rSlash - r/Maliciouscompliance "IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, QUIT!" "Ok, I quit"

Episode Date: August 20, 2020

r/Maliciouscompliance In today's episode, an entitled boss thinks that they can completely mistreat their employees. OP is overworked, underpaid, and underappreciated. He eventually gets tired of his boss's terrible attitude and asks when he's getting a promotion. His boss basically laughs at him and says, "If you don't like it, then quit!" Sure thing, boss! Let's see how your business does without your most valuable employee!  🔔 Subscribe: https://bit.ly/2E3A8i6 💬 Discord: https://discord.gg/VD6eYD3 🎧 Podcast: https://link.chtbl.com/rslash ⚓ Send me a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rslash 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rslashyt/ ♪ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@rslash0 🛒 Merch: http://bit.ly/rSlashMerch 🎁 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/rslash Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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My school was quite small. We had a graduating class of 92, so everyone knew everyone. All the teachers were amazing and very involved in our academic lives, but for the most part had nothing but good intentions. Unfortunately, there was one teacher, our English AP teacher who was just an absolute jerk. She was a type of teacher that if she saw you with your cell phone out, even during lunch or in-between classes, she would take it, give it to the principal and give you a detention. I decided to screw with her one day because she was quite clearly in a pissed off mood

and the opportunity was perfect. I was standing in line for lunch and I got my diabetes pump out. I was diagnosed with diabetes at age 8 and I've had a pump since 9. It looks a whole lot like a cell phone other than the tube running from it to my body. Without really looking closely, it can easily be confused with a cell phone. She sees me playing with my pump and comes over to me. These are obviously not the exact words. I more than likely was a little disrespectful, but I definitely knew the boundaries and would never be so blatantly rude or disrespectful that it would be necessary to get a detention.

Give that to me now and follow me to the principal's office. Um, no, I need this to live. Give it to me now, I will not ask again. No, leave me alone, I just want to eat my lunch. She then grabs my arm and drags me to the principal's office. I was very close to the principal as I was a class president, so I spent a lot of time with her planning school events and such. This student had their phone out during lunch, refused to give it to me and was rude and

backtalked me. Is this true OP? No ma'am, my cell phone is currently in my locker. I saw you playing with it in line. OP, please give us your cell phone. Okay, follow me to my locker then. No, give it to us now, it's in your pocket. No, it's not.

Then empty your pockets. I proceeded to empty my pockets, which was a pack of gum, and then I had my pump in my hand because it's connected to me so I can't put it on the table. Why would you lie to me when you obviously have it in your hand? This is my diabetes pump. Why didn't you tell me? You never asked if it was a cell phone. You just tried taking it away from me.

This is ridiculous. You need to show more respect. I think we're done here. Teacher, you can leave and I'll talk with OP. The teacher leaves and has quite obviously pissed off about the situation. I tell the principal the truth about the trap I set for the teacher and I hope that she is impist at me

and I won't do it again. She chuckles a little bit, tells me to go eat lunch and she'll see me later for a school fundraiser event. I never had another encounter with the teacher and during class, she made it a point to try not to talk to me. Our next Reddit post is from Advocatus, Ebris, Est. I worked as a cook at a chain restaurant that had a wing night where you could get a pound of wings at discounted prices.

We didn't actually weigh the wings, our specifications set eight wings to a pound, four drums and four flats. One night a table comes in and wings to a pound, 4 drums and 4 flats. One night a table comes in and everyone orders a pound of wings. A little while after the wings go out, the server comes back a little flustered and explains that there's been a complaint. Apparently, one of the guys at the table complained that it was obvious that he didn't get a pound, because it would be a huge coincidence if everyone's pounds led to the same number of wings on each play.

He insisted that the server go in way these already discounted wings to make sure he was getting what he paid for. So we waited, and sure enough it was not a pound, it was a pound and a half. We tell the server to bring it out and tell him he's getting more than a pound, and the server says, Fno, he paid for a pound, he's gonna get what he paid for. And through two of his wings in the garbage and re-weight the food, still over. She throws out another one. BANG ON ONE POWN OF WINGS!

