This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Black_Magic_M-66 on 2025-05-08 22:36:52+00:00.

Here’s a two-fer:

My boss was the kind that wanted people to jump when he said jump. He was also totally clueless on how to do my job. He really wanted the billing to go out as fast as possible every month, because you know cash flow. This was the kind of boss that often would say, “what do you mean X”, and I would, calmly list the definition of X. I don’t think he ever knew what to do with that.

So, one time at the beginning of the month I’m working on billing (usually takes 3 days) when he comes in my office and says need needs this report done. I tell him it’s gonna take a few days and ask him what sort of priority, “top priority”. Ok, you got it. 3 days later, I turn the report in, and he asks me about billing. “Well, I had to put it aside to get this report done, but I’m back on it now”. You could almost see the steam coming out of his ears. To his credit, he didn’t blame me, but you could tell he wanted to.

Another time, at the end of the year, he makes a special order from one of our suppliers for six times our usual order. A month later when it’s time to pay the bill, I told him I haven’t seen it. He tells me, “he gives me all the bills and that it’s my fault for losing it”. I call the supplier. Turns out, the supplier never even put the order in their system - they shipped the product, but because it was such an unusual order, the sales person forgot about it. Now, although unethical my boss would love to have never paid this bill especially how much bigger it was since we ordered so much. I let him know, the supplier was grateful for us pointing out the discrepancy. My boss was speechless - a welcome occurance.