When you make demands of your employees, you have to be very clear about what you want and what methods they can use.

What would you do if your boss told you to save the company millions of dollars per year, and that he didn’t care how you did it?

That is what happened to the mining worker in this story, so he decided to shut down a major piece of equipment, which cost millions to run. Unfortunately, that equipment also generated many more millions in revenue. In the end, upper management found out about it and fired the manager.

I wonder why upper management fired the manager rather than the one who shut down the machine. Read through the full story below and see if you can figure it out.

You want me to save the company $34 million a year? I’ll do just that and get you fired

One of the big bosses (we’ll call him BB) around the site decided to be a jerk one day, and instructed someone a level below him (we’ll call him AA) to save the mine $34 Million a year.

That is a lot to ask of someone.

Here’s what’s important, BB said didn’t care how he did it, he told AA to just get it done or else he’d make sure they’d lose their job.

Now AA had been putting up with flack from this BB for the past few months. There’s a code of conduct and responsibility that needs to be followed, and BB worked very hard to find his way through every loophole possible that stopped him from slacking off.

The boss really has it out for this guy.

This includes dumping a fair amount of extra work onto his employees, but the one in this tale of ProRevenge had it the worst.

BB would constantly belittle AA on the mine radios, dump extra paperwork on him (including BB’s own paperwork), make him drive other employees around the mine site when AA was already swamped with the extra paperwork causing him to lag behind in his other duties that he was SUPPOSED to be doing.

Managers are always trying to look good to their bosses.

AA was no assistant, it was not his job to do BB’s bidding, but if he refused, BB technically could start the process of AA’s termination through some loophole.

So, here’s where it gets interesting. After BB instructed AA to save the mine $34 a year, AA figured out that BB was trying to kiss up to the higher ups and make himself look good. However instead of doing the work himself, he has once again dumped it onto AA. And AA had had enough.

What did he do?

BB has his designated time off and comes back to find a massive (and I mean MASSIVE, this thing is one of the biggest production movers on site) conveyor line parked up miles away from where it is supposed to be operating, and in the equipment graveyard.

If you haven’t seen a conveyor line, think if a crane and a conveyor belt had an enormous love child. It has been disassembled and sits in three enormous pieces.

I’m not sure upper management will be happy with this.

BB flies off of the handle. He explodes, he gets onto the mine radios and screams for AA to get down there. AA rocks up, and when asked what he’d done, AA simply shrugs and says “I’ve pulled the conveyor out of production. It saves you $34 million a year.”

No matter what BB argued or how much he threatened, AA simply said “you told me to save $34 million a year. I did just that.”

It is hard to believe that upper management would blame BB for this, though.

No matter how much money the mine would actually LOOSE with this massive machine out of construction, AA did as he was told.

Of course the big BIG bosses found out, and when they questioned BB about it, he pointed to blame to AA.

There is no way upper management would be this dumb.

Once again, AA stood his ground and said that he was did as he was told.

Once BB confirmed what he had instructed AA to do, it wasn’t long before BB was sacked.

Honestly, AA should be fired for this as well.

He packed his stuff and walked out of the gate that same day.

AA still happily remains, stress free and not to be messed with.

If upper management is ok with AA shutting down a major operation just to prove a point, they are absolute fools.

Let’s take a look and see what the people in the comments have to say.

It must have been a long leave.

How did he even get this thing apart?

If you enjoyed this post, check out this story about a contractor who flew along way and spent 3 days on a fix only to find a breaker that needed to be flipped.

This might be the case.

It must have been a ton of work.

Costing a company millions of dollars just to prove a point is a dangerous game to play. If this story is true, it worked out well for AA, but it is hard to believe.

In reality, I would think that the company would have fired them both. Corporations don’t like losing big money like this.