If you’re the kind of person who has to deal with lots of different people on a typical workday, you’re probably used to getting some folks who aren’t exactly truth-tellers sometimes.

They might range from small fibs to gigantic lies, but either way, when you’re not getting the whole story, it can be pretty annoying.

The person who wrote this story clearly works in a corporate atmosphere, and they talked about how they dealt with a situation where they thought they were being misled.

Let’s take a look at what happened!

Sending polite email to a supervisor at work.

“Basically, my job is to do some paperwork based on information salesmen gather.

Naturally, if the salesman fails to gather all of the required information it is also part of my job to ask them to actually do their job (salesmen here seem to be bad at that part).

So one particular salesman, let’s call them Sam, messed up so bad that not only was there absolutely no information gathered, but the assignment didn’t even appear in my queue so we only found it because of a third party who happened to stumble upon it.

I emailed Sam and CC’d his supervisor (we’ll call them Alex).

This sounds a bit complicated…

For this next part, it’s important to know there are 3 types of tickets we can get assignments from. I’ll call them A, B, and C type tickets. Type A is normal and common, Type B is less common but not unexpected, and Type C is very rare.

After some time, Alex responded on behalf of Sam and essentially saying that because it was a Type C ticket, it prevented the form from properly being filled out.

This doesn’t make sense because the ticket type has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not I can find or work on the assignment, it’s an option within all tickets the salesman has to select, and Sam selected the wrong one.

Really not that big if a deal and I still don’t know why they were trying so hard to act like it wasn’t Sam’s fault. Like if we want people to improve, acknowledge the mistakes and learn?

The supervisors seem to be the real problem.

Anyway, supervisors of salesmen tend to bend rules because they want their bonus and stuff. It really makes me mad because they will straight up allow some of them to lie to customers just because it was a high value sale.

Knowing their excuse didn’t make any sense and also my general resentment for their tendency to not care about anything but money, I decided to go along with what they were trying to get away with.

I emailed back something along the lines of “This shouldn’t impact whether or not the assignment is able to be viewed or completed. I know Type C tickets are rare, and I am admittedly not familiar with them. If there is an issue in the system preventing Type C tickets from being able to be fulfilled in the same way as Types A and B, perhaps we should look into a solution for this to avoid future similar situations”

Your turn, Alex…

Essentially forcing Alex to either acknowledge that their lame excuse didn’t actually mean anything or to keep going along with it and pretend to work on a solution.

I know if they do the latter option they will have to show someone that you can’t select the correct option I’m Type C tickets, which won’t be possible because it does in fact work. Either way they are forced to admit they either lied or have been inadequate.

I’m usually the kind of person to just move on when I know someone is just being stupid to get away with stuff if it doesn’t really impact me, but I guess that day I was just too tired of it.

They haven’t responded.”

Here’s what folks had to say on Reddit.

This person weighed in.

Another individual shared their thoughts.

This Reddit user had a lot to say.

And this reader spoke up.

I’d say that they did a pretty good job in trying to get to the bottom of this, wouldn’t you?

They were clearly getting jerked around in a couple different directions, so what else can you do except quit playing games and demand answers!

Corporate jobs can be complicated sometimes…

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