r/Maliciouscomplaince The Boss Fired Everyone and Lost MILLIONS $$$
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0:00 Intro
0:07 They forgot to fire me
7:27 Delaying termination
9:23 Following the dress code
13:38 Saluting in the hot Florida sun
"Sneaky Snitch" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) License: CC By Attribution 3.0 - Komedie
“Oh Crap!!! We forgot to fire someone”
It would have been hilarious if everyone else ended up just leaving without noticing and OP was left in the office like some corporate version of “Home Alone”
"Day 4 - The watercooler has been exceptionally rude to me all day yesterday - I have a feeling it might be conspiring with the stapler in cubicle 5A against me"
A guy i know had this happen, sorta.
His company was closing down to move projects to a different company. Termination letters were handed out and for a couple weeks it was fine. Unfortunately the other company bailed out of the agreement so the company was no longer closing since they still had many projects that could keep them afloat. Sadly he forgot everyone had termination letters. The only people who knew that the company was no longer closing were the higher ups and HR. They were however not told to formally inform people the company was no longer closing down and their termination letters are not dismissed.
The day when the company was said to no longer be open, no one sowed up. Not even HR. As luck would have it, the Owner was also not there (I dunno why) so no one was there to tell the higher ups that there was no one at work, they just assumed it was business as usual) A day later, the boss returns and sees his factory is empty, no one is there and the machines are off, nothing was manufactured the day earlier. The guy I know had about 40 calls in two days. (Although it was like several an hour until the boss gave up. We only know this because his GF was friends with someone in HR who told her everything.
@@Gashnaw
How do you FORGET to tell people that they are not fired?!
@@AuntLoopy123 apparently it was pretty easy.
That would be funny
The first story sounds like my experience with my landlord many years ago. Where I live, at the end of a lease you can either get a new lease or go on month to month tenancy. The rules about rent increases and evictions are identical. So one year every tenant except me got a notice of rent increase on the correct form. I got nothing so I continued to pay the same rent. Several months later, Eddie called to scream at me for not paying the increased rent. I told him he hadn't given me notice. He said I knew what the increase and he expected to see the increase on the next rent cheque. I said the law required 90 days written notice, so I would pay the increase 90 days after I received written notice. Eddie didn't realize that I had previously worked for the Landlord and Tenant Board and knew my rights. He screamed at me that it was people like me who were responsible for all the problems in the world. So I want to apologize to everyone for all the bad things that have happened since then. Clearly they're all my fault.
I knew it was you all along. you dasterdly sly Spice Weasel!
That ending man
Well then, I accept your apology. Just don't do it again. Whatever "it" is.
A landlord accusing someone else for being responsible for all the problems in the world is quite ironic.
Boss: fires everybody
Everybody: “Enjoy digging your own grave!”
Had a marine corp officer try to say I needed to salute him when I was overseas as a contractor, but since I wasn’t in the military I took great joy in telling him to piss off.
Y'know every private envies you, right
@@phoenixleader1999 I’m well aware I was that private once, I savored every moment of it thinking back to all the asshat officers I dealt with
OH! I bet his wife bullies people, too, saying, "WE hold X rank, so you have to salute ME, too!"
The rank, high or low, only applies to the ACTUAL MEMBERS OF THE MILITARY.
Haha! Good for you for telling him off. Hopefully, he learned something.
@@AuntLoopy123 I feel like anyone with a fragile enough ego to go around demanding everyone kowtow to them... probably only sought their promotion BECAUSE everyone would have to kowtow to them. And that's a damn stupid reason. Don't make your tiny dick everyone else's problem, officer!
@@AuntLoopy123 I hate those military wives, smh. Do they realise that other military wives make fun of them?
16:14 as anyone in the military would tell you "don't underestimate the ambitious of a bored soldier, a bored soldier is a dangerous soldier"
Especially a bored marine. But yes, any bored soldier is dangerous.
That's part of the reason why they have to keep us nice and busy, once you let soldiers get some downtime, stupid stuff starts happening
When I was in the Navy I was stationed at a base that had an OCS (Officer Candidate School, or Organized Chicken Shit, depending on who you asked). We had a brand new Ensign one day who got a bug up his butt about salutes. One of the rules is that if your hands are full you are not expected to put down what you are carrying. A polite greeting followed by Sir is enough. However this Ensign was not having that and demanded a 'proper salute' from a Master Chief. The Master Chief calmly put down his McDonald's bag and the duffle he was carrying, preformed a formal salute, then pulled a quarter from his pocket. He flipped the quarter to the Ensign and said, loudly so everyone in the area could hear, "Now go call your mommy and tell her all about how you met a real sailor."
My Dad and uncle were in the Navy in WWII, so when I was commissioned from OCS in P-cola (back in '79) I already knew that CPOs outranked me in every way that mattered. If you looked at the pay scale, you could see that anyone who had been in long enough to be a chief was making more money that a freshly minted butter bar, in case you wondered what the Navy thought you were worth . . .
Does the military not have a "Don't piss off your NCOs" or "How to survive O-1: Your NCOs will make your career" class for OCS?
I saw a different military malicious compliance story where a wife demanded to be saluted at the base’s gate while driving their car because the car had a sticker on it which indicated that an officer drove it.
She pulled some strings and got the policy changed from the enlisted personnel saluting actual officers to having to salute any car which had an officer’s sticker on it. Cue malicious compliance.
Enlisted people changed their walking routes to go through every parking lot, where they individually saluted every car along their path with the officer sticker. This, of course, was a HUGE waste of time. The policy was quickly reversed and Mrs Officer no longer got saluted for her husband’s rank.
I hope he was disciplined.
I LOVE it. And I hope that he gave his wife a stern talking-to about how HER stupidity and hubris cost the military $X amount of wasted time and effort, as well as the public humiliation IN HIS NAME. You KNOW that story got out to ALL the military bases!
Some people would divorce over that. And then, SHE wouldn't "have" any rank, at all!
military wifes moment (they demand to be respected for fucking a two rank above enlistee)
I'm just imagining a bunch of people walking over to parked, empty cars and saluting them in a parking lot
@@AzureKyle That is exactly what they did. 😁 They took “shortcuts” through the parking lots, saluting every officer’s car as they passed it.
