Don’t you hate it when the company you work for makes a short-sighted decision that doesn’t take long-term results into consideration? An incredibly specific problem, sure, but not entirely uncommon. Companies love cutting costs by eliminating things they see as wasteful, without realizing that they might not have had all the data.
And when something like that happens, employees revolt in the most civil way possible. Sure, they’ll comply, but in a malicious way that takes advantage of the new rules. That’s exactly what happened to a Reddit user called daft_boy_dim, whose company cut the company car rentals in order to save money. Posting his story to the Malicious Compliance Subreddit , he shares how that cut cost ended up causing the company to spend more money.
The User Shows How He And His Coworkers Flipped The Situation.
The Company Thought Getting Rid Of The Car Expense Would Save Them Money.
This happened years ago but is still quite an entertaining story.
OP talks about how, when he worked for a power supply company, they provided company cars for employees to drive. But the finance department found that they didn’t meet the mileage for one quarter, and the company decided to cut company cars. Employees had to return the ones they had.
But OP and some coworkers figured out that they could expense their travel using public transportation, and stay in hotels if they worked late. On top of that, each hotel stay came with a food budget. All in all, the employees began spending more money on travel and hotels than the company would’ve paid if they had kept the cars.
Upper management calls OP and his coworkers into a meeting, stating that their travel expenses for the first month since returning the cars has been more than the past 12 months combined. The company offered to return the cars, but OP and the other employees refused it.
Commenters Hoped The Company Learned Its Lesson.
There definitely should’ve been more of an investigation into the costs before the company decided to get rid of the company cars.
Other Users Wondered If The Person From Finance Who Started The Whole Thing Ended Up Getting Fired.
But companies are kind of confusing, so the person from finance probably didn’t get in too much trouble for that.
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Others Even Shared Their Own Stories.
It seems like this is a pretty common thing for companies to do, even though it ends up costing them more in the long run.
