r/Maliciouscompliance My Boss Paid for My $15,000 Meal
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- čas přidán 3. 08. 2024
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0:00 Intro
0:09 Poorly written document gives a huge pension
2:27 Don't threaten the person with the plans and data
4:21 They should have just let us in the party
5:23 CEO pisses off IT director
10:17 Enjoy taking all my work because I quit
12:19 Smile more employee
14:03 Smiling at my drive thru job
14:32 Coming back to work three days after husbands death
"Sneaky Snitch" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) License: CC By Attribution 3.0 - Komedie
My boomer father told me that I was to never give a damn about pay, that I was to work because work gave me purpose and value to society and that was the real point to having a job. Pay was just 'there' I guess.
So wherever I hear "You shouldn't work for the money" I think it's because some people are either stupid enough to take that seriously or are hoping you're stupid enough to take it seriously. Luckily for me, I'm not.
Let me guess, he's also ableist and doesn't think minimum wage should be increased because "it's not meant to be the minimum needed to live" even though it literally is.
@@RiveroftheWither Yes to minimum wage. As for ableist, does "If you can't find a job during a recession with autism and no ability to drive, you're just not trying hard enough" count?
Good for you for not absorbing his bs! 👏 My Boomer father would say yours is an idiot and give a living room Ted Talk about being paid properly. Haha
As a Boomer I have to say your father was full of shit. Oh and I heard the same crap from my parents generation too.
@@winterdemon1 Yes, yes it is
Story 4: When will people ever learn? Never, ever, ever, EVER, mess with/piss off the IT guy!
they never will. and its to our benefit because then we get HILARIOUS stories like this :)
@@itsOasus another thing 2 remember is 2 never mess/piss off God He is slow 2 anger but when He gets mad watch out (off topic.)
@@Mistfall254 Your mixing God up with wizards and Gandalf in-particular. Personally I like the mis-take “Don’t mess with Dragons because you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup!”
@@psibug565 Well He is slow 2 anger and is very quick 2 act when mad
@@Mistfall254 So slow in fact that it's been centuries since we built a tower higher than the tower of Babel, we have a universal language, and we've been to another planet, and he still hasn't shown up.
Regarding the story about being told to smile more: I worked night shift at a well known Canadian coffee shop and was told I smiled too much and was too perky for an overnight shift. People actually complained to management and I was told to not smile so much. SMH.
Canada? So Tim Hortons then? Honestly, speaking as someone that worked years as the first morning shift person at a Dunkin Donuts, coming in at 4am to help night shift finish morning prep, night shift customers are a special breed. Sexist truckers that won't talk to any worker with a vagina, half drunk people, heroin addicts hiding in the bathroom. One time I even lost a coworker to a hit and run
No good deed goes unpunished. You keep smiling, Ma'am. I've never seen you smile, but I just know it's cheerful.
Having said that, regardless of what you did, caffeine addicts are notoriously unhappy folks until they get their first of many dope fix for the day to feel/act 'normal'.
"Well-known Canadian coffee shop"?
It was Timmy's, wasn't it?
Back when I worked at Wendy's, I had a customer ask one of my coworkers if I was autistic, because I sounded way too happy to be there. Thing is, I was actually miserable, but really good at faking being happy. Now, this has no bearing, but I actually did end up finding out I was autistic a few years later, but a different part of the spectrum than the happy ones.
I have seen the same coffee shop clerk in the drive thru almost every morning at 4:30am for the past three years. She is consistently the happiest, perkiest human being I interact with in the course of a regular day.
I won't lie; half-asleep me often wonders what drugs she's on, or what else could explain her being that chipper before 5am as I pull out of the drive-thru. I'd never complain to anyone about it, but between me and my steering wheel, I do often question her sanity.
10:00 the only time I got called "unprofessional" was when I told my former boss that I wasn't going to travel an hour out of my way for free to talk about projects I already finished after I didn't work for him anymore. This conversation came up because I was calling him to get my final check that was a month late.
What a loser
Malicious compliance stories are turning into a competition to see who has the most out-of-touch, delusional boss😂😂
Story 5: I'll never understand people who complain that people are just working for the money. THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT OF A JOB, KAREN! Yes, some jobs do have a good sense of fun, but most workplaces are just for money.
Karen: “I’m a lazy spoiled brat that wants everything delivered to me on a golden platter!
