Welcome to our slash malicious compliance, where OP does exactly what his boss asked him to do,

and he gets sued for it. Our next Reddit post is from Hot Wallaby. For context, this company

that I was working at was not new. They'd been around for about a decade before I was hired,

and as far as I know, they're still around, but I'm not sure how they're doing now.

When I started, there were only about 60 employees, of which 15 to 20 of those employees

were hourly wage nobodies like me. In the role that I was working, I wasn't supposed to have

any management elements, but it turns out not long after I started, three of the four managers

moved on, so I slowly took over some of their responsibilities. After about six months,

I was starting to feel overworked and I went job hunting. This got me a management role somewhere

else with substantially higher pay. I even gave my old employer a one month notice. After I gave them

my one month notice, they were very dismissive of me leaving, and after like it wasn't a big deal,

they thought that they could spread out what I did among the other management teams. They were so

certain that they could handle my job description and responsibilities that they even told me

in writing that they didn't need a transition period or training, and they didn't want an

exit interview. They even offered to let me leave a week early with pay because they thought

that it was handled and that I was useless. Before that week was out, I was getting calls,

texts, and emails from higher ups and HR trying to tell me that I'm contractually obligated

to help them transition, and that if I didn't, they would sue me for breach of contract.

Now, the best part of this is that when I was hired, I was simply an hourly employee with no

special contract, but since I'd started doing management level work, everyone had just assumed

that I had signed the management contract, which had a clause in it that required management to

work past their notice if the company requested it. So, within a week, they were frantically trying

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