Boss demands I stop wasting time with quality control.

So I maliciously comply and burn $10,000.

Here's what happened.

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I work for an embroidery company that embroider's logos onto uniform shirts.

There's this one particular shirt we get all the time that has a diagonal closure.

So the left side of the chest is essentially covered up by a huge flap coming from

the right side. There's such a little room on the left side that any logo bigger than an inch looks like it's going

into the person's armpit.

After a few complaints, we made it policy to only allow that shirt to put logos on the right.

A big company we work with likes to make massive orders with generalized embroider

placement.

For example, 10 different types of garments all embroidered with a logo on the left of the chest.

Whenever I would see that this particular shirt was in the mix, I would reach out to them to let them

know we needed to switch the logo to the right side. One difficult manager from that company reached out to their client with my suggestion and got an earful because the client insisted that their logo could only be placed on the left due to company policy.

Instead of smoothing it over with her clients, this rep took it out on me.

She sent me a very aggressive email stating that we were perfectly capable of embroidering

this shirt on the left side because we had done it in the past and to stop blowing

up her inbox with our suggestions for a better embroidery location.

From now on, whatever embroidery location the order requests is final.

I saved the email and got my boss's blessing to immediately stop all quality control emails for this company,

her manager request.

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