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No OT but you won’t swap me to day shift? Ok, boss.

Employee's Horrible Boss Denies Request to Switch Shift, Gets Revenge By Working OT Against Company Policy

Charging me for something extra that never existed? Fine, I'll pretend like it did | I was using a storage company to keep my stuff over the summer, and they already fudged up the first part of the delivery so I wasn't having high hopes for the time when I was supposed to get my stuff back.

Storage Facility Obstinately Charges Guy for Non-existent Box, so Guy Demands It Back

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Pedantic manager picks apart their own work Backstory: I worked for a high street retail chain that, in their infinite wisdom, ditched the store manager position and instead had 4 assistant managers running a store. This led to intensive workplace politics as the more competitive staff kept trying to pull stuff to make out that they were the big dog despite the fact that we were all on the same level.

Worker Manipulates Meddling Micromanager Into Annihilating Their Own Work

Don't want to pay me for my work? Alright, I'll undo it!

'We won't give you anything more than $5': Delivery service tries to cheat driver out of agreed upon rate, cue malicious compliance

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Professor Fails Students, Students Tell Dean, Dean Fails Professor

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Don’t get me wrong, I love my coworker but she’s acting like she’s the manager when she isn’t.

'She's acting like she's the manager when she isn't': Coworker starts making rules and requirements for everyone else, team members retaliate

tole my seat eh? Well now we are gonna' get real cozy. I (43m) flew Southwest recently and spaced on checking in early so I ended up way in the back of the plane. It was only an hour flight so I wasn't too distraught about it

Entitled Dude Steals Guy's Plane Seat, Guy Sits on Top of Him

My IT Directors emails look awfully suspicious.

Guy Forced to Endure 2-Hour Phishing Workshop as Punishment, Reports All IT Director's Emails as Phishing Attempts

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If I get penalized for one day, then I will be out for three.

Employee Discovers Loophole in Company Sick Day Policy and Enrages Horrible Boss

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'Bad Boss' Forces IT Department to Work Holiday, IT Manager Charges Massive Party to Company

My work hours are 830am-5pm no exceptions? you got it

'Now, my email notifications are muted': Employee scolded for leaving early, gets revenge by going off the grid after hours

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Can't work on your laptop without my name badge? Guess it wasn't that critical.

'I forgot to grab it rushing over here': Student IT worker forced by Karen to retrieve badge, cue malicious compliance

Simple but funny DMV story

Customer Walks Into Empty Local DMV Office, Still Takes an Eternity

You want us at the office twice a week, and you're going to pull keycard reports to validate? Sure, I'll show up on these reports.

'They're going to be pulling the office keycard data to see who actually does go in': Employee comes up with grand scheme to avoid in person work

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“You need to be better at timekeeping….” OK then, I will… | TL:DR Boss erodes all goodwill by going for me for being 3 minutes late (despite me staying on late after hours all the time for no pay) then loses his shit when I start only doing the hours I’m contracted to do.

'You need to be better at timekeeping...': Boss reprimands employee for being three minutes late once, they stop staying late

Fire me because I did my job? Okay. Hope you don't need all of these supplies. | I love taking photos of people. To the point that I have two resumes for applying for jobs and one of them is specifically for photography work.

'The store closed down not two months later': Employee fired over technicality, takes their stuff and leaves company nonfunctional