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I love that EmKay is starting to branch into more story subreddits, rather than just the image ones. Stories keep me in. Memes I forget about.
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Fr tho I can't remember any meme I saw yesterday
yeah, but i think it's bc ask emkay flopped
@@G-manFan1 I mean Ur not wrong but damn lmao
@@G-manFan1Especially now that they’ve resorted to subway surfers. I’m sticking to the main channel until that gets resolved.
“HOA’s are trash” truer words were never spoken! I DO NOT live in an HOA and just hearing how stupid they are makes my blood boil INSTANTLY
They don’t exist in my country and, for the life of me, I can’t even fathom why they exist nor why they have so much power.
Is that an American thing? Or maybe just haven't encountered it. If I understand it correctly HOA's are just a bunch of "normal" people living somewhere and decide to "help" the neighborhood or something? A lot of Karen's seem to end up in these HOA's as well... I do see a lot of WhatsApp neighborhood watch signs, but I guess that's not the same thing?
@@the_LimeI've travelled a lot and have never seen or heard of any HOAs, it's probably only in the USA
@@the_Limethe watch signs are usually just for security and warning the neighbourhood if a suspicious person is walking around or something, not same thing
@@Deasty makes sense! The only thing I know Is a renters association for people renting from housing corporations, don't know if those even have a name in English but I hope it's clear what I mean lol
I love that the censor is gone
Robin's pure anger is really statisfying to hear for some reason
YES. That "Go f*ck yourself" was so powerful and unexpected. I feel like he earned that particular F-bomb, tbh.
@@frauleinloonylove7273 I was just half listening and made an audible noise when I swore I had misheard it... Nope, I was correct... DAMN
Just imagine... only like 5 years ago this was pretty much the norm. Until Google decided they needed to go all kid friendly by cutting off ad revenue (read: still playing ads but keeping the money themselves) to their creators if they said any no no words.
f *[GIMME]*
I didn't even notice...
As someone who saw this video 56 seconds ago, I can proudly say I watched the entire thing and am going to leave a comment that will be excellent feedback for the creator.
Thank you for doing that and not being an annoying ass first mf
as someone who has watched the video for 49 seconds and have already looked at the comments, this is understandable, have a good day
Same Lmao
As someone who exists, yes
Indeed. 18 minutes but still
Any boss that fires you and tells you to train your replacement deserves the level of work they get out of that person who was OBVIOUSLY trained WRONG.
in my case the person they fired wasn't doing her job (I wasn't hired to replace her, my role changed to pick up her slack). They still let her have 2 weeks, during which she scheduled meetings with clients and didn't tell anyone so my first few weeks of doing her job was trying to hunt down customers, apologize, and try and get them to come back and talk to us. Good times
@magmat0585 yeah, I remember my grandpa was told to train his replacement as a draftsman. He didn't do SHIT those two weeks but look for another job.
@@magmat0585Oh Jesus Christ, I would have had to quit. That is NOT cool to do to your replacement.
@@yoyohayli eh, it worked out for me. Still at the company 6 going on 7 years later and now I'm helping manage the team. For what it's worth, no one realized what she was doing and since it was a professional work environment they thought she'd act like a professional.
It is possible to do respectfully. Not in two weeks though.
You gotta remember: Corporate environments are ALWAYS short term.
They just stroll in, look at what happened last month and base EVERYTHING on that.
As companies are designed to NEVER think more than a fiscal quarter ahead.
Ues
Always reactive, and will burn 9 dimes to make 1$
@@jrr7031 And: If killing babies makes them profit, they are LEGALLY OBLIGATED to do so.
Cabidalism :D
Publicly traded companies, that is. Privately owned companies can do whatever they want - many still operate this way, while others are - and can be - way more strategic
The uncensored swearing in this video is a pleasant change
My 4 yr old cousin wayched it and keept saying “go fuckin kill yourself”
You know it’s serious when they don’t censor it
Wait when?
@@kevkevplays56628:25
one was at 8:25 , not sure about others
I read this one sci-fi story where, in a company where some humans and other aliens had been doing things not exactly by the book, but getting quotas and being more efficient than the company's convoluted rules. Then, a new boss was hired, and wanted to run things _EXACTLY_ as their company rulebook dictated. The human worker, not getting payed enough for this shit, proceeded to learn Every SINGLE company protocol to the letter.
The next time the boss tried to do something at all, the human sprung the trap of beurocracy and COMPLETELY BY THE BOOK made the boss's life a living hell "Oh you want to do X? You'll need forms 7, 12, and 36." "Where do I get those?" "Oh you're filing an inquiry? You'll need a Z-17" "Go get me a Z-17" "I'm not authorized to do that" "who is?" "X person in X place" "I need to see them" "Then you'll have to file forms 6, 72, and 29." And so on and so on until the boss got so fed up he went back to letting them do as they pleased as long as quotas were met, because doing things COMPLETELY BY THE BOOK in that system, was a living hell, and he did NOT want that, despite earlier thinking he did.
