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‘Rules are rules? Fine’: Insurance rep refuses to fix customer's broken phone, claiming it's against their rules, customer cleverly finds a way to get a new phone instead

‘Rules are rules? Fine’: Insurance rep refuses to fix customer's broken phone, claiming it's against their rules, customer cleverly finds a way to get a new phone instead

While rules are definitely important and indispensable, surely we can all think of one or two that make absolutely no sense. It could be rules set at your place of work, school, city, or even country, but at the end of the day, those rules are made by other people, and sometimes people make mistakes. What can you do when you stumble upon a pointless rule like that? Most of the time the answer to that would be nothing, unless you are as resilient and quick-thinking as the person who wrote this R…
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'My manager told me to quit so I did': 23-year-old server told by Karen and Kevin owners she's not needed, so she quits and business plummets

'My manager told me to quit so I did': 23-year-old server told by Karen and Kevin owners she's not needed, so she quits and business plummets

It's one thing to have to work for a Karen manager, but it's quite another to have your bosses be a Karen and Kevin couple. In fact, it doesn't get much worse than that because you know your bosses are exchanging thoughts about you at all times, whether it's in the workplace or when they're at home after hours. Here , we have a young server who was looking for restaurant experience to make ends meet while she was writing her novel. She landed a job as a server for a diner, which was owned by tw…
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'Look busy!': Student worker gets paid $10,000 to sit on his phone, maliciously complying with boss's orders to take his time on new project

'Look busy!': Student worker gets paid $10,000 to sit on his phone, maliciously complying with boss's orders to take his time on new project

Who knew that efficiency and productivity would not always be applauded in the workplace? It's the kind of awakening most young folks get when they land their first jobs. Not everything is actually about the work you do, although it should be. In fact, it should be that employees should be able to go in, get the job done, and leave on their own time, but I suppose it's not worth dreaming too big. Unfortunately, most work environments run on optics, as this student worker would quickly discover.…
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Entitled caller gets "canceled" by customer service rep: '[She said] she didn't have to pay'

This caller decided to talk to a customer service rep , and tell them exactly what was on her mind. Too bad for her: she's now “canceled” by that company! They say it costs nothing to be kind, and that's mostly true. Having patience or politeness can be difficult if you're in a bad mood. A lot of people who have to call customer service are already in a bad state of mind, since they're presumably calling to clear up an issue. These customers sometimes like to insult the call workers. It's as if…
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'It's a bad idea to get cute with my mom': Mom files insurance claim after Karen customer service rep rejects her request cancel service, malicious compliance ensues

'It's a bad idea to get cute with my mom': Mom files insurance claim after Karen customer service rep rejects her request cancel service, malicious compliance ensues

You do not want to mess with this dude's mother. Honestly, there are lessons we all can learn from her. Typically here at FAIL Blog, we tend to side with customer service representatives when it comes to the conflicts they have to endure and confront on the job. However, in this case, the Redditor's mother had been dealing with the aftereffects of a serious house fire and simply wanted to cancel the appliance service plan she was using as her home was now uninhabitable for the next several mont…
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Karen demands neighbor decorate his house for the holidays, malicious compliance ensues: 'She wants a decorated house? She's going to GET a decorated house'

Karen demands neighbor decorate his house for the holidays, malicious compliance ensues: 'She wants a decorated house? She's going to GET a decorated house'

Who knew that the tradition of hanging Christmas lights and decorating the exterior of your home would cause so much neighborhood drama? As someone who grew up in an apartment within a metropolitan area, this suburban madness is not something I inherently understood until I spent time in the suburbs as an adult. Let's just say it was a culture shock. Sign culture, flag culture, and Christmas lights culture are phenomena that are deeply strange and new to me, yet clearly, they can be the source…
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IT boss insists that salaried employee has to work during vacation, employee discovers a clever way to avoid their boss: 'I won't be expected to work?'

