I used to have a manager that used to time me from when I was supposed to clock in in the back and get back to my register. We could not clock in early or late from breaks, and we were also not allowed to ignore costumers either. Every single time she had to take over for my breaks she told me off. People were always stopping me, and apparently I should have run through a giant lobby filled with people to make her timeline. All this woman did was tell me off for every little thing. Nothing was good enough.
The misconduct one. "Pursuing interests outside of work and getting a new manager." If that isn't a clear "She's been fired and we're hiring someone better" then I don't know what is.
In story 3 that's some next level corporate idiocy. Even Walmart doesn't issue points for being 22 seconds late. You have to be ten minutes late before they start handing out points. And if you're a shittier place to work than Walmart in any capacity, that's pretty bad.
I work for a place with pretty similar rules for clocking in and out. You clock in one second late, that's half a point. You clock in more than seven minutes early, that's half a point. However, if you're late and don't call, so long as you're clocked in before lunch it's only half a point. Any later and it becomes a full point. And just like op, there are train tracks across the road to my workplace and the only ways around are via dirt roads which can end up covered in several feet of snow in the winter. Strange how this world works.
I had a place change break policy without warning, and then spend two months jotting down all the instances of "long breaks" before calling me in to fire me with no warning. Waited a year for the union to get back to me that they couldn't help me.
Story 4: When Karen actually IS the manager... Story 5: I would have removed the hat...and changed seats to one on the front row...to make sure she knew without a doubt I was in compliance with the 'no hats' rule of her classroom.
Story 4: when a Karen demands to speak to the manager, an epic dragonball z like fight ensures where they scream at each other, while they dye their hair.
I hate when bosses ask for a reason why you're late. They don't need to know, and you aren't obligated to tell them. A long time ago I worked at a Wendy's and any time someone called to say they're late or not coming in, this one shift manager in particular Mikey would put it on speakerphone and demand that they tell everyone else the reason. To shame them, like "Justin says he can't come in because his car won't start. So we're all gonna have to work extra hard to cover for JUSTIN. Everyone say THANKS JUSTIN." One day this kid calls in sick, and the manager predictably puts it on speaker and demands he explain to everyone that he's sick and can't work. So right there, on speaker phone, with CUSTOMERS IN EARSHOT, he goes (with a deep southern drawl) "Help me Jesus, I can't stop shittin'!" and we hear this wet, gurgling blast followed by what sounded like chunky soup splattering into the bowl for a few seconds. The manager started fumbling for the speaker button the moment he heard "I can't stop shittin'", but ended up dropping the phone in his panic, then kicked it under a shelf. By the time he finally fished it out from under the shelf and was able to turn the speaker off, we and all the customers got to hear every excruciating detail of this guy's powerhouse round of diarrhea. Every fart, every crackle, every grunt. I found out later he wasn't sick, the whole thing was put together by his roommate who was some kind of sound guy for the local CBS station, specifically for the purpose of embarrassing Mikey. Totally worth having to man two stations that shift.
Dear Fluff: you may need to start feeding Stevo again, he is putting secret messages in the video again. Maybe give him some water, too. Oh, and a vitamin D pill or two.
@@eway44 Stevo is Fluff's editor, who, according to legend, is kept locked in Fluff's basement with little food, water or sunlight. It's been a running gag for many months now. At least I hope it's a gag. BTW, Stevo is a very good editor!
I love it when bosses pluck random arbitrary rules on the spot from their ass that they clearly didn't think through and someone rubs their face in it. LOL
I imagine some folks lost their jobs after the ruling in that first story.. Unwilling to fight over 10 grand and now out over a million? Yeah heads definitely rolled after that lol.
Depends on the size of the company, and on how big a deal was made internally about the case. Bureaucrats are quite good at hiding shockingly large expenses with creative accounting. So if nobody was bragging to higher-ups about how they were going to crush this lowly farmer in court, there may well have been no real consequences for the idiots.
@@richardkenan2891 that, and if their strategy is to fight all claims tooth and nail they may still be up in total from all the suckers who were discouraged from going after them and dropped their claims
Story 1: Destruction of Crops is no laughing matter, in 2020 Farmers lost millions due to You-Know-What-sickness, besides messing with someone who knows a lawyer is like tying your own rope
@@areneesouder yes we did that's how we know what the government is doing like they have been for control over the people if the control food as well then we have to pay even more just to exist
I used to work at a hospital and got reprimanded for clocking in 5 mins before my shift. I started to clock in exactly the time I should start and since I was upset with being reprimanded, I stopped working any overtime, and clock out the time I should leave. Of course, they were pissed off that I wouldn't do overtime, but I didn't care.
Story 2: I don't know why Karen was given access to everywhere in the building but she has no authority or reason to have that, the only reason I can think of is that she wanted to invade everyone's privacy or whatever BS she does
Maybe she got that master key by mistake, or maybe there was a time when anybody working in the building was able to get any key card they wanted, and Karen gave herself a master.
There was no facilities manager before OP. Whoever had to issue key cards probably just gave Karen what she demanded to make her shut up so they could get on with their real job.
But also…whose keycard was she using? If HER keycard stopped working when she had a master key that hadn’t been deleted or edited prior to this, then WHAT keycard was she even using and why wasn’t she using her master one??? I’m guessing she actually lost the master and a few of those randomly named entries were her lying to replace a lost keycard because she didn’t want to pay a fine.
Story three, the clocking in early thing? Yeah, the hospital did that. I worked down on the kitchen phones, and we had a lot of paperwork we needed to process before we opened the lines for breakfast. So if I got there 5 minutes early, I'd clock in and get started. Well they chew us out over that, so I decide that if I get in early, I'll just sit there and read till it's time to sign in. I sure as hell wasn't gonna do extra work I wasn't gonna get paid for after all.
My favorite r/ stories are the malicious compliance stories. They restore my faith that sometimes, just sometimes, poetic justice DOES happen. Thank you. And keep them coming, please.
Back when I was still a trainee at my workplace, my old supervisor once told me, that I needed to be ready to work, at least 5 minutes before the start of my shift. I just said, that I don’t get paid for that and continued to start work right on time. I’m so glad, that she is retired now.