So she brings back out his five wings and calmly tells the gentleman, here are your wings, sir. You were right, there was more than a pound there. So we threw the other ones out. Good catch. When they ordered a second round, he didn't complain that everyone got eight wings to a pound. Down in the comments, we have this story from Less Desvoid. I have a similar story coming from almost ten years ago. I was working at a stake in Seafood Restaurant at the time, and we offered a pound of King crab legs for whatever the price was. I honestly

can't recall. I worked there for about a year and a half before we got a complaint about them. Some guy was insisting that he didn't get his full pound. We took the order back, re-weight them, and they came out to 17 ounces. We sent the server back out to explain that it was actually an ounce more than was advertised. The dude sent it back saying, yeah, I'm sure it is, but I'm sure a lot of that came from this shell. I don't want to paper what I can't eat, and I know it's gonna be less weight after you cook it. In comes the malicious compliance. I was working seafood in pasta that night, and I asked the kitchen lead who also happened to be the owner if it was fine to honor his demand for the cost of the shell meat. He paused,

honorised a man for the cost of the shelled meat. He paused, grinned, and said, let's give him what he wants. I went to work meticulously shelling three pounds of leg clusters after it was steamed. I waited and got twenty ounces of meat. The manager approved the extra four ounces, walked it out himself, apologized for the hassle, took the original order off the bill, told him it was twenty ounces, and let him know that there was a small fee for shelling the meat in house. The customer said that was fine, and he appreciated getting what he ordered. After the customer finished his meal and got the check, he was foaming at the mouth.

The manager ended up charging him $250 with the extra work fee included. From what I heard, he went from super smug to absolutely aghast. I didn't know it would be that much. This is highway robbery, he said. The manager explained how they weren't cheap to buy initially and how part of the cost was deferred by having customers sell themselves. He ended up paying the bill in full, and I got a free order of crab legs and three extra drinks that night. These side marios all you can eat is all you can munch a soup, sell it.

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I worked at an amusement park as a ticket supervisor. This was the time of the year that they would have certain events and it was one of the biggest attractions all year. So one of the ways to bring in more revenue was to charge $5 to get into this attraction. Subsequently, if you purchase this ticket for $5, you can buy additional tickets for an additional $5 per attraction. Normally, the other attraction tickets were 20 bucks each. If you wanted to go to one of the other attractions, it would be cheaper to buy the ticket for

$5 at the main attraction, and then do an add-on for an extra $5 to go to any of the other attractions. Okay, so I've laid out the groundwork and this is where the malicious compliance comes into play. I was a supervisor of the cashier's department and we were pretty busy so I decided to open a cashier and a computer to sell tickets. I come from a very frugal family so I always try to help people get their better deal and I always tell my employees to tell the other guests about the better deal. Our main goal was to help people get their better deal and I always tell my employees to tell the other guests about the better deal. Our main goal was to have people have a good time so that they would want to come back.

This guy comes up to me and he and his family went to a good who completely different attraction. He has about 20 people in his party so I already knew the price was gonna rack up. I pulled up the price of exactly what he asked and it was around 700 bucks. I said, listen, we're running a promotion today. If you buy a ticket to the main attraction for $5, we can get you the other tickets for around 250 total. The guy said, I don't want you to sell me anything that I don't want. I said, listen, I know you said you don't want this, but if I sell this to you for $5, I have access to sell you the other tickets for $5 as well. said you don't want this, but if I sell this to you for $5, I have access to sell you the other tickets for $5 as well.

If you don't want it, I can't give you that price. I don't care if you go to the main attraction or not, but do you want to pay $250 a day or $700? He yelled at me and said, I don't want anything that I don't need. Just give me the tickets. I don't want to buy tickets to the main attraction. Alright sir, that'll be $700. He reluctantly paid $700.

