So, being a total nerd I actually went to Honda's website and looked up the specified load limits for a Civic Sedan. Assuming this is the 11th (current) generation, this is what they had to say: "The maximum load for your vehicle is 850 lbs (385 kg). See the Tire and Loading Information label attached to the driver’s doorjamb. This figure includes the total weight of all occupants, cargo, and accessories, and the tongue load if you are towing a trailer." (NOTE: The "doorjamb" is the sticker located inside the door, which includes this detail. I know not everyone looks at every inch of their car, but it's kinda hard to never notice.) 12 bags at 80lbs each weighs 960lbs. So, this would exceed the maximum allowed weight of cargo ... NOT INCLUDING the person driving! And, as a side note, NO, this isn't like the maximum allowed weight on things like trampolines, where you have some room at the top. You don't. If this weight is exceeded, it will cause damage to the suspention. As the guy in the story found out ^^
Yep those load limits are placed there for a reason. I have had to explain this to people more than once why they could not put more stuff in a trailer that had already reached the weight limit but still appeared to have a lot of room left over. One time they did not listen and they broke the leaf springs going down the highway. not a good look!
Thanks for being the total nerd and looking it up. One thing that may be relevant too it the max weight may assume a more even weight distribution rather than the majority of the weight in the rear.
Okay, I'm a huge car nerd too, and there are a few things that need to be clarified, and corrected. (This is about the US market, other locations have their own regulations). The GVWR (Gross Vehicle Weight Rating) and the Vehicle Cap. Weight on that door jam plate is created based on a government mandated formula that came out of safety recommendations after the Firestone tire recall in 2000. It isn't really related to the car's actual capacity. That mandate includes the required presumption that all adult passengers (including the driver) weigh 150lbs (which is why if you look at the Honda website detailing the Civic load capacity, it talks about people weighing 150lbs). The maximum weight is based on the maximum passenger occupancy, an amount for luggage. Which is why most five seat sedans have a rating of 850lbs, not just the Civic. That's 5x 150lbs (750lbs) and 5x 20lbs (100lbs) luggage for each passenger, for a total of 850lbs. Vehicles are tested to that weight plus an "industry secret" safety margin. All cars must pass safety tests with that load, but some cars will far exceed that capacity. No cars, however, will be rated for their actual safe capacity, because the government formula is all that matters. Manufacturers have been trying to get things changed, because this formula restriction on cars means that certain cars (mainly two seater sports cars) end up with ridiculously restrictive capacity ratings. For example, with a driver and passenger that weighed about 200lbs each and no luggage, you would still be over the capacity rating for a Corvette! Do you really think a Corvette can't safely handle a load of 400lbs, when a Civic can safely handle a load of 850lbs? Now, that doesn't change what happened. But it is important that people are aware of what the details on that plate actually are. This doesn't mean you should go exceeding them (your liability in the event of a collision can be affected by exceeding that capacity). I am, however, absolute in my belief that we should always have the truth about things like safety standards.
The big thing about people pushing AI in jobs is that they don't realize *they* are the ones that are going to be cut out and lose their jobs. Because why keep the guy who's worth a lot and pushing it when you can teach someone else that's cheaper to do it?
again "i never thought the leopard would eat my face!" says the person who voted for the leopard eating people's face party. these kinds of people think they are above consequences and so never even seem to realize that they aren't that special.
Middle Manager Harry: **Exists** ChatGPT: "Hippity hoppity, your job is now my property." I mean, he kept harping on about AI and ChatGPT, what did he expect?
If there's one thing I've learned from r/Maliciouscompliance, it's don't mess with concrete/cement people. It doesn't matter if they drive the truck, it doesn't matter if they load a car. If they have anything to do with cement or concrete, let them help you.
