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 …
Seguir leyendo ‘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
Categoría:malicious compliance
‘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 …
Seguir leyendo ‘I smiled and waited for Joe to clock in’: Demanding customer insists a male employee help her, cue malicious compliance by department manager
‘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 …
Seguir leyendo ‘Nobody knew what to do’: Dude gets fired for harassment, uses job as a reference anyways
‘8:24am- Sneezed, got tissue’: Micromanaging boss gets exactly what he asked for when a sassy employee fills out his timekeeping card with over-detailed accuracy
Working when your boss is looking over your shoulder is not only irritating, but makes your productivity way worse. Obviously work speed is going to suffer when you have a nepo-baby clipboard-poker breathing heavily at your back and judging your every move, but for some reason, management never gets that concept. Working from home has …
Seguir leyendo ‘8:24am- Sneezed, got tissue’: Micromanaging boss gets exactly what he asked for when a sassy employee fills out his timekeeping card with over-detailed accuracy
‘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 …
Seguir leyendo ‘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
‘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, …
Seguir leyendo ‘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
‘You can’t be here; I fired you’: Employee gets reinstated after being fired for refusing to buy boss new drink, upper management reinstates employee despite boss’s orders
Upper management usually doesn’t intervene between bosses and their employees, unless the issue is considered unsolvable. In this case, it wasn’t exactly that the case was ‘unsolvable’, but rather that this particular boss simply didn’t have the authority to fire any employee. Not to mention that there weren’t even proper grounds for this employee to …
Seguir leyendo ‘You can’t be here; I fired you’: Employee gets reinstated after being fired for refusing to buy boss new drink, upper management reinstates employee despite boss’s orders
‘[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 …
Seguir leyendo ‘[She] ends up deleting our only copy’: Micromanager reassigned after randomly wiping IT department’s tech devices
‘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 …
Seguir leyendo ‘The instructor walked away, shaking his head’: Student’s terrible handwriting trumps forensic expert
‘He dared you to call his hand; You called and raised’: Entitled employee harasses his female coworker gets bamboozled when she calls his bluff and takes him to the cleaners with HR
Working with insufferable coworkers is tantalizing on its own, but when your raunchy, abrasive colleague starts to test your patience with crude jokes and terse taunts, it’s hard not to go full vigilante on them. Especially when you’re trapped in an office environment, sharing a cubicle wall with someone who thinks they’re running a late-night …
Seguir leyendo ‘He dared you to call his hand; You called and raised’: Entitled employee harasses his female coworker gets bamboozled when she calls his bluff and takes him to the cleaners with HR