Power Trippingpping Manager tells me not to do a critical task, so I maliciously comply and get him fired.

Here's what happened.

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This was a few years ago when I worked in a four-star hotel chain that would be very well

known and was part of a larger company that had hotels of varying status. I was about 24. There were a few of us that worked primarily in room service and the breakfast shift was always a solo shift.

One morning I started and as was customary I started doing my prep, folding napkins, setting up

five by six trays with pastry, things like that, per the pre-ordered breakfast cards.

So I would only need to grab the correct tea or coffee and hot food later,

as well as a few extra all-purpose trays for the people who call for room service last minute.

I get finished with this when the duty manager, who I can't remember his full name but

remember his nickname was Prem first into the kitchen with a dirty plate in his

hand and sees me in my area while putting it in the pile of dishes for the kitchen porter.

He yells across the kitchen,

What are you doing?

It's so crazy out there that I have to help clear tables and you're back here.

Get out in help.

I replied that I hadn't gone up yet and was walking the halls collecting the trays left

out overnight, and he yelled some more and repeated that if he, a manager, is clearing

tables, I better help regardless of if my job is actually in a different area.

For the record, Prem was a menace. I witnessed him yelling in college girls' faces until they cried

several times. He would also routinely pick on

anyone that was minimum wage floor staff. So I walk into the restaurant and the

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