The last story:
You gotta love an officer who demands that people salute them in order to feed their little ego and it backfireing on them because of their little ego-driven powertrip.
This is fairly common, due to new young officers' incompetence and ego. We did it to a brash young Lieutenant when I was at a Navy tech school.
If the ensign wasn’t a potato he’d know that he doesn’t even have to salute back.
Lieutenants are the worst because they are the newer officers and have major power trips XD and yes, we enlisted are that petty.
Do these clowns actually think receiving a salute is a sign that they are respected? I saluted a lot of officers but respected damn few .
@@glennrishton5679 An important detail that most Officers seem to miss is that the salute is out of respect for their position, not necessarily for the person holding the position. That's why Officers render the salute to a Medal of Honor recipient regardless of the MoH holder's rank. Saluting the MoH holder is out of respect for the holder, not for any position held by the MoH holder. Even a 4 Star Flag Officer will salute a lowly E-1 Medal of Honor recipient.
My dad, who was(he's not dead, but just about to retire) one rank away from MCPO told me once something along the lines of, "Rank gives you title, but you need to earn respect."
Yeah, that sounds like something a Master Chief would say. Any Chief Petty Officer has already earned the respect, a Senior or Master Chief doubly so. The only person who commands more respect than a Navy Chief is a Warrant Officer.
@@SkunkApe407
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@@Redd7206 I'm not giving you the attention your daddy won't.
Last story reminds me of that Robot Chicken Star Wars sketch where Palpatine takes the escalator and every single stormtrooper salutes him and he gets so fed up with it that he starts saying "Go fuck yourself!"
SAME!!!!
YES! As soon as he said they were spacing themselves out one by one, my thoughts went to that skit. I literally paused the video and said to myself "Wait, are they about to do that Stormtrooper skit!?"
the fact that in the first story it sounds like OP earned the respect of the CFO just makes it so much better
As an RAF cadet mumble years ago, we had a week's camp at an RAF station. This mainly involved us being shouted at by NCO's, but strangely we all had fun.
On the second afternoon, we ambled in a bunch round a corner, to see an Officer (Flight Lieutenant, if memory serves) coming towards us. We all saluted, separately. He actually said, "Oh no..." as he returned the compliment. To judge from the expression on his face, he saw the funny side, but it was noticeable that for the rest of our stay, we NEVER encountered another officer.
I see what you did there! Mumble. HAHAHA!
The Karen in the 3rd story is literally that robot who hammers the "No Fun Allowed" sign.
She lives to regret her decision.
You mean a Swat-Bot?
Story 4: So when you are in training/bootcamp/tradoc, this is the case for Enlisted and Officiers. Officers tend to avoid the enlisted because of the drill and ceremony of saluting and all of that. However, while you are moving at a certain pace, its pretty much just a greeting, throw up a salute as you walk by, drop it as soon as you break eye contact. The key thing is, as long as you dont reasonably make eye contact, you can just kind of ignore them. However, if you are having an epic staring contest from 100 feet apart, you technically do have to salute. Yeah we get screwed up if we miss a salute, but it looks BAD if officers dont salute.
Cut to what im gonna call shark week. This isnt fresh off the bus drill sergeants screaming at you, I was about a year into my technical school and for whatever reason there was angry sergeants running around screaming at everyone and officers doing weird stuff that would technically require a salute, but it was confusing and they were just trying to harass people. (I was in a 1000 person training unit, and some other much smaller cadre unit had some kind of complaint about us, so this other unit's leadership made it their mission to haze the shit out of us.) The NCOs were the standard annoying, scream a lot and scrutinize everything, but the officers were hiding behind things, locking off ways we'd get to class so we would HAVE to interact with them, and dragging people out of their barracks rooms, classes, and the on base stores if we were in uniform to make our lives this really annoying nightmare to salute them.
We all started reading the handbook and figured out essentially saluting REALLY relies on making any sort contact. So people in my unit started doing everything to get officers attention so the officers would have to stop, and go through the whole dumb process of saluting. The day it ended, a Colonel had to leave the schoolhouse through the main exit since the new hazing locked off his usual backdoor route. All 500 of the nightshift starting to show up, and he tried to run by with the usual salute. However people started screaming GOOD AFTERNOON SIR! as he was trying to walk to his car in the back of the parking lot. So he'd stop, turn, figure out who was saluting him, render his salute, and turn around. The moment his back was to us again, GOOD AFTERNOON SIR!
This happened a rediculous amount of times and it took him an hour and a half to walk the 50 feet to his car. Weirdly after that day we rarely, if ever, saw officers while we walked to class, and magically all the screaming NCO's disappeared. Most officers are chill, but theres a few that REALLY let that shit go to their heads.
such a massive waste of time on their part, just for the sole purpose of ego stroking.
Prior service here, the Lt Dan story I was mentally shouting "Stagger salute him, stagger salute him!!!" Our class did this a lot in AIT
I love that there's a term for this. Will remember for future reference. Not that I'll ever need it.
The tactic is so often used in petty revenge that it has a name? I love it. 😂
*First OP:* _Insert Drake standing ovation gif_ Bravo, OP! This all could’ve been prevented if the COO fired OP properly.
*Third OP:* When Lt. Dan said “… You will show me the respect I deserve by rendering a hand salute,” a small part of me thought the students were going to give him the finger, lol. They would’ve faced severe consequences, but it would kind of amusing.
I thought the same thing for the third story! It would certainly have been the respect that jerk deserved! And all those soldiers “apologizing” saying how it was very hot and their fingers just slipped! lol!
@@kristashafer93098 perhaps.
But Malicious Compliance is a massive military tradition.
I had a Captain in the Marine Corps that tried something similar to the last story. I had my Marines salute him every time he went to take a smoke break. The best part is the smoking spot was by a building. I had spaced out my Marines by 15 seconds or so to salute my Captain and run around the building to do it again. 🤔
If by one hell of a long shot I ever served in the Marines, I'd hope to serve under someone like you 🤣
@@katherinehalling6630 😂👍🏼🇺🇸
The best use of power is to sabotage the *abuse* of power. Mwa ha ha.