Malicious Compliance, bay bee.
insisting to do everything exactly by the books that had lost all context and relevance is how you end up with the 40K universe
What was it called?
@@danieldovhun5035 I'm pretty sure it was "malicious compliance" but I don't remember
@@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606 That won't be hard to search for... Ugh... :D
@@Tasarran As I said, I don't remember man.
I worked at a GameStop for about a year. I always felt a sense of satisfaction when I'd explain something to a customer (usually something about a policy like fir trade ins) and they'd demand to speak to the manager, only for the manager to tell them exactly what i just said.
Also my manager was awesome. Loved working there
It feels almost as good as when you are the manager.
Karen: "I demand to speak to the manager!"
Me: "Sure, let me go get him." *ducks behind the counter and stands up* "Hi, I'm the manager, what appears to be the problem?"
Always makes me wonder why these types need a verbal kick to the teeth like this?
@@ryanstewart2289 When I was a manager at GameStop and they'd demand the manager. I'd take a step back, rotate 360° step forward and say, anything else I can help you with?
@@ryanstewart2289 Genuinely. It's like people think going to your manager is somehow going to be this horrible trump card. Look at the useless employee, so unhelpful, now I'll get someone who REALLY cares!
"Hm, no, we've never carried that. I have X obscure item that can do roughly the same job if it's Y generic application? Oh. You're using it for that? Yeah, you'll need the name brand stuff then. That's gonna be Z store, or maybe X-Z store. Hey, [Associate], didn't you tell her this when she asked?"
'Yep, tried to, anyway.'
The reason the lady's car had to leave the repair shop before being pulled over is due to the shop being private property and not a public roadway. She should have had it towed, after the mechanic let it down.
yes.
this and also just the fact that while she's still at the repair shop, she has not officially made the decision to not have it repaired, and she had not yet started to knowingly drive an unsafe car. Once she decided to leave, and once she decided to illegally drive the unsafe car, that's when the cops can step in
This. I was just about to post this exact comment.
I was about to comment this as well, in most jurisdictions she could legally transport her car through towing. Not accepting the stated price doesn't mean she broke any laws, until she drives out on public roads.
Unless you're breaking environmental laws or risking someone harm your car could be duct-taped together without seat belts, seats, working steering, working breaks, etc and the cops can't do anything while you're legally on private land. Where the line of risking harm is drawn might vary wildly though.
The key is operation of an unsafe vehicle on a PUBLIC roadway. You can operate an unsafe vehicle all day long on your own private property just so long as you are not endangering others. @@kiiturii
16:02 As someone who work in a workshop/petrol station hybrid, buying a radio for the workshop stopped them from going insane during the quieter spells, so I can totally see their delight about that.
yes
Makes sense, doing repeating tasks in silence for hours would make anyone insane
I love the manager's reaction as he realized what had happened with the ice cream. That's the sound of someone who realizes that he *really* should have been more clear, and not a dick.
11:24-12:54
"Blast and harrass me" wait what?! OP did nothing wrong! The customer was driving an unsafe car that was not street legal and willingly signed a paper proving that she was denying the repairs! She even called the cops! OP did the right thing.
Virtually everyone owns a car. Virtually no-one has a job where they can be liable in the same way the mechanic would be. Therefore, people like to identify with the car owner. Stupid, but that's how humans who are incapable of self-reflection behave.
yes.
Yeah and the people wondering why the cops had to wait till she drove the car out to arrest her and impound her car don't seem to know how cops seem to work
Isn't it also fairly common that if Shops deem a vehicle unsafe and the customer refuses any service, they roll it off their property so they're not liable for anything that happens with the vehicle or customer? And wouldn't the shop have a Private Lot? Which has different rules to a _public_ road?
@@sebforce1165 I think the post said they pulled her over after she left the lot
It's funny. The first one isn't even malicious compliance. It's just actual compliance. Malicious compliance is normally reading into the request and doing something that you know they didn't want but their words could be interpreted that way. They asked him to do something that would screw them over, he just complied and did exactly that.
I’d say Malicious compliance is knowing following a command exactly as intended is disastrous, reading extra into it is illegal sabotage.
Yeah it's malicious compliance, something that is often overlooked is that workers don't actually follow all the rules and commands because often times, the people making the rules and giving the orders have no idea what they are doing, and the rules themselves are often just ways for the company to go "not our fault" and throw you under the bus
That's why complying with every rule is often called malicious compliance (aka Work to Order, aka Italian Strike)
Malicious _obedience_ maybe?
@@spuriusscapula6481 lmao an italian strike is just "doing what you're told"
This subreddit is basically "I did exactly what you told me to do, I just did a bit of trolling that still follows the rules that you gave."