I worked at a pawn shop and my store manager who was also the owner was incredibly shady. He had no problem taking in stolen property. This guy around 19 came in with a ton of jewelry and I knew it wasn’t his since it was very high end and stuff my grandma would wear. I immediately told the owner who told me to just do the sale (the customer wanted to sell the items to us) and I reminded him I needed his signature due to the amount he was asking. He did and a few days later I was fired for something I didn’t do, I think it was to get rid of me because I was a witness to his shady dealings. When I got hired I had to sign a NDA that was terminated 6 months after I was fired. Well the jewelry I took in, turns out it was stolen and worth hundreds of thousands of dollars and when the suspect was caught, they went to the pawn shop he sold it to and my ex boss was eventually arrested. He had a state of the art security at that store so everything was recorded and since my NDA was no longer keeping me from talking I was able to tell the FBI everything shady he had been a part of. See, if I was still working there my NDA would’ve kept me from talking about anything outside of the relevant case. That was 20 to 21 years ago.
which means you're at least 40, and (assuming you haven't made it up) telling this lie for 2 decades. No NDA can *ever* be enforced when it comes to criminal activity. Had you tried to claim there's an NDA, you'd have been charged as an accessory after the fact. There are only 4 exceptions to having to testify to things. 1) Spousal exception (you can't tell on your spouse) 2) attorney-client (your conversations between you and your lawyer are privileged, and even then there's exceptions when it's used in the planning or commissioning of a crime) 3) Religious Confessional - usually what's said at catholic confession (and other similar practices) is privileged 4) Self-incrimination. You can plead the 5th if you think it might incriminate you. If they give you immunity, then this is out. notice how 'NDA' isn't on there?
@@BJonesTF About the jewelry she'd have been immune, but she specifically said "kept me from talking about anything outside of the relevant case." Which would've been all the other stuff she saw that wasn't related to guy fencing jewelry. If she witnessed an actual crime being committed, she could report that without violating an NDA. But "shady" business isn't necessarily criminal in and of itself. Unethical perhaps, like making agreements with other pawnshops in the area to not undercut each other, so they could all make more money, and then undercutting them anyway. If that's all she had to report, he probably would've had a case against her. NDA's are funny things, and it depends heavily on how they're worded. Sometimes a court can simply rule them unenforcable, sometimes it goes the other way around and you end up paying out the ass.
Story 3: I sincerely hope that OP was not the only person who pulled this trick. In these kinds of stories, management seems to lack a lot of stuff to do.
That's why Walmart is constantly rearranging. Upper management got bored, only now it's a public health hazard when they rearrange and people have to spend more time in the store looking for what they need.
Story 5 = A teacher got fed up with me once (not for any true reason, she was sort off a Karen) And told me to go to hell, (i was on the computer in class, as where other students) So i type in Google maps : Hell. Turns out it's a small village in the Netherlands so i asked my teacher if i could have money for plane and taxi. She almost threw a ruler at me, but before that i said loud : I have more then enough witnesses that i did exactly what you told me to do, i'm going to Hell. She was nearly boiling, but with the amount of witnesses seeing me do pretty much exactly what she told me to do, was powerless.
Story 5 kinda happened to me. It wasn't from a car accident but getting hit on the top of my head by a some ice someone threw. This was in the early 80s when I was in elementary school. I had a 4 inch gash that needed stitches. I was told by the principal after I got stitched to see him before I went to class. He told me that I should wear a hat while in class because he didn't want other students getting distracted. He gave me a brand new hat he bought the day before after hearing what happened. Getting hit was off campus but I went back because my parents weren't home and the lady watching me was at work so they were the only adults I knew. The principal was also good friends with my mom. After getting to to class the teacher asked my why I was wearing a hat, I gave her the note the principal gave me. She read it then told me to sit down. After a while someone in the class complained it's not fair I was able to wear a hat. I was sitting down next the girl that complained. Before the teacher said anything. I took off my hat and bowed my head telling her "sorry, but this is why I'm wearing a hat." She saw my head and gave out a screech when she saw the jagged stitches. The next day her mother came to the school to complain what I did. Not sure what happened because my parents never told me. Oh yeah, the girl that complained was the older sister of the boys that threw the ice at me. Oh the ice wasn't cubes but more like the size of a paving brick.
Re: Clocking in. I work in a factory, and we are to clock in no more than 7 minutes before our shifts. This is mostly for safety concerns, as there isn't really sufficient room to have two shifts to be on the lines at once.
A former workmate of mine got a written warning for looking at his phone, to see the time. Boss said: Wait for the bell! It was 10 seconds to the bell.
The time issue thing is exactly why unions are handy. We can be late up to 7 minutes due to travel and traffic. Call out 3 times before needing a reason and can switch shifts if you need to.
11:20 The workplace has nothing to do with that. It only specifies "being late" in the rules. It is on the supervisor/HR/manager to have him/her actually act upon that rule. "Normal" supervisors generally act if late 2 or more minutes, and issue verbal warnings below that. That 22 seconds are counted towards "being late" and punished is *SOLELY* a Karen issue. When the starting time is 10:30 pm you clock in at 10:30 pm. These are the letters of the law. Clocking in at 10:29 pm is slightly worse than clocking in at 10:31 pm from a company perspective but if forced leagues worse from a law perspective. *SHE* did screw the company with forcing OP's MC.
I hate those who expect you to be there early. early means unpaid work time. I had a "mandatory" meeting which wasn't on my shift, so clocked in for the meeting, then clocked out and went home, only to clock in as normal for my normal shift... management decided they didn't want to pay for 2hrs of "unapproved" OT, even after telling them if the meeting was mandatory by management, then it was approved, and my supervisor didn't adjust my schedule, even though they should have expected me to be at the meeting... I should have taken it to HR, as they broke rules in changing my time without my consent.
Story 3 is ridiculous. I worked at a company that would always complain if you clocked in even 2 minutes early or late and the only way to clock in on time was to stand by the time clock and wait. They would complain about this too. The time clocks also barely ever worked right but the company didn't care
In the before times at my company, if the time-clock wasn't working, they used the time you badged in at the door. Oh, you walked in the door at 7:03? Well, that's within 7 minutes of 7:00, so it counts as 7 even if you couldn't get into your systems until 7:45. I had another job that had the "wait until the exact second, and not a second later either!" so everyone was always late. I definitely prefer the company I'm at now
One place I worked was great; then they brought in time clocks. So people crammed in the room where the time clock was (sometimes a little early so they could get out ON TIME) and I figure they lost so much productive effort from anxious workers. They'd dock your pay if you weren't within a few minutes of clock on, and NEVER pay for overtime unless formally approved and organized ahead of time. Accountants should never be permitted input to business practices.
I’m trying to send in a story. I work in the medical Field. This particular day. I was in uniform and going to a doctors appointment I had myself. I was in my scrubs because I got off at 7am and my apartment was at 8 am . I didn’t feel like I had the time to rush home and change. So I’m going into the complex and this Karen comes up to me and says . Doctor you should see my child first . I’m thinking hum she sees this five foot nine 200 pound man as a doctor. I’m think thinking thanks for putting me through med school in thirty seconds. I say mam .I’m not a doctor I am a nursing assistant. I work at a nursing home. Not here . I’m from the Southern part of the U.S Tennessee to be exact. We are polite here down to earth. We are the folks that can cuss you with out really cussing you .This was a bless her heart moment . The tone can make it be positive or negative. Told her mam I really do not work here. I probably can help you find the place you need on the directory on the wall. She told me yes you do work here. I’m going to call the police saying you don’t . I told her I’m not claiming to be a doctor. She told you look like one. I showed her my name badge . It had my name and my place of employment. She just frowned.Told me your just nothing but a call light chaser . She stomped off . I thought that lady’s bread ain’t quite baked. Thought bless her heart glad I’m not in the office. She’s going to . I went to my apartment. Was seen everything was fine it was a yearly check up. Then I seen her she was being escorted out by security. I wish I new what happened but I don’t . The only thing I new was that they had had it with her . So they had a nice man escorted her out. Lol
It must be upper management is from Japan. Their train operator issued an apology, in the news papers and on air, for pulling out of the station something like 10 seconds early. Still within the same minute that is on the timetable, just a few seconds earlier than usual. Like normally leaves at 10:05:40 and left at 10:05:30. Seconds are NOT specified on the timetable.
