When you take your kids on a family trip to an amusement park, I bet the last thing you’d assume were to happen would be that a sniveling, nosy, entitled Karen would demand you give HER children candy. Or maybe you would assume that I don’t know anymore. Karens are everywhere. Especially where you wish …
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Company Forces Remote Worker to go Back to the Office Despite Their Success With Working From Home, Causes Employee of 27 Years to Quit
It’s wild how much the introduction of remote work into most office jobs changed the world. These days, you’d be hard-pressed to find a company in NYC that doesn’t implement some work-from-home element, with most jobs having a hybrid model. The 3-day in-person workweek is ubiquitous. I was still in college in 2020 and 2021 …
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‘You want the exact amount, you get the exact amount’: Sweet shop regular insists on buying food by weight, employee complies by giving him less food
This teen spent a few months working at their uncle’s sweet shop for a summer, and got to experience what happens when «tempers and temperatures» run high. As a young teen, this person really wanted a PS3, but couldn’t afford one. So their dad and uncle came up with a plan: if this teen could …
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‘I smiled and waited for Joe to clock in’: Demanding customer insists a male employee help her, cue malicious compliance by department manager
One manager didn’t bother telling a demanding customer she was wrong… she found out eventually all by herself. Customer service workers deserve to make at least $15 million per year, and if I was President, I would make it happen. These jobs are some of the lowest paid, and all the while you have to …
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‘Nobody knew what to do’: Dude gets fired for harassment, uses job as a reference anyways
If you were ever to get dismissed from a role for a serious infraction, it would be common sense never to use that role as a reference—yet, doing so speaks to the delusional fantasy world you must live in that got you into trouble in the first place. Whilst working as a retail manager, there …
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‘I want to know where you are at all times’: Worker complies to boss’s micromanaging request that they report their location at all times
Micromanagement is a boogeyman of the workplace—always lurking. You’re always apprehensive that it’s going to be there when you walk into a new place and worried that it might suddenly appear out of the blue and ruin something that you once loved. It’s also exceedingly frustrating and hugely demotivating One of the most psychologically deconstructing …
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‘Cut my salary in half? Kiss your business goodbye’: Boss gives hardworking employee’s salary to new worker, employees band together to tank the company
«Red flags start appearing from the very first minute I arrive,» this employee wrote in one jaw-dropping workplace story. This is a long story, but it’s totally worth the read. U/technicalviking wrote about the time they got suckered into taking on a massive job, only to be really overworked and barely appreciated. As they wrote, …
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‘[She] ends up deleting our only copy’: Micromanager reassigned after randomly wiping IT department’s tech devices
Oh to be a fly on the wall when this IT director had to face her bosses… This excellent story of malicious compliance was shared by u/Barcs2k12. They write that when they were working in the IT department of a state agency, they encountered a Karen boss who was so sure she was smarter than …
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‘The instructor walked away, shaking his head’: Student’s terrible handwriting trumps forensic expert
Some of us undoubtedly have terrible handwriting, but do any of us have handwriting so terrible that it can fool a leading forensic expert? It’s important to remember that while being an expert on something means that you have a wealth of experience in the subject and have seen many things, it doesn’t mean that …
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‘This was the most expensive office party in the history of the company’: Boss spends 6k to throw his employees an unforgettable office BBQ
This boss is going to be a hero to their employees. This fearless manager stood up to an unfair rule in the best possible way — through malicious compliance, and following all the rules. Work-life balance is one of those things that people always talk about trying to achieve, but in reality, it’s hard to …
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