Oh my goodness that’s perfect!
Dig the schedule, it helps me get out of bed or take that 1st step for the day to take care of myself. Be it feeding myself, showering, or simply cleaning. Your voice reading off stories daily is oddly invigorating
Same! I press the snooze button every ten minutes until RSlash comes out. That's the signal to get up and start the day. Lol.
Same
Were i live his videos release 3:00 pm
@@Randombookwoorm for me it comes out at 8AM 💀
@@sergeantcider9148 9 am for me. It is definitely a routine for my morning now to listen to my daily RSlash video
If Lt. Dan tries to get those who saluted him in trouble, I'll bet he'll be told that he doesn't have a leg to stand on.
Lol
Goddamnit
Groan!
I see what you did there.....
😒😞🤣🤣
You have to be super dumb to fire the entire HR department in one go. Gotta love Bosses who think their country's laws are universal, this is why you need to learn about the other country's laws
That last story was great. Every lieutenant goes through that power trip phase, but by the time they're O-3 (Air Force captain) they actively avoid groups of enlistees. We had a Captain that was the unit's doctor and if he saw us going by he'd duck inside the nearest building. No saluting required indoors!
If that's true about recruits, imagine what you can expect from Petty Officers.
this pun made me do a double take TT~TT 10/10 would laugh again
HAHAHAH!
That pun reminded me of my father. THANK YOU!
Golly, but I do miss him.
it gets worse with the chief petty officers
That last one. During my time in the army when I was at replacement at Schofield Barracks, my detachment first sergeant recommended we do exactly that to one of the LTs that frequented the area. This particular 1SG also spent eight years as a specialist, and was probably close enough to retirement to not GAF. Fun times!
My last unit was on Shafter although I was detached on Hickam
My brother was in the Army, and told about a time that his friend was leading a platoon. They had to get to a place quickly, but their route took them across a particular area where "double-time" was not allowed. And they were NOT allowed to break formation.
So, being the creative guy who doesn't give a flying flip, he shouted, "Company, SKIP! Skip left! Skip right! Skip left! Skip right!" They got across that area quickly, in formation, and maliciously compliant, and laughed their heads off, as soon as laughter was allowed.
He got called on the carpet, but pointed out there was not regulation AGAINST skipping in formation, so he didn't actually BREAK any regulations. Therefore, "What a lovely office you have, sir! Thank you for inviting me to see it. I'll be going back to work now, sir!" And the guy couldn't do a THING about it, either, because he was right. They had not broken any regulations that didn't exist.
Of course, lobbying for the higher-ups to suddenly issue a new regulation against skipping in formation would appear to be ridiculous and a waste, and a JOKE, and "Why in the world are you bothering us with THIS crap?!" so, he did NOT inform his higher-ups about it. He just hoped people wouldn't talk TOO much, and keep the laughter contained to his own base.
Well... NAW!
People in the armed forces are so good at malicious compliance.
I feel like, when the whole training regimen is designed to make you a rules-following robot, it's gotta backfire in at least a few cases and turn you into a rules lawyer instead. As a civvie, I have to salute all those barracks-room lawyers for standing up for their mates.
They don't have Chief Petty Officers for nothing.
9:22 I think that single minded American CEO shit his trousers, when that lawyer took one look at that document and said "you're screwed"
Enlisted class probably did this without saying a word. That kind of thing just happens.
But I can top it, I worked as an engineer in deck department. So one night our Division officer came in to our shop screaming at us for ruining his uniform. He had walked across the deck and smacked into the wire cables, covered in grease. He was in charge of us and did not know (after two years) we did not operate the equipment, just maintained it and that the cargo heads where put down every night. Oh did I mention this was an UNREP ship. (We supplied fuel and cargo to ships underway)
Look up AOE 1 if curious
I can do you one better. Mom was in the Air Force stationed at Holloman. She worked veterinary at the time. The base commander, a General, turned up at the monkey farm for a tour in his full dress uniform and decides going around the hall with the gorilla cages wasn't good enough for him. Poor mom tried to talk him out of it. She failed and he got coated in gorilla poo. This was in the late 70s, in August.
You were on the Sacramento huh? My stepfather was on the Camden in the 80s, AOE2 if for some reason you didn't know lol,
@@deaddad6310 I was on the Sac from 85-87, and saw Camden many times
Florida Navy story: I doubt that this is true since the US still uses feet and yards, Not Meters!
However, at Great Mistakes, err "sorry" Great Lakes Naval Training Center (which has both Recruit (Bootcamp) and Service (Technical) School Commands) there is a slight rise (tiny hill) going into the front gate. When we saw a low ranking officer driving, we always waited to see if it had to change gears, and waited until we heard a car with a manual transmission, common back then, start to let off of the gas (in preparation to change gears) and salute the officer driving it. He (95+% of the time male) would snap a salute back to us, and then get flustered as now he had to down shift from 3rd to 1st gear instead of 3rd to 2nd. We got more than one car to stall that way!! One officer in particular sticks in my mind, I and a few other "Squids" got him every time we saw him (probably 6 times in 2 weeks) and then instead of returning our salute he would glare at us and then pretend he didn't see our salute! How "Conduct Unbecoming of an Officer" of him!!!
13:37 the sad reality that people still don't understand is that HR does things for the good of the company, not the work force, that's a Union's area of interest, and they only help employees if they know if management and higher-ups are breaking labor laws and union worker's rights
Not necessarily. A while back, I suffered a nervous breakdown. The owner wanted to sack me on the spot, but HR very bravely stood up to him and told him that not only was this illegal, my contract of employment stated that I was entitled to sick pay. Thank-you, HR.
Of course, the owner then unilaterally changed everyone's contract to state that mental illness of any kind was not covered...