Needing to be told to go Home Story: OP wouldn't be able to milk that MC for more than a couple of nites as his Manager would quickly either start telling OP to go home when his shift is over or rescind their idiotic rule... 😄😁😆😅😂🤣
Having worked at a factory that required a key card for everyone - even the trash collecting guy (me) - I understand a thing or two about necessary card access. Getting into a Clean Room is a pain when your card doesn't work there - had to stick my head through a plastic curtain and go - "Hey - who wants me to do the trash in here today? (well, maybe not quite like that)" - to get someone's attention so that I could put on the appropriate jacket and hair/beard nets. Then there was the Smoke/Break sections outdoors - there was a few times I couldn't use that door to badge back inside, meaning I'd have to knock/buzz the door to get in. Thankfully, the break/smoke door got fixed after a chat with the Safety Guy, but the Clean Room was an issue I'd have to live with (and don't get me started on having to snag a jacket/gown that fitted - never enough 3XLs there anyways).
SCE has been the cause of most of the wildfires in CA. It’s so infuriating and now they shut off power to whole communities when there are high winds. The electric company does this instead of replacing their crappy equipment.
California: We take agricultural damage very seriously. Also California: put environmental policies in place that basically makes clearing dead under underbrush and fallen trees so expensive that no one does it then the whole state is on fire at some point.
Third story: I never cease to be amazed at how some businesses treat their employees like middle school students. It's been my experience that how you treat your employees is how they'll behave. Are business owners/managers/executives learning this type of "management" method in school? I honestly don't understand how they can think this would have any consistent positive effect on their business.
Story #3 I worked at a place like that. If you accumulate 11 points you get 2 weeks off not paid. A lot of guys would do this at hunting season, but if they were late again they got fired. They would show up 30 minutes early from then on until they had no points . Then play that game over and over.
What's really funny is if any of those employees asked for the time off unpaid the company would be so upset by the asking, would probably never even consider granting the time off.
I'm so used to it just being his voice talking, but after several hours of binge watching r/maliciouscompliance videos, that AUDIO at 19:24 mid-sentence made me slightly jump! 🤣🤣
Story 4. I had a manager exactly like that. I was leading the team and setting the standards... beating every single goal. but she always had to find some reason to berate me, despite all this. I quit very soon after that began. I'm the type that appreciates knowing where I can improve... but that doesn't mean anything unless I can be told when I'm doing well, too.
I can't get enough of these videos, I'm going through a terrible time in my life and Darkfluff's videos are one of my few guilty pleasures that still bring a smile to my face so thank you for these.
When someone is late, context is required. What's the person's history? I can't STAND when people are supposed to be somewhere and are late. But sometimes stuff happens that's out of your control. One time I was 2 hours late to work because there was a major accident and all roads getting to where I needed to go were closed (it was an overturned gas tanker). My boss told me to put it down as paid time, since it was completely out of my control. So if you're late due to reasons out of your control, and you are normally on time, yeah some leniency needs to be given. If you're like some friends of mine and never bother showing up to work on time, yeah discipliary action needs to be taken. Now that said, 22 seconds was ridiculous.
@@StormsparkPegasus I work with a guy who’s got that system down pat. Clocks in at just 5 minutes late and clocks out at just 5 minutes till. However, he’s a really good worker so no one complains. Not even the boss.
Third Story: OP, I could feel you. Sometimes those biometric fingerprint readers won't read my fingerprint. It's kinda annoying especially when you're cutting it close.
The retail company I work for uses a timeclock system that measures time by dividing each hour into 100 clicks, which works out to 36 seconds per click. Now, they are actually very fair on arriving/leaving early/late: You have ten minutes in both directions of your scheduled time before it's a problem. Overtime, on the other hand... Yeah, one click and you're getting a write-up.
I do background work for movies/TV. I'm always 30-60 minutes early for my calltime (as I rely on public transit). One time on a movie, I watched another background actor sent home (fired from the gig), as they were checking in as it was Right On The Calltime, so being a few seconds into the minute... they were "late"... 😳
I've heard a story about someone who didn't get an interview because they got it 30 min before the boss and he didn't like anyone being in the building before him
In regards to time clocks, I will say that if you work security you cannot clock in seven minutes before your scheduled time nor can you clock out more than seven minutes after the end of your shift unless approved. Once had a petty boss who fired me for a ncns (no call no show) for forgetting to clock in and she not only saw me at work while working but spoke with me while I was working. Jokes on her, I got posted to a new post with a 7$ pay bump 5$ more than her and a job she wanted. 😂
I think my favorite story ever was the one about the family who's house was foreclosed on even though they paid cash for their house and didn't own the bank a dime. They took them to court and were awarded damages for the mix up but the bank simply refused to pay. So the family *started foreclosure proceedings ON THE BANK.* The bank did not take it seriously and the manager was belligerent until the cops came and informed him that yes, this WAS really happening. He paid up right then and there and probably got ALL KINDS of fired.
Key Card Story: If I were OP, Karen's Key Card was the very FIRST one I'd have checked just in case her card wasn't set up properly (like hers was) and would have corrected it without even telling her she no longer has a Master Card... I'd wait for her to complain that she can't get open
I worked at a nursing home that the time clock recorded in 1/100th of an hour. We were not allowed to clock in more than 3 minutes early or any late. Over time was paid in 15 min increments, they did not want to pay any over time. Clocking out was the same you had to clock out no later than 3 min after your shift.
I worked at a company where, if your shift started at 0800, if it was 0759 when you clocked in, you got written up. If it was 0801 when you clocked in, you got written up. So...there was ALWAYS a line there waiting for the clock to say 0800 before clocking in.
#1 So, by refusing to come to a $10K agreeable settlement, they had to pay 100 times as much because they forced OP to go to court. Some corporate can be extremely dumb. #3 OP should share that tactic with his coworkers. Have them ALL preemptively call late each and every day just in case there is something that MAY cause them to be late. #4 «Pursue opportunities outside of the company» is pretty often a way to say «was forced to resign or face termination».