Um yeah, I like my job well enough but obviously if they stopped or cut my salary, I'd be packed and outta there! 🤣
I agree 💯
I’ve never seen anyone who’s had a passion for being treated like crap as a server, so yeah I agree, people work for money lol
What about garbage truck workers does she think they work because that is there passion.
for the IT director story, to put this into perspective i'm an IT person with roughly 1 year experience in my area, with my A+ certification. im regularly offered IT Management Lead positions and jobs im severely underqualified for, because of how few IT people there are. Don't piss off the IT guy, especially when he has options xD
I feel this in my soul; I have help desk and repair experience but I’ve never had the time to sit down, study for and get A+ certification- my desired career is entirely different to my hobby. But that doesn’t stop my host University overseas from wanting me to give presentations on IT to local students
OP: My husband died.
Manager: I'm writing you up for this.
OP: Consider this by 1 second notice: I quit.
Manager: *Surprised Pikachu Face*
Imagine being such a garbage human being that you would spit in the face of someone grieving. Some people don't deserve the managerial positions they are in.
That story made me irrationally angry. I guess both the customer and manager thought OP wasn't miserable enough 🤷♀️🙄🤬
@@MissusFroggy333 That’s not irrationally angry; that is totally justified anger.
@@kranberry3318 Thank you for saying so as you are absolutely correct.
To be frank, I would recommend her to take some leave (FMLA for mental health or personal leave if offered by the company) because if your spouse passes away from cancer, 3 days ARE NOT enough!
When I was in college I applied for a few jobs the first to respond was a "Rat trap" of a kids pizza chain. I started there but after 2 days of training for a location that hadn't even opened yet, I got an offer from the Pet Shop next door, the Pet Shop was offering $4 more an hour so obviously I explained this and they were fine to let me leave the restaurant understanding how much that was for a college student in the 90s. Problem was after a week of working at the pet shop I discovered I had an allergy to some of the products. It wasn't an allergy you could ignore, so I had to resign for medical reasons. The restaurant gladly took me back and reintegrated me into the training. The last day of training they went over a set of rules that they had neglected to tell anybody because they just weren't that important. Not important?! One of the main rules for the place that they didn't tell anybody till the day before they opened, we reserve the right to terminate your employment if you don't smile enough. They wanted the customers to think we were all extremely happy people to deal with their crotch goblins. So yes I quit twice before the business even opened its doors.
Reminder: For the last story and additional comments, the "you should smile more" comment is 95% directed at women, whether it be by bosses or by customers. I (a male) have worked alongside female co-workers and they *all* have "you should smile more" stories and it pisses them off to no end. Me? I've worked at our location longer than most of them and have *never* had anyone tell me to smile more and, believe me, it's not because I smile a lot.
As the old saying goes, someone who represents himself has a fool for a client. Looks like that applies to law firms as well.
I kept waiting for the outgoing IT guy to say he sat back and watched the world burn. Too bad for the people left behind who had tried to back him up.
The only person who should ever tell someone to smile more is a photographer that's been hired by that person.
nah, there are certain times when it is acceptable to tell someone to smile.
Otherwise it’s straight up creepy.
@@dominicsommer7187 then name some
@@AltonV
- dentists/anyone doing their job can say it
- parents who want to see if their kid brushed their teeth can say it
- You can say it to people who just got their braces off
- you can say it to people who brag about their nice teeth
- you can say it to someone if you honestly just like their smile and want to see it
Yeah, pretty much just teeth stuff.
Smiling too much is creepy and most often a cover for something else anyway.
Anyone who smiles a lot or tells someone else to smile should in most cases be on your personal watch and be wary list because their smile is likely part of attempting to control your state of mind when interacting with them.
Seeing people smile encourages lowering your guard. One of the simplest things for a sociopath to learn.
First Story: That is exactly why u read what u wrote first. Instead of rushing with the documents. What a way to get a free 1 mill lmao
Second Story: lmao I honestly would’ve done the same thing. It ain’t all fun and games until OP does exactly what is asked
Third Story: I would’ve taken advantage of that nice offer too lmao
Fourth Story: That is why u don’t piss off the IT guy. All that CEO had to do is not be an asshole and an impatient asshole
Fifth Story: Obviously that DM didn’t want to pay OP more. “You just want to make a buck” literally that is everyone who works. No one works for free 😂
Sixth Story: I mean OP did what was asked, just not the kind of smile that they wanted 😂
Multi MIllion, so atleast 2, but probably more like 4-6 or more
Exactly, they should have known they screwed up when he accepted the offer so quickly.