As someone who lives an hour from Pensacola and 30 minutes from Eglin AFB I can tell you a lot of new officers and NCOs LOVE flaunting their rank to anyone and everyone
That first story reminds me of what happened to me once. My company was bought out by a competitor. 50% of the staff (myself included) were laid off. But… we were told that we would technically get our “severance” over the next 6 weeks. We were told that we could not apply for unemployment benefits, that we were technically still employed but wouldn’t be coming in to work, and they advised us to carefully read the termination paperwork. I carefully read the paperwork and I didn’t notice any prohibition against us seeking another job. So I interviewed elsewhere and got another job 2 weeks later for 10% more salary. When my old employer found out, I was told that I couldn’t do that because I was still technically employed by them so they would have to cancel my severance since I had “quit”. I informed them that I had done my research and in New Jersey, an employer needed to provide at least 3 months notice to employees and the state in the event of a mass layoff, which the state defined as at least 33% of the workforce. Since they had laid off 50% of the workforce, this was a mass layoff. And I checked with the states labor department and found out that they had not provided advance notice to the state (and, obviously, not the employees). I told them if they wanted to sue that would be fine, and if they stopped paying me per the terms of our signed termination agreement, I would be in contact via an employment attorney. I never heard from them again and collected 2 paychecks from 2 different employers for the next 6 weeks.
in that dress code stort, I would have opted for a kilt and ghilie shirt; technically a wool skirt and blouse/dress shirt
Probably hard to find in a goodwill store outside Scotland. But I had two male colleagues :one who would wear a kilt and another one who would wear an indonesian sarong. Our company had no dress code. We did one day per year wearing formal attire, and we all looked costumed.
The wool would have been even hotter to wear.
I irritated a few higher ups when I was in the Army. When we went out to do our field training I was responsible for the vehicles for the whole battalion. Basically I handed out the log books that every driver has to pick up in order to be in possession of a military vehicle. If their state issued drivers license and their military drivers license wasn't presented to me or was expired, they didn't get it regardless of rank.
Those enlisted soldiers basically just recreated that one scene with the Emperor on the escalator from Robot Chicken.
Your voice is just so pleasant to listen to when doing other things.
I like when on the LT. Dan one, where OP says enlisted men were petty, the 3 Non-Commissioned Officer (Enlisted leaders) or NCO ranks are called Petty Officers (1st, 2nd, and 3rd Class)
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@@ldfahrni Haha 😂
That last story reminded me of a legend I heard once, years ago, that still sticks in my head.
There was a country with a good king, who loved his people, and his people loved him. They were all very happy in that country. Unfortunately, the king had two sons. The younger son was like him, good, wise, and kind. But the elder son, the Crown Prince, and heir to the throne, was proud, haughty, and cruel. NOBODY liked him. He did not even have any cronies. He was incredibly lonely, because everyone hated him, and that made him even crueller.
When the old king lay on his deathbed, the people shivered in fear of his son. "We know our lives will be HORRIBLE, with him on the throne! What can we do?"
A wise man said, "We will kill him with kindness."
The people did not understand, so he very quietly explained it to them, in private groups of one or two, visiting all around the land, until everyone understood the plan.
When the old king died, and the new king took the throne, the wise man came to court, and told the king, "Your people love you! We were afraid to show it before, under your father's rule, but now that YOU are on the throne, we ALL want to greet you, and shake your hand, and give our personal expressions of love and affection for you."
The king had been lonely for so long, the idea of his people showering him with personal praise and love, so he agreed. He decreed the day when he would stand in front of the palace, and anyone and everyone who wished to shake his hand and tell him of their love for him, would be allowed to do so. He declared that he would not leave until they had ALL shaken his hand.
Hehehe. You see where he made his mistake, right?
It began early in the morning. He was delighted, as many people came up to him, shaking his hand vigorously, and SHOWERING him with praise and adoration. The compliments flowed like wine. He was drunk on the "love."
Around noon, he started to get tired, hungry, thirsty, and hot. But he could not sit down. He could not eat. He could not drink. He could not relieve himself. He could not move into the coolness of the palace. The adoring throng had only grown! It was as if every man, woman, and child in the kingdom was at his doorstep. Did he even HAVE that many people in the kingdom?
By evening, his exhaustion was starting to set in. He was tired, thirsty, hungry, and he'd already pissed himself (discreetly. He had his assistants quickly cover him with a robe, which only made him hotter, but hid his humiliation). But the people still came. On and on and on the line stretched beyond the extent of his vision, which was becoming blurry.
It went on into the night. Late into the night. So late that it was early, and then, as the sun rose, he saw that the throng of people was still there, gathering to greet him.
Sometimes, he thought that a person looked vaguely familiar, but he put it down to his own exhaustion, and the fact that many of them must be related. Besides, he was KING, and was not likely to take especial notice of the peasants' faces or clothing. If they looked similar, it was only to be expected.
He stood another day, basking in the love as his subjects shook his hand, one by one, showering him with praise and adulation. Telling him how much they had ALWAYS loved him and how much they were glad that HE had inherited the throne from his awful father. FINALLY, people were seeing the TRUTH of the matter! That his father was just a wishy-washy nincompoop, and HE was the only COMPETENT one of the family! That HE would bring this country into ORDER and PRECISION and RULE. They knew the TRUTH! He was exhausted, but so happy.
So happy that he stood there all the long day, again. And again, into the night.
It was not until the third day that he finally collapsed. Even as he lay, panting, on the ground, the people came up and shook his hand, and cheered him and expressed their love. They were so busy adoring him that nobody could reach him to give him food or water. As the joyous crowd lifted his limp body above their heads, and passed him about over them, like a boat on the waves of the sea, he heard their cheers and cries of joy, and it seemed to him that they would love him to death.
He cried out for water, but could not be heard above the adoring crowd. He cried out for food, but nobody could hear his pleas. He begged for rest, but they kept passing him around and around.
As he looked about him, he was sure that he recognized the faces. He realized, too late, that they had all come back over and over and over, taking their turns, so that they could stop and rest between visits, and THEY all felt refreshed, while he was at his limit.
He died in their "loving" arms, broiled in the heat, starving, thirsty, and exhausted beyond endurance.
When the people FINALLY realized that they were cheering for a corpse, they demanded that his younger brother, the new king, throw their "beloved king" a lavish funeral, and at the funeral, one by one (and ONLY ONCE), they greeted the new king, to express their condolences, and offer their good wishes for his GOOD rule.