On the one about work places reprimanding employees for clocking in early -- I've worked in such places and the reason we'd "get on" employees wasn't the 1 minute early ones, but the ones that woukd clock in 5-10 minutes early then put the coat/personal items away, grab cup of coffee, and other such items and then if we were lucky they'd start work at the right time. Now some might say "it's only 5-10 minutes a day" but consider that amount times the number of employees at your place of work doing it. That can add up to quite a lot of both lost productivity and added cost to the store that in turn affects store profits.
I can almost guarantee the company in story 3 is Amazon. I worked for them several years ago, and back then, their attendance policy was absolutely draconian.
Yep my employer does this. working for NGC I took 2 hours on my attendance for badging @07:00:16am.. Let's not count all the days I stayed a little later to give a little more.....
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That story about the time clocks! I used to work for a company that if you become ill, you had to call in a minimum of 24 hours before your shift. Anything after that would be one point against you. So one day as soon as I got to work I told my manager I would be sick the next day. And the next day I was and they couldn’t do a thing! 😂😊
Conflict of Interest is a thing that attorneys take very seriously; it’s the doctrine that should you have a personal relationship of any kind to any party of a lawsuit, your capacity as a lawyer to impartially serve a client is brought into question. A classical situation: an attorney takes on a client who wants to sue, and it turns out that the suit is directed at attorney’s next door neighbor. If the attorney serves the client he is at risk of a conflict of interest. The smartest, and safest, thing to do in that situation is to declare that your service is a conflict of interest and you cannot take the case. It sounds like complete BS, but it is a perfectly valid reason accepted by anyone in the area of law: nobody gets faulted for rejecting a case from conflict of interest, as in some cases you have no option whatsoever. The client’s only option is to get another attorney, but that’s their problem (when it comes to larger firms, they just give you another attorney).
I feel like OP in story 3 could have fixed their problem by leaving 5 minutes earlier in the morning. Yeah, getting onto them for being 22 seconds late is pretty bad, but from the sound of it, they are late or on the verge of being late basically every day
I've had an issue as well when I had a cancer surgery on my scalp and I wore a hat to work of a sports team that donated a ton of money to my work so people often wore them. The bandage was about the size of my hand, and the bandage didn't look bad, but every time some one saw it they spent a long....long....long time talking to me about it in an office of over 50 people. Then someone complained about "head coverings" to my boss. He blew it off as "It's medical, it's temporary, leave it the fuck alone" in a polite way. Then they complained to his boss and he asked me to take off my "head covering" knowing what it didn't technically need to be bandaged and we are both total bastards when messed with. I'm not sure who complained...but I heard several people retch at the sight...and I was asked to put it back on in 10 minutes.
I worked at T.J.MAXX and the clock in “tardy” was excatly the same.. one minute late it late and too many mean a write up and eventually being let go.. hated it because god forbid u clocked in one minute late but if I clocked in early and left early .. they’d get mad about that too 🤣
Story 3: The time those idiots waste punishing people for being a minute or two late is a greater time loss to the company than the employee's actual lateness. A child could see how stupid this system is, but that's management, isn't it?
One Saturday at the deli I was on chicken meaning I arrived a 5 am scheduled off at 2. Somone was supposed to come in at 12 so lunches could be had and they could hold down the fort after the morning people left and closers arrived. We were informed they were not coming they asked if I could stay until the closers came approving over time so I said sure. It was 2 hours of overtime. The time for the closer to arrive comes and goes and a manager come to tell me both closers called out and asked if I would close I told him I would if he could let me grab a quick 15 to eat. He asked why I needed a 15 hadn't I already had my 2? I told him no we were short stuffed and I was forced in to an early lunch and it has been 7 hours since my lunch. A look of horror crosses his face and asked how long I had been there. I tell him 10.5 hours including my lunch 11.5 hours. He was quick to find a replacement though it took another hour for them to be found and get there. Saterdays were also last day of the scheduled so they could not cut hours to avoid over time.
I used to have a manager that used to time me from when I was supposed to clock in in the back and get back to my register. We could not clock in early or late from breaks, and we were also not allowed to ignore costumers either. Every single time she had to take over for my breaks she told me off. People were always stopping me, and apparently I should have run through a giant lobby filled with people to make her timeline. All this woman did was tell me off for every little thing. Nothing was good enough.
OP: "If it's not in writing, it didn't happen."
Karen: "YOU DARE USE MY OWN SPELL AGAINST ME, POTTER?"
I see what you did there. LOL
hahahahaha nice
Another person of culture I see. 😁🤔
Harry Potter: BITCHUS SHUT-UP-US!
Story 4: OP is smart to keep track of everything, that way Karen can't lie about OP doing something they didn't
no kidding its good to have the receipts in situations like this
Karens underestimate people, so they don't bother worrying. And they hilariously pay for it!
It's a good idea to always keep a paper trail. Make them write stuff down. Make them sign it. Then you have proof later when they try to spew BS.
This is why I ALWAYS take pics of anything important in the chat at my work
I'm assuming she did this before and didn't get away with it.
The misconduct one. "Pursuing interests outside of work and getting a new manager." If that isn't a clear "She's been fired and we're hiring someone better" then I don't know what is.
That statement actually mean «Was given the choice to resign with no compensation or face immediate termination»
If that’s not what they meant, why would they say it like that?
@@JaelinBezel It's that there are many cases where they are forbidden to actually say «fired» or «terminated» due to some legal considerations.
In story 3 that's some next level corporate idiocy. Even Walmart doesn't issue points for being 22 seconds late. You have to be ten minutes late before they start handing out points. And if you're a shittier place to work than Walmart in any capacity, that's pretty bad.
I work for a place with pretty similar rules for clocking in and out.
You clock in one second late, that's half a point. You clock in more than seven minutes early, that's half a point.
However, if you're late and don't call, so long as you're clocked in before lunch it's only half a point. Any later and it becomes a full point.
And just like op, there are train tracks across the road to my workplace and the only ways around are via dirt roads which can end up covered in several feet of snow in the winter. Strange how this world works.
I had a place change break policy without warning, and then spend two months jotting down all the instances of "long breaks" before calling me in to fire me with no warning. Waited a year for the union to get back to me that they couldn't help me.
I’m a little lost as to how he was doing, malicious compliance.
He was calling an absent every day? I am just plain lost and confused!
Story 4: When Karen actually IS the manager...
Story 5: I would have removed the hat...and changed seats to one on the front row...to make sure she knew without a doubt I was in compliance with the 'no hats' rule of her classroom.
Story 4: when a Karen demands to speak to the manager, an epic dragonball z like fight ensures where they scream at each other, while they dye their hair.
