r/MaliciousCompliance - Malicious manager

I work as an administrative assistant at a major sporting goods retailer part of my job is to track attendance and regularly upload a report to corporate my store manager just recently in the last two years got hired by our district manager who she has been friends with for years they managed to push out the old store manager who had the store running like a ticking clock ever since then it has become abundantly clear that she has no idea how to run the store and we have all suffered for it she constantly screws up the store said ëwell bull his employees she doesn't like and has hired in competed friends two management positions we all dislike her and think she should be fired but it seems like everything she does in the store makes us look bad while making her look good until recently like I said above part of my job is tracking attendance yet for years it has been common knowledge that those in my position are expected to fail to upload attendance records to corporate because the company's policies on attendance are extremely harsh and many employees fail to meet attendance due to factors out of their control for instance employees who come on before we open to process our freight often clock in late because the managers on duty take their sweet time opening the front doors for these employees it is not their fault that they come in late and on some occasions certain employees have been left outside for upwards of 30 minutes after ringing our doorbell because the only person who could open the doors was busy or didn't hear the doorbell which is soft anyway if I should have load the attendance record to corporate many of these employees would probably be fired on the spot via our regional manager through email because these things are automated in mandatory as a side note the store manager is one of the managers who likes to take 10 or 15 minutes to open the door for freight employees we all hate her for this because when it is winter we have to wait those 10 or 15 minutes outside the door in the freezing cold and she acts like it is no big deal including attendance she sent an email to our store manager demanding an attendance record I told the store manager that this could get many employees fired but instead of realizing the implications she told me to run the report anyway I tried to tell her that this could result in most of the employees who had availability before we open who are very valuable and rare getting fired and she completely blew me off she literally went as far as saying that I was not thinking straight I told her that she could adjust the attendance on her end as that he n backslash clearly backslash wanted her to do this has been common procedure due to the reasons for poor attendance and she told me that she was the store manager she would figure it out and I should just do my job as I was told so I ran the report and immediately got a furious email from the new district manager saying that I should have run the report by my store manager to adjust the records before uploading it to corporate the next day corporate sent an automated email with the names of all the employees that should be fired which is not an email that our manager can either respond to or contest she had to fire all the employees on the email and as it turned out every single employee with availability before we open got fired 15 people and every other employee in the store is a student with no ability to work before like 10:00 a.m. so there is nobody to process our freight which is a massive job I got an email from a friend in corporate yesterday that said the regional manager was lining up a replacement for our store manager due to incompetence none of us are surprised years ago I was working for a large organization my boss was very nice and pleasant to work with at first I was hired and tasked with taking a very troubled department and bringing it up in standards my boss was fairly supportive during the initial few months on the job / then something changed the department began to perform and improve greatly within the first six months and this was recognized and heralded by upper management this made my boss look good and also improved overall morale on the team within the troubled department as they were finally recognized for their efforts and talents about this time six-month mark I was told to watch my back by a few other colleagues both men and women outside of my department because my boss had a reputation for putting her own success over anyone elses they also warned me that she was known for being very threatened by any successful males who work with her male here she was a very big champion of the women on her team and regularly promoted and advocated for them but it seems that every male that worked on her team ended up leaving or getting fired this was something I was not aware of when I was hired I also am the only male on the team after investigating this further I found there to be some truth to all of this as it happens over a 12-year period over eight men on her team either quit or were fired six fired and tippet of the women on her team during the same time period eight were promoted to quit four were still on her team and zero were fired so I'm a bit concerned about this now as one I'm a male and two she has this reputation for making it difficult for men on her team I just took this all in stride however and focused on continuing to manage the department to greater levels work on continuing to increase them or all of the departments and ensuring I communicate with my boss regularly about any situation that would become problematic for her or me I also focused on ensuring that she got maximum credit for the improvements of the troubled department and credited her with being a great boss that ensured that the department received the resources and support that it needed to succeed fast forward to about my eighth month there and I'm in a meeting with my boss and she begins to rage against me that I am held someone who was in the upper management of the company I explained to her that yes I did see see that VP because the NL in question was one that necessarily involved the entire area under which this particular VP lead she said I'm not to do that and then proceeded to tell me that I'm forbidden to m/l anyone that is above my pay grade as that is not my place she then tells me that only she is allowed to wear mail these people and that if an m/l needs to go to them CC or not she will send it I asked her if she would like me to send the emails that would need to go to VPS to her for her to send and she tells me yes send them to me and then I will send them I asked her also if she wishes I do not call the VP's on the phone as well and she say yes you are not to call them either then she says I know you may be used to getting your way because you are a man but this doesn't mean you can try to take my job what I'm kind of befuddled at this and just take it all in and decide that I need to respect her wishes because there must be something else going on here of which I'm not aware okay fine we will do it your way about a month goes by and during that time I only need to win a love EP once and I write up the email to this VP's department send it to her and then wait for her to send it on now this air mail is time-sensitive and involves giving the VP and his people our heads-up about resources needed for a particular project now the VP must be included in this nao because this request involved budgetary issues and only the VP over a specific area is allowed to change or adapt their budget otherwise I would have just communicated directly with the members of this other VP's team to give them the heads up so I send the email to my boss ask her to send it on within the next three days and then I wait about a week goes by and I happen to run into this particular VP in the elevator she asks me about the project resources e.t.c