About 30 minutes in the CVS receipt later, he comes back asking to talk to my manager. I call my general manager and he comes out and asks what the problem is. The guy said I overcharge him for the tickets. My general manager asked if I'd offer tickets to the main attraction, which gives them better deals to the tickets. I had a smirk on my face when the guy had to look me in the eyes and say that he refused tickets to the main attraction because he didn't want them. And there was a smirk on my general manager's face when I laid out the conversation word

for word in front of him. He couldn't deny that I tried to help him in every possible way. The general manager asked him, what do you want us to do here, sir? I want to go see the main interaction and others. Our next reddit posts is from Grinky Throwway. So when I was freshly out of high school, I hadn't decided on what I wanted to do with my life, so I got a job at a pizza place near where I lived. I've always been the type of person who would rather work than sit at home, and I didn't have a ton of friends to hang out with. They started out having me just making the food deliveries once or twice a week, but that

quickly turned into them calling me in daily about an hour after they opened, because the managers didn't want to make the deliveries, and they were the only ones working front of the house. Like I mentioned previously, I didn't mind coming into work and I would always say that it wasn't a problem. About two weeks into me working at the pizza shop, the owners insisted that I learn the register because they were no longer willing to do it themselves during the week. Okay, sure, no problem. It's just more money for me. They continue training me in every aspect of running the physical business over the next

month. Every once in a while, the owners would say they want to make me a manager so they can leave whenever they want. Great, I thought. As time went on, I would work anywhere between 60 to 80 hours per week because other employees would call out or not show, and the owners didn't want to stick around to deal with it. They even trusted me to hire a server, delivery driver, and cashier. After 8 months into working there, running myself ragged for them, and never getting so much as a thank you for everything I did

for them, I decided to sit down with one of the owners and express the way I felt to them. Hey boss, I know you keep saying you want to make me a manager, is there any reason you haven't yet? I just haven't found the time or reason to train you for it yet. What do you mean? I already know how to do everything from taking orders to ordering supplies when they're running low on something. Yes, but it's not your place to do all those things yet. What do you mean? You're not a manager, you should be doing manager tasks. Alright, that's how you want to play it, then consider it done. For the next two weeks, I didn't do anything aside from what they hired me to do.

Make deliveries, and only on my schedule days. This went on for about two days, and it really upset the owners, because now at least one of them had to be there at all times to make sure everything was getting done. Eventually, that same boss called me into his back office to talk. OP, what has gotten into you? What do you mean? You know you need to put in orders for supplies, yet we're running out of flour and soda syrup. And no orders have been placed. I'm sorry boss, but you told me that I'm not a manager and I shouldn't be acting like one, so I stopped.

Stop being a child OP, you know your responsibilities here and you need to do your job. I am doing my job and only my job. If you want to make me a manager, I'll be happy to do those things. You really think I'm going to make you a manager after this? If I'm not a manager, then I won't do to do those things. You really think I'm gonna make you a manager after this? If I'm not a manager, then I won't do a manager's job. Fine then, just quit. You need to get over yourself. Okay, I quit.

As of right now, I'm done. Fine. So, I left. I was scheduled to work all week, which meant that they were basically out of a manager. I ended up getting a call the following afternoon from the same boss, demanding to know why I was so late for work, but I just reminded him that I no longer work there. Now, I was and still am very close friends with some old co-workers and heard all the drama as it unfolded. Turns out, most of the employees ended up refusing to work because the owners had to be there

full time now and they were awful. In my time working there, I hired about 5 people and all 5 left because I wasn't there to play manager anymore. They ended up closing about 6 months after I left because they couldn't get anyone to stay longer than about 2 weeks. Our next reddit post is from Flinus. I'm not sure if this post qualifies because it didn't end well for me. Back when I was in high school, I used to go to a Roman Catholic school here in the UK. We had a rather irate religious education

teacher. One Friday, we were given homework to write two to three pages describing world religions as if we had just discovered the planet as an alien. I said to work and wrote it out on Friday evening. Then I had a thought. If I were writing this from the perspective of aliens, then it wouldn't be in English. I came up with a symbol for each letter of the alphabet and rewrote the entire thing with these symbols. Monday morning rolls around, and I handed it in with a decoder, of course.

I ended up in detention for two days. I also understand I probably wasted that teacher's time when they just wanted to read and grade, but part of me wanted to get some kind of extra credit for the extra effort. Oh well, sometimes compliance isn't all roses. That was our slash malicious compliance, and if you like this content, then check out my Patreon where I publish extra podcast episodes. Also, be sure to follow my podcast because I put out new Reddit podcasts every single day. then check out my Patreon where I publish extra podcast episodes.

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