Things we have learned from Rslash: 1) If someone says "Are you sure?" Question your choices. 2) If someone says "Can I get that in writing?" Stop and think. 3) Don't mess with the IT guy (except for Todd).
In the 1st scenario, I would have asked for an explaination. If they are asking me "Are you sure?" about something, there would always be a reason for it. Basic logic and reasoning is enough to convince me into reversing a decision I've had about something.
Story 2: So basically, Big/New Telco being anticompetitive and trying to hoard a specific pipe like a dragon, followed by using a name change to run away from the consequences of their practices, lead to the contract being used against them and losing said pipe. Grey is a hero They didn't think this through. Hope the hotshot learned his lesson
One common thing is that a bad lawyer doesn’t know when to quit and over-litigates everything, they focus so much on winning the case that they ignore when it’s actually much better to settle and you know actually care about the client’s interests. A good lawyer knows when it’s actually better to settle rather than try to win the whole case. Sometimes those type of lawyers just want the ego trip of crushing their opponents beneath them, or something.
I LOVE the story about the girl with cancer. She was so petty. (You know her saying "I don't want to distract my classmates" was dripping with sarcasm.) And the fact that her classmates were backing her up is absolutely AMAZING. You would think the teacher would have known about her situation though.
one thing i learned about teachers back in public school, is during PTA meetings, unless they royally screw up, its always in 1 ear, and out the other ear, then they go into "fuck you kid" mode once the parents leave. i was autistic, but nobody knew i was autistic, or even what autism was, so everyone simply learned that i was named "anthony", and my aunt was a teacher. (my aunt denies me ever being diagnosed with autism. funny.)
Story 2: Mr. Grey finishing up that whole thing with ‘we’re releasing this pipe that we legally have sole ownership of to the public domain’ is a freaking badass move worthy of him putting on sunglasses while not looking at the explosion he just caused. 😂😎
I always say that someone responding to your orders with "Can I get that in writing?" is like the DM responding to your ideas with "Are you sure you wanna do that?"
That was definitely a rarity. It is as rare as the HOA actually being on the OP's side in this channel. The best part is that he heard the IT's malicious compliance, then returns it with a malicious compliance. Usually, IT people are a lot smarter and will win. This is a good example of bad IT people ended up losing to the OP.
Story 1: it’s a little known fact the “Don’t Mess With IT” has a clause where being an asshole voids your protection Story 2: who would have guessed using shading tactics and being manipulative jerks would bite someone in the ass later
"She quit a month later" oh you sweet summer child. I was a special needs student so allow me to shed some light. While this woman did quit, it was most likely not of her own volition. "But isn't that just getting fired?" Yes and no, schools don't like firing teachers because they think it'll hurt their funding... but they also don't like lawsuits. So when a teacher messed up and does something that could cause a lawsuit, like discriminate against a disabled or special needs student, the principal, super intendant and potentially a lawyer depending on the incident will have several meetings with the offending teacher to "suggest" they quit, relocate to a different school in the district, change grade or have an "early retirement".
This is exactly what happened. The principal saw the writing on the wall. The only reason it took a month was because they were quietly finding her replacement.
My friend's ex- boyfriend's daughter was special needs and went to a school that specialized in students with special needs. The ex went to pick up his daughter early for a doctor's appointment and him and his teacher found his daughter face down in a beanbag chair and was unresponsive to them. His daughter died the next day and that school fired that teacher before the school day ended. She had not once checked on her all day and she could of survived if the teacher didn't neglect her students and this student was not the first student to be hurt under her care.
@@suzyboyleanderson6945 Sounds like grounds to sue the school and/or the teacher and press charges against the teacher for negligent homicide......I know I would have!
@@19TheFallen he took the teacher, school and the school board to court and won a hefty sum and he used some of the money to bury his daughter and donate the rest to charity
When a competent lawyer tells you to sign an 'unfair' contract, you know he has something up his sleeve. Gotta love contract legalese that screws over a-holes.
@@silverflight01 Like that stops them. Right before COVID, my partner worked for a company that had trouble keeping employees because of minimum wage pay and mediocre working conditions and constant supply issues. Ultimately, it was the horrible owners that were causing all their problems. They wanted to make their bottom line as fat as possible and cut costs everywhere they could. My partner was robbed of more wages than we really know, and had it in writing the owners wanted people to not clock in, but still work. My partner also had it in writing that he should have been getting paid as a manager, but never did. I have begged him over and over to report them to the department of labor. But the owners were smart and did everything through the then DM (no longer there) and the GM of all four stores (now the DM), and he really doesn't want to screw over the GM because she was actually a really wonderful woman in a really bad spot. And, if he reports it, it will screw over all the new employees that are there. It disgusts me that they are going to get away with it, but I get why he won't.
I worked someplace that expected a task done in 15 minutes. I took longer so the product would thaw and be easier to work with. Prep work was always done on time or earlier, but when they wanted to get rid of me, they stood there with a timer.
@@silverflight01 Do you think the manager cares about the law? She certainly didn't care about food safety law, i don't see why she would care about labor law.
Story 4: A lot of student handbooks and schools have restrictions on hair and clothes like you wouldn't believe. But at the end of the day, it's often the district people that suggest/pass the rules while it is up to the schools to enforce them. At my school, hats are specifically prohibited, but very few teachers care unless it's for official school photos. Deliveries are prohibited, but it's unenforced as long as you have it go through the rear parking lot across the street from the McDonalds and don't bother the front office people with it.
It’s against policy for students to sell or buy things on campus at my old high school. Teachers always turned a blind eye to it until one kid’s entrepreneurship got a little too popular. He was selling sandwiches out of his backpack lol.
@@the_rachel_sam Yep. Their contracts with the school lunch provider prohibits others from selling food on campus. We have plenty of that as well including cookies, brownies, and even just chips from the 7/11 down the street.
Instead of saying "I don't want to distract my classmates" after a few minutes, she should have said: "Oh Teacher You Are Right, I think I am much smarter, my hearing is greatly improved & I have much more energy & stamina without the wig on!"😂 Maybe drop something & then say well I guess you can't fix clumsy.... Become the class clown 🤡 (oops that's just me, sorry)😂
Because the federal government funds the food program, and schools have to follow federal rules to the letter or risk getting the attention of the feds.
damn, story 4. Honestly I'm impressed by how kind the other students were! Teens can be pretty cruel sometimes, but it sounds like these kids were a nice bunch. Still strange to me how wigs were considered against the rules. I remember a few times in high school I wore brightly colored cosplay wigs for fun and never got in trouble for it. Different school different rules I suppose
#1 I have found that teenagers are pretty good about banding together for the serious things. Every time we have had a student suicide or death due to accident, or we have students with chronic or life-threatening diseases like diabetes, cancer, etc., I have seen them all come together and support each other. It is the dumb stuff they are cruel about. Most teens are capable of empathy and sympathy, they just save it for the big stuff. As for the wigs rule, pretty sure this was just a bully teacher using her position to bully a kid "who dares to stand out." 9 times out of 10 it doesn't matter what the wig looks like, so long as it is gang-affiliated or excessively offensive (i.e., like wearing a wig and teeny mustache like Hitler). What the kid doesn't realize is that the school let the teacher go because she was a walking liability against the school and district, or that she caused a settlement. There are actual clauses to these rules for this kind of situation.
@@SparDangerOh, definitely. But the situation was caused by a teacher who wanted to throw her weight around rather than be empathetic. Besides, I am sure there was documentation in the student portfolio saying she could wear one. Again, this was just a bully teacher.
I was expecting it to be a student or group of them that was picking on her. But no. All the students were cool and trying to give her a good memory of highschool. It probably meant everything to her that her classmates were so nice and supportive.
