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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/blackwidow_211 on 2025-05-17 00:23:22+00:00.

Newer manager (we will call him Chuck) recently came on and immediately started throwing his power around. He’s not my direct supervisor, but I deal with him directly often. I also have to mention I’m in the construction industry, so females are not usually given the same respect as our male coworkers. He decides he’s going to try and manage members in my department (not his job), and most of them cower to him, and he finally gets to me. Email starts “Ashely (not my real name), get this done.” I reply “Hi Chuck! My name is spelled Ashleigh. I’ll get right on that as soon as I get my managers approval.” They only get one chance. “Ashley, why isnt this done yet?” “Hi Charles! My manager has not yet approved this. I’ve copied her for your convenience.” He storms into the highest manager on site’s office to complain about me and my “disrespectful insubordination.” I get called into my managers office with her manager there as well (whom I’m very tight with both of them). They asked me to explain my side. I told them he had been warned once that he had misspelled my legal name. He was the one being disrespectful, not me, as I was using his legal name. They agreed I hadnt done anything disrespectful, which pissed ol’ Chuckie off… He kept misspelling and demanding things of me, which I ignored completely. He came to my desk and started raising his voice to bring attention to my insubordination. I politely replied, I had assumed he was speaking to someone else because 1. That wasn’t my name, and 2. He was going around my (female) manager and he wasn’t my manager. This had reached my GM. Well, my manager and I gathered all of our evidence on how many times he had refused to do or work with the other females in the office, but the males would ask for the exact same thing and he would do it. We had proof of all the times he had refused, demeaned, or worked around the women. And had it all documented with HR. We got an email the next day “Chuck Smith is now pursuing opportunities outside the company.”