Everyone works for money. Even passionate people with interesting careers need to live!
Idk, i once heard that if you loved what you did, you'd never work a day in your life. I run a PC repair shop in my town, and I love it.
I've always loved computers, and computer work is what I wanted to do growing up. In all seriousness though, I do love my job, and personally, I don't consider it work but, my clients see me as hard working and stubborn. To them, what I do IS work.
Yeah whenever I hear that “you’re being greedy don’t you do this for passion?“ BS it makes me want to projectile vomit into the eyes of the person that says it
Bro the people who say that are also in it for the money
4th story: Never under any circumstance mess with the IT guy. As an IT professional of 14 years I can't stress this enough.
I work at a local fast food joint in the drive thru. One day a guy told me to smile. He had told me before on a previous visit and he was already rubbing me the wrong way. So I simply told him "Contrary to popular belief, I don't have to smile for clowns." and walked away. I did get a small talking to but nothing more. I haven't seen him since so I'd say it's a victory.
Beautiful clap back. Well done.
Story 4: The CEO should've thought about consequences if she was gonna bully the IT guy for not doing things exactly the way she wanted it, but I guess her narcissism didn't let her.
*DO NOT MESS WITH THE IT GUY!*
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So.... Did the CEO have to hire three people each at 2/3rds or 3/4ths or *equal to* the departing IT guy's salary?
Preach it louder, for those in the back
Love some malicious compliance on a Friday. Have a good weekend everyone!
you too
Let's look forward to temperature that hopefully will not be hot like the news says. I know I don't believe it.
You too bud
You to man!
No i will not
I remember few years back when working my retail job, it was probably towards the end of the year and I was in a deep depression, constantly crying, having panic attacks, and overall feeling like shit and wanting to die. I served a customer at the till and she learnt over and told me that I looked miserable and should be more cheerful for customers, or something to that effect. I remember going to the fitting rooms and just crying my eyes out.
Thankfully it's been so long since that incident I don't remember the exact words she said, and I've since been put on medication and am doing a lot better. It just sucks that people will make those sorts of comments without any thought, possibly hurting someone who's already hurting. For anyone going through it, and for anyone who works retail, I hope your days get brighter 💖
I'm so sorry you went through that. I've been in retail & hospitality for more than 30 years & I understand completely. Antidepressants saved my life & I'm glad you're doing better. I wish you the absolute best for your future. ☺️
@@Chuckf66 thank you, it hurt at the time and was really a kick while I was already down sort of thing, but it's been so long since then and I'm doing so much better it's now just a blip in the past lol. Antidepressants really can help, and I'm glad you also found them helpful and are doing better. Thank you for your kind words, I wish you the best as well ☺️💗
I worked at a mall kids photography studio in college. The manager kept telling me off for not using silly voices or catch phrases when working with kids, but a lot of parents compliment me on treating their kids respectful like little adults. I mean it's one thing if you were talking to a toddler, but a 6yr old reacts better to being treated like a buddy rather than a baby...
Honestly, that guy was probably delighted to get out of that law firm. Those other guys were obviously not very good lawyers if they screwed up a contract they wrote themselves.
The pension was a nice cushy pillow for him to land on when they tried to throw his out on his butt.
Honestly it's impressive how much people forget when trying to screw someone else over. It seems trying to screw someone makes people notoriously blind for how they screw themselves.
I know right? How do multiple senior lawyers make a blunder like that?
O.
@@deisisase Likely bc they have teams of 'lesser' lawyers and paralegals to do the work FOR them. So in their greed fueled haste they cobbled some bs together that was super trash, well for THEM.
I had one of those managers that was a nosy busy body that would tank her entire team's careers. We worked at a call centre, no face to face interaction at all. She would sneak up on me while I was digging through pages of information to find the cause of a customer's issues and she'd tell me to smile. Like, I'm not talking to anyone and I'm trying to find the issue ASAP and you want me to creepily smile at my computer screen? Get out of here. She also had someone fired for not signing a card for a coworker. He didn't know the coworker and thought it was disingenuous to sign a card for someone he didn't know. She threw an absolute fit and got him fired for his 'piss poor attitude'. She was a monster.