I hate when bosses ask for a reason why you're late. They don't need to know, and you aren't obligated to tell them. A long time ago I worked at a Wendy's and any time someone called to say they're late or not coming in, this one shift manager in particular Mikey would put it on speakerphone and demand that they tell everyone else the reason. To shame them, like "Justin says he can't come in because his car won't start. So we're all gonna have to work extra hard to cover for JUSTIN. Everyone say THANKS JUSTIN." One day this kid calls in sick, and the manager predictably puts it on speaker and demands he explain to everyone that he's sick and can't work. So right there, on speaker phone, with CUSTOMERS IN EARSHOT, he goes (with a deep southern drawl) "Help me Jesus, I can't stop shittin'!" and we hear this wet, gurgling blast followed by what sounded like chunky soup splattering into the bowl for a few seconds. The manager started fumbling for the speaker button the moment he heard "I can't stop shittin'", but ended up dropping the phone in his panic, then kicked it under a shelf. By the time he finally fished it out from under the shelf and was able to turn the speaker off, we and all the customers got to hear every excruciating detail of this guy's powerhouse round of diarrhea. Every fart, every crackle, every grunt.
I found out later he wasn't sick, the whole thing was put together by his roommate who was some kind of sound guy for the local CBS station, specifically for the purpose of embarrassing Mikey. Totally worth having to man two stations that shift.
Dear Fluff: you may need to start feeding Stevo again, he is putting secret messages in the video again. Maybe give him some water, too. Oh, and a vitamin D pill or two.
A vitamin a day keeps the fluff at bay
Guy has been begging for pizza for 3 weeks now. I would have sent him one, but he asked for pineapple, so he didn't deserve food.
I'm a new subscriber, can someone tell me who STEVO is?
@@eway44 Stevo is Fluff's editor, who, according to legend, is kept locked in Fluff's basement with little food, water or sunlight. It's been a running gag for many months now. At least I hope it's a gag. BTW, Stevo is a very good editor!
@@61rampy65 thanks, let's hope he feeds Stevo
If any Boss had the brass to tell me that owned me I would walk out on the spot.
I would've fired back with "I don't recall being bought at an auction and I sure as hell don't recall my name being Toby or Kunta Kinte."
Story 3: Most places I have worked had a 5 minutes after as being late, so 22 seconds after is soo ridiculous.
I love it when bosses pluck random arbitrary rules on the spot from their ass that they clearly didn't think through and someone rubs their face in it. LOL
Or anything else they pluck out of their ass that gets rubbed in their face. Doesn't have to just be rules. Butt plug. Hamster. Whatever they got.
I imagine some folks lost their jobs after the ruling in that first story.. Unwilling to fight over 10 grand and now out over a million? Yeah heads definitely rolled after that lol.
Depends on the size of the company, and on how big a deal was made internally about the case. Bureaucrats are quite good at hiding shockingly large expenses with creative accounting. So if nobody was bragging to higher-ups about how they were going to crush this lowly farmer in court, there may well have been no real consequences for the idiots.
@@richardkenan2891 that, and if their strategy is to fight all claims tooth and nail they may still be up in total from all the suckers who were discouraged from going after them and dropped their claims
Story 1: Destruction of Crops is no laughing matter, in 2020 Farmers lost millions due to You-Know-What-sickness, besides messing with someone who knows a lawyer is like tying your own rope
Out of razor wire, because they weren't just a lawyer... but a lawyer for the exact issue that was being sued about!
@@Rekhan4242 AND his wife, to boot! Lol
No farmers lost land because the government destroyed them lol
What are you talking about? Did you actually listen to the video?
@@areneesouder yes we did that's how we know what the government is doing like they have been for control over the people if the control food as well then we have to pay even more just to exist
Story #4 - I wonder how many managerial jobs that OP's manager has had with that power tripping attitude 🤔🙄
I used to work at a hospital and got reprimanded for clocking in 5 mins before my shift. I started to clock in exactly the time I should start and since I was upset with being reprimanded, I stopped working any overtime, and clock out the time I should leave. Of course, they were pissed off that I wouldn't do overtime, but I didn't care.
is this a hospital thing?? they hate when you clock in even a minute early! and this is supply chain!!
Story 2: I don't know why Karen was given access to everywhere in the building but she has no authority or reason to have that, the only reason I can think of is that she wanted to invade everyone's privacy or whatever BS she does
Micro managing everyone
Maybe she got that master key by mistake, or maybe there was a time when anybody working in the building was able to get any key card they wanted, and Karen gave herself a master.
There was no facilities manager before OP. Whoever had to issue key cards probably just gave Karen what she demanded to make her shut up so they could get on with their real job.
But also…whose keycard was she using? If HER keycard stopped working when she had a master key that hadn’t been deleted or edited prior to this, then WHAT keycard was she even using and why wasn’t she using her master one??? I’m guessing she actually lost the master and a few of those randomly named entries were her lying to replace a lost keycard because she didn’t want to pay a fine.
6:45 A Karen with a master keycard "is like a chimp with a machine gun!" :P Just to quote another Karen.
Story three, the clocking in early thing? Yeah, the hospital did that. I worked down on the kitchen phones, and we had a lot of paperwork we needed to process before we opened the lines for breakfast. So if I got there 5 minutes early, I'd clock in and get started. Well they chew us out over that, so I decide that if I get in early, I'll just sit there and read till it's time to sign in. I sure as hell wasn't gonna do extra work I wasn't gonna get paid for after all.
My favorite r/ stories are the malicious compliance stories.
They restore my faith that sometimes, just sometimes, poetic justice DOES happen.
Thank you. And keep them coming, please.
Back when I was still a trainee at my workplace, my old supervisor once told me, that I needed to be ready to work, at least 5 minutes before the start of my shift. I just said, that I don’t get paid for that and continued to start work right on time.
I’m so glad, that she is retired now.
I worked at a pawn shop and my store manager who was also the owner was incredibly shady. He had no problem taking in stolen property. This guy around 19 came in with a ton of jewelry and I knew it wasn’t his since it was very high end and stuff my grandma would wear. I immediately told the owner who told me to just do the sale (the customer wanted to sell the items to us) and I reminded him I needed his signature due to the amount he was asking. He did and a few days later I was fired for something I didn’t do, I think it was to get rid of me because I was a witness to his shady dealings. When I got hired I had to sign a NDA that was terminated 6 months after I was fired. Well the jewelry I took in, turns out it was stolen and worth hundreds of thousands of dollars and when the suspect was caught, they went to the pawn shop he sold it to and my ex boss was eventually arrested. He had a state of the art security at that store so everything was recorded and since my NDA was no longer keeping me from talking I was able to tell the FBI everything shady he had been a part of. See, if I was still working there my NDA would’ve kept me from talking about anything outside of the relevant case. That was 20 to 21 years ago.
which means you're at least 40, and (assuming you haven't made it up) telling this lie for 2 decades.
No NDA can *ever* be enforced when it comes to criminal activity. Had you tried to claim there's an NDA, you'd have been charged as an accessory after the fact. There are only 4 exceptions to having to testify to things.
