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'It was no less than $25,000': College advisor points out administrative flaw, request gets rejected, department has to pay $25k

'It was no less than $25,000': College advisor points out administrative flaw, request gets rejected, department has to pay $25k

Employee uses loophole in strict time-tracking policy, takes extended sick leave instead: 'It's not my business'

Employee uses loophole in strict time-tracking policy, takes extended sick leave instead: 'It's not my business'

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'Don't be cheap': Employee told by HR he can't use travel budget for tips, cue malicious compliance

'Don't be cheap': Employee told by HR he can't use travel budget for tips, cue malicious compliance

'You don't want me to do my job? Ok, I won't': Employee gets taken off of work project, incompetent coworker takes over, employee refuses to clean up her mess

'You don't want me to do my job? Ok, I won't': Employee gets taken off of work project, incompetent coworker takes over, employee refuses to clean up her mess

Employee forced to use his car for trips, boss won’t pay for repairs, cue malicious compliance: ‘Since they won’t provide me with a car, […] I would no longer go to the meetings

Employee forced to use his car for trips, boss won’t pay for repairs, cue malicious compliance: ‘Since they won’t provide me with a car, […] I would no longer go to the meetings'

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Factory worker follows manager's orders, costing the company thousands of dollars, managers gets fired: ' I was ordered to direct all questions to the "senior" worker'

Factory worker follows manager's orders, costing the company thousands of dollars, managers gets fired: ' I was ordered to direct all questions to the "senior" worker'

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Employee maliciously complies after being told to take shorter breaks: 'I decided to take short breaks every five minutes'

Update: 'We had 7 days to leave the premises': Landlord tries to evict business and claim their equipment as his own, business owners enact malicious compliance

Update: 'We had 7 days to leave the premises': Landlord tries to evict business and claim their equipment as his own, business owners enact malicious compliance

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Boss fires manager for refusing to do his bidding, promotes a crony into the job who sinks the department: 'I stopped doing anything except what he told me to do'

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Employee told to drop everything to serve their boss coffee, drops 300 files on the ground and spills the coffee on him before quitting: 'I was working for the new company 22 minutes later'

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Comedian doesn't realize the joke is on them when they're unknowingly condescending to the bar's manager: 'I'm the manager and I will never book you again'

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Coworker complains about tech support worker getting credit for their unfinished jobs, forced to finish them himself: 'So now, he’s doing twice, sometimes 3 times the work, all because he wanted full credit for partial results'

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Client says contractors are working "too fast" demand they work slower, making project cost four times more: '$200,000 for a job that should have realistically only been worth about $45,000'

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'I am not allowed to do anything': Retail worker faces down angry parents after colleague sells parents the wrong computer for kid's gaming ambitions, prevented from helping them by silly company policy

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Customer service rep gets paid to play video games after management's misguided instructions leave them without any work: 'For 5 days, I sat in my spare bedroom/office playing video games, all while logged in'

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Boss demands software service rep stick to the script causing client catastrophe: 'My boss said, "Just follow the script"… so I did—all the way to a million-dollar client meltdown'

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CEO singles out employee during a company meeting and makes a mockery of their request for reimbursement of commute costs amid rising fuel costs and a hypocritical RTO policy: 'He works fully remotely and makes several million a year'

CEO singles out employee during a company meeting and makes a mockery of their request for reimbursement of commute costs amid rising fuel costs and a hypocritical RTO policy: 'He works fully remotely and makes several million a year'

Employee calls out coworker after she gets glowing performance review for sending weekly email to upper management summarizing everyone else's hard work

Employee calls out coworker after she gets glowing performance review for sending weekly email to upper management summarizing everyone else's hard work

‘Oh my gosh, what a trick’: Management job candidate walks out mid-interview after finding out mid-way through the role is actually entry-level customer support

‘Oh my gosh, what a trick’: Management job candidate walks out mid-interview after finding out mid-way through the role is actually entry-level customer support

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24 Nostalgic Websites That Still Define 2000's Era Internet

Elderly neighbor demands resident next door stop parking in front of their own house, claiming it's too close to her driveway, resident says: ‘This is not a reasonable ask’

Elderly neighbor demands resident next door stop parking in front of their own house, claiming it's too close to her driveway, resident says: ‘This is not a reasonable ask’

Man refuses to keep mowing his elderly neighbors' two-acre meadow for free after their adult kids demand he continue doing it once the parents are gone

Man refuses to keep mowing his elderly neighbors' two-acre meadow for free after their adult kids demand he continue doing it once the parents are gone

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