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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/DaveWaltz on 2024-10-19 12:37:13+00:00.

The basics- working in management at a car dealership on the sales side- 2 sales managers, 2 business managers, used car manager and me floating around the sales managers with paperwork, going to auto auctions, wholesaling, keeping track of the lot manager, liaison with the service department etc. But most important I was in the top 3 in the country for having the quickest turn over of new cars, and fewest at year end. Was just really good at figuring out what people would like and buy, what colours and packages etc. Owner was a 65 yo guy, great guy he only came in a couple days a week for a few hours and let us do our jobs…was a perfectly organized running machine. But he protracted health issues and his 25 YO bossbitch daughter with a new business management degree convinced him to take over.

Of course it was a team, but I was the pin that held everything together.

Immediately calling dumb meetings, interfering with people, constantly nagging everyone, changing things, having tantrums if anyone challenged her so much so that within 2 months receptionists, service department manager and workers, one sales manager, used car manager, and one business manager quit. And she refused to hire replacements., dumbest thing ever. Sales management used to be 6 of us, now was 3 and I started to work 70 -80 hours a week.And the salaried business and sales managers were now also working twice as much for the same pay, so exhaustion was full bore and morale was very low… She came after me and complained about 80 hours of overtime per check and wrote me up- no more overtime, my position no longer existed and only to fill in for the sales manager. Malicious Compliance- that’s what you want, that’s what you’ll get.

So then for 7 weeks mounds of paperwork were piling up, we had a crazy busy 6 weeks and as I wasn’t ordering new cars (regional manager called and I told him to talk to Daughter and she told them things were fine) we were running out of new inventory, people weren’t trading in much so I didn’t go to auctions so used car lot was almost empty, my lot manager quit so used cars weren’t getting reconditioned, etc. OFC me and the two remaining managers had a meeting and knew about this, and they were planning their exits.

Then in a meeting with the entire dealership there, she made the mistake of picking on me for my “poor performance”. But the entire dealership already knew what was going on, as they’d ask me about things and I told them it wasn’t my job any more. Well I didn’t have a family and mortgage, so she stood there mouth open as I tore right into her and told her everyone quit because she’s a useless C word, she’s destroying her father’s legacy, this dealership is going down, FK you you told me not to do my job go FK yourself etc I quit. Dead silence as I flipped her off with both hands, she screamed meeting over so on the way out I was shaking hands with the mechanics, service guys, salesmen etc.

Week later the last sales manager quit, the business manager a week later then all the sales staff quit as there was no financing or management except for her running around in a huff. And it got out to be a toxic place so no salesmen or managers applied to work. Service department was always busy but I drove by couple weeks later and the place looked like a ghost town. Of course I kept in touch with a couple service guys there- she tried getting service guys to work in sales (didn’t work) and decided to order a whole bunch of cars and they were the wrong vehicles so 2-3 months later was a lot full of cars that we sold few of before this all went down.

Then I saw it up for sale, was bought and someone tried but lasted a year as the other same brand dealership across the city took advantage and doubled in size. Three of the managers ended up there, many of the salesmen, mechanics etc. OFC I was offered a job there but went out working for myself in wholesaling cars, and ended up there several times a week selling them used cars and buying others off them. Then I saw her in the city over working as a Starbucks manager, and she went beet red as we locked eyes- so daddy cut her off- and OFC I let everyone know.

All she had to do was come in a couple days a week, make the rounds, and sip lattes in her office…