r/MalciousCompliance - Karen PROMOTES HERSELF to Big Boss! Gets FIRED Instantly!

hello my wonderful beautiful friends guys welcome back to our slash malicious compliance where people get exactly what they ask for and the stories are super satisfying and in today's episode It's All About power tripping bosses getting what they deserve guys so if you've ever dealt with a bad boss in your life oh boy you'll be smiling today I hope you enjoy the stories hit subscribe if you haven't and as always you can send or link your post to this email right here let's Dive In so for the last three years I've worked as a muralist for a mural company it's hard work but also rewarding as I was beautifying public spaces I also had a good boss he was a skilled painter who worked alongside us on big projects in addition to providing us with plenty of financial incentives and encouragement unfortunately he retired last year and he gave full control of the company to his business partner it immediately went downhill from there the business partner controlled the administration side of the company the guy wasn't a painter he didn't understand the work it took and the guy would often overbook clients and over promise on completion dates he never offered us incentives and he would only berate us for not getting jobs done quickly enough we tried to tell him that the old boss always encouraged us to take our time and to deliver the best mural as the company's reputation rested on the quality of work we also tried to explain that as artists we want to be proud of the work that we put out there at that the new boss brushed It Off saying you are paid to paint and finish jobs just get it done now this was incredibly demoralizing and after two months of churning out rushed work we were burnt out one of four mirrorless quit the final straw came three months later our company won a huge bid to paint the side of a five-story tall building using my design I told the boss that it would take us five weeks to complete however a week before the project was due to start he told us that we had three weeks no ifs ands or buts at that we protested stating that we're down one mirror list stating safety issues weather changes and the complexity of the design he of course told us that the contracts already been signed and to just get the work done and brushed off our concerns he did however offer US Financial incentives for overtime work this time and knowing that there was nothing we could do we accepted it I simplified the design and we planned to stay late the weather got bad as predicted there were a few days of rain where we barely got any work done we fell behind and told our boss that he had to get us an extension our client was nice enough to Grant another week but our boss was pissed the guy would show up to the job site regularly just to watch us and Rush us and making sure we were using every second of our time on the third week we were working when a light drizzle started we were waiting in our cars hoping that it would pass when the boss shows up the moment he saw us sitting in our cars he accused us of being lazy to quote he said to us this is why we're falling behind you lazy idiots are just sitting inside cars when you should be painting that's when one of my co-workers sat through gritted teeth can't you see it's raining but before we could explain why we couldn't paint in the Rain the boss yelled saying if you're scared of a little drizzle you should not be a muralist now get back to work at that my co-worker shot me a look and I knew immediately that the malicious compliance was on so the three of us get back on the scaffolding and we begin working the boss smugly sad see that wasn't so hard was it and then he drove off we just kept our smiles to ourselves when the boss returned that afternoon he was horrified the rain had washed the wet paint down the building leaving paint streaks dripping on the rest of the mural basically the whole mural three weeks of work was ruined we noticed the boss standing their slack jawed but we just kept painting he then called us down and cursed us out with all sorts of profanity when asked what the f were you guys thinking my co-worker replied well you were the one who told us to do it if we can't paint in the rain we're not mirrorless remember hearing my co-workers say that my boss's face turned beat red he then asked us well how the hell are we gonna fix this to which my co-workers simply replied you mean how are you going to fix it we've decided to all quit and indeed we had while we were working in the rain so we pack up our tools as the boss went from yelling to begging to yelling at us again and we just ignored him that was the last day that we were on site and I felt so relieved the moment I got home so here's the aftermath I got a call a week later from my old boss and I was ready to tell him that I won't come back to work but it turned out that he was just wanting to check up on me he apologized for what happened he also told me that my new boss lost the contract and he had to Fork out the money to repaint the whole wall blank again so another mirrorless can take over the company is now floundering the new boss can't find anyone to replace us and he probably never will what he didn't realize was that finding even one good muralist willing to work for a company is very difficult let alone a whole team most mirrorless are more than happy to self-employ more importantly not many people have the skills and patience as well as the physical abilities to create beautiful large-scale artworks from great Heights my co-workers and I still keep in touch they got a few projects in the work from clients that they knew during their time with the company I still help out now and then but I'm still pretty burnt out from the experience so I think I'll look for other jobs now I'll give it another few months before the company completely shuts down he hasn't been able to find work or new mirrorless to work for him guys if I had a dollar for every single story that I've read where a new boss just comes in and completely destroys a business that's fully functional and profitable I'd probably be 30 bucks richer like in this case if it ain't broke don't fix it applies so hard especially