Woman Fired Because She Takes 10 Minutes To Reply To Emails

By Annie N. in Confessions On 29th November 2021
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A Redditor shared a story to the popular subreddit r/maliciouscompliance where she revealed how she got swift and satisfying revenge, all by following the rules set out by her employers.

She starts off by saying that the job started out quite horribly, to begin with.

“From day one, it was a nightmare. There was 0 onboarding or training. I was simply given the log-in info for a couple of different websites and told to get to work. This company planned large conferences and I was in charge of speaker coordination. I was the only person in this role. The information solely resided with me.”

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She was hired as a speaker coordinator but was left on her own to handle things. Her boss was also not a native English speaker which led to a language barrier for her to be able to do her job well.

“I once asked if she had time to hop on a call and explain something to me and she responded with "No cranne. Self skills is a must. I am bird without head". It took me a few days to figure out that she was trying to say that things were hectic, she was running around like a chicken with its head cut off, and she needed me to be self-sufficient.”

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She said however that she did her best given the circumstances and simply focused on doing her work well.

“Until 4 months in when I was randomly pulled into a meeting with my manager, HR, and legal.”

“Effective immediately I was fired. I asked why I was being fired and why this was the first I had heard of any problems. Why wasn't there a write up or a verbal warning?”

“My manager said it was because the ten minutes (I ran the analytics) it takes me to respond to an email was too slow.”

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u/Cranne was not happy with the reason and lets be honest, it was clearly a made up one. That’s when Cranne had an epiphany.

“We do the exit interview with HR and then she asks me to send over any documents I had (we worked on personal computers remotely) and describe where I was at in regards to our next event and our speakers. NDA's are really common in this field, I've signed one at every job I've ever worked. But this employer's NDA had a clause in it that worked to my advantage.”

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She further said to them, "As per my NDA, I am not to discuss intimate details or share documents relating to this position with any employer- past or future. Since this firing was effective immediately, you are now a former employer and I am bound by my NDA"

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As much as HR tried to push her to hand over the documents, she simply didn’t budge. In fact, even their legal team said they couldn’t do anything.

“HR turned to Legal and Legal pointed out that I was technically correct. They were a former employer and I was bound by my NDA.”

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Much to her satisfaction, she carried important information regarding a high profile event in 17 days.

“They fired me 17 days before the event. They didn't have time to start over from scratch. I still keep in contact with some of my coworkers and apparently the event was a shit show and manager nearly lost her job because of it. Over half the speakers pulled out once communication broke down.

All because I ~tAKe ToO lONg tO ResPoND tO EMaILS~”

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If you know anything about reddit, they love a good revenge story, especially when it comes to employers and they loved every bit of this one too.

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They were however disappointed that the manager got to keep her job.

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