That’s literally what malicious compliance means
I don't wish for infinite wishes but I wish for infinite lamps
That story was perfect jajajajaj my evil side was laughing and giggling while my good side was: You did what they told you jajjaja
Thats the point.
@nico_afton4984 Congratulations, you've got a lot of light.
My HOA was dissolved after I was the only one to show up for the meetings three weeks running. The HOA rules were that you needed a quorum, and if not enough people showed, the meeting was rescheduled for the next week with the quorum requirement being half as many residents. If there was no quorum three times in a row, the HOA was dissolved for non-participation. However, if _no one_ from the neighborhood showed, that didn't count toward the three failed quorums, so I made sure to show up for all three meetings.
The only reason I learned all this was because I showed up to the first meeting to point out that I was getting weed notices for the land around the community mailboxes (next to my house) which was supposed to be maintained by the HOA. The only other person there, the professional HOA rep, explained the process to me.
I generally take care of the weeds around the mailboxes, but the first time I didn't, the city sent me a notice that they were violating city ordinance and I could be ticketed. I ended up calling the office in question and reading the HOA agreement to them, which said that in the event of the dissolution of the HOA, the land became city property, which meant it was their job to weed it. The city throws herbicide on city property that isn't supposed to have plants, so they would have just needed to start doing so to that spot. They never did, but they stopped sending me notices, so I just occasionally cut back the weeds on my own when I feel like it.
That is beautiful, HOAs always sounded like a nightmare to me to be honest
Had a similar experience with my previous roommates. I took EVERYTHING that was mine and EVERYTHING that I had contributed to the apartment. This included all the cooking utensils, dining table and chairs, wall hangings, tools, bookshelves, rugs, ALL the groceries in the fridge and cupboards (since I bought them), towels, cleaning supplies, bedding, even the toilet paper. As a final f*** you to my roommates, in place of the TP, I left a roll of duct tape on the roll. 😂😂😂
Was it white duct tape or regular black tape?
@@pizzyzarc2695 Regular silver tape. It was all I had on hand at the time. I also left a few thumbtacks embedded in the shag carpet after I removed them from the wall (I used them to hang a few posters). Regardless, I bought the TP so it was mine to take.
okay but the duct tape has me cackling like a witch rn
@@elysegnade9967god, you are evil!
just kidding, you are my hero, that is absolutely amazing
@@waterbottle9034 I'd say I'm chaotic evil at best lol
Also, thank you. I try to be an inspirational figure by spreading the petty 😁
i will never understand how on one hand companies will fire the highly experienced old guy and hire the greenhorn younger guy who is dumber then a bag of rocks but on the other hand companies want people who are fresh graduates with no experience to somehow magically have 10 year’s of experience
It's about control. Managers can abuse younger workers a lot easier, because young people tend to be less experienced in labour politics, and be more keen to work and get some experience on their CV. So managers can overwork them and underpay them, and they'll accept it because they don't know any better.
Managers can't push older workers around like that, because they understand work culture better, and have all the experience they need to land another job somewhere else. But experienced workers are far more productive than newbies, so good managers know that it's better to pay more to secure that productivity.
I guarantee that this happened because the new management wanted to prove their worth immediately, and so set out to cut costs anywhere they could. Either that, or the business-owners ordered them to find ways to boost the company's profits. And lowering expenses is so much easier than increasing sales, so that's what they decided to do. And they figured that cutting out a mature worker and replacing them with an abusable newbie would save a fair chunk of change.
...Completely overlooking the massive gap in productivity between a new worker and an experienced old hand. I guarantee that company would have lost a ton of money on that decision, even without the OP's cheeky sabotage.
@@tbotalpha8133 The thing is, it wasn't even the new management that did it, since it says " _then_ unexpectedly the management changes". I guess someone in the management also decided to do a little trolling once they were given a two week notice
Yep, the cops had to wait until she was outside the repair shop because driving an unsafe car short distances on private property and especially in repair shops is legal basically everywhere as it makes certain repairs easier.
The cops couldn't really give her a ticket for "probably about to drive an illegal car on a public road" but it would be irresponsible to just leave when someone is about to do something that could get someone killed so that was the best response in that situation.
19:00 - I used to work for Micro-Center and saw this type of thing occasionally happen to my female coworker, Rachel. Now, I was one of the most knowledgeable people in the department, but she was knowledgeable enough. Whenever one of her customers turned to me for a second opinion, I'd feign ignorance and lie, "I'm not really sure, Rachel's one of our experts on that, let's see what she thinks..."
Occasionally, though thankfully not frequently, saw that happen with a young-looking female colleague who was actually slightly older than me, and quite demonstrably smarter and more knowledgeable... in fact responsible for more than a bit of software-side network admin in the IT service dept we were in (and starting to edge into the hardware parts previously the, hehe, _domain_ of a couple of much older guys, who treated her with absolute respect), and always the one I'd have to cry to for help when having trouble with some active directory BS on a client machine. Always a head scratcher, doubly so if they continued to defer to me instead _even when I'd called her in via walkie talkie_ to handle something directly. Ditto how things went in a different med-tech (isotope imaging) job with an exactly 50/50 gender split - and all but one of the guys being trainees and the most senior techs all female...