He ruled them well and happily for many years, and when he died, the people of the land truly mourned his loss, but had no fear that his successor would be evil. The kings of that country knew, from generation to generation, to truly love their people, before their people could overwhelm them with "love."
That last one is also a skit on robot chicken. One of the Star Wars ones where Emperor Palpatine goes on an escalator in the Death Star and salutes EVERY stormtrooper passing him on the escalator going the opposite direction of him. You can visibly see him get tired and it’s hilarious.
Ah yes, two of the many things I love about Germany: Our health care and our labor laws.
Everything is relative, in Sweden we tell the same kind of stories about clueless German bosses trying to mess with breaks and overtime.
Germany*
@@alfredbyrd249 Oops, thank you!
Last story is pretty funny, I was also Stationed in Pensacola for my class to learn how to be an AME. There was a prank we’d use on the new graduates of Boot by telling them to “Get your cot stamped by the Yeoman’s at the front desk” it was comical and people got convinced to do it so often the Yeoman’s had to make an announcement to “Stop telling the new guys to get there bed stamped”. But one day someone took it further. As I was walking from the Nex back to my barracks, I stop something odd on the other side of this long stretch of land infront of the flag, here I see some dummy, carrying his bedding from the barracks to THE NEX. My first thought was “how did he even get past the Yeoman’s!?” To “I need to find out who convinced him, he needs a award.” The guy continued on his way, walking with a purpose to the Nex which was most likely almost a mile away from his barracks. Good times indeed.
The Navy story reminded me of a story my grandpa told me. This happened in Germany during the Nazis regime. You had to greet each other with the Hitler greeting.
One day my grandpa and his friends were on their way to work and forgot to greet one neighbor with this greet. Unfortunately he was a Nazi. He complained to the teacher and the boys were punished. My grandpa didn't specify, but it was probably yelling and beating.
So the next day they spaced each other out before approaching the neighbor. He had to greet everyone one with the Hitler greet. So he raised his arm to eyelevel, lowered his arm to the sides, rinse and repeat.
His arm hurt obviously after a while, BUT he couldn't stop, because not answering a hitler greet in kind was a serious offense.
He obviously complained to the teacher again, who punished the boys for it. They had to stop.
But it made my grandpa chuckle 60 years later to imagine the pain that bastard had to go through.
By the way, the hitler greeting is strictly prohibited in Germany now and you WILL be fined for doing it. And if you do it to your German friend, chances are VERY high, that they will think, that you are an ignorant Naz-loving creep. It's incredibly disrespectful.
I hope that everyone is having a good Wednesday!
Oh crap it’s Wednesday I thought it was Saturday
@@disdj999 the hell you talking about is Friday
@@disdj999
At least it's not Monday😉
@@Hatsune_mikuxX
I wish! At least by Wednesday there's light at the end of the tunnel.
I just hope it's not an oncoming train🙏
Being in the military, I truly appreciate that last story
ALL of these stories are just...WOW!!!
I think my number one favorite HAS to be "Karen's Dress Code Backfires". ROFL!! XD
Loophole stories like THAT are very rare and it's SOOOOOO satisfying when the Karens are successfully shut down. Also, I'd love to hear about EVERY one of this Karen's further blunders before she left/was fired from the company. PLEASE TELL ME the next malicious compliance will have those??? LOL
Why would someone care if a man wears a skirt? They’d probably look nicer in one then I would. Drag queens also exist.
The ones who get their jiggly bits in a twist tend to be very LGBTQ+ unfriendly. Weird thing though, they have zero issues with a woman in drag, aka pants, suits, tuxedos...the list goes on.
I used to work for a youth mental health organisation. We had a really cool hip manager who allowed polo shirts (with the company logo), denim shorts and sneakers. Unfortunately he left and got a dinosaur of a manager who came in and told us that was no longer acceptable and we had to dress in office attire. Our clients were teenagers!! They preferred our casual attire as it made them feel more comfortable. He was sooo out of touch with young people.
Glad to hear Pensacola hasn't changed that much since I went through! At the time I went through, Marines waiting to class up were in 607 Barracks, right across from the static FA-18 display, which was further than many of the other barracks (notably Echo, where all the NCOs that were lat moving [changing military specialties, so going through the same basic schoolhouse after a few years in the service] lived). To get to the ATC and ATC maintenance schoolhouse at the top of the hill, you'd have to pass by Echo. NCOs didn't have to march in formation, but us lowly Junior Enlisted Warriors did. One NCO that seemed in line to class up with us was pretty chill and laid back; after four years infantry he was perfectly happy coming over to the comparatively more relaxed Air Wing side of the Corps (he and I wound up competing for high score throughout MOS School and checked into the same duty station after graduating; I beat him by a handful of points on the last simulation), while another NCO was coming over from Admin, as he said, simply for the MOS-specific reenlistment bonus. Needless to say NCO1 was cool, while NCO2 was a bit of a dick. As the only Lance Corporal in my group of 607 Barracks Marines on most days, I'd be in charge of calling cadence (marching the Marines) from 607 to the ATC schoolhouse while we went through indoc and processing and all the boring stuff. As an aside, Private First Class and Lance Corporal are automatic promotions after so many months of service, so about a month and a half into Pensacola, I was no longer the only Lance, and we shuffled through calling cadence, which is fun at first, but quickly got dull, at least for me. Now, we'd normally march in columns of two or three (not enough of us for four columns usually), so two across, and seven or eight deep. We'd leave a bit early (in the military, if you aren't early, you're late), and proceed past Echo. One day, we see NCO2 (the dick) outside shuffling about, I look down at my handy dandy G Shock watch, and figure we have a couple minutes to kill. "Left, right, left, detail - halt!" My roommate in 607 shoots me the side eye from formation and asks what we're doing, I say, quietly, we're going to annoy NCO2 a little bit, and the group chuckles a bit, as NCO2 wasn't very popular with us. "Column of files, from the left - march!" Now, with a column of files, our two across rectangle becomes a very long, single file line, however, we're still considered a formation, and if you're going to bust through a formation, you better have an extremely good reason to do so. We then halt our single file line directly in front of NCO2, meaning he'd have to walk a bit to get around us. I give him my most belligerent "good morning, Corporal NCO2!", seeing his frustration, and call the formation back to two abreast, where we continue to march off to the ATC building. Got screeched at a bit for it that afternoon, but totally worth it. We had a good chuckle about it after whatever processing we were doing in the chow hall later on.
