Sometimes just listening to your employees can save you a lot of trouble and a lot of money. That’s because they were hired for a reason!

This woman shares her experience with a mean manager who wouldn’t even listen to what she had to say. If the manager would have only listened, she could’ve avoided a huge and expensive mistake.

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Lab demanded I go over my required time to swap my SIM card to labs router, so it cost them thousands

Before I start, I should say the manager I mention frequently made irrational and uninformed demands of those under them and expected them to be executed immediately with minimal questions.

To keep this post shorter, I won’t list all the instances I still remember but just the revenge part.

This is where it begins…

While back, I was working at a lab that only had internet access by a cellular router.

It was a pretty good connection and allowed for nice upload/download speeds over the weekends when no one was on it so people liked to save their data transfers for Friday afternoon.

She explains how it works!

The main lab internet had unlimited data plans but when all staff were onsite it would be slow and some would complain, especially if people started their data transfers early.

In addition to the main connection, some people such as myself had a personal lines and routers.

Mine had a limited plan (3GB per month) since I was just using it for infrequent remote SSH sessions.

She almost made it out the door.

It was a Friday afternoon and I was already over my 40 hours (unpaid since salary) so I packed up and was walking out the door.

As I walked out the door, a manager demanded I stay to put more/different SIMs into the router to see how data transfers were impacted over the weekend and speeds during the week.

She tried to communicate the problem…

I explained we didn’t have unlimited SIMs available and if we did activate one it would take time to get a connection.

So they said to use the one assigned to me since I wouldn’t need it for the weekend and I can activate a new one to be ready when I came back in.

I told them it was a limited plan and before I could explain anything else they said to just do it.

She did as she was told.

So I activated myself a new one, put the limited plan SIM into the main labs router and left for the weekend (knowing there would be large data transfers that weekend).

Well Monday comes and the manager never says anything about it, and neither did I.

A few more days pass and they ask me to check out the data usage/speeds on the SIM.

Cherry on top…

I gave them the numbers and found of the nearly 2TB of data moved, almost 700GB was on that 3GB limited plan… What they didn’t let me explain was that the limited plans have a $10/GB overage fee.

So this demand cost nearly $7,000 in a week.

After this, the manager was much more receptive to her underlings input.

SIGH! That accounts for a “told ya!”.

Why didn’t the manager listen to her?

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

This user has a funny take on the story!

This user shares their experience which is also similar to this one.

This user wants to know if the manager accepted her mistake.

That’s right! This user wants to know if the manager paid for their incompetence.

Exactly! This user hopes the manager was held accountable for her actions.

The manager made a costly mistake!

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