‘Fine, I'll direct all managers to you’: Freshly hired factory worker complies with senior employee, leading to factory losing thousands of dollars; senior employee then gets fired

Just because your coworker has the same job as you does not mean that they will put in an equal work effort, and that can, at the very least, lead to very complicated and nuanced situations that will keep you up at night, staring at the cracks in your ceiling — OR, if you are lucky, it can also lead to them getting fired.

People like to take credit, but they don't like to work. And this case is no different… One lady was working as a senior employee at a factory, barking orders at her coworker, a young man who had a 'get things done' attitude that she obviously couldn't relate to. Even though their job description was pretty much the same, she made sure to make him feel like he was on a lower level than she was. So, any time a manager entered the room, she would tell him to direct the manager straight to her.

This eventually backfired, because coupled with the fact she knew absolutely nothing about the job, she also made very poor decisions… That her worker was smart enough to comply with. Next up, a manager who demanded his employee work 'only on the tasks he gave him', which led to a bit of workplace chaos.