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Am I the Jerk?

Toxic Boss DEMANDS I only do MY JOB...so I MALICIOUSLY COMPLY and DESTROY THE COMPANY

Am I the Jerk?

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4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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0:00.0

My terrible manager demands that I don't do any job outside of my job description. But despite the

0:05.7

fact that I've taken on so many extra duties at work, simply out of necessity, I decided to

0:10.4

maliciously comply, resulting in my department falling apart at the seams. And I've honestly never

0:15.6

felt better about getting back at my manager, as that guy absolutely had it coming. Here's what

0:20.1

happened. Okay, so I worked in the

0:21.9

accounting department at a small business. My boss, who we will call Gary for the sake of the story,

0:26.6

was seriously so great, and he gave us a lot of autonomy to get everything done. Now, this was a

0:31.8

small business, and over the years, as is pretty common in small businesses, I picked up a

0:36.7

number of duties that weren't strictly

0:38.2

in my job description, but they were still very important. We also had a number of processes that were

0:43.3

not well documented, but we were understaffed and not able to make any real changes. Things were

0:48.1

pretty good overall, though, and our work flowed well and everyone was happy. Well, not everyone,

0:52.8

that is. Gary's boss, who we will call Carl,

0:55.3

recently had taken over as president of the company, and he wanted to slash the cost. Gary was

1:00.2

one of the highest paid employees, and Carl tried to get him to take a pay cut or just cut his

1:04.9

hours. When Gary refused, Carl fired him and shortly replaced him with someone we will call Matt,

1:10.4

who was much less experience and much less qualified.

1:13.6

Around this time, I used my leverage with Carl to get a solid raise.

1:17.2

I knew Carl would be looking to replace me soon, just like he did Gary, but I was too essential to lose without Gary there either.

1:24.0

I figured I had about six months, which lined up with right about when I was planning to move

1:28.4

out of state anyways. So, knowing that when I did leave, my coworkers would be stuck picking up the

1:33.6

slack of my job, specifically all the extra stuff that I picked up that was not documented at all,

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