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'You will do as I instruct you to do': Warehouse manager enforces temperature policy despite warnings from employees, malicious compliance ensues

'You will do as I instruct you to do': Warehouse manager enforces temperature policy despite warnings from employees, malicious compliance ensues

'We need a doctor's note': Employee requests 3 days off due to burnout, boss demands a doctor's note, doctor demands a full month off

'We need a doctor's note': Employee requests 3 days off due to burnout, boss demands a doctor's note, doctor demands a full month off

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Man sends city officials to neighbor's house after his fence collapses, plan backfires: 'My uncle looked him in the eye and said, "Not my problem"'

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'It got so bad that the upper management started an intimidation campaign': Employee gets written up for being transparent about sick time, so he trains 150+ coworkers to exploit the system

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New supervisor tells employee not to bother coming in to work if he's even 5 minutes late, he just turns around and goes home every time he gets stuck in traffic, prompting a reversal of the rule: 'I won’t be coming in'

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Client accidentally sends engineer confidential documents, yet refuses to believe engineer after they claim to delete them, leading to a security dispute: ‘I didn’t mind escalating it’

Client accidentally sends engineer confidential documents, yet refuses to believe engineer after they claim to delete them, leading to a security dispute: ‘I didn’t mind escalating it’

Entitled boss forces overworked employee to pause payroll and prioritize new report, maliciously complies, delaying payroll for the entire company: 'You could almost see the steam coming out of his ears'

Entitled boss forces overworked employee to pause payroll and prioritize new report, maliciously complies, delaying payroll for the entire company: 'You could almost see the steam coming out of his ears'

'You don't sound sick to me': Employee refuses to give in to management pressures not to use any PTO, records conversation with boss to prove their actions are illegal

'You don't sound sick to me': Employee refuses to give in to management pressures not to use any PTO, records conversation with boss to prove their actions are illegal

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Entitled resident ignores warnings from neighbor about construction plan, gets massive fine from HOA and the city: '[He] told my husband to mind his own business'

Entitled resident ignores warnings from neighbor about construction plan, gets massive fine from HOA and the city: '[He] told my husband to mind his own business'

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‘He's calling in sick, he's sick’: Boss insists manager's team member is lying about his illness when he calls out sick, is hilariously proven wrong

'Don’t want me start before 8:00? Fine!': Micromanaging boss refuses to let employee clock in before 8:00 AM, employee maliciously complies to prove a point

'Don’t want me start before 8:00? Fine!': Micromanaging boss refuses to let employee clock in before 8:00 AM, employee maliciously complies to prove a point

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'You want me to log every minute? Sure thing, boss!': Micromanager enforces new time-tracking to policy to "optimize productivity," team maliciously complies to prove productivity would plummet

'You want me to log every minute? Sure thing, boss!': Micromanager enforces new time-tracking to policy to "optimize productivity," team maliciously complies to prove productivity would plummet

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New boss removes flexible working with "no exceptions" preventing employee from attending their cousin's wedding, employee takes all 23 days of their leave at the end of the quarter instead forcing their boss to cover for them: 'Two people quit'

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‘Game on’: Arrogant boss tries to micromanage high-performing employee into quitting, fails miserably

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Employee uses a paper trail to set the record straight when their petty supervisor begins to “performance manage” them out of a job: ‘I responded with facts and data. No response’

‘Fate had my back’: Employee takes company truck to interview for another workplace after repeatedly being denied days off, gets the new job while on the clock

‘Fate had my back’: Employee takes company truck to interview for another workplace after repeatedly being denied days off, gets the new job while on the clock

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‘It makes me feel like I'm in The Truman Show’: Neighbor continually mows 6 feet of new homeowner's front lawn and attaches deer-repelling mechanisms to their shrubbery, failing to adhere to the clear property line

‘It makes me feel like I'm in The Truman Show’: Neighbor continually mows 6 feet of new homeowner's front lawn and attaches deer-repelling mechanisms to their shrubbery, failing to adhere to the clear property line

Homeowner asks elderly neighbors to stop parking in his driveway, they refuse and tell him he's being "too rigid": '[They] suddenly started to use my driveway, first for a couple of hours and by now they are just straight up occupying it'

Homeowner asks elderly neighbors to stop parking in his driveway, they refuse and tell him he's being "too rigid": '[They] suddenly started to use my driveway, first for a couple of hours and by now they are just straight up occupying it'

‘Guess who got written up?’: Warehouse manager forbids employees from double-checking shipments, causing major money loss when workers ship wrong items to customers

‘Guess who got written up?’: Warehouse manager forbids employees from double-checking shipments, causing major money loss when workers ship wrong items to customers

‘You can thank your insubordination for this!’: Boss responds to mass quitting by enforcing that employees give three months’ notice, employees rebel

‘You can thank your insubordination for this!’: Boss responds to mass quitting by enforcing that employees give three months’ notice, employees rebel

25-year-old employee gets written up by supervisor for not coming into work during his approved time off: ‘It’s not your job to make sure that your supervisor does her job’

25-year-old employee gets written up by supervisor for not coming into work during his approved time off: ‘It’s not your job to make sure that your supervisor does her job’

Neighbor repeatedly claims woman’s patio, forcing her to document his stubborn chair invasions and finally report him to the landlord: ‘I moved his chair three more times, but he kept moving it back’

Neighbor repeatedly claims woman’s patio, forcing her to document his stubborn chair invasions and finally report him to the landlord: ‘I moved his chair three more times, but he kept moving it back’

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