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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/TheGrandmasterGrizz on 2024-06-11 20:46:51+00:00.
Context: I work in flooring installation, commercial mostly, usually carpet or vinyl tiles, have been doing this for 10 years now.
I got a work order to do a head office for a large developer, it was carpet tile but with a pattern/lines/border.
I start installing and just as I get the first tiles out after laying the glue, the "big boss" comes out.
He says I'm doing it wrong.
I was absolutely stunned, I looked at him, looked back at the tiles I had just put down, looked at him again and asked, "What?"
"Those numbers on the back of the tile are the sequence order, you need to follow the numbers." He replied.
What he is talking about are God knows what, part #s, serial #s, lot #s?
They have nothing to do with installation so if I actually followed whatever he was saying it would look like a mess not the intended pattern.
I tried explaining this to him but he wouldn't have it, he got frustrated and called the head office, who in turn called me and said to just do it how he wants it.
So I did.
As I'm finishing up he comes back, takes one look at it and says "I don't like it."
I smiled and said "I don't care, that's how you wanted it." Packed my stuff up and left, he didn't say another word to me.
Few days later I hear that he called the head office asking for someone else to come redo it the way I had original intended to do it, so they sent me again and I got paid to remove the work that I just got paid to install so I can get paid to install it again.
Needless to say that he didn't come out to make small talk the second time.