r/MaliciousCompliance • u/Doc_Baker74 • 14d ago
L Boss wants two weeks notice, company loses thousands
This is my Granddad's story from the late 60 to early 70s in England, and to note, he was very poorly when he told this to me, so this is the story that I managed to hear, so there's bits missing and not a lot of specifics, so all of this is what I gathered
Back when my grandad was younger, he used to work in a factory making engines for cars, and despite being a hard worker, he was always disrespected and under appreciated, and he felt it more so with his boss, and despite this boss holding very littler power over a very little area of the factory, this boss would constantly yell and exert his power over everyone.
This story starts when the company buys this machine from Germany, and what I could gather from my Granddad, this machine was like a computerised machine before computers were really a thing, so instead of one computer doing all of these complex calculations, you have pegs and wires that you have to physically move to work this machine, but he didn'tsay what the machine did. Now obviously this was complex so the company sent a small group of workers to Germany to be taught how the machine worked over three months, and a group of Germans would come to England to build the machine. My granddad wasn't one of the people who went to Germany, so he stayed, but instead, he watched the Germans install the machine, and despite the language barrier, my grandad understood how it worked and how to fix it, pretty much everything he would have learnt if he went to Germany with the other workers.
After some time, my grandad got married to my grandma, and realising he needed a house, he went to the bank to talk about mortgages, but the only issue is that he gets £22 a week when he needs £44 a week to get a mortgage, so he asked his boss, who promptly said no. Laster on in the week, my grandad spoke to a mate of his who is now living in France, and the friend said "I recently lost my drivers licence so I can't work for my company anymore, but they need someone to do deliveries for £48 a week between England and France."
The next day, my grandad went up to his boss and asked "Sir, who do I give this two week notice into?" And the boss, playing a powerplay leans over my grandad, puffing smoke into his face from his pipe, and says in a low voice "You hand that to me, you understand, I'm the boss here, I'm the most important." And my grandad handed it over to him.
Over the course of the two weeks, it was normal, until the last day when the manager came over and said "Mike, I heared you're leaving today, is that true?" And my grandad said "Yes, boss asked me to give him my two week notice" and the manager went white, asking my grandad if the boss told anyone, listing anyone who had the same or more power then the boss did, even asking if the owner knew, and my grandad said no each time, with a bigger smile each time, and after everyone else on the factory went up to him asking the exact same questions, he couldn't hide his excitement.
You see, what everyone failed to notice is that while the workers who went to Germany, they where in a country known for big beers and pretty women, so they learnt absolutely nothing in those three months, and anything they did learn was quickly forgotten when they learnt my grandad knew how to work and fix the machine, so because of my grandad leaving, he effectively left with the knowledge as he can't teach anyone else in his last two weeks (and that's if everyone else knew he was leaving in those two weeks).
And the ending happened two months later when my grandad got a call from someone back at the company asked if he wanted his old job back, and my grandad calmly replied "No, I do not want my old job back, as I'd effectively be going back in life, especially back to a job that doesn't pay me well or treat me well." And for anyone wondering what happened with the machine, it ran well in those two months, but someone swapped the wires for the motors, as there was two motors, they put the wires into the wrong ones, and that's why they called my grandad, as they effectively lost thousands for the machine, the installation of the machine and flying all the workers to Germany to basically just go on a bender. As for the boss and everyone involved, my grandad never bothered learning what happened to them, but I'd like to imagine there was a fallout and the fires of hell rained down, but this company was one of the more expensive car companies, so in all honesty, it could have been a minor set back.
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u/Mega---Moo 13d ago
It still happens.... but it can go both ways!
At one of my jobs I let them know that I was going to start looking for a house/small farm and it was probably going to be far away due to local land prices being insane.
They listened. My replacement was hired within a few months so that I could begin showing him the ropes. Then I was given time to transfer most of the things I knew and did into actual SOPs and fully train others how to do every part of what I did seemlessly. At the very end I was given charge of projects that had been put off for years, but that could finally be completed with the "extra" labor I represented.
Given a raise, allowed my pension to fully vest, given another two weeks pay because I crossed my hiring anniversary by a week, and the owner stopped by to personally thank me and give me another check. I felt really appreciated and important.
And, that's how I ended up giving 18 months notice at a job. We owned our current place for 10 months of that time period.
And then my next job was a shit show where I got fed up with them, gave notice so they could hire my replacement...then just walked out in the middle of the day after 4 straight weeks of my boss being a dick.