Story 3: long time service worker here. That pitmaster was making around 20 bucks an hour. So the savings of $150-225 a week with an added health hazard that could've gotten the place shut down. That manager didn't even look at money saved, he looked at the so-called "labor quotient" which functions a lot like WAR in baseball or QB rating in American football. Completely arbitrary in scale at that.
*First OP:* Moral of the story: Don't mess with the IT gu- wait, _what?_ *Second OP:* Looks like Bigsh1t Lawyer got "piped" by Mr. Grey, if you know what I mean. 😏 *Fourth OP:* It's nice that OP and his fellow classmates had that girl's back. A rare case when a teacher's power trip got her in trouble.
If a manager ever DOES know about r/maliciouscompliance, the conversation might go like this: Employee: "Sure thing boss. Can I get that in writing?" Manager: "No prob- wait, wait, wait... are you perhaps familiar with r/maliciouscompliance?" Employee: "Indeed I am." (Silence for a few seconds) Manager: "Now, I would like you to tell me in great detail how I am screwing myself over here. I'm all for learning from my mistakes, but it's probably better to learn before making the mistake." Yeaaaaaaa, probably not going to happen unless you have a manager that actually gives a f***.
I think its hysterical how many employers or customers simply do not understand the big, glowing neon threat flag that "can I have this in writing" actually is.
One of the reasons bosses don't notice that red flag is because they're too preoccupied with what they perceive as insubordination from an employee. By the time they _do,_ they've already metaphorically shot themselves in the foot.
I work in a lab. You're not allowed to have food or drink in a lab, for obvious reasons. However, my company just can't seem to keep the temperature in the lab consistent or livable, for some reason. It's so damn hot, and it's a lab, you're supposed to be wearing long pants, coats, gloves, and goggles, all day every day. Now, obviously, these facts necessitate frequent water breaks. Because no shit. But apparently, that was unacceptable to the company, we were taking too much time, no no, we had to clock out every time we went to get a drink of water, then clock back in when we get back (BTW, we, as scientists, timed it, and the average water break about about 107 seconds long). So basically they were saying that in order for us to leave on time and/or get our full 40 hrs a week in, we couldn't actually take any water breaks. I asked for that directive in writing. I still haven't received it. We continue to take our water breaks as needed, no clocking out.
15:00 As a former armored carrier, my agency instructed us to do as described. That is, park as close to the door even if that means blocking multiple handicap spots.
To be fair I was in Todd's place where people wanted me to do everything immediately without a ticket and then I was reamed for not meeting the KPI for tickets. So I did what Todd did - no ticket no problem. Happen to our CEO twice that he didn't have IT support because he didn't make a ticket. When I was reamed about it again I pointed out 3 things - my KPI (and raise) is tied to ticket numbers, two he reamed me for not getting tickets and three since I started getting all the tickets because I did jack all without it, it showed I worked for 2.5 people on 1 salary. I'm getting second person soon :)
Yeah... I work in IT aswell and like... I was fully on todds side (even if he was a bit of an ahole about it) until he stormed in. Until then he was just saying "do it by the book".
Big telco: That contract would be null and void because the one party was forced to sign under duress and would have an easy argument in court with that.
my moms a warrior for surviving ovarian cancer, however it damaged her more than it should have, and i mean mentally. shes now a pain in the ass to deal with. i suspect hormone inbalances or worse, trauma from the cancer (i was too young to remember that time and my dad wasn't a big help, but probably because she was a butt during it and kept calling into his work to take care of the kid, aka, me instead of having grandma hire a babysitter)
So here's the thing.. in the story regarding the IT guy, He didn't try to play "Don't mess with the IT guy." He tried playing the "Biggest club" game. OP laughed and showed he has the biggest club. and then beath the IT guy about the head and shoulders untill the IT guy submitted. I'd have done his schedule 7:30- 3:30.
The last story, I side with the armored truck. 1st: Armored trucks are usually hit durring a pickup stop. They need to be able to get out of there quick, which is why they will park in the firelane at super markets. 2nd: It's not easy to backup in these trucks as there's almost no visibility from behind. Meaning they could easily be ambushed if they're backing into or out of a parking spot.
Parking in a handicap is so deeply ingrained in my "off limits, you dont park there for any reason" brain rule book, that when my disabled grandmother parked there and we got out i started to freak out before realizing "oh wait... we are supposed to park here" I dont understand how other people can just do it and be entitled about it.
Story 4 : when going on a powertrip blows up in your face.... stupid stupid teacher.. Story 5 : trying to skirt the rules blows up in the dummies face.. The jerks boss : " handle it yourself" Op :" You sure about that"? The jerk and his boss :" No no no i got it i got it we will both leave"..
Story 1: Dont let your ego get to your head, IT Guy or whatever it is you are/do. Pain comes quickly, do it only when it matters, dont be lazy or selfish. Being Adjustable is healthy when you want to. it also helps when you can get others to help you. Which then brings you in a position of checking others than getting your ego rear checked.
First Story: Todd tried to pull a "don’t mess with an IT guy" and it completely backfired lmao. I mean that is hilarious Second Story: Lmao, Mr Grey costed these people the color of a pipe because of a technicality. I mean they aren’t Big telco anymore so that contract doesn’t abide by them anymore. This is my people should always thoroughly read a contract Third Story: Lmao this GM wanted to be cheap and cut hours only for it to cause her to get chewed out by her boss. She should’ve read the red flag when OP asked for it in writing Fourth Story: Teachers who uses whatever clothing as an excuse to enforce some bs rule are trash. Funny how she was trying to say the girl's wig was a distraction but yet she kept staring at her scars Fifth Story: People who park in handicap spots with no handicap are selfish scum. This guy is even more of a dick for parking over 3 spots at once; this prick can have fun with those tickets Comment: Three strikes and he is out lmao
@@xKCAZxLEADER Yeah the joke isn't funny anymore since you updated your comment from "First Story:", but now you actually do have a good take on the story so it worked out!
I have worked with a few teachers from #3. They will use everything they can to bully students and colleagues. The first is Teacher Dearest. She used the "I'm just being honest" tactic all the time with everyone, and abused it relentlessly. She would yell at the students and the other teachers. The kids either hated, feared or hated and feared her. Teachers who had been there awhile were beaten down. As a whole, we avoided her or tried to ignore her. I gray-walled her constantly. One story about Teacher Dearest: I had a student have a panic attack in my room because she was having a bad day due to home-life and reflexively called Teacher Dearest a b**** and to f*** off. When the student realized what she did, she ran away and ended up in my room. She told me everything, including her home situation, and I told her I would handle it. My email got to the principal first, and she mediated it with Teacher Dearest and the student. Another involved me directly. Like I said, I was really good about gray-walling, letting it roll off my back, and just smiling and waving. The one time she fully crossed the line in the sand changed everything between us. Not to get into too much detail, but I was having a rough morning and she tried to yell at me for something out of my control. What she didn't expect--because no one every did--was for me to come back at her. And I didn't just come back at her, I gave her a dressing down within professional parameters--I did to her what she did to us. She cried to the principal, who gave me a finger wag in public and a high-five behind doors. She is now retired. The second is Erica Cartman. This teacher is also universally disliked by everyone. In the first month of school, she requested two students to be removed from her class. One of the two kids was actually a protected class, but he was moved as much for his betterment. The students never have anything nice to say about her. She isn't afraid to talk crap about other teachers to the students, and claim falsehoods against us (i.e., she told the kids I lied to them about something that I never would lie about; I don't lie to my students as a rule (if I can help it), but this was something that lying to them would not gain anything for me and is, thusly, a waste of effort and energy; it was also something I have data to back up my assertion). She had to teach a group of students from a protected class one year, and was openly intolerant/borderline hostile to them when teaching them and when talking to other people about them. She is good at getting up on the termination line, but not crossing it. She also "tattles" and cries to admin about things that could and should be handled in house (i.e., telling admin teachers are telling her what to do (when they aren't) instead of talking to the teacher like an adult). I have many more, but these are two that stand out.