I really hate when people comment about how "you should smile more". One of my managers at a retail store actually got something much worse. This grouchy older woman had told my manager had the emotions of a rock. This caused my manager to sob and it pissed me off. This manager was so good to me that she was like my second mother and seeing her cry broke me. If I didn't have the control I usually do, I would have punched that woman who said that to her. Also, this was after hours of pain and standing the entire time, so of course my manager was tired and in pain, so it showed. You can't expect someone to smile every waking hour, especially with medical issues.
This is why I love my current job; it doesn't pay much because it's basically a cleaning job, but they treat me like gold. I remember one day, I was the only one working in my entire department as we were super short staffed and everyone had called out, so other departments sent out as many people as could be spared to help me with the cleaning tasks while I focused on bigger jobs that could realistically be done by one person in a short time. The people who helped did what they could as it would've been unrealistic to teach them the entire cleaning process and expect them to do it all as they were going to have to go back to their departments at some point, yet the bare minimum was completed, and they gave me $100 as a thank you for showing and doing what I could. This was no one's fault, and they didn't really have to do that, but it meant a lot to me how badly they felt that i was alone.
Holy shit I can't imagine saying what that last customer said and feeling anything but embarrassment. She said that her husband had just died and he goes to COMPLAIN about it??? Some people are truly awful. Thanks for the reminder lol
The customer probably assumed OP was being sarcastic or something. But you'd think OP's boss would have known that OP's husband just died.
Right?! I just sat here in disbelief for a solid 30 seconds after the video ended, mouth open in shock, and wondering if I heard that correctly. I mean... what is WRONG with those people?? I'm not sure who's worse; the customer who saw fit to complain about an associate who lost their husband 3 days ago, or the manager thought the associate needed disciplinary action because "The customers always right"? No, but really?!!
The commenter before me could be right; the customer might have thought the associate was being sarcastic. But still, why on earth would you take that chance? If you're wrong and the associate was being truthful, you just made their already devastating situation just that little bit more miserable.
And the manager... I would be furious. I wonder if the manager told the customer that the husband had indeed just passed away and the associate was telling the truth. Why do I get the feeling they didn't bother and just said, "I am so sorry that employee made you uncomfortable and ruined your shopping trip. Rest assured, I will deal with that associate personally."
I'm not sure how I would've responded to that write up. I'd probably want to say something like, "You're absolutely right. Next time a customer orders me to smile, I'll immediately comply. Being the most miserable I've ever been is no excuse for not smiling! And the next time a customer correctly guesses something about me, I will never inform them that they were right and keenly observant! Instead, I will tell them that life is perfect and swell, all while grinning from ear to ear. And just so you're not confused boss; That was sarcasm"
Not that it would do much good, but I would've let my inner Karen loose and gone straight to HR with that write-up and filed a massive complaint about that manager before quitting. I mean, 3 days is way too soon to be back at work after your spouse dies as it is. But to be written up for essentially just confirming what a customer guessed? Seriously?? I guess if we're gonna rub salt into the wound, we might as well also add some lemon juice, vinegar, cat litter and battery acid for good measure 👍
Sorry for the rant. That story just made me so angry for them 😡 I really hope they're doing better now!
@@MissusFroggy333 Honestly, the only part of this story that surprises me, provided it happened in the US, is that the OP was allowed any time off at all after their husband's death. Two days is almost unheard-of.
I think we all know the real passion of McDonald's employees is breaking the ice cream machine.
oh, fun fact about that:
The reason the ice cream machine is always broken is because they have an exclusive contract with the company that makes them, and they have one engineer (or close to it) for the entire country.
By the time he's done fixing them all, most of them are broken again.
In Germany for instance, where such contracts are illegal, they all work.
Its not just because of the lack of engineers to work on them.
A few years ago it was proven the company who makes the machines engineered them to break more often to make extra money in repairs…
regarding story 5. Once I got contacted by a recruiter, I told her I would be willing to get a new job as long as it got me a pay increase. Her response was that it's a bad idea to ask for more money because it makes it look like I'm only doing it for the money...
