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Employee Maliciously Complies With Boss After Being Told Not To Work Outside His Job Title

When employees work beyond their job description, it is referred to as them exhibiting organizational citizenship behavior. And good management always acknowledges and is grateful to all their employees who work beyond the actual job assigned to them. Unfortunately, the manager in today’s story did the exact opposite.

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Reddit user u/EpicSausage69 was working as an employee at construction and his job was to deal with the inventory. Thanks to his ambition to learn more and climb the ladder to reach the top, he started self-studying the company’s cloud-based ERP system and got really good at managing it over time. The ERP system would help the company keep a real-time record of all internal and external transactions. With OP getting a good grip on the ERP system, the company decided to end its relationship with the ERP consultants who were always on standby and were getting paid a whopping $5,000 per month. So you can say OP was doing the company a huge favor by saving them $60,000 every year.

But then an incident took place that created a mess in the inventory and was caused by a newly hired warehouse manager. The manager decided to shift all blame on OP and that is when he was restricted from working outside his job title. Not only did OP comply with his boss’ orders but he maliciously complied with them and that created an even bigger mess at the company with the top management not being able to pay its workers.

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1. A tasteful story about an employee maliciously complying with his boss’ orders.

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2. OP works as an inventory admin at a construction company.

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3. After getting good at his job, OP started getting bored of it so he decided to study the company’s cloud-based ERP services that you used for all their transactions.

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4. All the departments in the company used this ERP system.

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5. OP got so good in this ERP service that the VP decided to end the relationship with the ERP consultants that the company had hired, who were costing them a lot, and OP replaced them to fix any issues caused to the ERP.

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6. OP was basically engaging in corporate citizenship behavior and he didn’t really get any raise or a new job title for it but was still happy to do the extra work because it kept him engaged.

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7. Company’s new warehouse manager caused about $0.5 million worth of mess in the inventory and in the meantime OP was fixing the ERP for the accounting department as he considered the inventory mess a delay issue and it did not stop the workers from working where the ERP matter hindered the whole bill payment process.

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8. It took 2 days for OP to fix the ERP issue but he finally did it.

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9.  For the warehouse issue, the senior management blamed the newly hired warehouse manager and the warehouse manager decided to shift the blame to OP.

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10. The manager, in writing, ordered OP to only work on tasks that come under his job title and specifically mentioned to not work on the ERP again…unless it is related to inventory.

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11. One day OP got an email from HR regarding an issue in the ERP that was not letting them pay the employees and OP simply responded by saying he was not allowed to work outside his job title anymore.

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12. A week had gone by and no employee had received their salary which meant the ERP issue had still not been fixed.

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All because a manager didn’t want to take the blame for the errors he made. The HR issue was much bigger as compared to the warehouse mess because the workers were still working. Not being able to resolve the HR issue would mean the workers would not get paid and no one likes to work if they are not getting paid for it.

Let’s see what sort of a reaction OP gets met with as he reaches work because the employees have not yet been paid and it would be interesting to see how they react.

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13. All the warehouse staff decided to leave until they got paid and the warehouse was fully panicking not being able to deal with the situation.

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14. On the other hand the HR office was crowded with all sorts of bosses trying their best to fix the issue…or at least to identify it.

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15. The VP finally confronts OP about him not fixing the ERP issue and he simply got told that this was all in compliance with the warehouse manager’s orders.

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16. The VP after dealing with the warehouse manager returns to request OP to resume working on ERP issues and fix the HR issue. OP demanded a raise and the job task to be officially put in his job title and this angered the calm VP.

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17. VP then sent an email a few hours later letting everyone know that he has rehired the old ERP consultants and that everyone will get paid within a week.

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18. A week passed and the ERP issue was still not resolved. The matter just kept getting worse and worse.

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19. Lost of all options, the VP finally returned back to OP, offered him a raise and a new job title, and have the ERP matter resolved as the consultants demanded weeks to fix it.

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20. OP signed the deal and fixed the ERP within a day and all matters got instantly resolved.

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Here are some of the comments shared on the story:

21. OP got suggested to work for an ERP consulting company. He would make a lot more than he is making currently.

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22. Of course the warehouse manager was going to have to deal with the consequences of his own mistake.

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23. Being an official ERP consultant is definitely the way forward for OP.

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24. And OP is very ambitious to pursue a career in ERP consultancy.

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I really hope you guys enjoyed this one. Don’t forget to share your thoughts in the comments section below.

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