e.t.c and i let her know that things are good she then asks about the overrun on this one particular area and I tell her that it is best she asked my boss she then asks me to send her an email on this particular overrun and I let her know sure I will make that happen I follow back to my boss let her know about the conversation with the VP and the elevator and she blows up at me starts yelling and screaming and telling me that I'm not to even talk with that VP or any VP about this project I explained to her that sure I get it but it would have been rude to not acknowledge this VP's questions since we were stuck in the elevator together and I did not seek out that meeting she then begins to tell me that she has to write me up for being insubordinate and not honoring her request to not nao who'll talk to VPS I'm flawed but nothing I can do as I'm leaving her office she tells me that I made a mistake in hiring you I know you were different but you are just as entitled as all the other men they've hired damn okay so this is going really well do I go to human resources and have them play their stupid games with me nah not gonna solve anything especially with a boss that has been at the company for ten years or so human resources generally cares very little about employees and only really worries about risk and protecting the company they aren't gana did crap for me so I don't report any of this I seriously thought about filing a complaint about my boss's comments to me but when I had the meeting where I had to sign my write-up I decided against it given the our officer had to read the write-up before I signed it and I figured that since the write-up was based on a BS policy that my boss created out of thin air I was right in assuming that house would do crap for me if I had complained anyway so I just try to get through all this crap and start looking for another job on the side two days later I get a call from an SVP to whom the VP from the elevator reports to now my boss also reports to another VP this VP is a female and also not the same one from the elevator and this V Peter who my boss reports also reports to this SVP this SVP asks me to come to a meeting that next day I explained that I'm happy to do so but I will need to check with my boss first to ensure that there are no conflicts in the schedule I also state to this SVP that I would appreciate it if she would contact my boss as well to ensure that my boss is made aware of her request the SVP pauses and then tells me no that won't be necessary in this case and then hangs up crap so I a male my boss tell her that the SVP is requesting to meet with me the next day and wanted to make her aware of the meeting she comes storming into my office around 5:30 p.m. about an hour before I usually leave and closes my door and the rates me for a good 20 minutes for talking with the SVP she was so loud that one of the members of the department in which I worked was about to call security just before my boss exited my office I knew my boss would be mad but didn't expect anything like this so next day I go to the meeting with the SVP at that meeting is another three VPS the first is the female VP whom I ran into in the elevator and was asking about overruns the second is the female VP to who my boss reports and the third is a female VP that used to oversee the department in which I presently work the SVP proceeds to ask me about the overruns I explained as best as I can about the issues involved and also explained that I had prepared an m/l a few weeks ago about this the VP whom I ran into in the elevator states that she never got that ml on the cost overruns from me I then explained that it would not come from me but would have come from my boss the VP asks why I wouldn't send it I say that is not my place to send ml's to VPS then the SVP stops everyone from talking and says what did you just say I then reiterate my response then the SVP begins questioning me about this point after about 15 minutes of my explaining to them that I'm not allowed to communicate with them for my boss's orders they are all pretty disgusted and frustrated I further explained that this policy was created by my boss and has been consistently enforced by her for the past month or so they tell me that they will have to come back to me on this but in the meantime they will get the NL's about the overruns from my boss and follow up with her crap crap crap so I go back to my office that day and realize that my head is on the chopping block I'm really in a no-win situation and I just have to wait for it to play out and play out it did I come into work the next day it's a Thursday and I don't think anything has changed seems like a normal oppressive day and I'm just waiting for the axe to fall on my head I work most of the morning and then right before lunch I get an M L the ml is from the SVP with all the VP's copied in on it that my boss is taking some time off and will be back in a few days during her absence or requests and management decisions will be made by the repeater who my boss reports I'm not quite sure what this means but given the weekend is coming up I'm just glad this frigging week is almost over day goes by uneventful and V around 4:00 p.m. the VP responsible for the department in which I work comes down and comes into my office and tells me that as of that day my department and I'm no longer reporting to my boss that I was now reporting directly to her I ask what that means for the department and my job she said nothing it just means that the department will be better served under this new reporting structure given the increase in the amount of business that the department was engaged in since my hire as well as the strategic internal leverage that would be needed going forward I also was explicitly told that I was free to now communicate with any other VP's or SV P's of the organization as I saw fit she then apologized for the experience I had with my boss and told me that she was unaware of my boss forbidding me to communicate with her or other VP's or SV P's I take this alone not knowing whom is telling the truth but relieved that I will no longer have to endure being treated like a child by my boss I then ask about my boss and her reporting relationship to my departments other team members and was told that she was forbidden to execute orders to them on her own unless she has my prior approval comer I stay at this company about three years total have a great working relationship with the VP whom was now my boss as well as the other VPS and SV Peter whom they reported I only left when I got a better offer in a different industry my former boss was eventually cancelled out over a three months period after hours investigated her behavior interviewed me about the arbitrary rules about communicating with VPS that my boss had enforced on me as well as her shouting at me and writing meet up and disparaging me as a male talk about Karma her write-up of me was used as evidence that she actually had implemented this no contact policy solely with me and because she wrote it up and put it in my employee file it proved my veracity about the entire contact issue in addition and also compounding the problem other alleged issues concerning cost overruns financial reporting irregularities that she had hidden over the years I have never seen her again but if I ever do I would love to be able to say to her great seeing you again I always tell people that you are the boss that taught me the importance of using email to further my career thank you for watching if you enjoyed this video a like and a comment would mean a lot in YouTube's world share with us if you would have done things differently and don't forget to support the original authors with an upvote links are in the description peace out and catch you tomorrow

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Length: 16min 21sec (981 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 21 2019