Boss Docked Employee’s Paycheck For Grammar Mistakes, So They Turn The Tables And Hit Boss’s Paycheck Too

I have a feeling that this story is going to annoy you AND make you shake your head in disgust.

Because it’s pretty ridiculous!

And you’ll see what I mean after you dive in.

Check out what happened in this tale from Reddit’s “Malicious Compliance” page.

“Years ago I took a job in another country for a very small company that taught English.

My responsibilities included reviewing and editing lesson plans created by non-native English speakers.

There was a bit of a language difference.

Many of the lessons taught EU English while I am accustomed to US English, my boss (and the only other native English speaker) was from the UK. Therefore there were certain nuances that I was unfamiliar with.

That being said, I was one of the better people on the team QAing (Quality Assurance) but I wasn’t perfect by any means.

There were often glaring mistakes I saw slip through on lessons not assigned to me to review but I never purposefully called people out for them.

It was kind of a bad company and bad lessons to begin with. But if there were glaring mistakes I would quietly fix them.

They noticed something wrong with their paycheck.

One pay period, months after I had been working there, I received a decrease in my pay along with a note explaining that the reasoning was because of X and X mistakes that had slipped through on my work.

I was mad as this was not a part of my contract but I couldn’t really contest it in this foreign country.

The note did however note that this decrease in pay for “mistakes” made on job duties was for all employees in my department. I knew that there were tons of mistakes on other lesson plans that weren’t mine.

So I pulled up the first one and began sending messages in the group chat of every mistake I could find.

And there were a lot.

Their boss then chimed in.

I did this rapid fire until my boss who was sitting across from me sent me a message that essentially said: “Don’t worry I can assure you I am being held to the same standards and expectations” before he got up and walked away in a huff.

It was time to have a laugh.

After he walked out of earshot my other coworker laughed and said he had messaged her and asked how I knew that particular lesson was one he had QA’d.

I told her I didn’t know I had just pulled up the first one I knew there were mistakes on.

I didn’t get anymore money taken out of my paychecks after that but I left the company shortly after.”

And here’s what people had to say.

This person said it best.

Another reader said this manager was trying to pull a fast one.

One individual said this sounds illegal.

Another Reddit user talked about how it worked when they had a job like this.

There’s no way the boss was held to the same standard.

And you can take that to the bank!

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