Like it's the 21st century, and it's not even some traditional burly-navvie construction site job or whatever (nvm my own grandmother having worked in a WW2 factory riveting aircraft together). Women have always been involved in computing and information technology pretty much from day one, and have often been responsible for some pivotal advances or examples of key software. Sort your heads out.
3:05
The word "rude" here is referring to being forced to train the new person when you get fired, not the new person existing.
I have a story.
I rented a basement in a house in town. It was much closer to where I worked at the time.
The agreement I had with the landlord was a verbal agreement that I pay a certain amount every week, I just needed to let him know when I moved out. It worked out since the landlord is a friend of my father.
I moved in into a half-furnished basement and paid the rent on time every time. I did complain about the single-pane windows during winter time since the cold was literally flowing in. He got me several radiators to keep on and it... barely helped. I managed anyway.
The landlord eventually sold the house and the tenants were allowed to stay. A months or so later, I was told the rent was going to be increased. It was a significant increase. I told friends and family as small talk and they thought it was a passive-aggressive way to make me move out. Alright then. I'll move out. I got help to pack and clear out my things, we took turns making sure we cleaned properly. I left the things that was there when I moved in as they were not mine and took pictures as we left the place for the last time. Heading out to the car, I texted the new landlord and said I'm moving out as of today. He freaked out. He told me I couldn't just leave without any warning as the typical notice is a full month. I told him that there is not contract, that I made a verbal agreement with the previous owner and that he simply took over the agreement that was passed down to him.
A day later he texted me again and told me I still have a lot of things left. I told him no, those things were there when I moved in. They are either his or the previous landlord's things. It's not my business to know what he bought and what he didn't. He then tried to tell me the place hasn't been cleaned, referring to some muddy footprints. I let him know I have photos of when we left and that he was being a whiny baby. I also made sure he knew it was poor business to take over agreements he knew nothing about.
I have never heard from him since.
i have a goal to respond to every comment, but im not reading that
Nice story tho☺️
@@KLEEEEE_ Blowing up the comment section, are you Klee? Do I need to tell Jean?
@@KLEEEEE_The goal was to respond, not read. Still being met. Now if you said "read and respond"..
@@parttimesaint3165 I think you do. The comment section isn't a bad guy so it's wrong to blow it up.
The first story reminds me of my current situation, except I’m the grad and the retiree I’m training to replace is insisting on spending two years training me, rather than a few weeks or months. Which is great! She’s been doing this job for 50+ years, knows all the clients on a first name basis, and has so many rules, regulations, and routines in her brain that we can’t stop finding new things she just does that I knew nothing about.
That is how everything should be handled, not just a two weeks training period and a prayer.
I can't help but think that the whole "you're going to train the new employee" thing is really just for show/to tick a checkmark for the upper management, done by somebody who isn't directly affected by things going wrong (considering the management got replaced seemingly during these two weeks, seems like there might've been some malicious compliance from them as well...🤣)
This is the proper way of doing things, you are ACTUALLY being trained in the needed skills and information to do the job properly and it could almost be considered a form of apprenticeship.
17:56
buying your employee lunch, great thing to do after putting them in a mildly awkward possition
HOA’s have never done any good ever. Someone in my neighborhood tried to make one purely so she could micromanage the way everyone lived, down to WHAT PLANTS WE PUT IN OUR GARDENS. I had some pollinator attracting flowers in my garden and she called and emailed me several times saying I was causing a dangerous situation by attracting bees and wasps. She did this to several others as well, though for different reasons. Anyway, no one signed her petition for an HOA and several people told her she could move if she didn’t like the way the neighborhood ran. Now she sits on her front porch with her friend and gossips about everyone while she slowly alienates herself from the community
The HOA my parents are in is actually pretty good. The people that set it up just wanted it to maintain the common areas and organize an Independence Day fireworks display for the community. Since they didn't want anyone new moving in and using the HOA to bully their neighbors, they put in the by-laws that any motion or rule that would impact one or more member's private property required approval of 100% of the members.
@@starchitin now thats how you handle it! HOAs are meant to be a pooling of resources, not a management system
anyone who doesn't understand that should not be allowed to be in a HOA
Mfs when nature isn't thriving (they have decimated most of the local flora and replaced it with monocolture lawn grass)
Hearing Robin say an unfiltered F-Bomb is such a serotonin boost
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Un9
That first one I relate to about the deleting part, a friend told me by text to delete all the videos on a TH-cam channel we did a while back and then weeks later asked me what happened to the videos on the channel cause they were trying to show one of them to someone, like dude you told me to delete them
Yes.
