Malicious in compliance by the hopeless
I was a union delegate at a large firm. The firm had three levels of discipline.
1. Break the law-your got fired
2. Break company policy- first and final warning
3. small events like late for work, rudeness, poor work ethic etc. Had to be dealt with within six weeks(this is important for later on) . recorded and a simply verbal meeting with manager. repeat lots of these and you went to stage 2.
So i have a union member called <PERSON> (nicknamed the terrible) who everyday could write on the subreddit Amitheasshole and you would all vote him a TA. He was late for work, left early, lazy, rude and generally hopeless. The only person more hopeless than <PERSON> was his boss <PERSON>. <PERSON> was just so hopeless i could write a book about her and you wouldn't believe the stuff that happened with her.
<PERSON> was in a role where he interacted with most other departments. There wouldn't go a day where <PERSON> did something wrong. 329
In one year he got 50 formal complaints about him. <PERSON> did nothing about him.
Finally, <PERSON> is forced to act by a senior manager and <PERSON> is called to disciplinary meeting citing the 50 acts. <PERSON> comes literally crying to me about how unfair this all is and its bullying. I had little sympathy for him. He received a letter outlying the fifty incidents and HR policy on discipline. I attended the meeting with HR, <PERSON> and <PERSON>. They spend over an hour going through the fifty events. <PERSON> is stone cold silent throughout it all.
<PERSON> starts saying we all have to obey the rules. Cue MC by <PERSON>. <PERSON> interrupts her and say something like" i agree with you entirely and since all these 50 events occurred all greater than six weeks ago i can't be in trouble for them as per company policy you gave me" He goes on" in fact i like to lodge fifty complaints about my manager failing to correct my behavior and breaching company rules by taking these issues to task over the six-week timeline that is allowed."
There was stunned silence as he dropped formal complaint letters about <PERSON> and HR on the table. He got off and HR and <PERSON> got a warning. This was repeated twice more, and <PERSON> ended getting fired. <PERSON> sort employment elsewhere after <PERSON> was fired as he told me " He would be sacked under anyone else" 329