I owned a coffee shop where we roasted our own coffee. I've been a parish pastor for 30 years. I hold a doctorate. I've cooked some in-home BBQ. One doesn't stop until the work is finished. I've never been paid overtime, but I sure have worked my tail off for weeks and months. Don't mess with the pitmaster.
I actually have a recommendation for the girl. There's some costume SFX cosmetics that can allow the wig to stay on her head so she could tell the teacher it won't come off, if the teacher tries to tell her to take it off. You can give it quite a tug without it budging but it'll come off easily with a little water, and not even from a shower so she doesn't get her head wet. Teacher can't do shit if the wig won't come off and it's not very easy to change the color if it's a color that violates her special rules.
Story 4: There are three types of teachers. 1. Teachers who GENUINELY and SINCERELY love the kids and want the best for them. 2. Teachers who are BULLIES and BUTTHOLES who get off on the power dynamic created in the profession. 3. Teachers who are in it as a second career and have yet to determine if they are type 1 or 2. As for rules, these "rules" are laid out by the district as dictated by the liability insurance lawyers they pay, and are more cryptic than ancient languages were before the Rosetta Stone was discovered. A lot of times, they are dumb as dirt and the result of some other legal blunder in an entirely different state. I.e., some dumb kid somewhere decided to steal a box cutter from some place in a school and use it as it wasn't intended, which resulted in some family getting a huge settlement from the school district. As a result, many school districts have banned them (though no one knows about the rule until something happens). Dress code is the worst! Everything is super vague and generalized with no guidance from the district. When teachers ask admin for clarification, they say they will get back to you. So, admin contacts the district who don't know the specifics and have to get to the right people. Finally, two or three days later, a resolution comes back down the pipes from the district to admin that basically says, "we don't know if that really falls under the rule, so just make your best judgement call." So, admin tells the teachers either a decision admin makes on the issue or tells the teachers the same thing the district told them or tells the teachers to ignore that issue. As a teacher, I absolutely refuse to dress code students unless it is something blatant, and even then I get admin to handle it. If you come in and your shorts are 4.5 inches instead of 5 or your shirt barely shows your mid-drift or your graphic tee is toeing the line or your pants are just a little too low, then it isn't worth the battle. If it is excessive, I get another person and we tell admin and let them deal with it.
I asked my old store manager and district manager to get it in writing they were asking me to step off the shift and I wouldn’t be scheduled until further notice because my accommodations were NEVER put in 2 years ago when I notified the store and district. They said “yes” long story short, the district manager was told to step down or quit because. I was paid as if I worked for 2 months until everything cleared. They should have placed me under temp accommodations, not make me leave 😊 so I got to stay home for 2 months with full pay
Story 1: Honestly, Todd didn't do anything bad. If there is a process people should follow it and not pull crap like calling IT on the personal phone all the time. If you know you have a VIP attending just be preemptive about it and let the IT know at least a few days before hand and all issues would've been avoided. In this case i think the organizer was the Ahole.
Story one I’m just thinking how does this guy have a job. Yeah I’m not a huge fan of immediately dropping what I’m doing to help fix a problem. But I still do it because that’s what I’m being paid to do 😂
The thing that bothered Todd was that he was being expected to start his job early. I don't blame him for that since that's the starting point for how some employers dupe their employees into doing extra work for no extra pay. But he didn't need to be an ass about it.
Story 4: That teacher didn't handle that very well. The appropriate response would be something like this: "I understand that you have a condition, but the rules state... blah, blah, blah (state the actual rule so it is clear). I will take this up with the principal to see if I can get you an exemption. Until then, unfortunately, it has to come off." I mean it's the whole "the teacher is worried about me not having a pencil" thing.
As an IT guy, I would have fired that first guy. One on the first skills you learn in IT is to identify when you need a ticket or when you don't and can create it afterwards. This guy never learned that lesson.
That first story: his start time should have always been 7:30. It IS annoying go walk into crisis and its incredibly common to want to ease into your day. 7:30 from the start would have avoided this drama from the get go.
Rule #1 - Don't mess with the IT guy (unless they're the butthole) Rule #2 - When you get stupid orders, get them in writing Rule #3 - Don't F around with handicap parking spaces, because you'll find out
First Story: I don't get how OP pulled this off. Clearly this never got to any of the Corporate Higher Ups, because there is a reason certain positions have the ability to prerequest tickets. I'm not saying Bob shouldn't have been better at his job, but OP definitely jumped through some hoops in order to make this happen. The CEOs tickets come at priority for obvious reasons, and what OP did here might interfere with the plan Corporate had. That would cause Bobs highest to have to reschedule Bob and coordinate with all other relevant teams just to fix the mess OP made to stick it to the IT guy.
Normal people would think that two previous complaints from the public would give that driver a bit on a heads up. I'm pretty sure that he was told and/or given a last chance notice in writing about taking up handicap parking spots with a big sticker of the company name on the side of the truck.
i thankfully don't have a lot of experiences with lawyers, but it's always those unassuming, "grey"-looking people who are usually the best at their job, and bloody terrifying when pissed
This was like 20 years ago, so I forget the exact number, but I saw a huge bus parked across 5-6 Handicapped Spaces at a hotel. I told the person at the front desk and they were all, "Oh, they have permission." and my first thought was "No they fukkin' don't, you just don't want to deal with it!" However, I didn't want the people I told this story on the internet to in 20 years to call me a Karen so I dropped it.
I'm in IT, and I have worked in education, and my name is Todd. I'm behind Todd in that story. ALLWAYS put in a ticket. You can call me if it's an emergency. I'm happy to help, but I STILL want a ticket for my documentation. Also, education support is...special. Many teachers tend to be poorly prepared for life. About half have a superiority complex and look down their noses at anyone without a masters. I've never worked anywhere with more abusive coworkers. The other half were the best people I've ever worked with. Presentations were particularly annoying. My rule was that they needed to be there 15 minutes ahead of time to test their computers and presentations. The mac users were the most frustrating. They rarely remembered their nessisary DisplayPort to VGA or HDMI adapters. The same adapters they would need every time, yet they couldn't bother to keep track of.
#4: My job involves security checks for government ID. We're given very specific instructions about how to approach people who are wearing head covering. In theory, anything non-religious must be taken off, but in practice we have a bit of discretion as long as certain criteria are met. It's sad that someone with a 4-year degree and a teaching certificate has less ability to be flexible than I do. #6: Even if the parking job hadn't gotten the guy fired, the hand gesture would have. When you're in uniform, you represent the company. This is the same reason you can be fired for wearing your uniform to a private party: pictures will exist of you do things that don't fit company guideline and there's no way to prove to customers that you were on your own time.
i call BS on the first Story! 1. Most it-support works over tickets. The it support is actually often prohibited from doing anything without one. 2. If you have one guy to call for a whole uni than he would probably have 50 calls when the day starts. 3. As if the Dean didn`t have his assistants call tech support in advance ... and if not than its not the IT guys problem. 4. Sure he changed the IT guys work time out of his contracted time blablabla. 5. What really happend: Some Asshead is angry that the new IT support didnt fly to his stupid needs like the old one did. Tryed to force the IT guy to hurry up and now has to wait days to get help because he is the only one who has to use the ticket system since he annoyed the it guy. He tryed to complain at to the it guys boss but didnt even get him on the line and now he tells his heroic story here!
