r/MaliciousCompliance - He Called Me a B***H, So I Exposed His SCAM!

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1:01This story comes to us from QTWISH4078. You're right, you are never working with me again. Back about seven years ago, I was promoted to Office Manager of a small construction company. I inherited a very messy role, the previous Office Manager was disorganized, and technologically disadvantaged. When I came into the role, I was brand new to the type of work, but I have always been very detail oriented. I didn't understand the vendor or inventory process, so I immediately began to log everything I could, so I would be able to make reports and understand it all. Fast forward about two months into the role, and the owner of the company informs me, he only wants me to sign checks one day a week. Essentially, we would inform our vendors that any invoices received Friday to Thursday at noon would have a check cut and signed on Friday. I'm not sure if this is standard anywhere else, but judging by a few vendor's reactions, it wasn't in this industry. Understandable, we are talking about truck drivers

2:01who go and pick up a load of material, pay for it, then deliver it to the job or our yard. So if they do that Friday, turn in the invoice, they are out $500 to $1,000 until the next Friday. They were used to being paid within one to two days, and some of these guys live paycheck to paycheck. It wasn't ideal for them. I sent an email to the vendors and explained the process. While not all of them were happy, no one had too much of an issue with it. I gave them, I think, like two weeks of notice before the policy would begin. Plus, we had worked with all of them for years, they knew we were good for the money. Then there was this one vendor. He stated, it was going to be a headache. I apologized, explained this was the new policy, and we couldn't adjust. He accepted it, I thought, and we moved on. Q, three or four weeks later, he calls me in a hissy fit because he needs his check now. I apologized, explained to him that his check was going to be signed the next day, this was a Thursday, as per our policy,

3:03and told him my hands were tied. He hung up on me and called my coworker, project manager. He was screaming into the phone, which since we were in the same tiny office, meant I heard every word. It ended with, I won't work with that bee from here on out. I will only talk to you. Oh really? That is how it is? Well, here's the thing, like I said, I am pretty detailed oriented. The product he delivered to our yard was consistently off. My system would say we have 100 yards of it, but my super would be asking for three more loads, 45 yards each, because the back had roughly 10 yards left. I had brought up the issue with the owner and super. We had established a new protocol that our personal crew truck drivers needed to fill out papers every day to show what they were taking to projects. I was keeping track of every yard and sure there would have been some loss, but 100 yards? I had always assumed it was a shortage on our end that we were overusing this material,

4:04or they weren't tracking their loads to jobs correctly, or we were measuring it incorrectly in the back, probably a combination of the three. After being called a bee, though, I called one of my vendors who delivered a different material and asked him if he could deliver this material. I told him how much we got, 45 yards of truck, usually three truck loads every other week for blank cost, and he was bewildered. He goes, how is that guy matching that cost? That is unbelievably low. Then he asked me who the vendor was. He tells me, that guy's truck can't carry more than 20 yards. And when I was hesitant to believe this, he added, did you get weight receipts? I had never heard of weight receipts. Again, I was an absolute baby in this industry. No one had trained me. However, I had noticed that every other vendor had weight written on their invoices, something I had logged, but never paid too close attention to, because we measured in yardage, not tonnage. There were some items that I would convert to yards

5:05because they only gave me the weight, but then most had yards and tonnage notated. Well, this guy always turned in a handwritten ticket that said 45 yards. This is how it had always been. The office manager before me would order three loads of 45 yards of material. It would be delivered in the back. I don't think she would tell the back how much should be there, and I certainly never did either. Not until I started to notice the discrepancies. Not until I started creating processes to fix the discrepancies. Favorite vendor goes on to say, Hey, I know the yard he picks up from. I pick up different material there and him friendly with them. They should have copies of the receipts. I am going to try to get them for you. He asked what they are last delivery was. I gave him the details. Despite liking this vendor, I was pretty skeptical. Surely he just wants my business and wants me to pay more. Still, I couldn't lie and say I wasn't curious if what he was saying was right. That day, he texted me some photos of the receipts.