1) Spousal exception (you can't tell on your spouse)
2) attorney-client (your conversations between you and your lawyer are privileged, and even then there's exceptions when it's used in the planning or commissioning of a crime)
3) Religious Confessional - usually what's said at catholic confession (and other similar practices) is privileged
4) Self-incrimination. You can plead the 5th if you think it might incriminate you. If they give you immunity, then this is out.
notice how 'NDA' isn't on there?
@@BJonesTF About the jewelry she'd have been immune, but she specifically said "kept me from talking about anything outside of the relevant case." Which would've been all the other stuff she saw that wasn't related to guy fencing jewelry. If she witnessed an actual crime being committed, she could report that without violating an NDA. But "shady" business isn't necessarily criminal in and of itself. Unethical perhaps, like making agreements with other pawnshops in the area to not undercut each other, so they could all make more money, and then undercutting them anyway. If that's all she had to report, he probably would've had a case against her. NDA's are funny things, and it depends heavily on how they're worded. Sometimes a court can simply rule them unenforcable, sometimes it goes the other way around and you end up paying out the ass.
Story 3: I sincerely hope that OP was not the only person who pulled this trick. In these kinds of stories, management seems to lack a lot of stuff to do.
That's why Walmart is constantly rearranging. Upper management got bored, only now it's a public health hazard when they rearrange and people have to spend more time in the store looking for what they need.
Story 5 = A teacher got fed up with me once (not for any true reason, she was sort off a Karen) And told me to go to hell, (i was on the computer in class, as where other students) So i type in Google maps : Hell. Turns out it's a small village in the Netherlands so i asked my teacher if i could have money for plane and taxi. She almost threw a ruler at me, but before that i said loud : I have more then enough witnesses that i did exactly what you told me to do, i'm going to Hell. She was nearly boiling, but with the amount of witnesses seeing me do pretty much exactly what she told me to do, was powerless.
There's also a Hell is in Norway, and a Hell in Michigan (not Detroit)
@@zrspangle Hell Michigan is near Pinckney and Chelsea.
@@BIGBLOCK5022006 yes, I know where it is
"But that's a separate tragedy" - Hmmm, think I might have to remember that line 😂
Story 6: OP; Can I go home?
Manager; No, wait for my permission
OP; ok then, free money for me
This video came out right in time for my break! I love decompressing in the back room to your stories. Thanks Fluff 🤘
Story 5 kinda happened to me. It wasn't from a car accident but getting hit on the top of my head by a some ice someone threw. This was in the early 80s when I was in elementary school. I had a 4 inch gash that needed stitches. I was told by the principal after I got stitched to see him before I went to class. He told me that I should wear a hat while in class because he didn't want other students getting distracted. He gave me a brand new hat he bought the day before after hearing what happened. Getting hit was off campus but I went back because my parents weren't home and the lady watching me was at work so they were the only adults I knew. The principal was also good friends with my mom. After getting to to class the teacher asked my why I was wearing a hat, I gave her the note the principal gave me. She read it then told me to sit down. After a while someone in the class complained it's not fair I was able to wear a hat. I was sitting down next the girl that complained. Before the teacher said anything. I took off my hat and bowed my head telling her "sorry, but this is why I'm wearing a hat." She saw my head and gave out a screech when she saw the jagged stitches. The next day her mother came to the school to complain what I did. Not sure what happened because my parents never told me. Oh yeah, the girl that complained was the older sister of the boys that threw the ice at me. Oh the ice wasn't cubes but more like the size of a paving brick.
Re: Clocking in.
I work in a factory, and we are to clock in no more than 7 minutes before our shifts. This is mostly for safety concerns, as there isn't really sufficient room to have two shifts to be on the lines at once.
A former workmate of mine got a written warning for looking at his phone, to see the time. Boss said: Wait for the bell!
It was 10 seconds to the bell.
Love seeing stevo getting his passive aggressive energies out!!!!
The time issue thing is exactly why unions are handy.
We can be late up to 7 minutes due to travel and traffic.
Call out 3 times before needing a reason and can switch shifts if you need to.
11:20
The workplace has nothing to do with that.
It only specifies "being late" in the rules. It is on the supervisor/HR/manager to have him/her actually act upon that rule. "Normal" supervisors generally act if late 2 or more minutes, and issue verbal warnings below that.
That 22 seconds are counted towards "being late" and punished is *SOLELY* a Karen issue.
When the starting time is 10:30 pm you clock in at 10:30 pm. These are the letters of the law.
Clocking in at 10:29 pm is slightly worse than clocking in at 10:31 pm from a company perspective but if forced leagues worse from a law perspective.
*SHE* did screw the company with forcing OP's MC.
electric company: if you don't like it then sue me!
farmer: ok
electric company: surprised Pikachu face
I can identify with the story about being 22 seconds late. I got written up for being 2 minutes late according to a clock that was 5 minutes fast.
I love that "but that's a separate tragedy" repeated line from the hat story.
I hate those who expect you to be there early. early means unpaid work time. I had a "mandatory" meeting which wasn't on my shift, so clocked in for the meeting, then clocked out and went home, only to clock in as normal for my normal shift... management decided they didn't want to pay for 2hrs of "unapproved" OT, even after telling them if the meeting was mandatory by management, then it was approved, and my supervisor didn't adjust my schedule, even though they should have expected me to be at the meeting... I should have taken it to HR, as they broke rules in changing my time without my consent.
Story 3 is ridiculous. I worked at a company that would always complain if you clocked in even 2 minutes early or late and the only way to clock in on time was to stand by the time clock and wait. They would complain about this too. The time clocks also barely ever worked right but the company didn't care
In the before times at my company, if the time-clock wasn't working, they used the time you badged in at the door. Oh, you walked in the door at 7:03? Well, that's within 7 minutes of 7:00, so it counts as 7 even if you couldn't get into your systems until 7:45. I had another job that had the "wait until the exact second, and not a second later either!" so everyone was always late. I definitely prefer the company I'm at now
So, basically, you were screwed no matter when you clocked in! These bosses should be fired and/or sued into poverty for being tyrants!
@@nancyomalley6286 the company is out of Business now
One place I worked was great; then they brought in time clocks. So people crammed in the room where the time clock was (sometimes a little early so they could get out ON TIME) and I figure they lost so much productive effort from anxious workers. They'd dock your pay if you weren't within a few minutes of clock on, and NEVER pay for overtime unless formally approved and organized ahead of time. Accountants should never be permitted input to business practices.
