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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/ryangosling-san on 2024-12-05 13:47:41+00:00.

I’d like to preface this by saying that we work remotely from our manager (he’s in Europe and we’re in Asia), so whatever he hears from us he considers to be true. Furthermore, my manager has been the most reasonable and understanding boss I’ve had in my career, almost everyone who’s been under his supervision had only good things to say even after they left the company. And lastly, I do know that part of this was also my fault.

Which leads me to the meeting earlier — I admitted that all of this could’ve been avoided if I raised the flag the second I didn’t agree with what John said. My manager being a reasonable guy, didn’t really get mad but gave a stern reminder that I should always be transparent every time there’s a problem. During the conversation, my manager was really focused on asking the “why” question. Why John didn’t leave proper documentation on the reports, why the reports were connected to local files on his laptop, why was there little time spent on the knowledge transfer. As much as I don’t want to jeopardize John’s career, bossman really wanted to get to the bottom of this, having me eventually just tell the full truth with full confidentiality, at least that’s what he said.

John isn’t really interested in learning the product of the client, making it very hard for him to understand the process and sharing that knowledge to anyone. He also has a habit of frequently going out to go to a coffee shop and just kill time, you’d seldom see him glued to his seat, even if most of us just stay at the office during downtime in case something urgent happens that need our immediate attention. He doesn’t enjoy learning new tools, hence why his reports would seem archaic and has visibily no improvement in efficiency (both in file size and run time).

And these are the things I shared to my manager. I could’ve told other things as well just to build my case — like how he sleeps at work because he has two other part-time jobs keeping him up at night, how he’d regularly leave office earlier during weekends to catch a flight to go to his girlfriend, and how some reports he had were inaccurate but other teammates fixed it before the client and our manager could notice it. He’s a redflag for employers, which is why what happened is the one and only time I’ll be covering for him.

After hearing all of these, my manager just reminded me to just be transparent and to not ley something like this happen again. He’ll be onboarding me moving forward, and have instructed the rest of the team to have documentation on all reports by next Q1 2025. He then told a story avout a previous workmate of ours that he fired because of the same things that John was doing. He’ll be conducting investigations on John’s in-and-out of the office and will push on him to optimize reports so he can have a more permanent solution for him.