Story 1: Just gonna say. If a an IT guy is pulling this shit, I would just get him fired. He is explicitly hurting the company, if this is in the US, there’s not even a wrongful termination lawsuit there. Story 3 Postscript: While I agree it can be a warning sign to bad bosses, if your workload is renegotiated in any way, get it in writing. Story 4: Dress code. That’s the rule. The hair likely violates the dress code, as it could be classified as a ‘distraction.’ Now, that’s bullshit, but school dress codes have a habit of suspending teenage girls for exposed shoulders.
Armored car employees don't have a good reputation of intelligence... I used to repair ATMs and a good 20-30% of the faults I felt with were CIT-inflicted (Cash In Transit). These ranged from not cutting off the bands that hold bills together, cutting the bills so they jam the dispensers, physically damaging the machines, to one time leaving the ATM vault unlocked at a parking lot kiosk. I also heard from a coworker a time when the CIT perssonel not only didn't cut off the bill bands, they also left the bills in a plastic bag when loading the dispenser.
There were a few times at work I didn't have to ask to get something in writing, but I'd draw out a nice long "Are you suuuuure you want me to do that??", and the message would be received: rethink that.
Story 1 just sounds like OP is a total a-hole. OP pulled up the job descriptions. OP whines about 5 or 10 minutes late, that's life. OP sounds pushy and demanding, Todd sounds like he was trying to catch a break. OP pulled the rules and regulations bs, Todd reciprocated. Then OP therew a fit and went full on a-hole.
Last story. I dont know in USA but in my country armored vans can park in the closest place to the pickup place doesnt matter if it is on handicap spaces or blocking completely the sidewalk. Guards security is more important than your comfort.
malicious compliant against malicious compliance just made me horrible day so much brighter. so glad my favorite sub is back with my favorite reddit reader :]
Story 1: IIRC, Uno has a rule where you can only play a Draw Four card if you have nothing else you can play, and if you suspect they could have played something else, you can try and call them out, and if they were lying, they draw 6 cards and the Draw Four is nullified. So therefore, Todd was not allowed to play his "Don't Mess With the IT Guy" card, and OP called him out for it.
For story 4, I had at my school a teacher who burdened the students with crazy amounts of detention and excused it with that "he was just enforcing the rules", but one of the students parents were (still is) a lawyer and at one point confronted the teacher (with the principal standiing next to them) to show them, IN THE SCHOOLS RULE BOOK, what rules were being broken, turned out the teacher was juse on a power trip and made up a bunch of rules, got fired by the end of the year.
No company can tell someone that their firing an employee. They just say something like, "this will be handled" or something along those lines. Maybe in other countries? But that's an HR no no here!
The 'real' IT guys are always ready for a problem. It's the routine crap they hate and are happy to pass that off to the people who have to read instructions to fix things. (I write the instructions for the common things that are predictable.) I make my living being 'that guy' when something happens no one else understands. Oh, and this Todd guy would last less than a week where I work. My boss would send him down the road pretty quickly with that kind of attitude. It is usually a bad thing to mess with the IT guy, but Todd doesn't really fit that.
There was a kid in my nightschool homeroom that had to get a lot of Brain surgery’s and wore a hat through night school .I felt terrible for him bc we had a lot of subs after our teacher got into an a accident and each asked him to remove his hat until promptly letting him know he can put it back on seconds later
DON'T violate handicapped parking. I and many I know will call it in. And more than one cop I've talked reports being happy to take parking enforcement long enough to handle the call. I'm just sorry they don't tow in my state.
I have memory issues due to adhd, and self confidence issues due to how my adhd was handled. The result is, I try to get everything, even the least consequential things in writing, just to prove to myself that I'm not lying. For some wierd reason, people telling me that I don't need something in writing make me nervous.
Pit master story: She did that over AN HOUR AND A HALF OF WORK?! That could have been a MAJOR health violation and cost them a whole lot more than just his wages and the background employer's cost for having him work and extra hours and a half. What a moron.
Usually...you don't mess with the IT guy. This is one of the rare cases where IT guy played themself.
If you're going to play by the rules, be sure to read _all_ of them, and not just the ones that'll benefit you.
Benny: “The game was fixed from the start”
Intelligence and wisdom are 2 separate things
He would have won but, like the idiot he is, he smugly bragged to her about the loophole.
@@FreedomHero4 As a D&D player and DM, I agree.
Things we have learned from Rslash:
1) If someone says "Are you sure?" Question your choices.
2) If someone says "Can I get that in writing?" Stop and think.
3) Don't mess with the IT guy (except for Todd).
Don't mess with the IT person _unless they're being a dick._ Todd was definitely one of those.
When I hear Todd, it reminds me of a George Carlin bit about boys names. "What's your name?" "Tooodd"
In the 1st scenario, I would have asked for an explaination. If they are asking me "Are you sure?" about something, there would always be a reason for it. Basic logic and reasoning is enough to convince me into reversing a decision I've had about something.
@@spinalobifida I always remember the early SNL skit. 😂
4) NEVER cut down someone else's tree
Story 2: So basically, Big/New Telco being anticompetitive and trying to hoard a specific pipe like a dragon, followed by using a name change to run away from the consequences of their practices, lead to the contract being used against them and losing said pipe. Grey is a hero
They didn't think this through. Hope the hotshot learned his lesson
It's corporate; they have more money than sense. XD
One common thing is that a bad lawyer doesn’t know when to quit and over-litigates everything, they focus so much on winning the case that they ignore when it’s actually much better to settle and you know actually care about the client’s interests. A good lawyer knows when it’s actually better to settle rather than try to win the whole case. Sometimes those type of lawyers just want the ego trip of crushing their opponents beneath them, or something.
I would not at all be surprised if the company in question was Comcast/Xfinity
It was Qwest/CenturyLink.
@@QuailRocks Right they're so focused on small victories they lose sight of the bigger picture and lose the war.
I LOVE the story about the girl with cancer. She was so petty. (You know her saying "I don't want to distract my classmates" was dripping with sarcasm.) And the fact that her classmates were backing her up is absolutely AMAZING. You would think the teacher would have known about her situation though.
one thing i learned about teachers back in public school, is during PTA meetings, unless they royally screw up, its always in 1 ear, and out the other ear, then they go into "fuck you kid" mode once the parents leave.
i was autistic, but nobody knew i was autistic, or even what autism was, so everyone simply learned that i was named "anthony", and my aunt was a teacher. (my aunt denies me ever being diagnosed with autism. funny.)
Story 2: Mr. Grey finishing up that whole thing with ‘we’re releasing this pipe that we legally have sole ownership of to the public domain’ is a freaking badass move worthy of him putting on sunglasses while not looking at the explosion he just caused. 😂😎
All the while spewing out the classic line, "Yippee ki-yay, MF!"
Story 3: That manager fell victim to one of the classic blunders: beware when someone asks for your stupid orders in writing.
I always say that someone responding to your orders with "Can I get that in writing?" is like the DM responding to your ideas with "Are you sure you wanna do that?"
“Can I get that in writing” should’ve been a warning “you’re about to do something incredibly stupid, are you SURE?”
"Are you sure? OK / Cancel"
They never see their orders as stupid until it eventually blows up in their face.
I've heard many times, not to mess with the IT person. In OP's case, Todd had it coming. There are knuckleheads in every profession.
And a sexist knucklehead at that. Todd must really think he’s irreplaceable.