I’m trying to send in a story. I work in the medical Field. This particular day. I was in uniform and going to a doctors appointment I had myself. I was in my scrubs because I got off at 7am and my apartment was at 8 am . I didn’t feel like I had the time to rush home and change. So I’m going into the complex and this Karen comes up to me and says . Doctor you should see my child first . I’m thinking hum she sees this five foot nine 200 pound man as a doctor. I’m think thinking thanks for putting me through med school in thirty seconds. I say mam .I’m not a doctor I am a nursing assistant. I work at a nursing home. Not here . I’m from the Southern part of the U.S Tennessee to be exact. We are polite here down to earth. We are the folks that can cuss you with out really cussing you .This was a bless her heart moment . The tone can make it be positive or negative. Told her mam I really do not work here. I probably can help you find the place you need on the directory on the wall. She told me yes you do work here. I’m going to call the police saying you don’t . I told her I’m not claiming to be a doctor. She told you look like one. I showed her my name badge . It had my name and my place of employment. She just frowned.Told me your just nothing but a call light chaser . She stomped off . I thought that lady’s bread ain’t quite baked. Thought bless her heart glad I’m not in the office. She’s going to . I went to my apartment. Was seen everything was fine it was a yearly check up. Then I seen her she was being escorted out by security. I wish I new what happened but I don’t . The only thing I new was that they had had it with her . So they had a nice man escorted her out. Lol
It must be upper management is from Japan. Their train operator issued an apology, in the news papers and on air, for pulling out of the station something like 10 seconds early. Still within the same minute that is on the timetable, just a few seconds earlier than usual. Like normally leaves at 10:05:40 and left at 10:05:30. Seconds are NOT specified on the timetable.
That first story gave me my second giggle of the day.
Needing to be told to go Home Story: OP wouldn't be able to milk that MC for more than a couple of nites as his Manager would quickly either start telling OP to go home when his shift is over or rescind their idiotic rule...
😄😁😆😅😂🤣
You can still enjoy it for however long it lasts!
Having worked at a factory that required a key card for everyone - even the trash collecting guy (me) - I understand a thing or two about necessary card access. Getting into a Clean Room is a pain when your card doesn't work there - had to stick my head through a plastic curtain and go - "Hey - who wants me to do the trash in here today? (well, maybe not quite like that)" - to get someone's attention so that I could put on the appropriate jacket and hair/beard nets. Then there was the Smoke/Break sections outdoors - there was a few times I couldn't use that door to badge back inside, meaning I'd have to knock/buzz the door to get in. Thankfully, the break/smoke door got fixed after a chat with the Safety Guy, but the Clean Room was an issue I'd have to live with (and don't get me started on having to snag a jacket/gown that fitted - never enough 3XLs there anyways).
SCE has been the cause of most of the wildfires in CA. It’s so infuriating and now they shut off power to whole communities when there are high winds. The electric company does this instead of replacing their crappy equipment.
"that's a separate tragedy" is added into my vocabulary
California: We take agricultural damage very seriously. Also California: put environmental policies in place that basically makes clearing dead under underbrush and fallen trees so expensive that no one does it then the whole state is on fire at some point.
Same thing happened to Australia. A good rainy season means big trouble later on.
Doing chores and this video is just what I need. Thanks Fluffy
Third story: I never cease to be amazed at how some businesses treat their employees like middle school students. It's been my experience that how you treat your employees is how they'll behave. Are business owners/managers/executives learning this type of "management" method in school? I honestly don't understand how they can think this would have any consistent positive effect on their business.
Story 3 - Wow that is messed up. 22 seconds gets you a fully day tardy
Story #3 I worked at a place like that. If you accumulate 11 points you get 2 weeks off not paid. A lot of guys would do this at hunting season, but if they were late again they got fired. They would show up 30 minutes early from then on until they had no points . Then play that game over and over.
What's really funny is if any of those employees asked for the time off unpaid the company would be so upset by the asking, would probably never even consider granting the time off.
Makes me think of high school, I got suspended for cutting class.🤣🤣🤣more time off from a place I didnt want to be.🤣🤣🤣
I'm so used to it just being his voice talking, but after several hours of binge watching r/maliciouscompliance videos, that AUDIO at 19:24 mid-sentence made me slightly jump! 🤣🤣
Story 4. I had a manager exactly like that. I was leading the team and setting the standards... beating every single goal. but she always had to find some reason to berate me, despite all this. I quit very soon after that began. I'm the type that appreciates knowing where I can improve... but that doesn't mean anything unless I can be told when I'm doing well, too.
Story 1 I think this is what is called a serious error of judgement.
I can't get enough of these videos, I'm going through a terrible time in my life and Darkfluff's videos are one of my few guilty pleasures that still bring a smile to my face so thank you for these.
Hey there, I hope you are finding a little relief each day.
I used to work for dollar general and they penalize you for everything being early be late even by 22seconds would cost u money and a write up.
When someone is late, context is required. What's the person's history? I can't STAND when people are supposed to be somewhere and are late. But sometimes stuff happens that's out of your control. One time I was 2 hours late to work because there was a major accident and all roads getting to where I needed to go were closed (it was an overturned gas tanker). My boss told me to put it down as paid time, since it was completely out of my control. So if you're late due to reasons out of your control, and you are normally on time, yeah some leniency needs to be given. If you're like some friends of mine and never bother showing up to work on time, yeah discipliary action needs to be taken. Now that said, 22 seconds was ridiculous.
I still say there should be ~3-5 minutes leniency but idk
@@kaiseremotion854 Depends on how regular it is. If someone is regularly 5 minutes late every day, there is an issue.
@@StormsparkPegasus
I work with a guy who’s got that system down pat. Clocks in at just 5 minutes late and clocks out at just 5 minutes till. However, he’s a really good worker so no one complains. Not even the boss.
Third Story: OP, I could feel you. Sometimes those biometric fingerprint readers won't read my fingerprint. It's kinda annoying especially when you're cutting it close.
"but that's a separate tragedy' is finally here!
I like how the op in 2nd to last story says everything was a separate tragedy...lol
Story 3: Points-based attendance? Seriously? It's a business, not a f*cking elementary school class!
The retail company I work for uses a timeclock system that measures time by dividing each hour into 100 clicks, which works out to 36 seconds per click. Now, they are actually very fair on arriving/leaving early/late: You have ten minutes in both directions of your scheduled time before it's a problem. Overtime, on the other hand... Yeah, one click and you're getting a write-up.
I do background work for movies/TV. I'm always 30-60 minutes early for my calltime (as I rely on public transit). One time on a movie, I watched another background actor sent home (fired from the gig), as they were checking in as it was Right On The Calltime, so being a few seconds into the minute... they were "late"... 😳
I've heard a story about someone who didn't get an interview because they got it 30 min before the boss and he didn't like anyone being in the building before him
2:25 no joke! Habitat For Humanity is the biggest agricultural agency anyone can without.
My former workplace always reprimanded for clocking in early, they expected employees to do all paperwork on their own time.
