January 7, 2025 at 10:22 am

His Horrible Boss Wanted Him To Reject A Customer’s Crucial Supplies, So He Found A Way To Go Against His Boss’s Order Without Getting Himself In Trouble!

by Sarrah Murtaza

Oftentimes certain choices in life can get pretty tricky, but this guy proved to always stick to the right option!

He went against his boss’s order to do the wrong thing, because he was determined to do the right thing. It certainly was rewarding!

Check out the full story.

Corrupt manager wants me to reject crucial supplies – I do as instructed

About a couple of decades ago, I used to work at a concrete production plant for a reputable construction company.

Our company, like several other construction companies, were awarded a portion of a larger project.

He shares how his product was being made…

A large portion of land was earmarked for setting up temporary office buildings and concrete plants for the different construction companies.

The “sites” were separated by temporary barriers and had separate entrances.

As many of you may (or not) know, concrete is produced by mixing cement, water, sand and stone grits (size 20mm + 10mm) along with special admixtures in a specific ratio.

Our recipe also contained a special ingredient – stone dust. Turns out, only our company used stone dust in our concrete and the neighbors did not. So a special truckload full of stone dust was specially shipped for us.

This is where his part comes in!

This is important later.

My job entailed orchestrating concrete delivery to our project sites apart from regular quality control tasks like checking incoming materials for quality etc.

Only after I had signed the delivery receipts, our stores personnel would unload the trucks at designated areas. A log of all trucks entering and leaving the concrete batching plant would be kept by security at gate (Relevant later.)

There were some perks that he wasn’t a fan of…

Since my job entailed checking incoming material before accepting, the suppliers would usually try to offer some petty bribes, from cash to booze to flesh – if you know what I mean 😉

I always declined such offers as once accepted, you became their dog and lose all respect in their eyes.

Moreover, bad material also impacted the quality of concrete produced: strength, consistency and setting time, to name a few.

Since concrete delivery was also part of my job, it was in my best interest to only accept good material, otherwise the client would chew me up during casting.

This is where it gets interesting!

One night, a supplier truck entered the premises with 20mm stone chips. Upon testing, I found them to be undersized for 20mm and oversized for 10mm. I went ahead and rejected the load.

The driver and supplier started pestering me, offering bribes and what not.

When I didn’t budge, they called my boss who asked me what was going on.

I explained that the quality of material was unacceptable and I have rejected this.

When I mentioned it is too small for 20mm, he ordered me to dump it in 10mm bin anyway.

His boss had ulterior motives…

I knew what that meant.

My boss was on the supplier’s payroll.

A couple of weeks pass by and my boss asked me to reject “a truckload” of material from a very reliable supplier.

He knew that the supplier was only delivering stone dust that day and should we reject material, the entire load would be a waste and a loss to the supplier.

Once the stone chips or stone dust has left the quarry, they, for some reason, can’t bring it back. Hence my boss wanted to hit the supplier where it hurt most. Especially stone dust as there was no other company that would take it.

He wasn’t going to let this slide.

Cue – malicious compliance.

I called the supplier, who had become a friend by now and told him that I was under orders to reject “a truck”.

He panicked and told me that my boss was putting pressure on him for bribes.

This particular supplier believed in providing quality material and always visited my lab to understand how I tested the material and what my requirements were.

He would then go back to his quarry and adjust the equipment to deliver the best quality materials. Because he put so much effort in improving the quality of his product, he did not budge and bow down to my boss’s demands.

His plan seemed solid!

I asked the supplier friend to route a truckload of 20mm stone chips meant of some other company to my plant first. I would let the gate security log the trucks’ entry and then promptly reject the material.

He was then supposed to send the stone dust which I would accept and be done with my “task.”

Everything happened as planned, I completed my remaining activities for the night and went home.

When I came back to work in the evening, my boss was waiting for me at the door.

Things went great…

As expected, he had checked the entry/exit log as well as material receipt history. He had noticed that I had accepted the stone dust and was chewing his anger, waiting for me to explain.

He very casually asked me if I had rejected a truckload.

I acted dumb and answered in affirmation. I told him that the very first truck, a 20mm was rejected.

Now usually 20mm is never rejected, especially from this supplier, so he asked me what reason did I give while rejecting the truckload.

Cherry on top!

I said flakiness index – a test we never do as a field test, but is mandated by the client to be done once a quarter.

He knew that I was playing him but he couldn’t do anything. I had done exactly what he had asked me to do, reject “a truckload.”

I had covered my bases with the security log as well as material receipt so he just muttered something under his breath and never mentioned this to me again or asked me to do anything similar.

2 months later he was transferred to a different site and I became the overall in charge – same designation and pay, just more responsibilities.

Yikes! This guy really has some nerves of steel!

Going against a boss isn’t everyone’s piece of cake.

Let’s find out what folks on Reddit think about this story.

This user has a comedic take on the story!