I'm the front end loader at my local Lowe's, meaning I'm the guy who loads the cement into your truck. I've worked the job long enough that I can easily lift a shopping cart over my head without issue, but lifting even one bag of cement still has me grunting. You could tell me that stuff was made of dark matter and I wouldn't be surprised. It's that heavy
First story: Honestly, bosses that see ChatGTP as a way to get rid of employees is a huge sign that the boss is a cheap micromamanger that would actually demand pay for people to work for him. I'm studying in computacional science and here the discussion of AI replacing people's work is constantly present, I believe that AI has to be seen as a tool to help on work, not as a legally cheap worker.
In the long term, there is functionally no difference. If AI is used as a tool, and allows one person to do what it takes 2 people to do today, then the company has to hire half as many people to do the same work. That's just the same as if AI replaces half of the jobs, just under a different name. If anything, the tool-like approach is worse (from a keeping-people-employed perspective), because it's more likely to succeed. "Replacing" narratives will often fail because you can rarely ever just take someone's job and give it to an AI. All lasting automation comes not by making a machine that can do what a human can do, but instead by changing the work into work a machine can do.
@@Keisuki Not quite. It might assist with reducing the load, but it makes mistakes and a trained eye to spot them. In addition, the tool approach is the best. As a developer, I can use ChatGPT as a tool to learn new systems or styles that I had not heard of before, I can use it as a tool with explaining complex topics in a simplified manner and have it showcase examples of converting convoluted mathematical equations to code. What I can't do is have the tool write complex code that handles edge cases for me. It will give generic cases that are good starters, but it cannot come up with a lot of the more complex edge cases. You would have to prompt it to be able to do that and 9 times out of 10, it is more work to do the prompting than it would be to write it yourself. I'm a professional software engineer with 10+ years of IT experience (Salesforce, C#, and many other languages / frameworks under my belt) and a hobbyist game dev that also writes on software topics. Trust me when I say, it is a great tool, but can't functionally be more than that.
@@GameDevMadeEasy The tool approach is bad from a "keeping-people-employed" perspective. Because it's very successful in the "allowing-fewer-people-to-do-more" perspective.
You can bet, when “the customer is always right” guy came asking for my phone, I’d be petty. “Oh man, what happened to your car? Did it break something? Well…did you remember to tell it that, as the customer, you’re always right? Surely it would defy physics because you said so.”
Story 4: My parents own a Toyota Sienna, and for a few years in a row, they've had to load multiple bags of soil and mulch at the same time, and yeah you can FEEL the difference, it was literally slowing the car down much faster on hills. Cars have weight limits, y'know, don't expect a car to handle absolutely everything you load it with
My aunt had me pick up a slab of rock and bags of gravel. The store said it would overload her Toyota suv, so two trips. One for the slab and one for the gravel.
Things I’ve learned from rslash Never mess with the it guy Never live in a neighbourhood with a hoa If someone asks you for a demand in writing rethink your order because it’s probably dumb
Story 2: Lying on the resume, trying to get rid of people she didn't like via BS Rule changes, literally plagiarism, this woman is immature as hell. I hope she never works at that kind of job again, because we don't need people that wrecks a team just because she doesn't like some people
I was going to say 'or maybe she is someone with a Cluster-B personality disorder' but, given how emotionally stunted those people are, 'immature as hell' still fits. 🤣
@@firewizardrunepro if you are going to lie on your resume you don't grab a megaphone and yell out how shitty you are at your job. you keep your head down and toe the line, not make a spectacle of yourself. this chick was a fool
I had a manager like Dave who insisted on 8-5 (one hour lunch). I was talking to him and his boss when the clock hit 5 pm. I said, "Bye, guys, see you tomorrow." Manager's boss asked why I was going? I explained that manager demanded work end at 5 and it was now 5:01, so toodles, I'll be back tomorrow. There was a bit more flexibility in working hours.