I wonder if she does her recruiting job out of passion or for money XD
#4 is basically me, an IT generalist who does everything from user provisioning, web development, automation scripting, instructional design, LMS admin, you name it. So a couple years ago I realized, I am not getting paid what I'm worth, so I put together a compelling argument citing industry standard pay scales, and presented it to my boss. My boss was cool, but her hands were tied--she had to put the proposal through HR to get the new salary approved, and they just rejected it immediately. As in, replied within seconds simply stating "salaries are non-negotiable." Now normally I use my PTO in small increments. A Friday here, a Monday there, maybe a 4-day weekend for special occasions. But in that moment, I decided I'm going to burn it all up except for a week (in case of emergencies) I took 3 straight weeks off in a row. Now the way my company works for salaried folks, every day is broken into halves. If you work so much as a single minute, you get credit for the full 4 hour half. So every time someone called my personal phone with an emergency no one could solve, I logged on. After those 3 weeks were up, I had used precisely ZERO of my PTO hours, because not one single day passed where they couldn't get by without me at multiple points throughout the day. This information made it back up to HR, who this time took the situation more seriously. They ended up drawing up an entirely new job description that I could be "promoted" into, so that they could meet my demands while still sticking to their "salaries are non-negotiable" policy. And they tried to hire a couple backups to cover me, but quickly realized that "replacing" me would require hiring like 5 FTE's, since practically nobody is a one-man army like I am. Sure you can hire a web developer, but can that same web developer also write a SQL report, and then do a compliance delete on a spammed phishing attempt? Not bloody likely!!
The funny thing about the job market is that I have knowledge of SQL, web development, system administration, etc. - but then always get turned down for jobs for lack of experience or some other B.S. How am I supposed to get experience if nobody will GIVE me experience? Companies are so damn cheap these days.
Employers who say things like "you just care about the money" are just difficult to respond to. What even would be the point of a job?
Right? It's not like they're working as a volunteer!
Ask them, "do you care about money?" If yes, then, "I'm just following your example." If no, then, "great! Give me your paycheck."
Story 4: NEVER MESS WITH THE IT GUY
I will never understand when employers complain that people only work for money. Like duh, what else would we work for? Fun? That doesn't pay bills. To help the company out? That also doesn't pay bills. If that is your mindset, then you should do everyone a favour and stuff it up your behind and re-evaluate your life
As Sun Tzu said: Never interrupt your enemy while making a mistake.
That's the take away from the first story
i work as a night filler at a supermarket, we usually work from 6pm until the load is done but the store is still open until 9pm, so were working with customers on the floor. Normal filling procedure is you grab a box of say Doritos, open it and put the bags on the shelf, if you cant fit all of them on, then place the box on the floor, once youve done everything else you fill the box with other chips and stack it on top of the shelves. As far as i know, weve been doing it this way for over a decade.
But last year we got a new store manager, and a few months ago he made a new policy that boxes cannot be put on the floor, they have to be put up immediately because its a tripping hazard for customers and it looks messy. Whilst hes not wrong, it does cause massive issues.
Like weve had instances of the long life milk boxes falling off the shelves because the boxes on the bottom were half full, and the heavy ones on top made them crumple on one side, lean and fall off. And with pretty much everything else, the overheads were completly full of nearly empty boxes, making it a pain to pull anything down, especially if you needed something quick for a customer. We only have 1 tall ladder in the store, so if you need to reach the boxes that touch the celling you need this one and need to be at least 6 feet tall, that usually leads to customers waiting a long time while you search the entire store for this ladder.
Theres no MC here, just we now use a bit of common sense and dont follow this rule for the unsafe items, and we do not follow it at all after 9pm, which the manager wont notice anyway cuz hes never in the store after 6pm anyway. Hes not a horrible manager, but he does some sketchy things.
Like hes just introduced employee discount cards, which sounds great, until you realize the 5% discount is not for already discounted items, which is a vast majority of things in the store, and the 10% discount at the cafe is pointless cuz they just had a 20% price increase.
Gotta love the smell of fresh malicious compliance in the morning.
Someone: **Messes with the IT guy**
IT Guy: *"Ah sh*t, here we go again."*
Lester's probably the IT guy.
AWEWW THE VP TAKING THE WHOLE GROUP TO EAT SOMETHING IS SO GOOD 😊 imagine them all getting their expensive food and being happy too 🥺
It always felt strange to me when in movies or TV shows where someone is told they should smile more that it's almost always a woman or teenage girl...