6:07Sure enough, that vendor's name is on them. The date matches. The driver's name matches. I hadn't shared that. The timestamps even matched from how long the drive from this yard to our yard was and when he arrived according to my cameras. So he was picking up only 20 yards of the material each time. He was overcharging us 75 yards each time we ordered and paid, which is how he was giving us such a deal. It turns out the owner had demanded previous office manager negotiate this deal. I dug up all of our past dealings with him. Unfortunately, previous office manager had not kept receipts, so I only had past checks in our system to go off of. We had worked with this guy for years, potentially it was tens of thousands of dollars in theft. But without receipts and wait receipts, there wasn't much we could do except not work with him anymore. I asked favorite vendor for his price. I checked around with other vendors,

7:07found it to be a decent price, started to order from him from there on out. So yeah, that guy never worked with that bee again. He got what he wanted. He reached out to coworker a few times when we stopped ordering. coworker told him each time, talk to office manager. He called me once, but I didn't answer. He had said he never wanted to talk to me again either, so he got his wish. I'm no longer the office manager, thank god. I hated that role and rejoiced the day I was able to hire someone else for it. The current office manager still cuts checks on Fridays only. I was able to set her down and give her a lot more information and training than I received. We now work with far more established companies that have 30 day policies and credit. This is more due to development in our area, making bigger companies available to us. Favorite vendor actually sold his company to one of those bigger companies, which is sad, but it's business. Jumping down to the comments on this one,

8:08we have one from a user called Newback. It says, not keeping detailed receipts and checking the amount vendors claim to be delivering is wild AF, laughing my butt off. OP responded and said, I agree. The previous office manager would sometimes write the amount in our system, but usually she would just cut a check. When I first started, I was thrown in the deep end. I had never kept track of this type of stuff and was basically learning as I went. It made sense to me to track the amount of yards per the invoices in our system, and because I also managed our jobs and estimates, I would deduct the amount of yardage that theoretically went to a job. So initially, my process was this. Bender's deliver 100 yards of dirt, input in the system under the bender that we have 100 yards of dirt in our inventory. Job A had 30 yards of dirt estimated. We complete job A. I invoice job A to customer. I then go in and deduct 30 yards of dirt from the inventory, wash and repeat. I would reorder when I got to a certain amount of inventory.

9:08Super and crew also would let me know when we were low on items. The only inventory I physically counted were items that could be physically counted. The materials we are talking about have to be measured either via a truck scale or when I think they called the cone method, where they take a skid steer and push the material into a certain shape, measure the base and height. I was essentially told it was more trouble than it was worth. But I started having issues when I would go to deduct and this one vendor had way more material than they should when my super was saying we were low. I received a lot of pushback when I asked for reports on loads to jobs, but eventually they started to turn these in when I convinced the owner to offer bonuses for shortage reductions. This was all over the course of about four months of me into the role. So while I look back and think that should have just been common knowledge to do, I definitely was learning as I went and did the best I could. Honestly, the organization of this office was wild back then.

10:08All right, does anybody else here feel like the previous office manager was totally in on what was going on? They were probably getting a kickback from that driver as well. It had been going on for years? Yeah. Anybody who had been there long enough and was used to seeing the inventory come in and go out and would be recording it would know that there was a big discrepancy there. OP with absolutely no training figured this out four months in. And that tells me that somebody was definitely hiding it previously. Taste the Mediterranean at Whole Foods Market with a vibrant selection that captures the flavors of the region. Shop coastal favorites like responsibly farmed whole Bronzini and jumbo white shrimp. And pair them with specialty pastas, robust olive oils and aromatic sauces directly sourced from the Mediterranean. Want a fast and easy dinner? Grab refreshing Greek salads and tortellini from the prepared foods department. Taste the Mediterranean now at Whole Foods Market.

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12:12We'll call him Butthol or BH for short. I had worked there for six years at the point of this story. It was the week of my review and I had been unusually nice to him this week. This was also right after one of the sales guys had come over. I was having a chat with Butthol and a sales guy came up, you know, I was going through the numbers over the years and do you realize that over the years of OP being here, the amount of rework coming out of his area has dropped and profits are up about 400% over the guy he replaced. He started talking some more and Butthol cut him off and gave him a look. Sales guy looked at me and back to Butthol and then walked away. I knew I had some info that I wasn't supposed to know and he knew I knew. Eventually, I was called in for my review. There were four pages of categories scored one to ten. It was very routine. All my scores were very good and in turn, I was feeling good. We finished that up and I signed it as stating I was in agreeing.

