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[REPOST] You want me to only do what you've assigned me and not help anyone else? Okay then. (self.maliciouscompliance)

submitted 2 years ago by dystop to c/maliciouscompliance

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[REPOST] I used to be an assistant golf course superintendent. One day my boss had me spraying chemicals on the fairways.

As I was spraying, some of our employees were having an issue with their machine. I stopped to help them and my boss pulls up and starts flipping out on me saying if I'm spraying fairways, that's all I need to be doing is spraying fairways. Not anything else. Okay, no problem.

A couple weeks later, the exact same scenario happened. I was spraying and some employees needed help. I ignored them and just kept on spraying. Their machine was broken down for nearly half an hour in the middle of the fairway during play before my boss rode around again and saw.

He came up to me livid and was saying that if I'm spraying fairways and I see someone needs help, I need to be able to break off and help them, that's part of being a manger.

I told him I didn't understand, because two weeks ago he explicitly told me to ONLY spray and reminded him of how he got mad when I did exactly that. He just stared at me for a second and then drove away in his golf cart. He came back a few holes later to apologize and says he did remember telling me that, and from now on I should just use my best judgement. uh-duh!!!

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago

At least he was a good sport about it

[–] Marmie 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That's pretty awesome of him to actually admit he was in the wrong and apologize instead of doubling down.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That sounds like a much more mature human than just about all the bosses I've worked under.

[–] dystop 3 points 2 years ago

it's the peter principle. Promote someone to the level of their incompetence.

[–] Rogue_General 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Kind of a wholesome story actually. Yeah the boss was initially an ass, but he did eventually apologize.

[–] dystop 4 points 2 years ago

not all stories have a happy ending, but this one did!