Employees Maliciously Complies With Foreman Who Punished Them For Not Showing 100% Accuracy

By Danish Faheem
March 3, 2023
5 minutes read

We have always been taught to prefer quality over quantity. But a wise man would say to revise this formula according to the situation and don’t apply it to all situations all the time. There are times when quantity is required over quality and you have to respect that, things won’t work the other way around.

In today’s story, we have a boss who wanted his employees to stick with the quality over quantity policy which resulted in one of the employees maliciously complying with the policy and the boss didn’t quite like how it all turned out.

OP works at a metal fabrication shop where he welds the parts manually which then has to go through a testing process and the employees have to achieve a 100% accuracy score on every weld. OP would do 5 times more work than his coworker but when the time came for some extra help, OP who was ready to offer himself an extra shift didn’t get it and the employee who did only 20% of the work as compared to OP got it. Upon asking his boss why he wasn’t allowed to work extra, the boss responded by saying OP’s accuracy was only 99% as compared to his coworker’s 100%.

After realizing quick work won’t get him anything, OP decided to reduce his productivity from welding 10 parts to 2 parts. This concerned the boss as overall productivity in the shop was reduced because of this but all OP was doing was complying with his boss’ orders.

Scroll down below to read how it all went down.

Employees Maliciously Complies With Foreman Who Punished Them For Not Showing 100% Accuracy

1. OP repairs metal parts at a shop.

2. Most of the tasks would be done by robots but some specific repair work had to be done by human labor and that had to go through professional testing for approval.

3. Clearly OP was doing 5 times more work than his coworker.

4. Why didn’t the foreman ask OP to work on Saturday?

5. When asked, OP got told his work is not 100% accurate for the foreman to put him on a Saturday shift.

6. OP bounced back by saying he has been accurate 99% of the time and the remaining 1% he too repairs and gets cleared before his shift ends.

7. But the foreman wouldn’t hear anything.

8. From the next week onward, OP decided to reduce his work rate by 5 times and only completed 2 parts per shift, showing 100% accuracy…just like his coworker.

9. The drop in OP’s productivity rate concerned the foreman but all he was doing was complying with the orders of his boss.

10. The foreman had no option but to give OP work on Saturdays.

OP got some questions and they were happy to answer:

11. Unfortunately the foreman didn’t have the required amount of brain cells to think like that.

12. The boss is the foreman and the foreman is the boss.

13. Working 5 times slowly is painful for OP, they prefer quick work.

14. This person supported the “quality over quantity” mechanism but OP just didn’t understand that logic.

15. I am willing to bet on that as well.

16. There could be a possibility, not denying it.

17. Saturday is definitely a win if you have a family to support.

OP isn’t the only one who had experienced such an event:

18. Oh my god that is the coolest way someone has ever negotiated their salary.

19. Getting 2 out of 2 is easy as compared to getting 100 out of 100. There’s a less exhaustive effort in achieving a lower target, and that’s what the bosses don’t understand.

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