As far as the question of "how do they not see what's going to happen?" I think it's a side effect of considering people as equipment. And since a desk or a chair or something of that ilk won't show any difference in performance when you replace it...
It can also depend on the size of the company.
12:18 I laughed out loud at the irony. She called the cops because the mechanic refused to let her drive a dangerous vehicle, and as soon as she left the property they immediately arrested her for driving a dangerous vehicle. I'm sure they asked for a copy of the document they had just witnessed her signing as evidence.
8:25 you know it’s serious when they don’t censor fuck
I just noticed that Robin cussed without a bleep, and it was a huge surprise
yes.
This reminded me heavily of the time our part of town got a new housing distric. We live in the outer area of a pretty rural region, thus we have a pretty cozy environment. This caused many new families with children to move into the newly built housing area. Two complaints were raised during the following weeks:
One, the local very old church with its bell is too loud, ringing every hour and giving small gongs at intervalls to count quarter hours as well. Never bothered the locals at all.
Two, the local playground is to loud during the evening. Evening being the one time most children and teens have completely to themselves.
These complaints were both dealt with very creatively by our local town mayor.
One, he told the church bell caretaker to buffer the bell, to make it less loud initially, appearing to comply with the new residents request, but requested that buffer to be lessened gradually til fully removed over the course of a month. Thus the newcomers got used to the sound without even noticing. It was hilarious, hearing them talk. XD
Two, he told all of the children, ages ranging from kindergarden kids to 10th graders and older, via their respective institutions (schools, kindergarden, etc.) what was about to happen to their favourite hangout and playground. You can imagine how they, collectively, reacted to that one. XD
The complaints seemingly disappeared into thin air in less than two months. I love our mayor! :)
based mayor
The stories about customers refusing a woman's help, oh god. I worked in the garden centre at Walmart. The number of times men struggled to load 30 bags of soil into their trucks by themselves because they couldn't possibly accept a woman's help was pathetic. Like what, you think I ended up out here in the garden centre wearing a high-vis vest and steel toe boots by accident? I applied for this position!
I understand, there are plenty of women that can easily out preform most guys (I mean no offense to anyone)
And plenty of Mothers that will not care for anyone's crap, as they have dealt with enough of it at home
@@SilentHallows yeah true
also i like your ralsei pfp
@@jan_Eten thx :3
I work at a thrift store putting books out and I get the occasional male customer (and some of my managers first reaction) to seeing me picking up heavy bins (30 lbs or more which isn't even that heavy tbh at least 50 if it's textbooks) and they're always surprised
But I used to bring the laundry of three people up and down 2 flights of stairs every week when I was a teenager (at least 50 lbs probably more), so I'm used to it
“Thanks, I’ve now considered it. NO.” is the most Chad thing that dude has ever done xD
7:35 we don't have an HOA but the neighbors to the right of me have chain fencing, a random section of carpet, trash, an old dog house, a wheelbarrow, and some other junk in their driveway. but hey, it's better than an HOA
Yes
In a past career as a security manager it was my duty to call customer contacts out of hours when they needed to be alerted to damage or an incident at their business etc. One of these contacts was a total a-hole, and I mean one of the nastiest, most abusive cretins I ever had the misfortune to deal with. We even threatened to end their service if they didn't remove him from their customer contact info but my boss eventually caved on that, because they'd been a customer for more than ten years.
This animosity caused the client contact to look for any excuse he could to complain to our company, usually about me (because I worked nights and was the one having to call him out of hours). So one night there was a minor thing that happened in their parking lot, nothing big, just a busted security light, no reason to wake anyone, but he decided to use it to try to get me fired, because I'd made the decision not to contact him about it at 3am.
My company got it in writing from him that he wanted a report whenever we were called out to their business, and that we were to attend for EVERY "activation". My company told him that this would incur extra costs. My boss tried to tell him that we also monitor their CCTV along with their intruder alarm, and that they had a family of foxes living in the trees behind their building who loved to frolic in the grass all night long, setting off the camera alarms and tripping the perimeter wires again and again. He was too irate and arrogant to listen. We spent a month visiting numerous times a night, sometimes 20 times in a shift, leaving a copy of these reports (which their receptionist filed away at 8am so he never got to see them).
I was giddy with joy almost a month later when I came into work early and the grinning director of our company gave me a stack of 300+ incident reports to fax to this client and said "I thought you'd enjoy this". Half past four on a Friday evening I began. I managed to send 20 reports before he called demanding to know what was going on and why he was getting all these reports which looked identical and just stated "Foxes activated CCTV, nothing found". It was so hard to hold back my giggles when I explained it to him.
He was fired when his CEO got the bill for thousands.
This is beautiful. *sniff
8:11 I never knew how much I needed to hear Robin say "Go fuck yourself"
4:56, the reason for this is that these managers only money skill is cutting things out of their shopping list, and buying cheap product, that will cost way more to keep replacing rather then a more expensive product that will last longer
13:18 YES the cops do have to wait until they're no longer on private property in order to issue a valid ticket, unless there's a prior written arrangement between the property owner and local PD.
