If you have never heard of “malicious compliance," let this tale be your introduction to it. What it means is that you do exactly what you are told, I mean eeexaaaactlyyyy. You take every word literally. So if your boss says they don't want to see you being late anymore, then say “no problem!” and just stop letting them know you're late. Because they said they didn't want to see you being late anymore. None of those words told you to stop being late. You get my drift here? This Reddit story is…

It's not often you read on the internet a good story between manager and employee. Usually, it's an employee struggling with an entitled manager or vice versa. However, we've recently come across a story where the brain and heart finally meet and we just had to share it . It all started with a feud with a large company's HR. Apparently, the company's HR was messing up the 3k+ employees' overtime payments and totally trying to pull one over on them. It was a very large issue and, luckily, the ma…

It's a story we see all too often... A well-oiled machine of a team that has been working perfectly together gets a wrench thrown in the works by some flashy new manager who wants to show off. They come in like they own the place, even though they most definitely don't even know how to do most of the jobs they're managing, and then they change everything up. Now, the once well-working system is chaotic, and things are running as they should, and who is the first to suffer? Not the new manager,…

Sometimes having a thorough knowledge of the law can work in your favor. Actually, come to think about it, I can't imagine a time where it wouldn't be handy to be well educated on the laws are you… (I will be Googling some things after this.) You never know when someone might be trying to pull a fast one over you and make you think something is the law, when, in fact, it is not and they are just using “the law” as a tactic to do whatever they want. A retired detective recently shared a story of…

You might have heard from a wise person once that the golden rule of life is: “Don't be a jerk." Well, we agree with that person and is applies to many other life experiences. For example, flying. When you are going on a trip and have to fly, going to the airport can be stressful for everyone involved. You don't know the situation of each passenger or employee. So, it's best to approach it with kindness and patience, or else everybody, including yourself, is going to have a bad time. A perfect…

Humans will be humans and one of the most human things you can do is make a mistake. We're not perfect and that's beautiful. Can you imagine if everyone was perfect??? That sounds so boring and uncreative. Some mistakes should be celebrated, while others should be condemned—both will teach valuable lessons. So when you are a human, working with other humans, then you should always expect mistakes. Hope they won't happen, but don't be naive and pretend like they're impossible. Unfortunately, ent…

Sometimes a story doesn't have to be long to be epic. You'd think after reading The Odyssey or Crime & Punishment in school that any sort of story worth telling would be hundreds and hundreds of pages with text. However, we're here and reddit user u/Electrical-Bacon-81 is here to debunk that kind of thinking. He shared his story of how he got his annoying neighbor to stop calling zoning on him. You see, he lived in a trailer park, but he had 4.75 acres of land. He had a few old cars he was work…

An office's kitchen should be a safe space. It is where employees store the sustenance that will help keep them going throughout the day and is sometimes even a haven from the hustle and bustle of working. So when there is an employee who violates that sacred place, it throws off the entire peaceful balance of the staff. How can you trust your food there anymore? Now what? You gonna start bringing non-perishables for lunch only? It's a disaster. One group of employees didn't let this go by unno…

When working in the service industry it is inevitable that you will encounter a bad tipper. Whether they're old and still think 25 cents is an appropriate tip, or their entitled and think because you forgot the ice in their water, they're allowed to tip you $0. It's a mad mad world out there working as a waiter. At least in the U.S. it is. You work for barely an hourly with usually no benefits and you relay almost completely on tips. So when you get a $0 tip, that person who you just served and…

There is a distinct different between working for a company and working independently. They both have their ups and downs, but it's a career choice many people make with very clear intentions on why. So when this contractor, who very much worked for a legit company, was getting treated financially as if he were an independent contractor, he decided to act accordingly. This contractor shared his story on Reddit and said that his boss was snubbing him on benefits. His boss made it very clear that…

So long are the days when dreaming about starting your career was fun and exciting instead of stressful and competitive. Remember when us millennials were raised to think we could grow up to be anything we wanted? I clearly remember telling my kindergarten teacher that I wanted to be an astronaut when I grew up and she totally fanned that flame—even though I was still struggling on spelling my own name… What a wondrous and magical time. Now, as an adult, you're attaching your resume to apply to…

Sometimes a manager is so bad at doing their job, then when they try to throw one of their employees under the bus, they end up throwing themselves. And when that happens, ooooh baby—that's karma at its best. Redditor u/coversbyrichard, is a developer for a company that he has been working with for several years. He was doing fine, but after a few messages get lost in the hundreds of “reply all” emails, he started to become the scapegoat. Then, during his yearly performance review, his manager…

Work in IT is ever-evolving. Once you become an expert in one aspect of your job, it updates, and everything changes. But IT workers know this and choose this—they got in the game for this exact reason. It keeps them on their toes and keeps their creative problem-solving fresh and new every time. With the way society is unfolding, it appears we are always going to need IT workers. So why is it that toxic managers are still going to toxic manage ? Why can't they evolve like the work they manage?…

Work culture is changing, slowly. However, the boom mentality of putting work above anything else in your live is still somehow clinging on to some companies. OP has been working at this job as a a personal care attendant supervisor for about a month now but has come to a the frightening realization that this job is 24/7. When he interviewed for the job he was told that it was not 24/7, however you will be expected to be on call at least once a week. OP has worked these kinds of jobs before and…

If you have ever encountered a Karen throwing a tantrum, we are truly sorry for you. It is annoying and usually absolutely mind-boggling. The reasoning of Karens never makes any sense and the amount of entitlement and audacity is insane. So when you witness a Karen mid-tantrum get roasted it is more than satisfying, it is witnessing karmic energy at work. One Redditor shared their own story of when they witnessed an epic burn happen to a Karen in a grocery store in Australia. Apparently there y…

It's tax season, and we're all here again doing our civic duty to keep the government funded programs a rollin' for everyone who needs them in our community. That's how a society works, right? Well, sometimes rich people think that since they have all the money in the world to hire someone to find all the loopholes they can to avoid paying taxes, that they shouldn't have to pay those taxes. Well, who is that going to hurt? We'll tell you who, people in the community who aren't million or billio…