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Boss demands fauxductivity

'I have been reprimanded for productivity issues': Employee gets shamed by company for being too efficient

Maternity wear | This happened several years ago. After onboarding a new job, I was told I could hire an assistant. The HR director, Kelly, handed me a stack of resumes, told me about a friend's daughter, and bumped "Kat" to the top of my interview list. Kat passed the tech test with high scores and interviewed well so, I hired her.

HR busybody demands pregnant assistant is reprimanded for maternity clothing... because the assistant's mother (HR's friend) doesn't approve of her boyfriend

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He had put a rule in place that nobody was allowed to recycle a broken laptop other than himself.

IT Supervisor "Dave" demands all to-be-recycled computers pass across his desk, ends up with a giant mountain broken computers

One day the field rep called because he didn’t like how we’d answered an email. Not that we hadn’t answered it, just that he didn’t like the manner in which it had been answered. After decades of dealing with this shipper, being micromanaged to that level was not something that we were interested in.

'You should fire us!.. Ok.': Freight company follows through on client's empty threat, calls their bluff and stops servicing them

Bossy Co-worker Screws Himself Out of a Promotion, Woman Gets Revenge Without Even Trying

Bossy Co-worker Screws Himself Out of a Promotion, Woman Gets Revenge Without Even Trying

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He complains there's bones in his daughters calzone, manager looks at me and I say "I confirmed twice she wanted chicken wings", and the dad says "you know what she meant, like chicken meat".

'The kitchen guys are actually chuckling while they put this thing together': Obstinate customer demands whole chicken wings in their calzone, worker complies, gets fired

10,000 steps a day or else!

Wife Demands That Her Husband Walk 10,000 Steps a Day At Work, Coworkers Come to His Support

They must be MY leaves on MY curb? As you wish.

'I spoke with my neighbors and acquired the rights to their leaves': Guy leaves gargantuan mountain of leaves after leaf collection company leafs through their rulebook then leaves his leaves and leaves

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Shut the F*ck up get in the truck and do what you’re told! You got it. | Malicious compliance

'I jumped in my truck, called his boss, and went home': Jerk construction operator abuses wrong contractor, gets fired

Boss told me I couldn't take a smoke break if I wasn't smoking

'I was 'smoking'': Guy tired of coworker's smoking breaks, devises his own way to "smoke" and fool the boss

Bank won’t let me withdraw all funds? Ok | I moved from Pennsylvania to Michigan a few years ago and only go home once a year or so. A few years back I transferred the vast majority of my bank account to Michigan, but they were giving me a hard time about closing the account and so I withdrew all funds except for

'They were giving me a hard time about closing the account': Bank tries to charge guy a fee to close account, he decides to drown them in perpetual transactions

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They Refused Me an Office, I Complied, They Regretted It

'I distinctly heard the yelling': Stubborn department heads conspire against new hire having an office, get chewed out

You want 70, um ok, 1,2,3,..... | My sister buys these fish to feed to my BIL's pet fish. She goes into the pet store and says she would like 70 of the little guys. So, the net goes in and right into the bag. Well my sister looks and goes, "that's not 70".

Woman unhappy with uncounted fish, demands employee count them out, gets less fish

Karen boss DESPERATELY needed my uniform back the next day “NO EXCUSES!”

'The new manager was one of the biggest Karens you have ever met': Fast food worker gets revenge on evil Karen boss by returning a muddy uniform

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As you wish | This happened a couple or three decades ago in the military. I was in charge of the squadron budget and made sure all unit expenditures were proper (right funds account) and funds were available.

'Sir, I sent those requests to you two weeks ago': Commander demands every expenditure passes through his approval, subordinates oblige

'We already switched seats" After a while the couple said "Oh you have the middle seat", i was confused because the wife was sitting at the aisle. And i said that was not the agreement and i want my seat back.

Entitled Couple Tricks Guy Into Trading for Worse Plane Seat, He Ends up With a Better Seat