In regards to time clocks, I will say that if you work security you cannot clock in seven minutes before your scheduled time nor can you clock out more than seven minutes after the end of your shift unless approved. Once had a petty boss who fired me for a ncns (no call no show) for forgetting to clock in and she not only saw me at work while working but spoke with me while I was working. Jokes on her, I got posted to a new post with a 7$ pay bump 5$ more than her and a job she wanted. 😂
I think my favorite story ever was the one about the family who's house was foreclosed on even though they paid cash for their house and didn't own the bank a dime. They took them to court and were awarded damages for the mix up but the bank simply refused to pay. So the family *started foreclosure proceedings ON THE BANK.* The bank did not take it seriously and the manager was belligerent until the cops came and informed him that yes, this WAS really happening. He paid up right then and there and probably got ALL KINDS of fired.
Key Card Story: If I were OP, Karen's Key Card was the very FIRST one I'd have checked just in case her card wasn't set up properly (like hers was) and would have corrected it without even telling her she no longer has a Master Card...
I'd wait for her to complain that she can't get open
Unless Karen had her thumb on HR.
Fluff never fails to entertain! Dat record scratch!
10:30:22 is not 22 seconds late. 10:31:22, this is 22 seconds late. You are not late, until it switches over to the next minute
I worked at a nursing home that the time clock recorded in 1/100th of an hour. We were not allowed to clock in more than 3 minutes early or any late. Over time was paid in 15 min increments, they did not want to pay any over time. Clocking out was the same you had to clock out no later than 3 min after your shift.
Story 5: Micromanaging Teacher; HATS OFF!!!
OP: ok, *Takes off Hat to reveal Nasty Scar*
That that last story really gave me a good giggle thank you I needed that
I worked at a company where, if your shift started at 0800, if it was 0759 when you clocked in, you got written up. If it was 0801 when you clocked in, you got written up. So...there was ALWAYS a line there waiting for the clock to say 0800 before clocking in.
#1 So, by refusing to come to a $10K agreeable settlement, they had to pay 100 times as much because they forced OP to go to court. Some corporate can be extremely dumb.
#3 OP should share that tactic with his coworkers. Have them ALL preemptively call late each and every day just in case there is something that MAY cause them to be late.
#4 «Pursue opportunities outside of the company» is pretty often a way to say «was forced to resign or face termination».
The first one made me so happy and I don't know why.
On the one about work places reprimanding employees for clocking in early -- I've worked in such places and the reason we'd "get on" employees wasn't the 1 minute early ones, but the ones that woukd clock in 5-10 minutes early then put the coat/personal items away, grab cup of coffee, and other such items and then if we were lucky they'd start work at the right time.
Now some might say "it's only 5-10 minutes a day" but consider that amount times the number of employees at your place of work doing it. That can add up to quite a lot of both lost productivity and added cost to the store that in turn affects store profits.
In story 1, all i can say to the utility company is this- be careful of what you wish for...
I can almost guarantee the company in story 3 is Amazon. I worked for them several years ago, and back then, their attendance policy was absolutely draconian.
Yep my employer does this. working for NGC I took 2 hours on my attendance for badging @07:00:16am.. Let's not count all the days I stayed a little later to give a little more.....
I have loved the stories since I subbed and they just keep getting better, Keep it up boys! To Editor Steve: Keep up your fantastic work, the missing part made me laugh. Most thank Fluff which is ofc natural but most forget the editor ;)
That story about the time clocks! I used to work for a company that if you become ill, you had to call in a minimum of 24 hours before your shift. Anything after that would be one point against you. So one day as soon as I got to work I told my manager I would be sick the next day. And the next day I was and they couldn’t do a thing! 😂😊
Yay my favorite part of the day!!
Story 1, Oh no. I thought Tree Law was bad.
19:24 ROFL
Clocking in late story... Barnes & Noble does that as well.
Poor Stevo
Conflict of Interest is a thing that attorneys take very seriously; it’s the doctrine that should you have a personal relationship of any kind to any party of a lawsuit, your capacity as a lawyer to impartially serve a client is brought into question. A classical situation: an attorney takes on a client who wants to sue, and it turns out that the suit is directed at attorney’s next door neighbor. If the attorney serves the client he is at risk of a conflict of interest.
The smartest, and safest, thing to do in that situation is to declare that your service is a conflict of interest and you cannot take the case. It sounds like complete BS, but it is a perfectly valid reason accepted by anyone in the area of law: nobody gets faulted for rejecting a case from conflict of interest, as in some cases you have no option whatsoever.
The client’s only option is to get another attorney, but that’s their problem (when it comes to larger firms, they just give you another attorney).
For story 5 I would had done the same thing
I feel like OP in story 3 could have fixed their problem by leaving 5 minutes earlier in the morning. Yeah, getting onto them for being 22 seconds late is pretty bad, but from the sound of it, they are late or on the verge of being late basically every day
I've had an issue as well when I had a cancer surgery on my scalp and I wore a hat to work of a sports team that donated a ton of money to my work so people often wore them. The bandage was about the size of my hand, and the bandage didn't look bad, but every time some one saw it they spent a long....long....long time talking to me about it in an office of over 50 people.
Then someone complained about "head coverings" to my boss. He blew it off as "It's medical, it's temporary, leave it the fuck alone" in a polite way. Then they complained to his boss and he asked me to take off my "head covering" knowing what it didn't technically need to be bandaged and we are both total bastards when messed with. I'm not sure who complained...but I heard several people retch at the sight...and I was asked to put it back on in 10 minutes.
Karen may have been hoping for a replacement card so she could have a spare to lend out.
I worked at T.J.MAXX and the clock in “tardy” was excatly the same.. one minute late it late and too many mean a write up and eventually being let go.. hated it because god forbid u clocked in one minute late but if I clocked in early and left early .. they’d get mad about that too 🤣
While I love these videos, I could swear that this is a repeat from a while back. Or have I gone crazy?
Story 3: The time those idiots waste punishing people for being a minute or two late is a greater time loss to the company than the employee's actual lateness. A child could see how stupid this system is, but that's management, isn't it?
Loved the stories.
Love your content can watch all day
One Saturday at the deli I was on chicken meaning I arrived a 5 am scheduled off at 2. Somone was supposed to come in at 12 so lunches could be had and they could hold down the fort after the morning people left and closers arrived. We were informed they were not coming they asked if I could stay until the closers came approving over time so I said sure. It was 2 hours of overtime. The time for the closer to arrive comes and goes and a manager come to tell me both closers called out and asked if I would close I told him I would if he could let me grab a quick 15 to eat. He asked why I needed a 15 hadn't I already had my 2? I told him no we were short stuffed and I was forced in to an early lunch and it has been 7 hours since my lunch. A look of horror crosses his face and asked how long I had been there. I tell him 10.5 hours including my lunch 11.5 hours.
He was quick to find a replacement though it took another hour for them to be found and get there.
Saterdays were also last day of the scheduled so they could not cut hours to avoid over time.
just got whip lash!! i want to see your manager!! YOU WILL BE FIRED!
S1.. oh, my! That story was worthy of a top tier toast! Pun intended
Sounds like a call center 😅