welcome to r malicious compliance where we share stories of people conforming to the letter but not the spirit of a request thank you friends for subscribing to the channel and for so many likes today's story is either be fired or accept a massive pay cut okay i'll take the firing i worked for company for NUMBER_TOKEN years i loved working there for NUMBER_TOKEN of those years there were two main parts to the job the first part was the sales side of things this was away from the office in the customer's location this involved quite a bit of driving and on a couple of occasions flying abroad to work face-to-face with the customers to deliver a high-quality product we weren't the cheapest but we were the superior product and i was the best employee when it came to delivering the product i consistently got rave reviews from customers for my personal style when it came to delivering the product and executing the customer's vision i got a huge amount of repeat business and i got a lot of new business through word of mouth with customers recommending the company based on their experiences with me the second part was the office side this was my weaker side i hated cold calling potential customers with numbers i found in the phone book when it came to answering the phone and speaking to potential customers who initiated contact with us i was fine but i wasn't great at making the calls this was my only real not great part of my job so in the office i wasn't asked to make any calls instead i prepared product design new product trained new staff members ended up being one of the biggest parts of my job i was also the problem solver helping out whenever and wherever filling in for sick employees whenever i could i like the owner and i like the manager i liked all the staff who were around me all in all it was a great job that i was really good at and took pride in the company had been doing so well that the owner had slowly expanded over the NUMBER_TOKEN years since i started working for company i had joined about three months after he started so i'd been a part of this expansion i worked out of my nearest office but often traveled to other areas to train their staff i was loaned out as it were to other companies to help train their staff at one point i was a guest lecturer at a university teaching medical students how to deliver complicated explanations to people who don't have the base knowledge that you yourself do after NUMBER_TOKEN years i was on a decent salary not massive but i was happy then the owner decided to sell off part of the company he was selling the area where my local office was he told me he would love for me to remain as his employee but aidan would need to work from a different office this was either require me to move or to quadruple at a minimum my daily commute the other option was to remain working for my current office but with a new boss i chose the second option before the new owner bought the company she worked alongside the staff for a couple of weeks to see how we operated this was before any of us knew she was about to buy the company as far as we knew she was just another employee and she was shadowing us to learn she came with me on assignments in the field and saw my abilities when the sale was announced and we were informed that she was the new owner everyone was very surprised she made some sweeping staffing changes the manager left to start her own business since
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