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[Serious] What is the biggest abuse of power you saw at work?

I'll provide mine. I use to work in a big tech company in Canada as a team lead of decent size. One morning, a flash snowstorm hits us, from 10 to 12, about a feet of snow fell and there was another foot announced for the rest of the day. I showed up to work as most of the team except for management who decided to work from home ( a perk only they had ). Around 11, I send an teams message to my superior saying the weather is awful and would asked if people could finish up and leave early. No response. Around 12:30, I make the call to send my team home for their safety. Send a message on the team channel to tell them to wrap up and go home. Not even 20 seconds after I sent said message, manager who didn't respond to me sends…


I'll provide mine. I use to work in a big tech company in Canada as a team lead of decent size. One morning, a flash snowstorm hits us, from 10 to 12, about a feet of snow fell and there was another foot announced for the rest of the day.

I showed up to work as most of the team except for management who decided to work from home ( a perk only they had ). Around 11, I send an teams message to my superior saying the weather is awful and would asked if people could finish up and leave early. No response.

Around 12:30, I make the call to send my team home for their safety. Send a message on the team channel to tell them to wrap up and go home.

Not even 20 seconds after I sent said message, manager who didn't respond to me sends me a message directly:

“OP, you do not have the right to do this. If any employees left already or leaves outside of core hours, they will be written up.” mind you, this was coming from a person who decided to not come in to the office.

I had to roll back message, by the time I was done writing the message, 3 of my guys left. I did not write them up.

Manager wrote me up for taking the decision of letting people leave, argued to if they wanted us to work, then the wfh perk should be available to more than management. They told us we couldn't be trusted.

I quit not long after and a few months after the pandemic hit and they still refused to give wfh but management never showed up to work phydicly. People left en masse after.

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