I have a story similar to the one about Lt. Dan
I was in the field artillery, for those that don't know, the field artillery is divided into Batteries instead of Companies like most of the Army, Platoons, and then Sections instead of Squads. Batteries tend to be around 150 personnel total, enlisted and officer.
One day we had a similar encounter with a brand new LT. It was near a storage unit where we held some equipment for our tracked vehicles. The next day we decided to seek revenge of the most vile and petty. Our platoon had about 30 enlisted personnel in it. We had been working in the storage unit reorganizing and inventorying equipment this day. When it came time for the final formation of the day, we walked out the one door the building had, single file, spaced about 6 paces apart. Now, for context, it's important to point out this particular storage building wasn't very large, in fact the 25-30 of us there that day could surround it if we so desired... which we did. As we were walking out, said LT came by with his usual "I am God's own gift to the armed forces" attitude. We began saluting, and then promptly walking back around the building so that the first man out would end up at the back of the line. By the time this LT took notice, we had walked around the building at least 4 times, single file, 6 paces apart, saluting, and then abruptly turning when out of sight, walking back around, saluting, turning, walking back around, and so on.
Needless to say we never had to worry about rendering salutes in the motor pool to the reincarnated Patton again.
Everyone knows the real lieutenant Dan wouldn't be stupid enough to attract that many salutes at once
Goddamn snipers.
Silk? In a TECH station?! As in, they'll be working with HARDWARE?!
This woman is insane. Everyone should send her their dry-cleaning/repair/REPLACEMENT bills, after that.
SHE isn't the one crawling on the floor, in silk, working with hardware.
Also, wool is WONDERFUL, but unless you get SUPERWASH wool, you have to wash it BY HAND, and WITHOUT AGITATION, which means soaking it FOR HOURS, and then NO WRINGING, but just gently squeezing out as much water as you can, and then setting it to dry, for HOURS, sometimes DAYS.
I LOVE my wool socks, but socks aren't such a pain, because they are small. Also, superwash wool for socks is MUCH easier to afford, because, again, SMALL. And it only takes a few hours to dry a sock. But sweaters? DAYS. Seriously. DAYS. IF you're in an arid climate, it might take only one, but around here, with high humidity? D.A.Y.S.
An entire SUIT?! You'd need a new suit for every day of the week.
And since wool is REALLY absorbent, it also absorbs DIRT and GREASE, which makes it, you know, HARDER TO CLEAN GREASE off of it. It's not like those polyester, stain-resistant outfits.
I LOVE wool, but I would NEVER force other people to wear it.
And if I were itchy sensitive to wool, and could wear a silk dress or skirt, I would NEVER force MEN to wear woolen suits (to which THEY may be itchy sensitive), because they can't wear silk skirts.
UGH! What a HORRIBLE woman! I bet she feeds other people known allergens, too.
Retired vet here--went to NAS Pensacola for training at the beginning of my career. Lemme tell ya, can confirm the pettiness of the enlisted cuz we did some similar shenanigans back in the day 😆😆😆.
I love that the CFO in the first story is trying not to laugh. He knew the guy messed up and didn’t care to pay that employee out.
Yeah, I saw the dress code loophole right away. It was as glorious as I expected.
The Saluting story brings to mind an funny bit from the show Robot Chicken where Star Wars's Emperor Palpatine was having the same issue while on an escalator at the same time as an evenly-spaced line of Stormtroopers was going down the opposite side.
Edit: Visited the video of the scene for old time's sake and one of the top comments was recounting how this happens in the Army. I've gone full circle.
Last story reminds me of the Robot Chicken skit where Emperor Palpatine had to address every Storm Trooper on an escalator, slowly getting more and more pissed off.
I really do wonder how did Karen even get up to that point to HR with how she acts and all
Ahh, RSlash in the morning. Great way to start the day.
when i was in training for my afsc ( enlisted ), my schoolhouse was right behind the multiple officer schoolhouses. there was only one big path that we could take to get to the dorms, and that same path led to the parking lot. either way, it was a long walk.
so when the end of the day came around, we would all get released at once. so, we'd usually run into the officers as they're leaving their building, so there was a lot of saluting, and ngl, my arm would start hurting. at the same time, the night shift enlisted members were heading to the schoolhouse. so the officers would get even more of a workout in.
once we reach a certain amount of days in training, we no longer have to walk in formation. so one day, me and two of my friends just got released and we're heading to the dorms. i notice a guy walking very close to my friends, who are very tall people. i am... short. so, i confront him only to find out he's an officer. i go to salute but he stops me. he tells us that he's trying to use my friends as a meat shield so that he could avoid the salute mob. we end up escorting him to the parking lot, give our proper salutes cause we can get shredded if we don't, then retreat to the dorms.
Oh man... That last one. Former military, myself. MOST officers know that being a douche about saluting is a very dangerous gamble, and can very swiftly be turned against them. We had a couple of bad apples when I went to one of my training schools, but most of the officers there were actually really cool. One of them apparently had pulled this stunt way early on. Army, I think. It was a long time ago. Well, he was the oddball during my time there. He was the one officer that you were VERY SPECIFICALLY never to salute, and he did genuinely issue that as a standing order to everyone the first time they saluted him. Funny thing, though, he was perfectly fine with an amiable wave and a 'Good morning/afternoon/evening, sir' as a proper greeting.
Hope everyone has/is having a good day!