Been getting fed up with my place of work and I'm gonna start rolling out some malicious compliance wherever I can.
Screw lousy employers, imma do exactly what I'm told and get paid when they ask me to do something when they mean something else.
Edit: WOAH. Looks like the editor missed some bleeps at 8:25 lmao I like hearing Robin unfiltered, so I'm fine with it
robin being released from the cage(he can swear now)
Haha.. fed up.. like your profile picture
I am incredibly funny!
Yes
@@scientificallyaccuratespinoI wouldn't have noticed without this comment. I have lost all faith in humanity.
@@belladonnaplumb9376 I deeply apologize
Had a client get a fine for my car parked overnight in the street. First, I'm a housekeeper, so no, I wasn't there overnight. I was helping her move and was there until 7 pm, which last I looked wasn't overnight. HOAs are a pure nightmare.
23:50 I think the term “Bat Mitzvah” specifically refers to a sort of coming-of-age ceremony for Jewish women, while the version for men is a “Bar Mitzvah”.
Or at least I presume my description of that class of event is accurate. Any corrections are welcome.
Never expected a long story type subreddit from EmKay
I'm a little surprised as well, considering the more text-based subreddits seem to only be covered on Ask EmKay now. Mind you, this channel used to cover this subreddit along with others like TalesFromRetail back in 2019, so this isn't brand new.
I would watch hours from this sub.
bro this isn't unusual lol, alot of there subreddits are 20+ minutes
@@dr7coo_ yeah, but they usually focus on small posts like r/me_irl or r/rare insults
Its not unusual but i love it
I love how they didn’t censor the HOA speech Robin gave, it gave the speech even more power
I’ll share a story here since I don’t use reddit and mainly the content it has through these videos.
It was during my high school French class. It’s important to note that the teacher was a woman who was pretty in touch with the times and was eventually discovered to be a bit of a gamer.
Anyways. This one guy was playing his DS in class and got caught. When asked to hand the device over, the guy mumbled a couple sexist comments. (I forget the details here)
So after she finished the lesson plan she challenged the students who had brought their DS systems to a race in Mario Kart; she used the rude guy’s system and ended up crushing all of his records.
I effing love the concept of malicious compliance, and didn't realise that what I've done throughout my working life has a name which I first heard only a couple of years ago.
It's the "I've done exactly what you've asked" bit I love the most, followed by a furious silence then a swift turn on heel back to whatever pointless desk they lurk at.
If a company decides to lay you off and want to have you train your replacement.
Don't even bother training your replacement,
Just fricking leave.
They can deal with it themselves.
They wanna screw you then screw them right back.
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If you decide to leave they're usually entitled to two weeks' notice, which they might ask you to use training a replacement.
If they decide to lay you off or fire you, they're not entitled to anything, and you may be entitled to severance pay.
@@wizardsuth I've always operated on the idea that they'll get exactly as much effort and consideration as they have earned. If they treated me well and all that I'll give them a two week notice and might even train a replacement.
If they treat me like garbage I will just leave and never bother with them again.
@@wizardsuthI love living in a right to work state.
I can quit at any time, with or without notice or reason.
@@wizardsuthI don’t think there is a single law in all of the western world that you need to give notice to your boss it’s Encouraged as it shows respect but if you they don’t show you respect why should you
Also in some countries if they fire you they need to give you 4 weeks notice or pay you 4 weeks wage
In Those countries a warning to your boss is even more recommended
On the topic of "students never having their cameras on", that's how I got my nickname
in the height of remote learning, I made it my goal to ALWAYS have my camera on in my history (or something) class. If I had to do something, I would wait until the class was over, or if I could, just do it on camera if appropriate and simple enough. one day, my teacher was pleading with the class to turn their cameras on, saying stuff like "come on guys, press the button with the camera on it and you'll appear!" So I replied in the chat with "I pressed my camera button and a goblin appeared." His response? "Oh that's great! Surprise Goblins, the wonders of turning on your camera!" I was laughing hard enough I had to turn my camera away for a few moments before composing myself. Now I have to think up lore for the character to just flesh out the meaning of it more.
Pathfinder 2e goblins are the best!
Regarding the live music - that's a massive problem here with people moving next to a damn pub and then getting mad that the pub does pub things (e.g. have live music, be open until 3, and so on). It's hamstrung a lot of the places smaller bands or would perform outside of the CBD, leaving a lot of places to end up sports bars only since that's quieter.
Kudos to Robin for acknowledging this ( 2:48)! Both old and new people on the job market should be able to get and keep a job. The new people need a chance to get experience, and not be expected to do everything! While the experienced people need not to be simply replaced, and have time to train newbies, so the newbies also gain experience in a stable environment. I'm currently in the newbie boat, and have several mental issues so for now it's unpaid internships :( OP's old job just totally screwed up and an "I told you so" was well deserved and probably felt like sweet justice
I understand this, don't hire people you don't need, and if your employee is getting close to retirement age, give them someone to train, but also help them too, not just take over.
