job listing and the one originally planned for that day. You're flying to meet with the new supplier to keep your business growing.

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So I'm going to guess that things didn't turn out quite so well for Mrs. Micromanager over there. Our next Reddit post is from PJX Pat. I used to work for a marketing company that served as small and medium-sized businesses across America. It was a multi-billion dollar revenue company. The CEO was a true rags-to-richest story. He joined the company right after he got out of jail in his early 20s for a small drug

charge, and worked his way up over 20 years to eventually become the CEO of the company. The CEO strongly believed that the success of the company didn't come from their brilliant and intelligent mindset he hired for his executive team, but instead the hard work, sweat, and tears of the infield sales reps, service reps, collection reps, and sales managers. He would often say that without sales, we don't have the revenue to pay your salaries. Without customer service, customers will drop us faster than we can bill them. Without collection reps, we'd lose too many accounts due to non-payment. And without sales managers to hold it all together, we'd fall apart. And he had one rule. Every single executive team member would spend one full

week of each quarter in the field with a sales manager, customer service rep, collections rep, or sales rep. In addition, when they're in the field, they are to submit to wherever they've been assigned to and may not pull rank. This rule applied to everyone, including the CEO. I know this, because the CEO personally wrote along with me for five days in the field. He's legitimately a cool guy. So apparently we'd hired a new VP of marketing from a major brand that I'm sure everyone in the sub would know of. Anyway, apparently the first time that the VP of marketing went in the field, he pulled rank on a sales manager and the sales

manager reported this directly to the CEO. A new quarter went by and I got an email stating that the VP of marketing would be joining me in the field on such and such week. Okay cool, not the first time I had some higher up come out and ride with me. But about an hour later, I got a call from my CEO. PJ, the VP of marketing is going in the field with you. Yes sir, I got the email. I picked PJ for you because when I was in the field with you, you seemed like the kind of guy that wouldn't be bullied or let someone run all over you.

Oh, well thank you. This VP is new to the company and the last time he went in the field, he pulled rank. I've told him not to pull rank again and if he does, I want you to call me as soon as you can. I understand. Thank you. The VP of Marketing meets me and honestly, for the first two days, everything was fine. However, on the third day, I was meeting with an existing client.

This client was a difficult to please customer. He would say we weren't worth the money, but I knew that we were because I could see his results. And over the year, this client's business had grown a lot. The client would beat us up over pricing, but I'd stand firm, give him a 3% price increase, and offer him upgrades on top, but he'd add them to a 1.5% price increase and we'd sign the contract. Now, I told the BP what would happen, that it would be a long sales call and a difficult high tension one. But to let me handle it, because I've dealt

with this client quite a bit and I was well prepared. Now this meeting with the client lasted 2 and a half hours but I'll get to the point. The client wanted a discount and was threatening to go to our competitor but I knew he wouldn't. That's when the VP spoke up and said, I'm the VP and I'll personally give you a 15% discount on your current plane if you agree to sign a 1 year contract. The customer said 20% and the VP said, Split the difference, 17.5, and we have a deal. They agreed and I was mad as hell.

One thing to mention was that my commission depended on me generating more revenue and this VP just screwed me over. We get to my car and I go, you pulled rank, you shouldn't have done that. He said, I got the deal done. I said had you kept your mouth shut I'd have gotten more money not given 20% back He goes we got the contract signed. I said we gave away tens of thousands of dollars that we didn't need to he goes Look I'm the VP. I think called my CEO The VP saw the name pop up in my car's Bluetooth. The CEO says,

OP, how you doing? The VP pulled rank on me and gave the customer a 17.5% discount on his current plan. Right as I was about to close him for more money. That's not right. Where's the VP? You're on speaker. He can hear you. Excellent.

Hey VP. Yes sir. Excellent, hey VP. Yes, sir. Tell me what happened. The VP told his side of the story and he admitted the truth, but also admitted to pulling Rangan giving the customer a discount. The CEO says, okay, thanks for your honesty.

You're fired. Excuse me? You're fired. You have a one-year probation clause. You're done. You don't pull-year probation clause. You're done. You don't pull rank when you're in the field. You can't do this. I just did.

You're to get on a plane and come back to your office and clean it out. OP, take Mr. VP back to his hotel and drop him off. Sure, no problem. And for the next 20 minutes, I had an awkward car ride back to my former VP's hotel. Later on in an all-hands-on meeting, the CEO made sure to talk about how if an executive is in the field in Poles rank. It's a fireable offense for the executive, and he wants all the sales reps, sales managers, customer service reps, and collection reps to know that. And then, OP includes another story about the CEO. The company had a data plan which gave us 4G on our iPads, phones and laptops.

Well the company changed the service plan and our data plan went down to ONLY our phones and we had the hotspot off of that. They said this move would save us $80,000 a month because we had like 4,000 employees in the field. Well two months later we had a conference and after the conference everyone went to the hotel bar. That's when I approached my CEO with another sales rep and talked to him about how much of a pain in the butt it was to hotspot all of our devices and how much it drained our

phone batteries and blah blah blah and that I get it saves money but it also costs productivity. The CEO nodded and said, tell you what in two weeks the CIO is supposed to go in the field. I'll have him go in the field with you, and if he agrees that it's costing our reps productivity and causing any more workflow issues, I'll bring back the 4G data to all devices. The CIO is there, and the CEO said, CIO, you're going into the field, and you'll be riding with OP. Pay attention to how he uses 4G data, and if you think we should go back to the old plan where

all devices had 4G, the CIO went into the field with me and on the third day of breakfast he said, last night I called the CEO and I said, yeah, and he said, I made a recommendation that we go back to our old data plans and ensure that all your devices have 4G data. It's obviously creating productivity issues and when you look at the cost per user, it's not that great. I come across a lot of obviously fake stories on Reddit, and this one takes the cake. A CEO who actually cares about and respects his employees? What is this fantasy land? Jokes aside, I'm not surprised this company succeeded.

It's incredibly rare that upper management actually understands what the regular employees go through. Honestly, I wish more companies would work like this. That was our slash malicious compliance, and if you like this content, then check out my Patreon where I publish episodes that were banned from YouTube. Also, be sure to follow my podcast because I put out new Reddit podcast episodes every single day.