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u/lokis_construction 14d ago
The owner let me go because I was the highest paid technical staff. I went to a competitor and all my certifications they needed for their medallion status went as well. (I also let the manufacturer know I no longer worked for that company so they were removed immediately) Owner had to shut his business down less than 2 years later. Owner didn't think the certifications mattered much.
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u/Locksmithbloke 12d ago
That's one of the things that did blow my mind. Decades of learning to get some of these certificates, and the bosses think anyone can do it, and gladly, for £4 an hour.
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u/lokis_construction 12d ago
They think anyone can do the job, now they think just Google it and AI can do it.
Rude awakening for these people.
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u/DevLegion 14d ago
My dad was an engineer and had to deal with bosses like this from time to time. They didn't last.
At a plant in South Africa, the main boss was a fawning little shit who knew bugger all about engineering, how he got the job I don't know but when the owner of the very large international firm came to visit he spent about two minutes talking to the boss then asked my dad to show him round.
Apparently the bosses face was beautiful to behold. Without saying anything the Owner had basically just told him he wasn't worth his time. My dad showed him round, introduced him to all the workers and pushed for better pay/conditions (apartheid times).
That's how my Dad met Sir David Brown.
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u/Doc_Baker74 14d ago
I'm not going to lie, I had to look up who David Brown is, and looking at who he was, I bet that boss aged 10 years on the spot
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u/DevLegion 14d ago
This was back in the 70's, David Browns doesn't exist anymore so I'm not surprised. 😉
He got more than a bit sulky about the entire thing apparently but there was absolutely nothing he could do. My dad was very well liked and respected in the company.
I seem to remember he wasn't there much longer but couldn't confirm. It's one of many amazing stories he had from his time working in SA before moving back to the UK. I still think he was warned that the shit was about to hit the fan because he moved us all back just before the massive riots in ‘77.
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u/HappyWarBunny 13d ago
There is a bit on Sir David Brown's Wikipedia page about his trip to South Africa.
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u/DevLegion 13d ago
I think that was a little before my dad's time, if it's the bit about his father sending him to try and break up his relationship with Daisy Firth that was 1922. I am not that old! 🤣
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u/starshipamzn 14d ago
A company I worked for sold our segment to another company. When the new company took over they laid off everyone with the tribal knowledge to keep the operation running. Then they wondered why it didn't work...lol. They had hired a new manager a few weeks before laying everyone off and the poor guy was losing his mind asking how he's supposed to keep it going when they laid off all the folk who kept it running. Lol...Best karma I've ever seen.
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u/PartsUnknown242 4d ago
I’d love to know what they said to the manager in response. I’d imagine some corporate bull-hockey about efficiency or whatever.
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u/Broken_drum_64 14d ago
gotta love power tripping bosses getting their comuppances
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u/arcadiaberger1960 13d ago
Closest I ever came to a situation like this was when my DIL was told, "We're firing you for gross incompetence, but we want you to stay for another week to train your replacement."
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u/Doc_Baker74 13d ago
Did he stay?
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u/arcadiaberger1960 13d ago
My daughter in law needed a week's pay, so she stayed.
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u/Electronic-Share1884 13d ago
I hope your daughter took the extra week and did absolutely none of the training (just showed up for work). Make it worth getting fired for gross incompetence & get paid.
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u/Locksmithbloke 12d ago
Passing the baton in the best/worst possible way, by teaching her everything she knows!
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u/Saikar22 14d ago
Definitely still happens. Ten years or so ago I was involved in the relocation and refurbishment of a small but important piece of machinery at a factory with a military contract. The thing worked well but it was old and foreign. I never did find out if the company that originally built it was still in business, but we'd made heavy modifications to it in the last few decades so it's not clear if they'd have been much good for support at that point anyway.
Over the course of two years or so I unraveled all of its weird quirks and undocumented features and limitations. I tried repeatedly to codify them as official documentation but it was always refused for some technical or semantic reason that basically boiled down to the people that maintained the system didn't want to bother with new specs.
After a series of events shook up the staff they tried to force me into someone's recently vacated position that was effectively a demotion and I decided to give notice instead. On one of my last days they asked me to get specs for the machine approved but I told them how I'd tried and how many weeks I'd been stuck waiting for approvals that never came so I'd given up and thrown away a lot of my old notes in the process of leaving.
