Taking credit for your subordinate's work is a part of being in charge. After all, if you're managing the team, delegating, and making things work, you deserve it—partly. However, it's incredibly important to give credit where credit's due and recognize the people who actually did the work, came up with the ideas, and put in the time; pretending you did it yourself is dishonest and a good way to get a whole lot of bad karma barreling down on you. Plus, you might end up in a circumstance like th…

The illusion of power is absolutely real.

The leave approval process exists for one reason and one reason only: To ensure that workers have a proper guarantee and assurance that they will be able to be absent on the submitted dates before spending money and making social commitments. It's a rather simple process, black and white, really; can the employee take leave or not? Yes or no? Well, this manager decided to introduce a whopping massive grey area into the middle of “Yes” or “No” by first saying yes, forgetting they had approved th…

Problems will present themselves in our lives with a constant certain predictability—it's how we go about solving those problems that determines the course it will take. Say you have a bad boss or are otherwise unhappy with your job—what do you do? Do you sit and silently suffer, day after day, week after week, month after month? If you don't have to, why should you? Take your life into your own hands and find something better. That's what this worker has done following advice they received whe…

Negotiating a raise is always a tough conversation. For employees who have a cheapo boss and have been taken advantage of their entire career, it's dang near impossible to get what you deserve when it comes to salary improvement.

Sometimes dealing with management is like dealing with a toddler: You can't just tell them their ideas are bad; you need to apply a negative stimulus — resulting from the idea itself — that shows them why their idea is bad. Trying to simply explain something to either a toddler or a manager is going to get you nowhere — and probably trigger an emotionally deregulated tantrum. That's what this tanker driver decided to do when their manager flat out told them that they weren't going to be paid fo…

An epic tale of revenge via scorched earth policy.

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Let this be a friendly reminder that "at-will" employment goes both ways!

The relationship between an organization and its workers is built upon trust. Once that trust is betrayed by a worker/workers, it's completely fair that the organization loses faith in those individuals. However, when the organization betrays the trust of one of its workers, it's only going to be natural for them to lose confidence in the organization. That's an important thing for employers to realize; if you do things like not honor accrued leave for an employee, other employees are going to…

Being unexpectedly fired from a job has a brutal finality, leaving you feeling lost, with little direction and wondering what will come next. Well, as it turns out, sometimes that next thing is your recently-ex boss calling and begging you to cover for your recently-ex coworkers when they go on leave. Why not? You're perfect for the task. Heck, you were doing the job yourself until very recently! From the boss's point of view, it's hard to see how anyone might have an issue with this proposal!…

Only someone who was born yesterday would mess with their business's safety inspector/auditor . This boss absolutely paid the price! This person wrote to the r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit with a great tale of workplace MC. As the OP explains it, they used to have lots of autonomy at their job as they conducted safety inspections, making sure everything was up to code. They were so good at their job that they reported right to the owner and his son. However, after getting a new boss , this job…

There should be an immortal rule between bosses and employees on a team: always try to make each other look good.

Too many employers don't truly value their worker's contributions — or outwardly appear to in order to devalue and reduce the employee's self-worth and keep them underfoot. This strategy manifests itself as a weird employment form of “negging” (if you don't know what this is, consider yourself lucky) in which the employer/manager will attempt to reduce the employee's

This coworker just might be an infuriating genius!

Saying something dismissive to try and prove your superiority is bound to backfire when those you thought you had under your boot comply with the meaning—but not spirit—of your words. This is malicious compliance, and if you've spent some time here or on the popular Reddit sub that gave these stories a rise in popularity, then you know of it all too well. Heck—if you've spent some time in a toxic workplace under a tyrannical boss, you've probably watched one of these stories unfold. This Reddit…