Okay, petty stuff but a matter of Navy veteran pride. Albeit decades ago, I attended the same school as an Electronics Warfare tech. I'm not even sure if the rating still exists, things have changed in the military drastically since I got out in '92. Here's the beef: Then, EVERY training class had a Class Leader who gave the marching order for the class. It is the Class Leader's responsibility to render a salute to a commissioned office in lieu and on behalf of a salute by every sailor in the platoon or class. He salutes, it is recognized and we're done here. Also, when did the military go metric? Not saying it hasn't, just curious as to when/if that has happened. Onboard ship, everything was designated in yards or fathoms (six feet) as in 300 yards off the port bow or 25 fathoms of chain for anchoring. Cheers....
Just made Aviation Support Equipment Technician 2nd Class Petty Officer (or AS2 for short). I can confirm the US Navy is still using feet as the standard unit of measure.
@@ScyBlade Congrats, Petty Officer, on your new rate! I retired as a YNC in '92. I appreciate and respect your service to our country. Fair seas and following winds, shipmate! Cheers....
I live in Germany too and not only do terminations need to be in writing, they need to be in the form of a letter and needs proof of delivery. I once got terminated via email. Back then I didnt know it had to be by letter but since I was owed last month's salary which she didnt want to pay out I contacted a lawyer who, at court, informed me that he noticed the termination was via email and asked me of I ever got a letter too to which I replied no. So he explained the situation and told me he'd get me not only the last months salary but also current month as I was still employed. Sadly it was only a part time job so I wasn't owed much (made 450 Euro a month at that job) but yeah, my boss had to pay me an additional 2 month's worth salary. And 900€ is still 900€ so who can complain, right? :D
A morning without rSlash is like a Morning without the Sun, it just doesn't feel Right 😄🤘🏼
I can confirm last story about the weather. Northwest Florida is hot, hot, hot in the summer. And also rains basically 2/3 of the days. The rain only cools the place to 75F. Noah likes the park the boat at the naval base.
Today's episode had a good touch of the sub Antiwork. I loved it
But I would give a lot for an episode of treelaw.
Most new LTs basically go out of their way to get saluted. Most Captains and above go out of their way NOT to get saluted...it's hilarious watching them try to sneak by because they are so sick of it by then 🤣
Not only is that last story peak military, speaking from personal experience as an Airman who trained with the Navy corpsmen as a med tech, it is specifically peak Navy.
Great way to start me day with some rslash
Emperor palpatine on the escalator 😅
"My lord!" "Stormtrooper." ..."stormtrooper.."
Americans: "Laws protecting labor? Labor punishing CEOs? What science fiction is that?"
Happened in Germany several times with Wal-Mart. They got hit several times with big fines because the management thought they could ignore local labor laws.
Yeah, some Naval Officers can not only be jerks, but idiots as well. I was a petty officer on a small frigate based in Norfolk, VA back in the 1970's. We were undergoing an overhaul period during which as many people as possible took leave, officers and enlisted. These overhaul periods were often also used for personnel transfers. We, of course, got some new people on board and as usual, they got assigned to the usual shipboard watch lists. A new 2nd Class Petty Office was standing watch as the Quarterdeck Watch when the roving security patrol failed to check in on time. (He was simply late, nothing had happened to him.) This triggered a ship wide security alert, a standing procedure during which they days duty section secures various parts of the ship while the days duty office checks all stations, then releases the security alert. During this time the Quarterdeck Watch secures the gangway to the pier, nobody allowed on or off the ship. He IS armed. Well, during the alert a man dressed in civilian clothes comes walking up the pier, with bags, toward our gangway. The PO (Petty Officer) politely informs the man that we are at security alert and that he's not allowed to board. The man ignores this and begins to cross the gangway. The PO yells HALT! No response, he keeps crossing. Yells Halt! again with the same response. Yells HALT! a third time and locks and load his weapon and takes aim. The idiot finally stops, then slowly backs off the gangway. A few moments later the duty officer gets to the Quarterdeck and releases the ship from the security alert. The idiot comes on board, then the duty officer tells the PO: I hate to tell you this, but THAT was your department head officer! Don't worry, I saw it all from the flight deck above, you did right. I'll speak to him, you won't face any repercussions. And he didn't. TECHNICALLY though, the PO could have fired his weapon after the second HALT! and been completely in the clear as that was the stated procedure.
I'll bet you a coffee the Navy story was Corry Station off Prieto Drive in Pensacola. The half mile march was due to it being an old airfield with the barracks at one end and the schools at the other. It was training for CT's (crypto tech), EW's(electronic warfare, now CTT), and ST's (sonar techs) back when I was stationed there as an EW in 1991.
Laughed so hard on the last one.
I also remember reading one like that:
An enlisted passed by a sergeant without saluting him. The sergeant punished him with 200 salutes. But, a general passed by and ordered the sergeant to return all 200 salutes.
The reason OP gave for why they think they didn't get a redundancy letter make no sense. Why would they pick this particular employee to try to save a few thousands on when they gave it to everyone else. Probably more likely that they simply screwed up and missed them out.
I love how the CFO just sits there listening to OP like "Well. I should be upset but at the same time this is just to funny"
Dress Code? Not only could I picture this happening, I was wishing HR Karen to tell him to take it off right now. That truly would have been a sight to see.
Can't, my underwear isn't silk.
@@sourisvoleur4854 does not matter. I have to access a Federal building. One supervisor wants everyone to take off their belt. I am a big guy, I am not afraid of what strange underwear I am wearing that day. Yup, took off my belt, the other officers said enough, proceed. I spoke up to the supervisor and said dont you wan4 to frisk me now? Silence. His face turned red. I got dressed. He does not F with me anymore. Be who you are. Nothing matters in this life as long as you are a good person.
@@carlcouslin7535 I was rather being sarcastic.
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They really did the Emperor Escalator from robot chicken
As was pointed out in the last story, that officer was a lieutenant. Probably even a Second Lieutenant, the lowest rank of commisioned officer. Butterbars they used to be called, for the golden color of their insignia. Such were notorious for being picky about military respect matters. By the time you make it to Captain, or, just below that, First Lieutenant, you get the crap knocked out of you. All a lieutenant has to do is let their first sergeant run things and tell them what to do, thereby educating them.
Please don't forget that Sailor Officers have Ensign before the Lieutenant ranks. As this was at a Navy Base instead of a Marine Base, that was likely a Lieutenant JG, an O2.