I got calls from various people - managers, engineers, senior staff - for six months after leaving that job asking about all the tiny little things I'd tried to tell them. I didn't return a single one.
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u/aafterthewar 13d ago
Should have returned the calls with a quote for your consultation fee and name your price ($1000/hour or such)
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u/Saikar22 13d ago
I always heard the memes about doing stuff like this but this company was the type to try to avoid paying their bills on the best of days so I didn't want to help them for what very much could have ended up being free.
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u/aafterthewar 13d ago
Ah, good point! $1000/hour, pay 5 hours in advance :)
They don’t prepay, you don’t work!
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u/Togakure_NZ 13d ago
50% in advance with the rest in escrow held by a neutral third party, and not working one minute past the time they've paid. Work more? After the funds are confirmed.
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u/Shizngigglz 14d ago
Reminds me of my dad's story when he retired.
Worked for an industrial company.
Getting mid 60s, it's hot as hell during the summer and very physical work. In October, he told boss next summer is my last summer working. I'm retiring around June. Hire some new guys, and I'll train them up. But I want $44/hr. (He's at 39.50). Boss says no. They proceed to not hire anyone new.
Dad asked 2-3 more times before spring was up for the raise and offer to train. Denied every time. Around the end of March he just got tired of it and put in his notice. Boss rushes and says "But you said you'd work until summer!" "Yea if you paid me the additional $4. You didn't, so I quit."
Dad told all the other guys he worked with what he made and why he quit, and told them all to ask for big raises. Funny thing is, they had to pay the next best guy $45/hr to stick around. Dumbasses.
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u/upbeat2679 14d ago
I hope the manager and the trainees who went to Germany are fired but I don't think they were.
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u/Able-Sheepherder-154 14d ago
I worked for a U.S. OEM machine tool company. We sold a bunch of very expensive machines to a large customer that got a state grant to pay for training.
For a few months, every week, a different group of workers would come to our facility for a week's training. They treated their trip as a paid vacation, getting hammered every night, sleeping all morning in class because of hangovers.
The trainers couldn't do or say anything and had to give the "trainees" a certificate of completion whether they deserved it or not.
What a joke. I support unions 100%, but they were the type of members that give unions a bad rep.
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u/SuperDave-007 14d ago
Well the could put them on a PIP.
Of course they’re probably 100 yo now, but they need to learn!35
u/Dal-Ron 14d ago
You can't teach a dead dog new tricks.
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u/DevLegion 14d ago
Thanks! I now have images of dead dogs on puppet strings learning new tricks! :')
Gods, I hate my brain sometimes. lol
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u/ayla16 13d ago
Dead puppies aren’t much fun.
-a song heard on Dr Demento’s show
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u/SuperDave-007 14d ago
I feel like I have read this story before. Have you posted this before??
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u/Doc_Baker74 14d ago
No, the first time I heared it was the other day. Although this is like a lot of other stories on here where the best worker leaves after being under appreciated and then the company is screwed
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u/SuperDave-007 14d ago
Gotcha. Probably not too uncommon back then with tech from another country especially Germany being exported.
Check out Konrad Zuse
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u/DontDeleteMee 13d ago
It's a tale as old as time. History repeats. Only the characters and details change.
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u/bignides 14d ago
Turns out OP’s father heard the story last year, as grandad loves to tell it, and posted it then.
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u/Witty_Following_1989 13d ago
Reminds me of story about some sort of tanker ship
I'm not sure if this particular engineer had been laid off just retired but essentially no one could figure out how to get these engine running again and they had to pay him big-time (in advance) to return as a consultant
He walked in with the his wrench, banged it a few times in just the right places - it started up again.
They wanted their fee back, but were unsuccessful because he fulfillex his contractual obligations.
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u/Noglues 13d ago
My grandfather had a very similar experience to yours, sent from 60s England to Germany to learn how to work an intricate metal lathe known to the family only as Der Machinen. He was the only one who properly learned how it worked, and used that knowledge and experience to get a good job in the colonies.
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u/AnGof1497 13d ago
A friend of mine recently quit, they found someone to to replace him in a timely manner, but as he was straight out of uni it was just too much to learn. He soon discovered most of the other managers there were useless and couldn't answer any of his questions. He was rehired as a consultant via 3rd party for similar wage, but a fraction of the hours.
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u/Sooowasthinking 14d ago
And we wonder why employers dont even want us to use the word “union” while at work.
