Best way to make enemies? Reduce their PTO!

Sometimes you can't help but wonder if corporate executives have ever looked past their most recent board room meeting; they seem to repeatedly make illogical decisions based on new half-baked policies that really only hurt the business in the long run. Usually, it's as simple as the fact that someone decided something once, and that's just the way it's going to be forever. It can also be because something is easier on the books, and therefore that's the way it's going to be even if it actually…

Imagine complaining about your keycard as a pitiful means to get attention… When the facilities manager, u/ImThe1Wh0 , had to deal with this raging Karen and her "Karen-in-Training" he was careful to comply with their every demand. "Karen-in-Training" had issues with her key card access after u/ImThe1Wh0 deleted her unassigned card while completing a key card audit. Raging Karen decided that she also wanted to complain and have problems with her (perfectly fine) card too. Because who wouldn't w…

Giving someone a punishment that prohibits them from doing something and then subsequently expecting them to still do that thing is downright insane. The entire point of suspending an employee from the workplace is that they have committed or exhibited some type of behavior that the employer has deemed unacceptable for the workplace. Hence, it's a way of having them temporarily not be there to either cool off or so the employer can figure out the next steps. Expecting the employee to show up wh…

Going above and beyond at work is generally considered to be the best way of furthering yourself professionally. It might feel a little weird to be essentially doing work that's out of your pay grade for free, but it cannot be said how important doing that work is to learn more advanced skills, grow, gain confidence, and pump up that CV. So, in a healthy workplace with competent leaders, this can be a win-win for everyone: the work gets done, and the employee benefits with growth. The same can…

Being appointed as a leader generally means that you should be doing at least a little bit of leading: sitting on your cell phone while your teenaged workers suffer the onslaught of a rush is not that. It's a sure sign that someone shouldn't have been appointed to the leadership position they are in and is instead a living, breathing example of the “Peter principle.” Other times the issue is worse still, and the person's appointment to their leadership role isn't due to any previous performance…

We grow up learning that rules exist for a reason and had best be followed to the letter; this gets confusing when the realization dawns that there are a lot of stupid rules that exist only because a certain stupid someone decided it should be so. This is the case in many workplaces where an egotistical middle manager or woefully unqualified HR worker can make unchecked declarations and decrees that everyone else has to follow. These decision-makers will pat themself on the back for a job well…

Getting your pay docked because you didn't talk good?! Cue malicious compliance!

Sometimes, you get so fixated on one little detail that you miss the bigger picture entirely. That tunnel vision can result in horrific errors in judgment in professional organizations that snowball and cost companies thousands, if not millions, of dollars. You, a new manager (or finance person), are looking to implement some unnecessary changes in order to fuel your insecure ego (under the guise of saving the company money) and think that taking away your project engineer's company vehicles wi…

'Your uniform doesn't comply with the dress code. IF pants have belt loops, a belt must be worn!'

Unfortunately, every one of us has probably experienced foul treatment from someone in a position of authority who just specifically didn't like us for some reason. It might be conscious on their part, or it might be entirely subconscious; maybe you look just a little too much like an old friend who stole their partner; who knows? Whatever the reason, that person just perceived a freshly painted target on your back from the moment they laid eyes on you. Nothing you can do is ever going to chang…

This landlord threatened legal action against their tenant if the tenant refused to let them show the apartment while they were still living there. The tenant did not want the grief of going through a legal process with their terrible landlord, so they caved under pressure and allowed the apartment viewings to occur. This thread was posted to the r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit by the tenant after they faced a long list of issues with their current landlord. This included the landlord stealing…

This Orwellian nightmare is brought to you by: Modern misinterpretation of people management. What do you do when your woefully unqualified-to-manage-people employer is combing through surveillance footage to assess whether or not you're giving good customer service based on whether or not they can make out a pixilated smile ? Well, smiling more seems like the obvious solution, but that's just playing into their Bezosian entrepreneurial wet dreams — that's why the more creative solution is the…

There's a happy ending for those who deserve one!

To be fair… he did write “Your Name"… It's no secret that Karens are often oblivious to their own insanity; a life of misery and festering anger has left them with an innate desire to take out their (perceived) misfortunes on others. These people carry about their lives like an anthropomorphic wrecking ball, destroying all joy that dares to exist around them. When u/PUNKeM0N was confronted by a raging Karen customer, they approached the situation with a cool and level head. The angry customer i…

Who knew that someone could get so twisted up about allegedly left leaves? Well, this Karen is incredibly particular when it comes to how she gets her yard work done. She's out there with a magnifying like Sherlock Holmes or Blue from Blue's Clues trying to solve the damned mystery of the missing blade of grass. When this lawn maintenance guy, who owns his own landscaping company, received a formal complaint from a client about the work that had been performed on her yard. She was outrageously…