Got to love how most people are having to leave these companies, who entirely rely on them, just because they won’t comply without a word
So many times I had to pause to laugh. What an astounding collection of moronic bosses.
If I ever had a boss tell me to smile more when I was working costumer service jobs. I'd turn and look at both the manager and costumer, giving a big grin then say, "Why would I smiles? I hate your fucking existence." Then walk away.
I remember a while back when I used to work at a fast food restaurant people would always tell me that I should smile more so I would do this thing where I would slowly smile the biggest and creepiest smile I could possibly come up with then I'd slowly turn my head to the side and start chuckling people quickly dropped the topic
Genuine question: are people in the States not required to give a certain notice? In the UK it's usually written into contracts that you need to give two weeks to a month's notice (sometimes more for really important/complex roles). A week's notice is almost unheard of here.
OMG, the story where OP got called greedy and "just trying to make a buck." Isn't that precisely why their wage increases weren't granted, tho? Because the higher-ups were being greedy and just trying to make a buck? You want a job done, YOU PAY FOR THAT JOB TO GET DONE. End of.
Any VP who pushes against a CEO or higher management and maxes out their card is an MVP in my books
Always the same lesson for buttholes : don't mistreat someone you need or who is smarter than you. And if someone is happy to sign a contract or do things in writing : you do not have the upper hand.
As for everyone else, know your worth, work only what you are paid for and keep track of everything that you're asked to do by superiors.
I hate the interview question "Why do you want to work here?". Easy: you got a job, you're paying. Why else?! Can any HR students tell me what the hell they teach y'all in school that you think people work at jobs for more than money and benefits?
I hate how people who simply want financially stability and equitable compensation for their time and labor are treated as greedy while the millionaire CEO complains about losing money because they aren’t being treated fair and people are so quick to give them debt forgiveness and assistance.
As a rigger, I can attest to the need for proper layout to a fairly exact degree. Paper layout would need a large number of dimensions included that a program can tell you at a tap. Also, points sometimes just can’t go where they need to, it really helps having a program that can calculate the new load requirements of changing a points location.
Story 4: I swear to God, more people need to watch rSlash, because we have a sacred rule that's repeated almost every episode "don't mess with the IT guy, especially the only IT guy in your whole freaking devition
At my gas station deli job I'm one of the few young girls that work there. Constantly harassed by the older men who come in to shop. I don't yell but I simply Grey wall them. No talking until they tell me to smile or look more happy. "No I do not have to look happy with you harassing me about my behind". I've gotten complaints that I need to ne nicer . My boss and manager understands that I keep my temper when I call these guys out and it is after minutes of harassment. I am not a stripper where my job description means I smile and flirt. I work in a kitchen. I am hot and sweaty. I don't need to 'look happy' to do my job. God I've pissed myself off but typing this. Have a nice day and treat people with humanity and decent respect
bosses saying that an employee is there to make a buck is always so weird. obviously there's people who love their jobs, but for the majority of us the money is a pretty big reason as to why we have jobs lmao
Said it before I’ll say it again, I love malicious compliance on Fridays!!! These stories just give me the biggest justice boner and I can’t get enough!
Yeah the last time I got told to smile more idk exactly what my face looked like but the guy instantly apologized. I'm sure it was somewhere between utter disgust and hatred lol
For the two week notice story, I would just have left. They are going to be upset that you left early anyways, so just pick up and leave especially if you already have a new job lined up. Any notice is purely out of kindness. Not kind to me, I’m not kind to you.
I really, really hate customers that tell you to smile more. Honestly one of the most pretentious things I can think of them doing, and I do mean that
So, the IT guy does realize that most of the people he is making miserable are the fellow workers he described as being awesome, right? They are the ones that have to try and get things to work, not the CEO. The CEO is only going to be feeling a minuscule fraction of the stress and unpleasantness that he unleashed and all the rest of it is going to his coworkers.
I've heard that some bosses have the idea that being a manager "is not a popularity contest." They either went to a sub-standard business college or they were sub-standard students. Being a manager is almost entirely about popularity. The job is to get the people on the team to get the work done in a timely fashion so that the company makes a profit. Anyone running a successful business will tell you that more popular the boss is with the team the more willing the team will be to work hard and deliver quality product or service. It's all about popularity. Anyone who says otherwise has just crawled out from under the cabbage leaf.