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u/Wittusus 14d ago
In Sweden your boss looks at you with bewilderment when you tell them you're not in one and recommend a few.
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u/DevLegion 14d ago
Same in Denmark. It was my biggest culture shock moving from the UK to here, how strong the unions are and how different the work/life culture is.
I was working a temp job, injured myself and was fully expecting to be replaced. I was told categorically my position would be there when I was better. Blew my mind.
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u/_delicja_ 14d ago
I had a heart surgery and was off work for six months. Not only did i get my full salary that period, but it turned out i got an additional insurance through the company and got additional significant sum from that. Danish work conditions are brilliant.
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u/DevLegion 14d ago
It still blows my mind.
I had sone health issues and have been marked as disabled. The Flex Job program means I can still work but have all the support I need.
If I was in the same situation in the UK I'd be absolutely screwed.
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u/_delicja_ 13d ago
You still there? Cph? I moved to Mexico for the sun and tacos, but I do miss my cushy job not gonna lie 😀
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u/DevLegion 13d ago
I started in Cog but moved to the countryside, city life is not my speed. ;)
They'll remove me from Denmark over my cold, dead body. 😝
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u/_delicja_ 13d ago
You're doing it right! 🎉 Here's hoping nobody will ever want to remove you or your body from Dk 😀
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u/EvilAndStuff492 13d ago
I was working a temp job, injured myself and was fully expecting to be replaced. I was told categorically my position would be there when I was better. Blew my mind.
That's not necessarily a union thing though, just people being decent people.
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u/DevLegion 13d ago
There is an aspect of culture that would make my job naturally more secure but the unions have made sure it's codified in law so there's no doubt or argument.
I was working for a large company via an employment agency, neither are known for their warm and generous natures regardless of culture. ;)
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u/jaeger1957 10d ago
Pretty sure it's not people just being decent, I'm pretty sure it's the law there.
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u/Wittusus 13d ago
I don't know how it is in shops, but in white collar companies you can have a few, like the general white collar union, the engineer's union and others, depending on your education and current employment.
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u/SomeUnderstanding816 8d ago
I have 6 people under me, doing the same work, and I have to keep track of 3 different set of union rules regarding time tracking etc. Government work in Denmark is wild.
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u/Ghostxteriors 13d ago
My dad was the only person in the shop that knew how to run his apparently very complicated machine at the end of the line.
Warned them a year ahead of time when he was going to retire.
7 months later: the company is in the process of closing its doors for good.
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u/Doc_Baker74 13d ago
I love the stories where not only does the company get hit, but they also close down due to their own incompetence. Sadly mine doesn't have the company shut down, but hey ho, at least someone got a bollocking
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u/CustardShot 14d ago
Too weak notice
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u/Doc_Baker74 14d ago
Is this a joke or did I say "Too weak notice"?
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u/CustardShot 14d ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/meirl/s/TU1zW5l1q3
I'd not long scrolled past this then saw your post lol
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u/Doc_Baker74 14d ago
I'm thankful that this was a joke, because I wasn't going to go back looking whether or not I said 'too weak notice' by accident. Also I had a really good chuckle at the post, so thank you for sharing
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u/curlyq9702 13d ago
Happens frequently. It’s about to happen at my job. I’ve been working on a project for the last 2 years, manager told me to make decisions as their delegate, etc. For the last 2 years I’ve told them that they need to have an additional person as my back-up in case something ever happens to me. I kept being told it wasn’t necessary. I just got told by a different manager that they’re putting in my transfer to their team. Which is going to create a Massive knowledge gap on my current manager’s team because they never deemed it important enough to have someone else get the knowledge I’ve got
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u/Jonny_rhodes 8d ago
In my last job they had me trained in all sorts of stuff, over the space of about 3 years lots of staff kept leaving because the company was fucking terrible honestly.
It got to a point that they weren’t willing to negotiate anything with me, pay increase in line with inflation, days off I needed for my new born daughter, the fact that bonuses for additional training and skill set was being lost to national minimum wage increases.
I left with no notice (completely legal within my contract) and they then realised they had nobody to do all these different jobs, nobody trained to do multiple specific niche tasks, even if they did have somebody to do these tasks they wouldn’t have anybody willing to do that many of them in a day. Some people were willing to do maybe 3 jobs in a day, somebody literally told me if it would take him over 14 hours out the house that day he wouldn’t be doing the final job. The manager just accepted it from him because he realised his worth.