13:12He slid it to the side and pulled out a totally different piece of paper. Now that the review for the company is over, this is stuff about you I have noticed, the piece of paper outlined that I spent too much of my time socializing with others which significantly reduced my productivity. It also stated I spent too much time in the bathroom and needed to adjust my diet so I would refrain from using the bathroom at work. He had broken this into three neat paragraphs and I do not remember the exact wording. I was floored. I had gone through years of medical crap and even surgeries with my gut. He knew this. Also, if my machine was spinning and making chips, I can talk and pay attention to the normal sounds coming out of my machine without affecting productivity. We got into a heated argument. He was adamant that I was wasting time in the bathroom. I argued that if I go in there and stuff comes out of me, then the bathroom was needed. He said that he had no proof of me actually using the bathroom.

14:13I offered to stop flushing and everyone else would alert him of what I did in there for me. Everything he said I had a retort. At one point, I got so pissed off, I walked out of his office and yelled, keep your rays. Just don't effing talk to me anymore. Then he yelled that if I didn't come back, he would fire me for insubordination. I went back in and just stared. He talked for another 20 minutes without me saying a thing. It was a 2% raise which was decent for current market rates and I left and went back to work. It's at this point a bunch of people are going to comment about common sense stuff like how illegal half of this is and what I should be doing about it. I will point out that I am very neurodivergent and very smart but sometimes lack that sense because of how my brain is wired. I decided to just do what he said. I got subscriptions for Audible and YouTube and wore earbuds literally 100% of the time.

15:13I stopped talking to everyone. If someone came up to me and asked WTF, I would state my time at work is for working and not for talking. I got deep into listening to Roll 20 and discovered a bunch of authors and books I love to this day. As for the bathroom, I adjusted my diet. I would get home from work and eat one meal immediately that would hold me over until I got what I needed. I called my doctor and told him about my review. My doctor also had some fun words about my boss. I got to drop by and pick up a doctor's note that read paraphrased, due to human nature, this note is to state that OP can use the bathrooms at work when needed. This is also when I found out that HR had no idea what was going on as she was like, what is this for? Of course you're allowed to poop at work. She said she'd look into it. I never heard back. So no talking to anyone for good productivity and I had a doctor's excuse for the other thing.

16:14He got mad at me daily at this point. Instead of yelling my name to get my attention, he had to walk over and wave to get my attention. Frankly, I heard him half the time but I knew it pissed him off to come over, so I ignored him. He would always point out that it would be easier for him if he could get my attention. I would point out that the handbook says these are allowed and they prevented me from socializing which he didn't allow. A few weeks of this and he pulls me into his office states that people keep asking him why I won't socialize to people and it's making him uncomfortable. I state it's not making me uncomfortable that they're his orders and I have noticed an increase in productivity, so it's working. Did he want me to be less productive? No? Okay, butthole, I'll go back to work. You can't order me to socialize with people, especially after ordering me not to socialize with people. I'm not sorry that it makes you uncomfortable that I'm enjoying my book. I continued this for a whole year

17:14before I put in my two weeks just before my seven year anniversary and enacted my revenge. I hope you enjoyed this story. There will be more stories of Butthole and my revenge later. Jumping down to the comments on this one we have one from a user called Chuckaholic it says you could have worn an adult diaper to work. Make nice big poops in it. Get called into HR and show them the right up you got for spending too much time in the bathroom. Make it an OSHA violation. Alright, I'm pretty sure that just being told you can't use the bathrooms at work is already an OSHA violation. Yeah, adjust your food so that you're only using the restrooms at home. What the heck is up with that? If OP had gone and reported this to the proper authorities outside of the company they would have had no choice at that company to get rid of OP's boss. Also, I just want to state on this one that HR sounds like they were completely useless because it was brought up with them

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20:15As a direct result of me not being about to be around this guy any longer. Story 1, not really a story but an odd quirk. I started noticing that conversations with him were wildly unpredictable. Even on subjects I brought up because I knew he would agree on, turned into debates. He told me that he once read a paper that, to have any worthwhile conversation, there needed to be a devil's advocate. A person with an opposite viewpoint, to create a debate like conversation flow. He took this to mean every conversation, including work sensitive problems. He was also a huge micromanager, and wanted to be involved with every decision. You'd call him over and say something like, hey, the work order says I need this, but I'm looking at this part, and clearly this would be better with a different size now that it's in front of me and I can actually see it. A normal boss would say, let me take a quick look to confirm, or I trust you on this OP, let me know what you need, and I'll contact the customer.