That was definitely a rarity. It is as rare as the HOA actually being on the OP's side in this channel. The best part is that he heard the IT's malicious compliance, then returns it with a malicious compliance. Usually, IT people are a lot smarter and will win. This is a good example of bad IT people ended up losing to the OP.
Story 1: it’s a little known fact the “Don’t Mess With IT” has a clause where being an asshole voids your protection
Story 2: who would have guessed using shading tactics and being manipulative jerks would bite someone in the ass later
"She quit a month later" oh you sweet summer child. I was a special needs student so allow me to shed some light. While this woman did quit, it was most likely not of her own volition. "But isn't that just getting fired?" Yes and no, schools don't like firing teachers because they think it'll hurt their funding... but they also don't like lawsuits. So when a teacher messed up and does something that could cause a lawsuit, like discriminate against a disabled or special needs student, the principal, super intendant and potentially a lawyer depending on the incident will have several meetings with the offending teacher to "suggest" they quit, relocate to a different school in the district, change grade or have an "early retirement".
This is exactly what happened. The principal saw the writing on the wall. The only reason it took a month was because they were quietly finding her replacement.
My friend's ex- boyfriend's daughter was special needs and went to a school that specialized in students with special needs. The ex went to pick up his daughter early for a doctor's appointment and him and his teacher found his daughter face down in a beanbag chair and was unresponsive to them. His daughter died the next day and that school fired that teacher before the school day ended. She had not once checked on her all day and she could of survived if the teacher didn't neglect her students and this student was not the first student to be hurt under her care.
@@suzyboyleanderson6945i hope she never works anywhere ever! Literally no industry involving people
@@suzyboyleanderson6945 Sounds like grounds to sue the school and/or the teacher and press charges against the teacher for negligent homicide......I know I would have!
@@19TheFallen he took the teacher, school and the school board to court and won a hefty sum and he used some of the money to bury his daughter and donate the rest to charity
When a competent lawyer tells you to sign an 'unfair' contract, you know he has something up his sleeve. Gotta love contract legalese that screws over a-holes.
Story 3: What was the manager expecting? OP can't rush the cleaning process, so of course taking 90 minutes off would mess up everything
I think the manager was expecting OP to clock out and then work 90 minutes unpaid to finish the job.
@@hyzmarca2737 That's illegal since OP would be owed overtime.
@@silverflight01 Like that stops them. Right before COVID, my partner worked for a company that had trouble keeping employees because of minimum wage pay and mediocre working conditions and constant supply issues. Ultimately, it was the horrible owners that were causing all their problems. They wanted to make their bottom line as fat as possible and cut costs everywhere they could. My partner was robbed of more wages than we really know, and had it in writing the owners wanted people to not clock in, but still work. My partner also had it in writing that he should have been getting paid as a manager, but never did. I have begged him over and over to report them to the department of labor. But the owners were smart and did everything through the then DM (no longer there) and the GM of all four stores (now the DM), and he really doesn't want to screw over the GM because she was actually a really wonderful woman in a really bad spot. And, if he reports it, it will screw over all the new employees that are there. It disgusts me that they are going to get away with it, but I get why he won't.
I worked someplace that expected a task done in 15 minutes. I took longer so the product would thaw and be easier to work with. Prep work was always done on time or earlier, but when they wanted to get rid of me, they stood there with a timer.
@@silverflight01 Do you think the manager cares about the law? She certainly didn't care about food safety law, i don't see why she would care about labor law.
Story 4: A lot of student handbooks and schools have restrictions on hair and clothes like you wouldn't believe. But at the end of the day, it's often the district people that suggest/pass the rules while it is up to the schools to enforce them. At my school, hats are specifically prohibited, but very few teachers care unless it's for official school photos. Deliveries are prohibited, but it's unenforced as long as you have it go through the rear parking lot across the street from the McDonalds and don't bother the front office people with it.
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It’s against policy for students to sell or buy things on campus at my old high school. Teachers always turned a blind eye to it until one kid’s entrepreneurship got a little too popular. He was selling sandwiches out of his backpack lol.
@@the_rachel_sam Yep. Their contracts with the school lunch provider prohibits others from selling food on campus. We have plenty of that as well including cookies, brownies, and even just chips from the 7/11 down the street.
Instead of saying "I don't want to distract my classmates" after a few minutes, she should have said: "Oh Teacher You Are Right, I think I am much smarter, my hearing is greatly improved & I have much more energy & stamina without the wig on!"😂 Maybe drop something & then say well I guess you can't fix clumsy.... Become the class clown 🤡 (oops that's just me, sorry)😂
Because the federal government funds the food program, and schools have to follow federal rules to the letter or risk getting the attention of the feds.
damn, story 4. Honestly I'm impressed by how kind the other students were! Teens can be pretty cruel sometimes, but it sounds like these kids were a nice bunch. Still strange to me how wigs were considered against the rules. I remember a few times in high school I wore brightly colored cosplay wigs for fun and never got in trouble for it. Different school different rules I suppose
#1 I have found that teenagers are pretty good about banding together for the serious things. Every time we have had a student suicide or death due to accident, or we have students with chronic or life-threatening diseases like diabetes, cancer, etc., I have seen them all come together and support each other. It is the dumb stuff they are cruel about. Most teens are capable of empathy and sympathy, they just save it for the big stuff. As for the wigs rule, pretty sure this was just a bully teacher using her position to bully a kid "who dares to stand out." 9 times out of 10 it doesn't matter what the wig looks like, so long as it is gang-affiliated or excessively offensive (i.e., like wearing a wig and teeny mustache like Hitler).
What the kid doesn't realize is that the school let the teacher go because she was a walking liability against the school and district, or that she caused a settlement. There are actual clauses to these rules for this kind of situation.
Probably a rule against head-wear. Like hats, wigs and whatnot.
@@SparDangerOh, definitely. But the situation was caused by a teacher who wanted to throw her weight around rather than be empathetic. Besides, I am sure there was documentation in the student portfolio saying she could wear one. Again, this was just a bully teacher.
@@CSKaras Totally agree with you.
I was expecting it to be a student or group of them that was picking on her. But no. All the students were cool and trying to give her a good memory of highschool.
It probably meant everything to her that her classmates were so nice and supportive.
Todd: “We do it by the books!”
Op: “So you want your pink slip now or in 15 minutes?”
Todd: I play Malicious Compliance
OP: Reverse back to you
Todd: This wasn't supposed to happen.
Story 3: long time service worker here. That pitmaster was making around 20 bucks an hour. So the savings of $150-225 a week with an added health hazard that could've gotten the place shut down. That manager didn't even look at money saved, he looked at the so-called "labor quotient" which functions a lot like WAR in baseball or QB rating in American football. Completely arbitrary in scale at that.
Penny wise, dollar foolish.
Words to fear:
"Are you sure?"
"Do you REALLY want to do that?"
"Can I get that in writing?"
An employee saying "can I get that in writing?" is like a DM saying "are you sure you wanna do that?"
This is the second time we've had a "malicious compliance your malicious compliance" story and I'm here for them lol
Todd: "Don't mess with the IT guy!"
OP: **Messes with the IT guy**
Todd: "You weren't supposed to do that"
Methinks that the rule should be rewritten as, "Don't mess with the IT person unless they were being a dick to you."
"This isn't how you were supposed to play the game!"
OP:*Defeats the IT guy*
rSlash:He is too dangerous to be left alive!
1. Parking in a handicap
2. Parking in 2 parking spaces
3. Parking in a handicap
4. Parking in 3 parking spaces
5. Parking in a handicap
Story 2: As a law school graduate as soon as he said that the company changed their name I started laughing 😂
"This was an unfair fight. All of you versus me. Next time, bring more and smarter lawyers."