I love getting up in the mornings, hang out with my partner until they go to work, get breakfast for kiddo and I, then turn on Rslash while I eat~
Hey rslash are you a singer? Please tell your loyal slashers all about it please, thanks for starting this old lady's day every day
The last one. All I could think was: "Stormtrooper. Stormtrooper. Stormtrooper. STORMTROOPER."
Question about that Germany story; what’s stopping the boss saying: “Opps, didn’t know German law, ok, no one was fired, but the company has been discontinued moving forward, you can keep coming to work, but there is no business and there is no more payment.”
There are a few. Depending on the corporate setup the parent company may be liable also if a company shuts down or goes under employee salaries are the first dept that needs to be settled and are generally payed from the mandatory securities a company has. Also employee salaries do not end instantly if a company shuts down.
Because the company can't be discontinued completely until all of the obligations are fulfilled. You could *technically* move the assets out and file for the equivalent of bankruptcy, but employee salaries have to be kept on the side and you'd probably have a warrant out on you eventually.
There is certain possibilities to make it harder for employees to get their money, but that takes deep knowledge and some cunning.
LOL the military story is the best. Shame on LT for not knowing enlisted folks are petty! We had this same thing happen when I was deployed to a Chief of Staff that everyone hated. On the other side of camp they were required to wear their covers and salute officers. It was annoying to the officers so basically they'd just give one salute to a group of enlisted folk if they all did it together. Well, the enlisted folk would intentionally spread out when they saw CoS coming, and he knew it too. He was forced to return salutes for each person as they passed, and one time he shook his head and went 'You did that on purpose, a**holes!'
Alright, whadawegot today.
“Welcome to R/Maliciousconpliance where OP happily gets fired”
Oh boy this is gonna be a good one…
that is some great pro revenge on the company that just terminated EVERYONE at that place. i doubt that higer up was able to keep his job when he managed to screw up to that degree and lost the company so mutch money.
Similar to last story I was in the RAF in England 1979/80 I was coming back from the bank (just off camp) I run into one of my section coming out of the sation medical centre with his neck in a collar from a sports injury the prevoius week as we were talking, when we Hear the curious high pitched scream of "Airman" looking up we see the Station Warrant Officer ( Think Regimental Sgt Majot or Drill instructorin the US) striding across to us. He starts on my freind, why hav'nt you shaved! you need a haircut! why are'nt you wearing a hat to which he is handed a the letter from the medical officer Excusing all of this. He then pokes my freind in the chest with his swagger stick with the refrain "airman their is a piece of dog sh*t on the end of this stick" with that my friend loks down and says, " there does'nt appear to be any at this end Sir" To which the Station Warrant officer goes purple and marches off shouting your CO will hear about this. He had no idea what section we were from and never heard anything about it.
I don't know how anyone can stay employed while screaming at anyone. Screaming is not professional at all!
You should tell that to my teacher in 7th grade
Childish side of me chuckled a bit when the douchey lieutenant yelled "I'm a Naval Officer!"
I just imagined him following up in all seriousness with "- Lieutenant of the Belly Button Military Division!" 🤣
I maybe sleepy because I got way to little sleep last night but i feal obligated to watch this(It's just so good).
Before I joined the military, my father was a long term service member (WW 2 thru Vietnam) they would do the same salute bs. They called it "Melting the Butter" in reference to 1st Lt./ Ensign!
Dude CFO of story one sounds like a great dude, full on “damn dude, well played. You got us. Have a great month”
That dress code story had me going 🤣
It's entirely possible that lady is allergic to a kind of fabric. I'm allergic to polyester, I get the worst hives. It makes clothes shopping a nightmare.
Story 1:
Unrelated, but the cease of operations in Australia was scheduled on my freaking 2nd birthday, of all days. This is the fifth time my birthday happened to be the day one business or another does something radical, plus Technoblade's "so long, guys" video. This date is hexed.
That last story instantly makes me think of the Star Wars Robot Chicken skit with Emperor Palpatine and the stormtroopers on the escalator 😂
The last story, that walk sucks, especially at midnight and you have to go to your barracks room as soon as you get to the end and dismissed. No stopping for a smoke, no chatting with anybody, straight to your barracks room.
When I was Air Force basic training we were in San Antonio Texas in July in 1998 average to 114° entire time I was there! We literally would have our boots melting on the pavement. Those were called Black Flag Days. They would hang flags around base to let you know the regulations we had to follow due to the excessive heat and humidity. (Swamp ass everyday!!) Black meant no marching, no standing at attention out in the sun, lots of hydration (every 5 minutes we would stop and be forced to drink). I was so sick of water by the time I left Lackland AFB. We had a few Jr officers we would do this to. If we were over 20 feet apart we would have to salute in separate groups. It became a game to piss off these power hungry jerks. The higher ranks didn’t care as much on those days.
Oh, that dress code one would have me walking in wearing a full tartan kilt with the works (sporran, knickers, you name it) and if she tried to pull BS on me, I'd ask her if she was denying me the option to wear something from my cultural heritage. Pretty sure she'd shut up and shoo me away.
And for those wondering, yes, Kilts are comfy
Comfy and cool, especially considering what's traditionally worn under them.
Right, but if I did that, there'd be at least one indecent exposure charge and quite a few lovely ladies staring in awe
for the dresscode story, blouses? leather shoes? dress pants or skirts? looks like i can pull out my pirate fashion again or dress in aristocratic styles again!
Yeah!!!! Waited by my phone for a while until I saw you upload so I could shower lol. I only shower listening to rslash 😁 have a good morning, afternoon or night everyone!
The lower floor of our building shared the same air conditioning as the warehouse. When it broke down, it became very warm in the office space.
The workers were told that it would be some time before a new system would be installed. They would just have to wait.
The office soon began to smell very heavily of armpit sweat. There were many complaints. The workers apologized but said it was so warm even their deodorant wasn't helping.
Management quickly arranged to have portable air conditioners installed throughout the first floor.
Soon it was cool in the office, so the workers threw away the bags of salami and onions they had hidden in their desks.