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Karen restaurant manager accuses cook of not working, she maliciously complies

Some people assume the worst of others, declaring everyone else to be lazy, foolish, or otherwise plotting and scheming something nefarious. But let's be honest, they're probably doing so to deflect from their own shortcomings—which are probably the exact same things they're accusing others of. Having one of these people as your boss or employer is, of course, going to ensure you a terrible time during every moment you're at work, with constant accusations of slacking, skiving, and even stealin…
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Café Karen complains that her pieces of toast aren't the same size, gets smaller ones: 'You want your two pieces of toast the same size? As you wish.'

There's a lot to complain about in this world—if you go looking for it… but who wants to live their life like that anyway? You're far better off putting that time and energy towards something productive and just getting on with it rather than falling into that line of thinking. Regardless, you're determined to find something to take issue with… the size of your toast probably isn't one of them worth worrying about—there are plenty of other things that should take priority on the list Who knows.…
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'I've never been caught': Worker confesses to leaving job site while nobody is watching, stirring controversy and sparking discussion in online community

Having a job generally means that you do that job and get paid for it—simple, right? Like, it doesn't really take anyone telling you that to figure it out. But what should you do if you do the job that you're being paid to do and it doesn't take you nearly as long as your employer expects it will? This happens all the time, and depending on the job—and the person—and the place, and the time, your approach to this situation might be different. The more motivated among us who couldn't simply stan…
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Customer complains about internet speed, but it turns out they were getting faster speeds than they were paying for, gets slower internet than they started with: 'It's even worse than it was before!'

Getting slower internet speeds than you're paying for is quite a gear-grinding, to say the least—especially when you're paying through the nose for the highest possible speeds and still just receiving the lower speed 80% of the time. The internet service providers (ISPs) basically figure that we won't notice the difference, and to be fair, most of us wouldn't. That or they don't actually have the infrastructure to support and deliver the speeds they're selling, so they throttle speeds, especial…
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'I quit my job and now they’ve offered me more money': Employee quits their toxic workplace only to be offered better compensation, they decline dividing readers online

Living, working—merely existing in a negative environment is enough to cause you a miserable existence. Over time, the repeated accusations and insulations of wrongdoing eat away at you, eroding what optimism and willpower you have remaining to make positive changes for yourself. The problem with this is that it includes sapping the energy you might have to leave the toxic situation yourself, creating a vicious cyclical feedback loop that drains you of your life force. Though it might not seem…
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Developer embarrasses new boss and gets foolish "no overtime" policy overturned by adhering strictly to it: 'Well, it's 4:30. That's my 8 hours. I'll see you tomorrow'

Sometimes you can't just tell people things—they won't listen. It takes actually experiencing the negative result that you were warning them about for them to admit they were wrong. Predictably, this happens all the time with unreasonable egotistical bosses who are eager to prove themselves… This developer, working for a financial services company, developed various tools and scripts to compensate for the company's other shortcomings, sometimes inadequate customer solutions. This saw them worki…
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Employees reject promotions due to the lack of increased compensation for responsibility: 'We just don't want to work like our superiors'

Moving up the chain in any workplace comes with a certain amount of sacrifice, as you get more responsibility, your ability to simply log off and not worry about the fate and trajectory of your work slowly decreases. Sure, you might get less productive work done every day due to all the oversight and meetings, but the responsibility rests a heavy weight on your shoulders all the same. Of course, you get paid more, too, and that has its own benefits. But, there reaches a point where more and mor…
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Employee gets back at micromanaging boss by working scheduled hours after being singled out over flexible working hours: 'You will work 9 to 5 so we can watch you'

Flexibility begets flexibility, and a little understanding goes a long way. There's no sense in being overly rigid about rules when they don't serve to benefit anyone and make things worse for everyone overall. This worker enjoyed a flexible working arrangement until they were singled out by their boss and made to work 9 to 5 each day instead of 8 to 4 as they had been working. Frustrated at these new restrictions and at the erosion of the work-life balance that that flexibility had allowed the…
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Online community members back employee for refusing to give vacation days to their coworker for her honeymoon: 'She wasn't happy and told me I was being selfish'