if the new guy knows absolutely nothing about the company that he's taking over so here's a bit of backstory when I was at this job everyone was kind and nice and we were just a great team we had a chill management team apart from one let's call her Judith now Judith loved writing people up and making our lives help and although she was just an assistant manager she would always jump at the opportunity to manage the team for a few days if the main manager was off let's call the main manager Bob Bob was an easy going person you wouldn't really see him that often but overall he was chill now we could always handle Judith as any complaints or write-ups Etc that she processed had to be approved by Bob or the regional manager who will call Joe Joe was the coolest guy ever and he was super effing Rich too he wasn't just a chill manager he was also a really great guy he would bring us all out for beer a department of 30 plus people on someone's birthday and he would approve basically any vacation request if you were on the right side of him overall he was a lovely boss now my job was a pretty important Tech job I was in a sub-department with four to five people and we made sure that the major systems were up and running and we controlled all the servers that were connected to them all what we didn't manage was the employee systems like emails ticketing employee portal Etc that was another sub department now as I was saying we could handle Judith basically because none of her write-ups and complaints got listened to by Bob or Joe now on this particular month Bob was celebrating his 35th Anniversary and Joe was sick in the hospital worst timing I know we were all mentally prepared for Judith's wrath this time we were informed by Bob that any write-up Department change or complaint did not have to be approved by them as Joe was also gone we thought no big deal we'll just get Bob to clear them when we come back so on to the story we're gonna take it day by day so on day one Judith was camping at the door anyone who was in after 9am was immediately written up 901 you'd get written up I was lucky to be there at nine on the dot so was everyone else since we were used to Judas Shenanigans by now I was talking to my buddy in the main software and tech department and he told me that she was in there all day focusing on this one guy who will call George I've known George for quite a while he was a family friend and for some reason Judith never liked him she wrote him up five times that day for reasons like on cell phone during work time making the work environment unsanitary and unsafe for employees as he left an empty plastic bottle on his desk for about half an hour on day number two Judith was in our department today focusing on my colleague Michelle Michelle is the sweetest person in the world and would never do anything to hurt or ruin anything of anyone's and she's just a genuinely sweet person Judith found nothing on Michelle and when Judith confronted her she said she didn't know what she wanted and that's when Judith filed a complaint for talking back after that Judith then hosted a department-wide meeting consisting of the main Tech slash software and the seven sub-departments and she told us that we needed to stop being so rude to her just because she's a woman blah blah blah that night I send a message onto the management free group with everyone from the Department saying not to engage with Judith we can get written up by her for rudeness or disrespect if we don't talk to her on day three cue the malicious compliance so we all come in and the day starts as usual we come in at the right time so Judith had no one to write up we then head to our departments and begin work as usual Judith wasn't focused on someone from my department so lucky us at about midday we hear Judith Going Bonkers at someone from the Department that managed the employee systems because they weren't talking to her she kept going on on and on at him but still no response finally Judith gave him one last chance before announcing the entire department is suspended for sexism and disrespect our room was right next to there so we heard everything crystal clear and then to Judith's surprise everyone gathers their things and they leave without a word I didn't get to see the look on her face but I bet she was livid she then moved on to my department she came in and told us that we have to do all the work for the other departments as they're all now suspended and to her dismay no one even batted an eye at her out of the corner of my eye I could see her face going dark red that's when she gets up on a chair and she starts screaming at us all and then counting down from 10. like we were little kids all of us knew what was coming so we slowly began to log out of our things and pack up without being too obvious by the time she got to one we were all ready to leave and can you guess what was coming if you said everybody was suspended you would be correct we then left I then messaged one of my buddies and the other departments and she did the exact same thing to his Department it turns out that she did it to 5 out of the six departments and the only one she left was the least useful Department customer services now yes it is an important one but not nearly as important as Financial development Etc on day number four none of us went into work until we got a message from Bob asking why none of us are at work it was the day he came back we told him that we were all suspended he then asked us why and we told him the genuine reason that she suspended us for being disrespectful towards her at that he was absolutely furious at Judith and he proceeded to call us in for a staff meeting but we all knew that it was just really front row tickets to Judith's downfall he then proceeded to criticize her for all of her false write-ups accusations and how she's done barely any of the roles that the assistant manager should be doing and that's when he fired her Bob made us all turn the systems into auto mode and he gave us Friday off what an awesome man I should also mention that Judith costed the company more than fifty thousand dollars as some of our Vital systems went down in the six hours they were left without being switched on to auto