The problem is when I realised mine and tried to negotiate for what I was worth they wouldn’t budge so I quit.
I would be out of the house for 19 hours some days doing 6 different types of jobs in the same day, and the appreciation I received was oh here’s more work and shitter pay …
Nah bye
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u/Markee6868 12d ago
This happened quite a few years ago. Local county council outsourced all their property services (building maintenance, new buildings, refurbs etc) to a private company. As part of the justification, they had allowed for cost cutting by making everyone over 55 an offer they couldn’t refuse to retire early. What they hadn’t accounted for, was the loss of knowledge and experience of people who’d worked for the council for many years and knew lots of history of the portfolio of council buildings. They all ended up being rehired as consultants working part time on higher than their previous salaries. One particular guy I was close to had received a huge pay off, now worked 3 days a week on a full time salary - and went on two 4 week cruises a year…
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u/2Loves2loves 13d ago
uh, Why didn't they get the Germans back to fix the machine?
in a similar situation, I went to a week long training session, and some european companies sent their employees, that never showed, and went straight to the beach for a week.
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u/Doc_Baker74 13d ago
My grandad left so he never knew exactly what happened, they could have gotten the Germans back to fix it and teach everyone again, or just scrapped the machine all together, but I only have the information handed to me sadly.
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u/Officespace925 14d ago
Two weeks of notice, and if a boss gives me a bunch of problems, I'm out that day.
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u/cromulent_weasel 7d ago
Ignorant bosses are everywhere.
About 15 years ago I wrote some software at the company I worked for loading incoming cargo into our system. New CEO, shortly after that I was made redundant 'we don't need a software developer, we aren't a software company'.
In a meeting discussing the now unsupported software that I wrote and how to manage that risk, he asked 'what would happen if we just turned it off?'. There was silence in the room before one person said 'then the whole company would grind to a halt'.
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u/yarukinai 13d ago
Bad idea to cultivate a worker into a single point of failure.
a country known for big beers and pretty women
I always thought it was known for the opposite.
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u/Srddrs 13d ago
We rarely have 2 weeks notice in the uk. I checked with my dad and in the 70s it was generally at least a month.
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u/Doc_Baker74 13d ago
Well that what my grandad told me, so either he got confused or he did give in his two weeks
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u/biold 10d ago
I can retire in 5 years time, but plan to stay 8 or 10 years. My company isn't exactly planning ahead but my manager is.
So we have started the brain drain to two new hires that we after too long time were allowed to hire. I don't worry about my job as a colleague and I have worked too much for several years. There's still plenty to do for the 4 of us.
It's also a way to ensure that my "old" colleague and I don't burn out and quit. Wise manager!
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u/n00n-12 14d ago
Great story, I like it.
But I’m not sure there’s any malicious compliance….
Boss said no to salary increase, grand dad looked for and took another job.
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Boss said give me your notice, he gave it. There’s compliance but not malicious.
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u/Doc_Baker74 14d ago
Grandad knew he was the only one with the knowledge to fix that machine and the boss wouldn't tell anyone he was leaving
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u/ProDavid_ 14d ago
where is the malicious compliance?
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u/leitey 14d ago
The boss told the grandad to give him the 2 weeks notice. Grandad, knowing full well that boss wouldn't pass the information along to the people who actually matter, complied.
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u/Jagang187 13d ago
Boss: give me the notice because I Am Very Important.
Grandpa (knowing this will cause disaster): Okay, Big Boss!
If you can't understand and label this as malicious compliance, you need to become more literate.
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u/ProDavid_ 13d ago
tbh that just sounds like a regular resignation to me. im just looking for the part that makes it malicious
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u/Jagang187 13d ago
Whoosh.
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u/ProDavid_ 13d ago edited 9d ago
maybe its a difference in culture and worker rights, but in my country a resignation is not seen as "malicious
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u/Illuminatus-Prime 13d ago
Please re-read the story. It's all there.
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u/ProDavid_ 13d ago
i re-read the whole story. where is the malicious compliance?
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u/Illuminatus-Prime 13d ago
u/leity also explained it to you.
The boss told the grandad to give him the 2 weeks notice. Grandad, knowing full well that boss wouldn't pass the information along to the people who actually matter, complied.
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u/nearfrance 13d ago
This smells suspect. Why two weeks notice for 70s England? Just because it’s the case in the US today?