The reason for all this is the Peter Principle : "everyone in a hierarchy climbs until he/she reaches his/her level of incompetence ". Means : the higher you go , the more idiots you will find. Get the book and enjoy!
The landlady at 9:44 is a good landlady
This is by far my favorite subreddit so far.
Please do more. It's hilarious
11:37, The pinion is the gear that meshes with the rack. Many sliding items use one like disc drives, for example.
15:02, I've heard it said both ways and I think they're the same.
23:07, There's a Canadian Pacific line not far from me which added "No train horn" signs there roughly a decade ago now, after we moved further from there. My best guess on why, is that someone in one of the nearby apartment complexes may have had a problem with it even though I'd consider it a potential safety hazard since the crossing bells don't sound either.
The reason why the cops had to wait until she left private property to arrest her for reckless driving (i would assume) is that, on private property, you can do whatever you want, within reason. Traffic code only applies to public roads. If you drive an unsafe car on private property, you insurance isn't gonna cover you, but there's nothing police can do about it. The moment that same vehicle enters a public road, however, that's a violation of traffic code, and police very much can stop you.
HOA have an origin in racism. I can't imagine clawing up to a point in which I can afford property, and basically giving the rights to someone else.
8:33 HOAs deserve to be FEDERALLY illegal for the heinous shit they do
Jobs really REALLY need to take a Sith perspective on employment. Always two there are. A Master and an Apprentice.
The last one reminds me of a super important german law. Someone moved next to a daycare and then tried to sue the daycare for "excessive noise violations in the early afternoon". It resulted in what I call the "you made your bed, now lie in it" law, that noise from children always has to be tolerated because fuck you, what did you expect?
I remember listening to a customer and thinking that it wouldn't be possible for us to complete her request in the given time frame, but just to be sure I said I'd call the guys and ask what they think. I was told it wouldn't be possible and I informed the customer who immediately complained that "the men" would have gotten it done.. even though I just finished talking with "the men" who said it wasn't possible.
yep, though in some cases there are weird examples of "it can be done, but it's not how it should be done." Had someone requesting an animation be made (you know, a full-on hand-drawn animation). I asked them about it because their pricing range and time frame were pretty ridiculous. With general consensus, unless you are basically doing still-frame animation with very basic design (which is what they ended up showing and even then it was fairly impressive), it takes about an hour of work per SECOND of video. for the sake of simplicity, let's say they wanted a 2 minute video. For a decent-quality animation that isn't 3-D (3-D involves an entirely different process), that would be 120 hours of work that they wanted done within a week. While it would be physically possible, that is 5/7 days total hours of work or more generally, about 7 hours of sleep each day if you worked non-stop. It took a while to understand their perspective in that who was providing them their works was not a standard artist but more of an expert of making "bad" into "passable" works and clearly had expertise outside of the norm.
13:27 is the reason I love r/MaliciousCompliance
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The whole idea of training an IT replacement in two weeks comes from management thinking IT is knowing how to type.
7:40 What you do is find every little thing that isn't in the HOA's agreement and do it, they cannot stop you unless they change the agreement; at which point you have a lawyer contest that they violated the contact you signed, then they must release you or allow your "eyesore" to remain. >:)
The story where the cops impounded the car after it left the shop is interesting in that the cops in a situation like that had to wait for her to be off of private property before she could be charged with reckless. They wanted to make sure they could get her with it.
The reason the cops let her leave the property and then pulled her over is because laws like this typically specify that it's illegal to DRIVE cars in such unsafe condition on PUBLIC ROADS.
Owning such a car isn't a crime, nor is it to drive on on private property.
They were just waiting for her to do the illegal thing they'd warned her about
We had "no uniform day" at school. It meant we didn't have to follow dress code for a day. Well, they say "you can go to school in any clothes" and i come to school wearing a unicorn onesie. Teachers weren't happy.
My Episcopalian private school didn't have uniforms but did have a rather strict dress code and had a couple days every year that were "free-dress" days that were the same thing. I always went to school dressed full goth on those days, most of the teachers loved it but I got a lot of crap from other students (good thing I didn't like or care about most of those snobs anyway).
I enforce safety rules at an ice rink. It’s amazing when people ignore my warnings and end up in the first aid room because I am also the first aider had a lot of very embarrassed grown men in that room lol
14:37 props to that employee, that has to be one of the better stories
Found out about an HOA rule that got established the year after we moved into our just then built house, a decade after we've moved in. Nobody sent us a letter back then about that particular rule, and we didn't know it existed until someone new to the neighborhood started complaining about it towards us.
6:58
Mail a 'Jack in a Box' with a Boxing glove and super powerful spring to your local HOA.