Holy fucking shit the man went full fucking Doomguy.
Story 1: Just tell "Todd" that if an admin could do it then his job was redundant, that's a scary word in I.T. due to how flooded the job market is.
Flooded Job Market IT and Not Something complicated but IT Support. Dude He probably would have a new Job the day He would get fired.
*First OP:* Moral of the story: Don't mess with the IT gu- wait, _what?_
*Second OP:* Looks like Bigsh1t Lawyer got "piped" by Mr. Grey, if you know what I mean. 😏
*Fourth OP:* It's nice that OP and his fellow classmates had that girl's back. A rare case when a teacher's power trip got her in trouble.
I was wondering if anyone would make a “laying pipe” joke lol
If a manager ever DOES know about r/maliciouscompliance, the conversation might go like this:
Employee: "Sure thing boss. Can I get that in writing?"
Manager: "No prob- wait, wait, wait... are you perhaps familiar with r/maliciouscompliance?"
Employee: "Indeed I am." (Silence for a few seconds)
Manager: "Now, I would like you to tell me in great detail how I am screwing myself over here. I'm all for learning from my mistakes, but it's probably better to learn before making the mistake."
Yeaaaaaaa, probably not going to happen unless you have a manager that actually gives a f***.
I think its hysterical how many employers or customers simply do not understand the big, glowing neon threat flag that "can I have this in writing" actually is.
One of the reasons bosses don't notice that red flag is because they're too preoccupied with what they perceive as insubordination from an employee. By the time they _do,_ they've already metaphorically shot themselves in the foot.
Can't believe RSlash even has to censor the word shot in bigshot 6:30
TH-cam sucks beyond belief
I work in a lab. You're not allowed to have food or drink in a lab, for obvious reasons. However, my company just can't seem to keep the temperature in the lab consistent or livable, for some reason. It's so damn hot, and it's a lab, you're supposed to be wearing long pants, coats, gloves, and goggles, all day every day. Now, obviously, these facts necessitate frequent water breaks. Because no shit. But apparently, that was unacceptable to the company, we were taking too much time, no no, we had to clock out every time we went to get a drink of water, then clock back in when we get back (BTW, we, as scientists, timed it, and the average water break about about 107 seconds long). So basically they were saying that in order for us to leave on time and/or get our full 40 hrs a week in, we couldn't actually take any water breaks.
I asked for that directive in writing.
I still haven't received it.
We continue to take our water breaks as needed, no clocking out.
15:00 As a former armored carrier, my agency instructed us to do as described. That is, park as close to the door even if that means blocking multiple handicap spots.
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To be fair I was in Todd's place where people wanted me to do everything immediately without a ticket and then I was reamed for not meeting the KPI for tickets. So I did what Todd did - no ticket no problem. Happen to our CEO twice that he didn't have IT support because he didn't make a ticket. When I was reamed about it again I pointed out 3 things - my KPI (and raise) is tied to ticket numbers, two he reamed me for not getting tickets and three since I started getting all the tickets because I did jack all without it, it showed I worked for 2.5 people on 1 salary. I'm getting second person soon :)
Yeah... I work in IT aswell and like... I was fully on todds side (even if he was a bit of an ahole about it) until he stormed in. Until then he was just saying "do it by the book".
Big telco: That contract would be null and void because the one party was forced to sign under duress and would have an easy argument in court with that.
To those who have cancer and/or survived it, you're a true warrior!
my moms a warrior for surviving ovarian cancer, however it damaged her more than it should have, and i mean mentally. shes now a pain in the ass to deal with. i suspect hormone inbalances or worse, trauma from the cancer (i was too young to remember that time and my dad wasn't a big help, but probably because she was a butt during it and kept calling into his work to take care of the kid, aka, me instead of having grandma hire a babysitter)
@@Zeakthecat So sorry you had it rough with your mother afterwards. But, sending love to you both💜
@@misshatfield7334 thanks. i hope she recovers mentally from the ordeal
@@Zeakthecat would you like it if I prayed for her?
@@misshatfield7334 you are very welcome to do so.
So here's the thing.. in the story regarding the IT guy, He didn't try to play "Don't mess with the IT guy." He tried playing the "Biggest club" game. OP laughed and showed he has the biggest club. and then beath the IT guy about the head and shoulders untill the IT guy submitted. I'd have done his schedule 7:30- 3:30.
Malicious compliance is by far my favorite posts! Awesome stories as usual!
Same here. But I wish rSlash would do some more TalesFromTechSupport, those are always nice too.
The last story, I side with the armored truck.
1st: Armored trucks are usually hit durring a pickup stop. They need to be able to get out of there quick, which is why they will park in the firelane at super markets.
2nd: It's not easy to backup in these trucks as there's almost no visibility from behind. Meaning they could easily be ambushed if they're backing into or out of a parking spot.
Parking in a handicap is so deeply ingrained in my "off limits, you dont park there for any reason" brain rule book, that when my disabled grandmother parked there and we got out i started to freak out before realizing "oh wait... we are supposed to park here"
I dont understand how other people can just do it and be entitled about it.
You answered your own question with the E-word. Entitlement trumps common sense/logic.
Story 4 : when going on a powertrip blows up in your face.... stupid stupid teacher..
Story 5 : trying to skirt the rules blows up in the dummies face..
The jerks boss : " handle it yourself"
Op :" You sure about that"?
The jerk and his boss :" No no no i got it i got it we will both leave"..
Story 1: Todd really screwed himself with that one. He literally gave OP the answer how to fix the MC😂😂😂
Story 1:
Dont let your ego get to your head, IT Guy or whatever it is you are/do.
Pain comes quickly, do it only when it matters, dont be lazy or selfish. Being Adjustable is healthy when you want to. it also helps when you can get others to help you. Which then brings you in a position of checking others than getting your ego rear checked.
"A few years later Big Telco has to have a name change--" Uh-oh. I see where this is going~
My first thought was illegal phoenix activity, but Mr. Grey got them with the downside of rebranding.
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10:16 - That's cold man, his life is grey not because he's old, but because he's so bad*ss that the only color worthy for him is grey
First Story: Todd tried to pull a "don’t mess with an IT guy" and it completely backfired lmao. I mean that is hilarious
Second Story: Lmao, Mr Grey costed these people the color of a pipe because of a technicality. I mean they aren’t Big telco anymore so that contract doesn’t abide by them anymore. This is my people should always thoroughly read a contract
Third Story: Lmao this GM wanted to be cheap and cut hours only for it to cause her to get chewed out by her boss. She should’ve read the red flag when OP asked for it in writing
Fourth Story: Teachers who uses whatever clothing as an excuse to enforce some bs rule are trash. Funny how she was trying to say the girl's wig was a distraction but yet she kept staring at her scars
Fifth Story: People who park in handicap spots with no handicap are selfish scum. This guy is even more of a dick for parking over 3 spots at once; this prick can have fun with those tickets
Comment: Three strikes and he is out lmao
What a good take on the story!
@@francescaperron2003what an interesting comment 🤩
@@xKCAZxLEADER Yeah the joke isn't funny anymore since you updated your comment from "First Story:", but now you actually do have a good take on the story so it worked out!
@@francescaperron2003lmao
I have worked with a few teachers from #3. They will use everything they can to bully students and colleagues.