What does it matter to the blackberry people that the staff used other phone brands before the event actually starts? It's not like their customers are watching the setup.
On the last story don't ever tell someone that they need to smile because you do not know what that person is going through. I had someone tell me to smile just minutes after I got the call that my mother died. I was at work and I just walked out to my car and broke down crying those inconsolable tear. Luckily my boss was a kind hearted person and told me to go home and did my job themselves
rSlash MaliciousCompliance should be job training for every manager course, lol, but then poor rSlash would be out of a job
I love the micromanaging crap management does. I was head of tech in a retail store and had most sales experience and updated knowledge of anyone in store including GM. People always wondered why I looked irritated and exhausted but always had the best customer response and reviews in the district plus busiest/highest grossing tech in the district as well. Anytime a new employee or manager or whatever told me I should be nicer and smile, I told them "I'm authentic and that's why people will come to me every day over anyone else. You can be a robot if you want but I'm real." Staff loved me, store management loved my performance but the corporate hated that they had no control and couldn't do a damn thing about it.
12:02 this reminds me of the video of this guy who advertised "working" at McDonalds. McDonalds brought him in for advertising, and you can see the visible discomfort of all of the actual employees when he speaks and questions them. You can clearly tell even before watching the video that it didn't look great.
After the most recent "smile" from a manager, I gave a very fake smile. "That's not a real smile." "That's right." He dropped it. I sent him an email, politely telling him to stop, and that it was sexist (when was the last time he told a woman to smile?). He did not respond. So far, he hasn't asked me to smile again. We'll see how long it lasts. I sincerely hope he asked his wife's opinion on this and learned something.
I've been with my company nearly thirty years, so I feel more emboldened than I did when I was a noob. My BS meter works much better now, too!
“I’m an IT director…”
That’s all I need to know. 😈😈😈
As soon as that third story started with "I'm an IT director", I was like "oh no"
I couldn't help but notice that you pronounced that last username incorrectly. It's Pyewacket, not Pyewacker. It's a historical name of a witch's familiar, if you're curious. I gotta support my fellow Pyewackets.
Famous managerial last words: "You're not expected to do any more than what's in your job description." Because of course things happen around here by magic.
*Sixth OP:* I don't know who here watches Love & Hip-Hop: Atlanta, but I imagine OP smiling like Stevie J. LOL
This is my favorite subreddit. The victims do it to themselves.
Someone tries to write me up after a situation like that at the end, I would litterally just walk out.
Best way to end my work week! Thanks for making my mornings so much easier!
Story 1 : lololololol if it ain't the whole actions have consequences game..
Story 3 : talk about being a dofus.. instead of keeping cost down the idioit quadriple the price.
Story 5 : lol " you're lazy and greedy because you just wanna make a buck" ahhh yeah that's how life works bruhh human beings live on money not on "Thanks" ..
Smile Story: op you should've learned how to do the pennywise smile..
There is no way I would sign a write up admonishing me for revealing to a customer that I'm not smiling because my significant other died. And if they fired me for it I would most definitely sue them for wrongful termination (if viable/possible). And once that is done regardless of outcome, I would post reviews to any possible sort of sites available to do so in regards to that business with the story. Yes in THAT instance I would go full Karen.
A little over a year ago I worked in a store that had a computer repair department, I was the lead of that department, my good manager quit and we got a new manager who ordered me to stop repairing computers because my ability to fix things and being honest to customers about what's likely to break was hurting extended warranty sales. (apparently the company didn't consider the warranty pricing of $100 $200 or $300 to be a hindrance when repair was $180, but I digress) They fired me a month later for insubordination, when I say they I don't mean the replacement GM she hadn't been there long enough to have the power so she made the DM come down and fire me, in spite of my argument that what she told me to do was ignore our service list.
A month after that the only other person skilled enough to take my place quit because they offered the job to a cashier who turned it down because he didn't know how to do any of it. A couple weeks after that she quit because she was tired of running an understaffed store that wasn't meeting quotas. A grand total of 2 people from when I worked there is still there, they've been through another GM who got the job and was fired for something, the quotas for extended warranty sales are worse, and they haven't been able to find anyone to take my place. Meanwhile I had another higher paying job in a different tech sector in 2 weeks after getting a glowing recommendation from the former good manager. I don't like it as much, but I do revel in knowing they've lost money in sales and bad management after firing me.