21:15Not this guy. Something like this would turn into a 45 minute process of ruling out every single other possibility, until only my just grabbed the correct size part and let the customer know remained. After a few years, I just started feeding him blatantly wrong info that was so obviously wrong that he would offer the correct info right away. Sure, it made me look a little dizzy, but it saved me hours of work a week. Other co-workers would often call me over, to call him over and do that for them. Story 2. One day, I was at the store, and they had discounted the sparkling grape juice down to 35 cents a bottle. I bought six. One of them came in to work, and I was drinking it through the morning. A large parts order came in. I finished the grape juice through away the bottle, opened all the parts, threw away all the trash over the bottle. Lunch came, I left. I came back, bottle is on top of the trash label side up. He was the only one in the room.

22:15Co-workers come back in from lunch, and I asked him about it. They didn't know anything. So here's the thing, but while saw me walk in with the bottle, and I don't know what is scarier, that he thought I had pounded an entire bottle of wine while working in front of him, or that he let me pound an entire bottle of wine in front of him, while operating a CNC machine. Story 3. I have mentioned this in a few of my stories, but I am neurodivergent and math smart. There are some customers that have very specific custom requests. It's a pain in the butt, because you can't put the pieces in the fixture to check the clearances while it's bolted into a machine. Unbolting it means resetting up the machine, pain in the butt. After a few years, I trigonometryed the crap out of this and made an excel sheet that you could plug customer specs in and give you your starting specs within .005 inches. I proudly presented this to my boss, and he told me that I couldn't be smart enough to do that, and he'd never trust it, so I shouldn't use it.

23:15I may be socially awkward, but I know I'm smart. I just started using the sheet anyway. Shaped hours off of some of my jobs, I got to know the program so well that I could spit all numbers off the top of my head. Something the sales guy loved, but butthole hated. It made him look bad that I could do this stuff and he couldn't. Story 4, I kept coming into work with my computer on and my browser opened to websites. I kept thinking I was crazy. One day, after the incident with my review in the other story, I came into work with my computer on. Every website I had been on in the last two weeks is open in its own window, and every email I had sent opened in its own window. I knew this one was him because he cannot read an email without double clicking it into its own window. This guy had been going through my digital history on my computer looking for dirt on me. This also came with a new policy change that was in my email inbox. When talking to coworkers,

24:15I use gifts because I don't like work and it makes me happy. The email stated that we were not allowed to download gifts to use as attachments anymore as it's a waste of company time. But whole thought, we were searching the internet for the gifts and stockpiling them on our computers. Edit, I sent an email from my work email to my personal email account after this. It read, to whom it may concern, go after yourself. Then I kept that as the only email in my send folder for the rest of my time working there. If you think someone is going through your emails at work, this is a pro-level move. Story 5, he kept me on mandatory overtime for like four years because we were behind. I spent a lot of Friday sweeping the shop and doing random government work for myself because I was bored and had no work. If I took any vacation, he would boost the overtime. I would have to work in additional two hours a week for two weeks before my vacation and the two weeks after my vacation to stay ahead. Even if I was ahead,

25:15which I always was. But whole would often have me work Saturdays which was sad. It would be just me and a supervisor because one would have to be there for me to be in the building. I would usually be clocking in on Saturday next to a piece of paper that said, great job team, I'll cut up on work, have a great Saturday off, HR. And when I'd show up on those Saturdays, it would be to work in a different department to help them catch up on work. This is what I can remember off the top of my head with him. He also once hated someone's music and ripped the stereo out of the wall, breaking the cord and wall outlet and then throwing the stereo outside, ended up being ordered by the owner to buy the employee a new stereo. I'll post the story of me quitting soon in a revenge subreddit, one of my proudest moments. Jumping down in the comments on this one, there's one from a user called Zach Randier, it says, wow, I'm surprised you lasted as long as you did and I'm surprised he lasted as long as he did. I'm very thankful that most of this type of BS at work

26:17is kept at bay by my bosses. For the most part, I can just go to work. OP responded and said, he's retiring this year. Okay, between this story and the one before it, both from the same OP, we learned a lot about the butthole boss. We also learned that there's no way this butthole boss should still be a part of this company. OP said these stories are from like 15 years ago, up to seven years ago, and that guy is still working there and he's about to retire that company has no morals. And on that note, we'll go ahead and end this one here. If you enjoyed this episode, make sure to follow us on your preferred podcasting platform. If you're on YouTube, please drop a like on the video. It really does help us out. I thank each and every one of you for watching and listening. I hope you have a wonderful day and we'll see you tomorrow. This is a whole new chapter for me.

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