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'AITA for not giving my boss my first class seat?': Internet defends worker's decision not to give their boss their personal seat upgrade

If you haven't heard the word: It's 2023, and we're reinstating the law that entitles your lord to anything you own. How dare you own something nicer than your boss? From now on, if they want your stuff, they get it…. That 10-year-old BMW you're driving? Hand it over. Your new smartwatch? Just put it on their wrist right now. Oh—and they wouldn't mind if you re-homed your family's corgi, Mr. Pickle, to them either. Just imagine the frailty of this boss's ego. It's pretty hard to imagine what a…
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My boss suspended me for his negligence so I ruined his life.

'The manager quit and it's crazy': Injured employee gets 'nuclear revenge' on negligent boss

Any manager who flouts the rules is bound to learn an expensive lesson. The relationship between a boss and employee is one that has to be carefully navigated. Even more so in the case of this person, whose boss was running a rather shady business , but still chose to be a jerk to his employees. The OP wrote about their nuclear level revenge they inflicted on their boss. During a snow storm, the employer made the crazy choice to have his employees shovel the parking lot, instead of hiring a tru…
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‘You’ll work when I tell you to work’ : Terrible boss makes employee work on vacation, cue malicious compliance, boss gets fired, employee gets boss's job

‘You’ll work when I tell you to work’ : Terrible boss makes employee work on vacation, cue malicious compliance, boss gets fired, employee gets boss's job

When a boss is as terrible at managing projects as he is at managing people, trust you're gonna suffer the consequences, whatever they may be. This employee had to work on his vacation to make up for the ridiculous amount of time lost thanks to awful management. He was working on a project for his company, of which he and his team were behind schedule. The reason for that being… his boss. He quickly realized that he was going to be the scapegoat for said lousy management, so he handed in his tw…
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'I will be leaving in order to pursue happiness': Employee prints form resignation letter and makes savage hand-written adjustments

Talk about effortless, am I right?
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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

There's a prevalent school of thought that prevails when it comes to client servicing: Do anything (and everything) possible to keep them happy and contracted; having worked in these sectors in the past, upper management never likes seeing a contract cancellation notice pass across their desk, even if that contract was costing the business money.
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You're going to assign me to make balloon animals at a site with no kids? OK, I'll just do my job

Malicious Compliance: Balloon Artist Inexplicably Assigned to Bar With No Children Makes "Lewd Balloon Animals" Instead

When this balloon artist upset the wrong person, they found themselves repeatedly assigned to a location lacking the usual clientele. To the establishment's horror, they decided to take matters into their own hands and began making lewd balloon animals, which were a smash hit. Redditor u/Shaftway shared this story today to Reddit's r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit. A subreddit where people share stories about “People conforming to the letter, but not the spirit, of a request.” As evident in the…
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Graveyard shift employee shares some of their craziest work stories.

Graveyard Shift Work Stories That Are Full of Chaos and Crazy People

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People share stories of the worst things their bosses have ever done to them.

People Share the Most Terrible Things Their Employers Have Ever Done To Them

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Former NFL equipment manager shares interesting series of work stories from his time on the job.

Crush Your Boredom With These Work Stories Passed Along By a Former NFL Equipment Manager

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