His Boss Demanded Updates on Everything—So He Maliciously Complied with Thousands of Transaction Photos
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You asked for it…
You got it!
If you have the displeasure of dealing with a micromanaging boss, that’s sometimes the only attitude you can employ to make it through the day.
In other words, you maliciously comply!
Because that usually makes them see the errors of their way and then they tend to back off.
Check out what this worker did to get their boss to chill out a bit.
Start now!
Want pictures of all the transactions and deposits, you got it!
“Once upon a time, I worked for a boss who would try to passively micromanage my work.
I was the manager of multiple locations and I would handle everything that is related to the store: the cash, vendor invoices, profits and everything in between.
When I first took up this position, they expected me to learn everything on my own, no proper training, no one to reach out to if I was stuck at something. However, gradually, I picked it all up and mastered every single entry and transaction.
This guy sounds like a handful.
When this manager started seeing my progress, he started asking me all the unnecessary “why’s” and “How come this and how come that?”.
Then he started questioning my accounting and said “From this point on, I want pictures of all the transactions that you handle.”
Say no more…..
If you say so!
For the next few months, I would bombard his phone with every little transaction detail and tag him in everything that I was doing.
If something’s not taken care of and the upper management questions me, I’d simply say “I asked my boss but he never responded”.
LOL.
Eventually, this boss called me one day and asked me to stop sending him pictures because his phone is now lagging due to low storage and that he has to spend a lot of time deleting those thousands of pictures.”
And this is what folks had to say on Reddit.
This person weighed in.
Another reader shared their thoughts.
This individual spoke up.
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If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a longtime bank customer who walked away after the teller gave them a hard time.
And another reader didn’t hold back…
To all the bosses out there…
We hope you learned a lesson from this story.
Back off and let workers do their jobs!
Some bosses think they have to micromanage their workers for some reason…
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