mode the company almost sued her for this but they decided that firing her would be better as they would be done with her guys now that is a Karen on a mega Power Trip like imagine suspending a whole entire department for the most childish reason and then going on to four other departments and doing the exact same thing like I can't imagine what was going through her head guys there had to be some points where she's like maybe I'm going too far with this being the assistant manager and all but you guys all know Karen's right they don't back down they just double down and keep going and going until there's nothing left and they're fired all right so this took place years ago but it still makes me laugh at the sheer stupidity of it all it starts as all truly great sagas published on the internet began when I met a random guy through a friend at a bar in the city let's call the guy I met Mark for the purpose of the post my friend introduced me to mark because for years leading up to that introduction I shared this idea that I had for a business with anyone who would listen I was told that Mark wanted to start his own business as he had worked in the industry and he knew a lot about the subject matter required and the guy thought my idea was good Mark and I met up for lunch we hit it off and he said he'd start the business as the CEO and agreed to me taking a part-time operational role I agreed to help solely in a part-time operational role because I couldn't afford to quit my day job I put in the 15 of cash for five percent ownership since Mark was going to put in the founders hours which was 80 hours a week and agreed to put up 85 percent of the cash which was way more more money than I could afford to risk on a new Venture so with that I worked part-time I did what I said I would do and I even tried to be of assistance on things I had no experience with I connected Mark with a fella that I had done business with before we'll call him Paul Paul and I got into a dispute ourselves but more on this later anyways let's fast forward a few months and I got into a dispute with Mark over stationery and yes stationary not being to his liking caused him to flip out this was despite him picking the stationary out next up the contract I got from Mark was not what we agreed the legal work required a few months to get done and I had expected delays but when I finally got the paperwork it didn't represent what I agreed to own not only that but my investment wasn't being acknowledged under the terms that we had committed to when I put the money in now as I said I wasn't able to risk much and I only invested what I could afford to lose so it's not a huge sum of money I also didn't want to make a big deal about it it since the amount was small and he began promising a new contract when the business could pay for lawyers to make changes I signed nothing and then it worsened Mark and I started to fight any time that we were in a room together as I think back it's almost comical how angry he would get in my presence I have other things to do with my time then squabble over stuff like stationery so I worked on my areas of the business and hoped things would grow I stopped in whenever I could and I would help out regularly as needed with as little Mark interaction as possible Paul would intervene sometimes when Mark would get particularly difficult to be around anyways fast forward two years and Mark can't help but tell everyone who will listen that the business is going well I have no idea how well things are going because Mark's not giving me any updates I get a call around Christmas from Mark he wishes me a happy holiday and then drops the bomb on me that he wants to terminate my involvement and refund my investment I declined the investment fund and say that I'm happy to no longer work with him in my head I'm thinking it's kind of hilarious that he thinks this will end that easily but I say nothing to that Accord to him Mark and I hang up with him aggravated about my refusal to take the refund on my investment Mark then sends me an email saying that I resigned I correct him immediately in a reply stating that he wanted to no longer work together but want to discuss my investment a few days later Mark demands I come pick up a check for reimbursements of my investments but I don't come and get it the next thing you know the company attorney Huffs and puffs and he tries to scare me with some strongly worded letter now this is the same idiot attorney who screwed up my contract to work on the business and my investment agreement let's call this attorney Mr Khan for the sake of the story so I sent an email response to Mr Khan saying that he screwed up the company seems to be doing well and I hear rumors about how well and I want to be on this for the foreseeable future and I will not take a one-to-one cash out for what I put in the attorney then emails me back stating in writing that Mark never accepted my e-transfer from the company account instead Mark has another company he accepted the money into a company that I've never heard of a company that's different than the name of the recipient on my electronic transfer a company that would be committing wire fraud to accept the money I sent on that note I did some sleuthing online I found out that Mark had been farming one company every month or two then there were media reports and documents that he let slip and share drives that he forgot I had access to from when we agreed to work together those documents showed me that Mark had recently raised money in the company I sent the payment to at 200 times the valuation that I bought in at and Mark didn't disclose my investment to the new investors Mark had however put me on documents showing my ownership to previous investors not on documents I'd ever seen before but documents he had been sending around when I share my suspicions that Mark is committing wire fraud with Mr Khan I'm told that I'm the one breaking the law by knowing anything about the investment documents the companies used Mr Khan tells me that by not picking up my check I will not be entitled to any money and to contact law enforcement if I think something illegal has happened he then cautions saying that I'll be the one in trouble so cue