People don't usually quit because their job is bad — it's because their management is bad. Bad managers can make even the best job in the world into a nightmare. No matter how fun your workplace is, if you have a boss who's managing your every moment and breathing down your neck, you'd know it was time to find new employment elsewhere. This small business made a critical mistake by not trusting their hardest working employee, “Steve,” in this story posted to r/pettyrevenge. Next up,

This manager may not understand the concept of generosity.

Who knew college professors could be so petty? One professor ended up in a malicious compliance situation after their coworkers tattled on them! Every professor has a different style of teaching. Some have been around for decades, and teach the same lesson plan every semester without fail. Others are newer to the job, and with many years of teaching ahead of them. At this college, in a story told by r/HeWhoMustNotBeNamed, a tenured teacher and a new teacher teamed up to blast the OP. It seems q…

One remote-working couple is stressing each other out, writing, “This is very petty, but we need some help."

Something shady this way comes.

Sometimes the warning signs that you might not want to work somewhere are readily apparent as if someone commissioned them to be made in neon and hung in the lobby for all to see. Other times, they're not so obvious, and it's highly likely you won't notice them until you've started working there and have learned to read between the lines. These workers came together in a viral internet thread to share their stories and experiences to help uncover some of the things that we might be missing in i…

I can't imagine how this boss retains any of his employees if he can't even keep the top performer on the team! If you're a great boss, you encourage your team to shine, bring out the best in people, and don't need to micromanage. If you're just an okay boss, maybe you have some flaws, but your employees just have to work around you. Then, there's horrible bosses like this guy, who are just rotten to the core, and don't care about their employees in the slightest. In this text conversation shar…

Something tells me this is not what HR was hoping for.

The nerve of this teen is really impressive! He's sure to be an employee his boss at the smoothie shop never forgets. When you're a teenager , your brain is still growing. You're uninhibited and think you can do anything without consequence. This guy, 19 year old Jake, is a hilarious example of this. He was really putting malicious compliance before his own self preservation! As u/RussianAnnaB wrote in the r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit, her boyfriend Jake had a job at a smoothie store , but h…

This deli worked wondered, “AITA for speaking up about a bad employer ?” and they didn't exactly get the answer they were looking for. U/jackjack_d3mon wrote to the subreddit in order to gain some other opinions on something they'd just done, and pretty quickly regretted. As the OP wrote, they had some serious concerns about their workplace, a deli where they work closing shifts . Some of their concerns are that one employee disregards what management says in order to “be a leader." The OP also…

Here's a classic story of a boss acting out of line and getting her comeuppance.

Sudden loss for a thing that was great about your life can cause grief—even when that thing was your job. Sometimes it will be a sudden change of ownership or leadership; sometimes, it is the same leaders making sweeping changes in policy to increase profits. Sometimes it's a smaller change within your team, maybe a coworker or boss you like leaving for a new role. This last scenario normally ends up with you working closely with someone who you like significantly less than the coworker they're…

Let this be a friendly reminder that "at-will" employment goes both ways!

Being unexpectedly fired from a job has a brutal finality, leaving you feeling lost, with little direction and wondering what will come next. Well, as it turns out, sometimes that next thing is your recently-ex boss calling and begging you to cover for your recently-ex coworkers when they go on leave. Why not? You're perfect for the task. Heck, you were doing the job yourself until very recently! From the boss's point of view, it's hard to see how anyone might have an issue with this proposal!…

Only someone who was born yesterday would mess with their business's safety inspector/auditor . This boss absolutely paid the price! This person wrote to the r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit with a great tale of workplace MC. As the OP explains it, they used to have lots of autonomy at their job as they conducted safety inspections, making sure everything was up to code. They were so good at their job that they reported right to the owner and his son. However, after getting a new boss , this job…

This flabbergasted sandwich shop employee wrote, “WTF is wrong with people?”