Toxic Boss DEMANDS I only do MY JOB...so I MALICIOUSLY COMPLY and DESTROY THE COMPANY
Am I the Jerk?
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🗓️ 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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