The first is Teacher Dearest. She used the "I'm just being honest" tactic all the time with everyone, and abused it relentlessly. She would yell at the students and the other teachers. The kids either hated, feared or hated and feared her. Teachers who had been there awhile were beaten down. As a whole, we avoided her or tried to ignore her. I gray-walled her constantly. One story about Teacher Dearest: I had a student have a panic attack in my room because she was having a bad day due to home-life and reflexively called Teacher Dearest a b**** and to f*** off. When the student realized what she did, she ran away and ended up in my room. She told me everything, including her home situation, and I told her I would handle it. My email got to the principal first, and she mediated it with Teacher Dearest and the student. Another involved me directly. Like I said, I was really good about gray-walling, letting it roll off my back, and just smiling and waving. The one time she fully crossed the line in the sand changed everything between us. Not to get into too much detail, but I was having a rough morning and she tried to yell at me for something out of my control. What she didn't expect--because no one every did--was for me to come back at her. And I didn't just come back at her, I gave her a dressing down within professional parameters--I did to her what she did to us. She cried to the principal, who gave me a finger wag in public and a high-five behind doors. She is now retired.
The second is Erica Cartman. This teacher is also universally disliked by everyone. In the first month of school, she requested two students to be removed from her class. One of the two kids was actually a protected class, but he was moved as much for his betterment. The students never have anything nice to say about her. She isn't afraid to talk crap about other teachers to the students, and claim falsehoods against us (i.e., she told the kids I lied to them about something that I never would lie about; I don't lie to my students as a rule (if I can help it), but this was something that lying to them would not gain anything for me and is, thusly, a waste of effort and energy; it was also something I have data to back up my assertion). She had to teach a group of students from a protected class one year, and was openly intolerant/borderline hostile to them when teaching them and when talking to other people about them. She is good at getting up on the termination line, but not crossing it. She also "tattles" and cries to admin about things that could and should be handled in house (i.e., telling admin teachers are telling her what to do (when they aren't) instead of talking to the teacher like an adult).
I have many more, but these are two that stand out.
I owned a coffee shop where we roasted our own coffee. I've been a parish pastor for 30 years. I hold a doctorate. I've cooked some in-home BBQ. One doesn't stop until the work is finished. I've never been paid overtime, but I sure have worked my tail off for weeks and months. Don't mess with the pitmaster.
I actually have a recommendation for the girl. There's some costume SFX cosmetics that can allow the wig to stay on her head so she could tell the teacher it won't come off, if the teacher tries to tell her to take it off. You can give it quite a tug without it budging but it'll come off easily with a little water, and not even from a shower so she doesn't get her head wet. Teacher can't do shit if the wig won't come off and it's not very easy to change the color if it's a color that violates her special rules.
Story 4: There are three types of teachers. 1. Teachers who GENUINELY and SINCERELY love the kids and want the best for them. 2. Teachers who are BULLIES and BUTTHOLES who get off on the power dynamic created in the profession. 3. Teachers who are in it as a second career and have yet to determine if they are type 1 or 2.
As for rules, these "rules" are laid out by the district as dictated by the liability insurance lawyers they pay, and are more cryptic than ancient languages were before the Rosetta Stone was discovered. A lot of times, they are dumb as dirt and the result of some other legal blunder in an entirely different state. I.e., some dumb kid somewhere decided to steal a box cutter from some place in a school and use it as it wasn't intended, which resulted in some family getting a huge settlement from the school district. As a result, many school districts have banned them (though no one knows about the rule until something happens).
Dress code is the worst! Everything is super vague and generalized with no guidance from the district. When teachers ask admin for clarification, they say they will get back to you. So, admin contacts the district who don't know the specifics and have to get to the right people. Finally, two or three days later, a resolution comes back down the pipes from the district to admin that basically says, "we don't know if that really falls under the rule, so just make your best judgement call." So, admin tells the teachers either a decision admin makes on the issue or tells the teachers the same thing the district told them or tells the teachers to ignore that issue. As a teacher, I absolutely refuse to dress code students unless it is something blatant, and even then I get admin to handle it. If you come in and your shorts are 4.5 inches instead of 5 or your shirt barely shows your mid-drift or your graphic tee is toeing the line or your pants are just a little too low, then it isn't worth the battle. If it is excessive, I get another person and we tell admin and let them deal with it.
I asked my old store manager and district manager to get it in writing they were asking me to step off the shift and I wouldn’t be scheduled until further notice because my accommodations were NEVER put in 2 years ago when I notified the store and district. They said “yes” long story short, the district manager was told to step down or quit because. I was paid as if I worked for 2 months until everything cleared. They should have placed me under temp accommodations, not make me leave 😊 so I got to stay home for 2 months with full pay
i knew exactly where that Telco story was going when Mr. Grey agreed to sign it lol. "They're gonna rebrand and hes gonna get payback"
Last story.... Armored car drivers had a serious FAFO moment! Laws are in place for a reason. 😎👍
That teacher in the 4th story should've been fired and banned from teaching.
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Story 1: Honestly, Todd didn't do anything bad. If there is a process people should follow it and not pull crap like calling IT on the personal phone all the time. If you know you have a VIP attending just be preemptive about it and let the IT know at least a few days before hand and all issues would've been avoided. In this case i think the organizer was the Ahole.
Story one I’m just thinking how does this guy have a job. Yeah I’m not a huge fan of immediately dropping what I’m doing to help fix a problem. But I still do it because that’s what I’m being paid to do 😂
The thing that bothered Todd was that he was being expected to start his job early. I don't blame him for that since that's the starting point for how some employers dupe their employees into doing extra work for no extra pay. But he didn't need to be an ass about it.
Story 4: That teacher didn't handle that very well. The appropriate response would be something like this: "I understand that you have a condition, but the rules state... blah, blah, blah (state the actual rule so it is clear). I will take this up with the principal to see if I can get you an exemption. Until then, unfortunately, it has to come off."
I mean it's the whole "the teacher is worried about me not having a pencil" thing.
I don't think this teacher even listened enough to hear the kids say that she had a condition
@@breezy3392 Yeah. That's the feeling I got too.
As an IT guy, I would have fired that first guy. One on the first skills you learn in IT is to identify when you need a ticket or when you don't and can create it afterwards. This guy never learned that lesson.
That first story: his start time should have always been 7:30. It IS annoying go walk into crisis and its incredibly common to want to ease into your day. 7:30 from the start would have avoided this drama from the get go.
Rule #1 - Don't mess with the IT guy (unless they're the butthole)
Rule #2 - When you get stupid orders, get them in writing
Rule #3 - Don't F around with handicap parking spaces, because you'll find out
First Story: I don't get how OP pulled this off. Clearly this never got to any of the Corporate Higher Ups, because there is a reason certain positions have the ability to prerequest tickets. I'm not saying Bob shouldn't have been better at his job, but OP definitely jumped through some hoops in order to make this happen. The CEOs tickets come at priority for obvious reasons, and what OP did here might interfere with the plan Corporate had. That would cause Bobs highest to have to reschedule Bob and coordinate with all other relevant teams just to fix the mess OP made to stick it to the IT guy.
Normal people would think that two previous complaints from the public would give that driver a bit on a heads up. I'm pretty sure that he was told and/or given a last chance notice in writing about taking up handicap parking spots with a big sticker of the company name on the side of the truck.
Todd tried to pull the "Don't mess with the IT guy"... OP applied the "Don't mess with the bureaucrat.".
i thankfully don't have a lot of experiences with lawyers, but it's always those unassuming, "grey"-looking people who are usually the best at their job, and bloody terrifying when pissed
This was like 20 years ago, so I forget the exact number, but I saw a huge bus parked across 5-6 Handicapped Spaces at a hotel. I told the person at the front desk and they were all, "Oh, they have permission." and my first thought was "No they fukkin' don't, you just don't want to deal with it!" However, I didn't want the people I told this story on the internet to in 20 years to call me a Karen so I dropped it.