the malicious compliance so I let the different respective members of the Securities and Exchange Commission along with law enforcement know what happened to me I provided them all the documents I had from the matter it took about five years for the investigation to conclude for charges to be brought for a trial to conclude and for Mark to go to jail they say the government is slow but they're not kidding with how slow maybe it was slow because Mark was running a huge tens of millions of dollars large fraud scheme anyways Mark will be serving time for about 30 felony charges they found uncovering the details of his Ponzi scheme he'll be locked away for a long time I never did anything wrong with the information I was able to provide Mr Khan ended up getting disbarred the investigators credit me with bringing the fraud to their attention I did lose all my money in this ordeal but I gained an education and I got to help bring down a cook the sheer stupidity of Mark is that he didn't even follow the business plan I had he just used it as a story to convince investors to give him money it was a business model that works very very well it took a few more years but now I'm in a position to be pursuing this business full-time with people of high integrity who all work together to ensure other success we expect to have an extremely profitable year in 2023 after proving the business model worked in 2022 what a crazy story guys and what an idiot Mark in that attorney were like if I was secretly running a super duper illegal tens of millions of dollars Ponzi scheme the last thing I would say to someone who dislikes me is if you don't like it go to the authorities call law enforcement see what they'll do and this is criminals guys like the guy didn't want to take the slow legal approach to riches and got rewarded with jail time unbelievable so this happened around 2008 when the economy went down hard I was working in a small electric and computer lab where we built some very high-end video Computing product I was the assistant manager in the computer lab because I was the most experienced guy in the lab basically there was no problem that I didn't see before and couldn't solve while the rest of my crew were beginners the economy went down hard but this business didn't suffer much so we were not too worried about our job however our Richard CEO thought it was a great opportunity to save some money first he fired almost all my crew leaving me with one guy to handle all the work second he announced a 20 cut in work time which means a 20 cut in pay he then gave us this offer he said you can work seven and a half hours a day instead of the nine hours in our contract or you can skip one day a week as we work Sunday to Thursday my one crew member agreed to cut his daily hours however I decide to cut a day now one thing my boss neglected to decide is which day I cut now I did ask him but he just said you choose the day so I figured it's my decision now and I decided to take the last day from this week and the first day of next week giving me a long weekend every two weeks which is great now this did work nice for a month my pay was reduced but I had a lot of free time and I started using the free time to improve myself the first thing was to look for another job at the end of the second month my boss noticed something odd the new guy got a call to solve a problem on Thursday and he couldn't figure it out until Monday at noon a long time for a problem to be solved and the client was not happy he then called my crew in and asked him why the delay the guy said he couldn't fix it and I wasn't available to fix it until Monday so I get called in first things first why am I not available on my days off I respond I don't get paid for that so screw you second he he asked me why the long weekend that's when I explained to him that he gave me the authority to decide and that was my decision and my boss man was pissed the guy tried to F me over and found out that he got screwed back he then claimed it's not right and that I should change the days back and be available when I'm not at work I asked him if that's a management decision because if it is it's three strikes against me and I'm entitled to a month's salary and full compensation which at the time was worth another six months salary he understood that he was royally effed by me and that's when he withdrew his decision he didn't give me my day back so I continued looking and by the end of the month I gave my notice in my notice I specifically stated the pay cut as my reason to leave and with the other argument that I constantly had with him the last month I demanded six months compensation as per my contract boss man refused to budge but I sent him a formal letter threatening to sue him he tried to make things right again and offered me my day back but it was too late I already had another job with better pay and a better boss at the end of the month I finally left my last crew member was promoted to assistant manager instead of me but they did not give him the pay raise and he was pissed and being a better man than me he quit after one month opened his own business directly competing with the old boss his main target was to harm the old boss and he succeeded very well his business grew and he makes good money now while the old boss had to pick up the pieces of his business now unable to service his clients it got a major hit last time I checked he closed the computer lab and shrunk the business from 10 people to three to two don't get cheap on your best employee it'll destroy your business ain't that the truth guys and I always love it when employees leave crabby bosses start their own businesses and just destroys their old company and now my friends brings us to another end of our slash malicious compliance guys I hope you enjoyed today's crazy crazy stories and if you missed yesterday's episode on the channel it's an r slash entitled people episode where Karen calls the cops when she's caught scamming a store it's such a funny story so go check it out if you haven't and myself and Stevie boy will see you guys in the next one we love you

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Length: 24min 45sec (1485 seconds)

Published: Wed May 17 2023