“Manager Tried Throwing Me Under The Bus, So I Showed Everyone Her Incompetence”

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A lousy boss can drain your energy and excitement even if you’re doing what you like. Something that Reddit user LandInTheSky knows all too well.

Some time ago they joined a start-up as a data analyst and everything seemed fine at first, but as time went by, their manager proved to be an incompetent jerk who was interested only in her own success.

However, as LandInTheSky explained in their post on r/MaliciousCompliance, the worker got the last laugh after all.

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This story is an excellent illustration of the age-old adage, saying that people don’t quit jobs — they quit bosses. In fact, one in two employees has left a position just to get away from one at some point in their career.

But the effects of bad management are negatively impacting a company even if the staff isn’t resigning.

For example, it increases the number of people who are quiet quitting — those who do the bare minimum required and are psychologically detached from their job (which is a problem because many positions today require some level of extra effort to collaborate with coworkers and meet customer needs).

Quiet quitters make up at least 50% of the U.S. workforce — probably more, Gallup found.

U.S. employee engagement took another step backward during the second quarter of 2022, with the share of engaged workers remaining at 32% but the proportion of actively disengaged increasing to 18%. The ratio of engaged to actively disengaged employees is now 1.8 to 1, the lowest in almost a decade.

The overall decline was related to the clarity of expectations, opportunities to learn and grow, feeling cared about, and a connection to the organization’s mission or purpose — signaling a growing disconnect between employees and their employers.