What's the point of a vacation if you have to keep an eye on your phone the whole time? If you're anxiously awaiting a call from your boss at any minute, you're not exactly getting much time to relax and unwind. Disconnecting from work is so important, but a lot of managers view vacation time as some optional luxury. They seem to take it personally when their employees request time off, as if that employee is taking money from their pockets. Even though it's just their job to manage people, the…
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Employee maliciously complies after being told to take shorter breaks: 'I decided to take short breaks every five minutes'

There are the kinds of places where the boss is watching you like a hawk, counting the minutes that you're spending at your desk. Meanwhile, they're going out for a smoke break with their favorite staff, what seems like every five minutes. This is exactly why most places have laws around what breaks an employee is entitled to because even with the laws, too many business owners and managers have their own ideas about when and even how breaks should be taken, whether or not those ideas are align…
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Hospital staff face threat of mechanic's lean after submitting fake service requests to get free parking at mechanic's lot for work

Is it just a thing that hospitals must have the most inaccessible parking around? I'll never forget the irony of having to walk (hobble) 10 minutes down the road and across the adjacent park and across the adjacent park on my freshly broken ankle away from the local hospital where there was the closest parking available. And, of course, this was in the early hours of the morning after waiting 8 hours in the emergency department and in the not-so-nice part of town. To make matters even worse, yo…
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‘So I'm not allowed to sleep?’: Insomniac college student demands roommates keep quiet during the night, they refuse, leading to a noisy dispute when they keep waking each other up

‘So I'm not allowed to sleep?’: Insomniac college student demands roommates keep quiet during the night, they refuse, leading to a noisy dispute when they keep waking each other up

College presents many challenges to young adults, but nobody talks about the struggles of the first few nights sleeping outside your childhood bedrooms. While we all had sleepovers and trips with friends and school, that is not the same as completely moving out of our home and regularly sleeping in a different bed, and that is not an easy experience for young people. On my first night in my dorm room, the first thing I noticed was how loud the street outside was, mainly because of all the cars…
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23-year-old woman gets 20-year-old roommate's car towed for repeatedly and unapologetically taking her spot: 'She [also] hadn't paid to park for that month'

Neighborly parking disputes are no new thing, but they almost constitute “friendly fire” when they take shape between members of the same household. Still, this just speaks volumes to the propensity for people to be petty and selfish, trying to shape the world and those around them into a form that best suits them independent of any moral or even logical reason. At this point, you probably already have someone in mind who fits this description, it's probably even a former roommate, as rooming s…
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‘This time I decided to maliciously comply': Karen employee pushes co-worker to his limits with irrelevant complaints, so he gets her locked out of her important documents

‘This time I decided to maliciously comply': Karen employee pushes co-worker to his limits with irrelevant complaints, so he gets her locked out of her important documents

Well, if you're going to complain about it for no reason, why even have access to it??
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Update: 'We had 7 days to leave the premises': Landlord tries to evict business and claim their equipment as his own, business owners enact malicious compliance

Update: 'We had 7 days to leave the premises': Landlord tries to evict business and claim their equipment as his own, business owners enact malicious compliance

Let this story serve as yet another friendly reminder to never trust your landlord. This does not merely apply to private residents, as this time, we're dealing with the property of a leisure business. During a difficult economic period for the business, the landlord proved ruthless and issued a 7-day eviction notice with the expectation that the employees would be unable to clear out all their equipment on such short notice. It gets worse. After a little probing, the business owners discovered…
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Bank employee turns her bosses impolite comments back on her: 'I'm not taking an hour off. I'm leaving. For good'

Next, read about this person who has “decided I will no longer host any more of his family holiday dinners ” after their husband's family finally pushed them over the edge.
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Boss fires manager for refusing to do his bidding, promotes a crony into the job who sinks the department: 'I stopped doing anything except what he told me to do'

For every great boss in an organization, there must be a boss of equal and opposing terribleness. Sometimes, these bosses work together at the same level, or one above the other in the chain of command, or sometimes one will follow the other in the same position. It's uncanny the amount of times in your career that you'll have the most amazing and empowering boss only to have the worst boss you've ever experienced immediately after. With these bosses making you repeatedly question just how comm…
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'[Boss] lasted maybe 10 minutes before he couldn't take it anymore': Manager forces employee to run machines constantly, employee maliciously complies and lets hundreds of orders pile up

The best way to comply with your boss's silliest orders is to do things exactly as they insist. It almost allows you, as their employee, to allow them to see the errors of their ways, without actually getting any flack for it. Next, check out these home renovations that went… less than excellently, like one person who admitted, “ I redid my kitchen countertops with brown paper bags .”
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