11:25-The officers will do that EXACT thing if they're called in and agree with the mechanic. The woman was literally TOLD by a working professional she legally couldn't drive it. The mechanic knew that, the police knew that, and the woman didn't want to pay for it but ended up paying more than she expected when they had in impounded. If the tierod breaks, you can lose control of your vehicle. That's how seriously dangerous it it. It controls your ability to steer the car.
"Rack and pinion" is a type of gearing that turns rotary motion into linear motion, which is found commonly on steering systems. Basically, it's an important mechanical piece that really ought to not break.
What you posted is the literal definition of a simple machine known as the screw.
I think the editor got tired of having to censor robin and just quit
Malicious compliance is every disgruntled software engineer's favorite type of compliance.
About the impounding the car when she drove off...
They needed two things to make it stick; she had to know it was unsafe, and then the actually had to drive it.
ie: they needed proof that she knew and still chose to drive it
7:33 my parents are currently trying to find a house and they also won’t buy a house if it has an HOA
I worked in retail. Kind of like an apple store, just not run directly by apple.
I had a female coworker. Everytime there was customer demanding a male worker, i volunteered.
Every 2nd question i ran to my female coworker to ask her, playing to be totally dumb.
Was fun. Some customers were annoyed and a few even got the message.
19:16 that's actually a good CEO! Forced to keep bad people just because the CEO thought they were irreplaceable. But as soon as he found out they were actually replaceable, he made the work environment better by sending them away.
"I DEMAND to talk with the manager"
"I *AM* the manager"
13:20 I Assume they couldn‘t do it on private ground because some areas have laws that you can drive things on privat ground that wouldn‘t be allowed in public space.
Especially a mechanic workshop would likely be allowed to move partially broken vehicles around on site because they might have to relocate them for repair
Most HOA horror stories are HOA management companies. Their job is to find issues. Get a local HOA if you have to have one (we do)
problem with that is that often it starts with a local HOA which then because of different reasons cant/doesnt want to do it anymore and then get a management companie who then does this shit sometimes just a vote can also change it by voting in people that want the power but not the work getting in
"Delete everything you say? Alright if you say so"
*Opens sql and types out TRUNCATE*
1:56 when they say "how much for you to come back" the first answer you reply is "a million a year"
That paint department manager seems like the best manager ever
15:30 That was terriBOWL.
Take my like and leave.
I really like your commentary on the first story. Not the new kid's fault, and not the experienced programmer's fault. It's the fault of the company for being discriminatory and looking to save a quick buck in the short-term without looking at long-term investments and processes.
>live in country, out of city limits across from private hunting venue
>everyone with land has personal range on property
>city folks move in wanting the country experience
>immediately complain and call the sheriff about hearing gunshots
>the sheriff is tired of them LMAO
23:40 - Ah, this one. A classic to ANYONE who is in a community with an airport or a racetrack. Airport or racetrack has been there for decades. New development is built right next to airport or racetrack that has been there for decades. Swarm of angry Karens and Daves gets airport or racetrack shut down due to "nuisance"...
I’m looking forward to more of this subreddit!
yes.
this is just the concept of a genie in it's purest form
yes.
The uncensored swearing is part terrifying and part incredibly freeing
The employee from the ice cream story deserves a nobel prize
man robin has suprisingly not gone apeshit on john a emkay
4:47 "how are they not able to predict ..."
There is one thing I have learned after reading these is that executives have (on average) zero respect for skilled labor. They seem to think of skilled tech workers the same way a bad McDonald's shift manager thinks of his employees ... faceless and instantly replaceable. Whenever there isn't one of the rare gems up top stopping them from doing something stupid, they will immediately do something as bad or worse then this which tanks the companies profits.
Pro Tip when dealing with an unruly customer:
If they are the one taking charge, be as polite and courteous as possible, when you find out that they won't be the one paying, completely ignore them and forget about any of their suggestions and immediately start talking to and get the input of the one that WILL be paying. Makes the Karen do a double take everytime, and I love it.
I love this subreddit. Watching someone be an ahole and getting exactly what they wanted just for it to backfire is the best. I hope this becomes a series
Take it from a former receptionist/secretary: we direct traffic and find lost things.
Babysitting sometimes included.
The first story shows the classic mistake of any new hot shot manager. "Oh it's actually quite easy to make adjustments to old projects, we don't need an experienced programmer!" without realizing that the only reason why it's "easy" is because the experienced programmer knows what they're doing.
Hearing HOA horror stories fills me with completely rational hatred and rage.
The condo my dad lived in had an HOA, but they basically had one golden rule: don’t be a jerk. That was it. They had meetings on normal HOA stuff, but other than that, they were actually chill.
HOAs exist in Canada but they're incredibly rare cause they have no real power. A lot of times in the US they're granted power by the local governments but since most things residental run by provincial laws not local laws they are pretty powerless.