When you're planning the biggest event of your life, what is possibly a once-in-a-lifetime event, it's important to make sure you actually get to the planning part of it and not just leave essential parts to chance… this, coming from someone who is notoriously poor at planning beyond the end of the week. If you want to go on a trip that is going to require you to take time off work, you should probably make sure you request the time off work first so that you're not stuck with an already booked…
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Software giant fires last developer capable of servicing $25M contract in short-sighted cost-cutting measure, he successfully negotiates $1M/yr consulting fees:'Never fire the last legacy knowledge guy...'

This employee worked in the contracts department of a major software company, which they refer to as “MidSoft Inc” Continual foolish decisions that thought of nothing but the bottom line and cost-cutting measures, driven by the ravenous interests of private equity investors, reduced the company's senior development team from 12 to one soldier, “Sam.” While the ledger might have looked better for a time, the immeasurable loss of institutional knowledge and literal lifetimes of experience would g…
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Boss accuses employee of not working their hours, employee turns the tables and provides proof to HR that the boss is the one not working their hours: 'Do we need to get HR involved or are you going to calm down?'

It's often said that we accuse others of the thing we're most guilty of, our own guilt subconsciously directing our thoughts in that direction. For instance, your boss who is constantly hounding you about your hours and accusing you of having not worked them is probably not working their full hours themself, either slacking off at their desk or making excuses for leaving early that they wouldn't accept from anyone else, amounting to hours of time over the course of a month. This, of course, tak…
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Passenger throws tantrum after missing flight, gets booked for flight 12 hours later by disgruntled gate agent: '[She] deliberately and deservedly made him wait for 12 hours'

It doesn't hurt to be nice or at least kind to people who are just doing their job. Oftentimes, your complaint with their service will have more to do with the organization and its cost-saving policies rather than with the individual themself. And this is important to remember because a lot of people—well, they don't think about it at all. Customer service agents are no strangers to verbal mistreatment from customers. Don't get it wrong; customer service agents can be prone to being just as mis…
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HR refuses to give developer raise by downplaying their work, forced to eat their words when their software stops working

It's common knowledge that you'll often never be appreciated for your job when things are going well—or even great. Your boss and employer assume your high performance is just a given and merit to their management rather than a credit to your own talent and efforts. But, as soon as something goes wrong, they won't blame themselves, even though that will make the most sense based on their logic. No, they'll suddenly come around asking questions, trying to figure out what went wrong, and looking…
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'Maybe It’s a Glitch?': Employee sabotages their own spreadsheet in order to expose slothful coworker who hasn't been doing any own work

There's nothing worse in the workplace than being stuck with a slothful coworker who refuses to do any of their own work and is constantly asking you to help with their workload, meanwhile you know that if you were to refuse to help you'd just be seen by the rest of the workplace as “unhelpful” or “not a team player.”
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'[It] cost them 100k': Workplace "no cellphone" policy costs employer $100k when employee maliciously complies

Depending on your age, you probably had a teacher who constantly reprimanded students for having their phones out in class or even just the presence of any sort of technology or devices that they felt detracted from their lessons. When you get out of school, you come to find that some managers operate in exactly the same way, seemingly confusing effective management with policing their workers as if they were still children. You've probably worked for one of these places or one of these microma…
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Manager posts TikTok video of employee's workplace incident, sparking online discourse: '"My company posted security footage on TikTok'

With the continued rise of video-centric social media platforms in conjunction with the ever-increasing presence of video recording devices, it seems that any etiquette there might have been surrounding not recording videos of strangers or acquaintances and posting them online is virtually nonexistent. The desire for views, clicks, and fake internet points has increasingly encouraged bystanders to whip out their phones and start recording whenever something “interesting” occurs. Turning unhelpf…
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