I worked at a haunted house and was trained to do creepy laughs and smiles. If some guy dared to tell me to smile more I would do as I was trained to do.
I lost my wife in May of this year. No one commented to me about not smiling much. Possibly because her health issues for the last several years were known. It’s gotten a little easier to smile, but not much.
Nothing like getting up and listening to rSlash in homeroom XD
One of the best things about working during the beginning of the pandemic was wearing masks and not having to force a smile. I worked at a thrift store and dealt with all sorts of entitled assholes.
I got the you should smile more on my review. My review was literally perfect. 5/5. My manager refuses to give me a 5 so knocks me down to a 4 because she thinks I don’t smile enough. All my metrics are at a 5 but she refused to accept I did good. Cost about a 5% raise. I got 3% but a 5 would have been 8.
Ah maliciouscompliance, where for some reason, they always try to mess with the IT guy.
So expecting someone to do multiple jobs, while only being paid for the cheapest, isn't being 'lazy and greedy'?
I would've only done it after the fact that the manager apologized in front of everybody that he said this in front of and on his knees. Plus not be there.
Was anyone else picturing the scene in Adams Family Values when Wednesday had to smile at summer camp for the awkward smile story?
"I proceeded to give out the most forced creepy smile humanly possible" I have to admit, I began laughing like a madwoman after hearing that
I doubt the CEO banned the engineers over the cost, the CEO banned them because to him they were peasants that shouldn't be mixing with customers. That's for corporate royalty only.
"Quiet quitting" Is a stupid term made by higher-ups to try to pressure you into doing more than what they pay you.
"Quiet quitting" is doing your job, never more, never less. Basically doing what you agreed to do when you were hired and your wage was set.
I actually am very passionate about hamburgers.
But, I wouldn't go to McDonald's for that. I'd learn to provide consistent quality, get a business loan, and start my own burger joint.
Even if I didn't need the money, I'd do that because I want to make my burgers the way I want. Why would I go make someone else's burgers?
Last story: 'you look like someone died. 'Someone died'. UNPROFESSIONAL
I got fired once for not smiling. Thing is "smiling" wasnt in my job description. So they ended up having to pay me unemployment.
Frankly, it is very satisfying when you are deep frying chips, or fish or hotdogs and they come out perfect. I know it was just an offhand comment but the suck part of that job is the people, and even then, sometimes the people are nice.
Story 4: CEO vs IT
I still don't understand why companies want one person to so the work of a team.
Yes, you can't touch what they are doing, but that doesn't mean a Fullstack developer should exist to beging with, that's a team effort
I hate job interviews where companies ask why you want to work there (I'm talking retail or fast food) and you have to make up some BS excuse about how you're not there for the money and that the company has done something you highly respect and feel honored to be a part of it. 🙄
story 1 they fuck up without realize it and it their fault love it and story 3 when the CEO said OP and his group wasn't allow to party to cut the cost but the VIP said they should, the VIP said fuck it let go eat at the most expensive place and story 4 rSlash said some many times never mess with the IT person and like when the IT tell you what going happened believe that person and Oh god OP the fact he list everything he did for the CEO company, she deserve it
I know that most of my employees enjoy their job and they work hard, but I am under no illusion that if I scaled back pay that would hurt a lot of their passion for it. Part of why they enjoy the job is that the compensation is good so it feels like a favorable trade in terms of hours sacrificed for pay received. If you sour the deal, how can you expect people to still feel the same? Nobody is THAT passionate about bartending or cooking or serving or cleaning that pay is secondary. Pay is pretty much always going to be primary at a salaried position, if they wanted to work for free because it's their passion they'd volunteer at an animal shelter or something.
The frustration of being told to smile more.
I was checking an old man out in electronics at my place of work and when I stopped smiling so I could focus and correctly count out his change he started yelling at me that he was gonna get me fired for not smiling.. what?
Gday from Australia
Whenever I hear OP say they work in tech support, I can't help but smile because I know it's going to be a good one.
Story 2: and that's why blackberry disappeared
I wish the IT one had an update
Story 2
Yeah. Don’t keep the rigger from using his tools-even if they are not blackberry.
Or give him a blackberry