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Mr.Grey sounds like the only lawyer you ever need
I'm in IT, and I have worked in education, and my name is Todd. I'm behind Todd in that story. ALLWAYS put in a ticket. You can call me if it's an emergency. I'm happy to help, but I STILL want a ticket for my documentation.
Also, education support is...special. Many teachers tend to be poorly prepared for life. About half have a superiority complex and look down their noses at anyone without a masters. I've never worked anywhere with more abusive coworkers. The other half were the best people I've ever worked with. Presentations were particularly annoying. My rule was that they needed to be there 15 minutes ahead of time to test their computers and presentations. The mac users were the most frustrating. They rarely remembered their nessisary DisplayPort to VGA or HDMI adapters. The same adapters they would need every time, yet they couldn't bother to keep track of.
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Todd tried to pull "Don't Mess With The IT Guy"
OP responded with "I didn't, I just asked you to do neccissary IT work during your working hours."
#4: My job involves security checks for government ID. We're given very specific instructions about how to approach people who are wearing head covering. In theory, anything non-religious must be taken off, but in practice we have a bit of discretion as long as certain criteria are met. It's sad that someone with a 4-year degree and a teaching certificate has less ability to be flexible than I do.
#6: Even if the parking job hadn't gotten the guy fired, the hand gesture would have. When you're in uniform, you represent the company. This is the same reason you can be fired for wearing your uniform to a private party: pictures will exist of you do things that don't fit company guideline and there's no way to prove to customers that you were on your own time.
i call BS on the first Story! 1. Most it-support works over tickets. The it support is actually often prohibited from doing anything without one. 2. If you have one guy to call for a whole uni than he would probably have 50 calls when the day starts. 3. As if the Dean didn`t have his assistants call tech support in advance ... and if not than its not the IT guys problem. 4. Sure he changed the IT guys work time out of his contracted time blablabla. 5. What really happend: Some Asshead is angry that the new IT support didnt fly to his stupid needs like the old one did. Tryed to force the IT guy to hurry up and now has to wait days to get help because he is the only one who has to use the ticket system since he annoyed the it guy. He tryed to complain at to the it guys boss but didnt even get him on the line and now he tells his heroic story here!
Story 1 invokes the asterisk on the old "don't mess with the IT guy*" saying:
*as long as they're good at their job.
Could also be written as, "Don't mess with the IT person unless they're being a dick."
If start time is 8 am that means ready to work at 8 am. If you need a cup of coffee and time to get settled, do that before 8 am.
During story 2, was anyone else imagining that Mr. Grey looks exactly like gym leader Larry?
Story 1: Just gonna say. If a an IT guy is pulling this shit, I would just get him fired. He is explicitly hurting the company, if this is in the US, there’s not even a wrongful termination lawsuit there.
Story 3 Postscript: While I agree it can be a warning sign to bad bosses, if your workload is renegotiated in any way, get it in writing.
Story 4: Dress code. That’s the rule. The hair likely violates the dress code, as it could be classified as a ‘distraction.’ Now, that’s bullshit, but school dress codes have a habit of suspending teenage girls for exposed shoulders.
First story, you just can’t beat the MC retaliation…. Sometimes, you CAN mess with the IT guy 🤣😂🤣😂
Armored car employees don't have a good reputation of intelligence... I used to repair ATMs and a good 20-30% of the faults I felt with were CIT-inflicted (Cash In Transit). These ranged from not cutting off the bands that hold bills together, cutting the bills so they jam the dispensers, physically damaging the machines, to one time leaving the ATM vault unlocked at a parking lot kiosk. I also heard from a coworker a time when the CIT perssonel not only didn't cut off the bill bands, they also left the bills in a plastic bag when loading the dispenser.
Is saving a few seconds of work time really worth causing hundreds of thousands worth of damage?
There were a few times at work I didn't have to ask to get something in writing, but I'd draw out a nice long "Are you suuuuure you want me to do that??", and the message would be received: rethink that.
Honestly in the first story the it guy just wants them to follow procedure. The boss is a Karen for sure.
Story 1 just sounds like OP is a total a-hole. OP pulled up the job descriptions. OP whines about 5 or 10 minutes late, that's life. OP sounds pushy and demanding, Todd sounds like he was trying to catch a break. OP pulled the rules and regulations bs, Todd reciprocated. Then OP therew a fit and went full on a-hole.
Last story. I dont know in USA but in my country armored vans can park in the closest place to the pickup place doesnt matter if it is on handicap spaces or blocking completely the sidewalk.
Guards security is more important than your comfort.
3rd story. If it takes you 6 hours to prep a restaurant you manager had a point 😂😂😂
malicious compliant against malicious compliance just made me horrible day so much brighter. so glad my favorite sub is back with my favorite reddit reader :]
Malicious Compliance is my favorite sub reddit.
Ahhh malicious compliance... remember to get it in writing folks!
It's always great when a reverse uno gets played, but it's another when an asshole's pride and ego get trashed along with it like the second story.
Story 1: IIRC, Uno has a rule where you can only play a Draw Four card if you have nothing else you can play, and if you suspect they could have played something else, you can try and call them out, and if they were lying, they draw 6 cards and the Draw Four is nullified.
So therefore, Todd was not allowed to play his "Don't Mess With the IT Guy" card, and OP called him out for it.
Actually; if the WD4 player broke the restriction they draw four cards, and if they were honest the challenger draws six cards.
@@JamesDavy2009 my bad, thanks for clarifying
@@UnknownCleric2420 NP
I love when he does malicious compliance lol
For story 4, I had at my school a teacher who burdened the students with crazy amounts of detention and excused it with that "he was just enforcing the rules", but one of the students parents were (still is) a lawyer and at one point confronted the teacher (with the principal standiing next to them) to show them, IN THE SCHOOLS RULE BOOK, what rules were being broken, turned out the teacher was juse on a power trip and made up a bunch of rules, got fired by the end of the year.
Big Telco - while small lawyer won this battle, could Big Telco not just go above him to get it resolved?
No company can tell someone that their firing an employee. They just say something like, "this will be handled" or something along those lines. Maybe in other countries? But that's an HR no no here!
The 'real' IT guys are always ready for a problem. It's the routine crap they hate and are happy to pass that off to the people who have to read instructions to fix things. (I write the instructions for the common things that are predictable.) I make my living being 'that guy' when something happens no one else understands. Oh, and this Todd guy would last less than a week where I work. My boss would send him down the road pretty quickly with that kind of attitude. It is usually a bad thing to mess with the IT guy, but Todd doesn't really fit that.
There was a kid in my nightschool homeroom that had to get a lot of Brain surgery’s and wore a hat through night school .I felt terrible for him bc we had a lot of subs after our teacher got into an a accident and each asked him to remove his hat until promptly letting him know he can put it back on seconds later
Once saw a Karen arrested at a supermarket and her SUV towed for parking in the armoured vehicle pickup point. So it goes both ways
DON'T violate handicapped parking. I and many I know will call it in. And more than one cop I've talked reports being happy to take parking enforcement long enough to handle the call. I'm just sorry they don't tow in my state.
I have memory issues due to adhd, and self confidence issues due to how my adhd was handled. The result is, I try to get everything, even the least consequential things in writing, just to prove to myself that I'm not lying.
For some wierd reason, people telling me that I don't need something in writing make me nervous.
Last story, snap a picture and email it to the company with the quote. "This your boy?"
Pit master story: She did that over AN HOUR AND A HALF OF WORK?! That could have been a MAJOR health violation and cost them a whole lot more than just his wages and the background employer's cost for having him work and extra hours and a half. What a moron.
I wasn't expecting Mr. Grey to be the good guy.