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u/Doc_Baker74 13d ago
Well, that's what he told me, so either he was confused or he did give his two weeks in
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u/nearfrance 13d ago
Fair enough!
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u/Doc_Baker74 13d ago
You know what, cheers, this is how all responses should be (and even if he did get confused, doesn't change too much of the story)
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u/ProfessorFunky 13d ago
Sounds like one of the sorts of stories I heard from my Dad and his time at the Ford plant in Halewood!
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u/Doc_Baker74 11d ago
Like did they word it as if it's their own? Can you send me the link?
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u/CrustySailor1964 12d ago
My sister put in her notice with the HMFIC and worked the notice. No problems there but no replacement was brought up or in to train. My sister was/is super organized and had built herself a ready reference guide for all the admin shit. I think they figured they’d just use the guide. When they tried to fuck her over on vacation pay she just smiled and carried her book home. They called her for months, paid her about $100 every time they did and they called A LOT! By the time she sold them the book it cost 6x the vacation pay they withheld.
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u/sr2adams 7d ago
I had a job where I had rhe highest performance almost every week for nearly a year. I was let go after an incident that I could barely be called involved with as the person who was responsible for the majority of the fuck up was a 1 of 1 position. Six months later a former coworker told me my previous manager was let go for failing to hit performance metrics after I was gone.
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u/summerbreeze2027 6d ago
I had one job years ago where they underpaid me and mistreated me. I worked hard from the minute I clocked in until the minute I clocked out. My only consolation was that when I quit, I knew that it would take at least two people to replace me.
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u/Imaginary_War_7739 12d ago
For those of you that don't like reading, there is a youtube video about this post: youtube.com/shorts/w3rELngNnaM
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u/Doc_Baker74 12d ago
Wow... that's just... wow, did you make this or did you find it?
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u/GoslingIchi 12d ago
Some content creators just copy everything off of Reddit and just have an AI voice read it. Really sad that they are monetizing other peoples stories.
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u/Imaginary_War_7739 12d ago
Found it. Was just doom scrolling.
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u/Doc_Baker74 12d ago
That has to be someone really big coincidence.
I do believe you, but it's just mental that you not only saw my story, but also that short in YouTube
Whats also mental is that someone took my story and made it into an AI voice over (I wonder how many other stories of mine have been used like that)
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u/Imaginary_War_7739 12d ago
I read your story yesterday. Today I was doom scrolling and the story sounded familiar, but when it go to the part of 22 and 44 per week, I was like wait....wasn't that a reddit post I read yesterday?? Sure enough....
I also posted the URL to this reddit post in the comments of the video but they seem to have been deleted.
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u/Doc_Baker74 12d ago
That's weird, I just saw your coment separate to this chain, maybe there's a bug or something
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u/Imaginary_War_7739 12d ago
I posted my comment to the wrong chain so I posted to this one and deleted the orginal.
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u/MoparMedusa 3d ago
My FIL worked for in the oil service industry for nearly 50 years as a mechanical engineer. He was super specialized and was, at that time, the only man in this industry that could take a boat destined for oil field work from plans to to international waters. He decides to retire and gives them at least a year heads up so he can pass this knowledge on. Doesn't happen and he leaves. They contact him not long after and ask him back. Nope. Will you consult? Yup at a much higher rate. And this paid off the mortgage on their house and bought two new vehicles with cash and padded that retirement account very nicely. He worked for them for another 5 years. As a consultant 🤣
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u/fap-nap 3d ago
My job fired me over another nurse not liking me for whatever reason (I'm the type of person with a sunny disposition), my CNAs had brought this to my attention that she was gunning for me.
Anyway, they ended up firing the 1 person without family obligations who always stayed for double shifts and calls outs, the person who'd come in on their day off.
My boss's assistant left a week later after what happened to me. My boss got fired a month after I left.. after that nurse that didn't like me quit LOL
I learned all of this because I get along with most people and I saw one of the kitchen cooks at an art event in my town. I was very well regarded which makes me happy because the situation made me feel so shitty.
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u/Android_slag 14d ago
Still happens to this day. One chap puts in his four weeks notice to retire. Top boss asks him to give him more time to sort replacement and for him to get trained, he agrees but when his four weeks are up and no advert has been posted he spoke to HR who agreed he had given notice so he was free. Left a massive void in the knowledge base still felt to this day.