"The customer is always right" might be the quote vapid Karens love to use but its "the customer is always right when it comes to matters of taste". That means if the Karen wants a pickle and licorice sandwich then thats on them however that does not give them the right to scream at unfortunate teenager employee because they are too inept to understand simple things. 🙄
It’s the same as “blood is thicker than water,” the quote people use to say family is more important than anything. the full saying is “The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb,” meaning those who would stay at your side and fight to the end are far greater than those related to you biologically, the exact opposite of what those people think they are saying
@@raarasunai4896 omg I love that you brought that up cause thats the other misquote I love to correct. It's these 2 Karen's and shitty family members love to try and use and the meaning is the complete opposite of what they believe.
In terms of taste just refers to marketing decisions. Basically "dont fight the strategic environment or claim the weather is wrong" kind of sentiment. If its a typhoon out there and you wear your dryest outfit, youre ruining your suit, minimum. If you want to launch product A or B, the market has shown which it prefers, you dont say "sucks to be them" if you wanna stay in business. Matter of taste.
iirc the whole process of setting up a firing squad is specifically set up so that only one bullet is actually fired but not a single person involved in any of the process can deduce which soldier fired the bullet
The second story: This is eerily similar to what I went through with a former colleague. We were equals, but she often acted like everyone's boss and thus rubbed many people the wrong way. She was what we now refer to as a stereotypical common garden variety everyday Karen. Let's call her Sally. At bare minimum, Sally had an extremely huge opinion of herself, an even more huge fragile ego, no respect for boundaries, zero regard for the word no being a complete sentence and nothing resembling a sense of accountability. All of this only conflated her sense of self and her ability to believe whatever fell out of her mouth. After having a few run-ins with Sally, I later learned, that if her lips were moving, she was either whining about someone/something, lying or both. In this case, she claimed she was a skilled "writer” but her experience went no further than ranting on the Internet. Sally clearly loved being the center of attention, having all eyes on her and being in the spotlight. When asked to actually put her money where her mouth is and prove herself i.e. walk the walk, she was suddenly all thumbs or suspiciously quiet. I found Sally's claims quite suspicious. Despite having a four-year degree in which she majored in business and minored in drama, her writing was so bad it looked like two people had sex on a keyboard and it wrote something. When I tried to coach her and help her improve, she would be extremely resistant to any kind of criticism or gave a lame excuse like: “Do you know how long it's been since I've been out of school?” For clarity, this was a middle-aged woman, with a grown daughter and a high school-aged son. Sally's writing was beyond bad, it was almost indecipherable. She repeatedly mixed up her homonyms and homophones, let alone didn't know the difference between the two, used commas as end punctuation, often misspelled simple grade school-level words, wrote in run-on sentences consisting of only lowercase letters, consistently failed to capitalize proper nouns, etc. That's just the tip of the iceberg regarding the discrepancies with her writing skills. She couldn't even write a simple declarative sentence let alone know what one is. On the extremely rare occasion, when everything in what she had written was spelled correctly, there were usually numerous grammatical errors. When I pointed that out to her, she would spout the tired excuse of: “Well, spellcheck didn't catch it.” I shot back with the example of if she typed the but meant them, of course, spellcheck wouldn't catch it because, you know, it's a word. She refused to accept my logic and accused me of being purposefully mean to her. I reiterate this was a grown, married woman in her late forties with two nearly grown children. Not at all the attitude a professional would have. I haven't even touched upon her lack of creativity or diversity in any story she tried to ’write.’ Every one of Sally's attempts at creating a written work was deathly boring and repetitive drivel i.e. there was never anything resembling a plot, the characters were so two-dimensional they barely even qualified as caricatures, the dialogue was stilted and awkward, descriptions were often too long and full of redundancies that never got to the point, etc. I couldn't even get through the first few pages. Once I implored her to write an outline, take notes, create character bios, etc. She dismissed all of my advice stating those were all things ‘losers’ do then chuckled like an idiot as if she had said the funniest thing ever. Despite having “been at it” longer than me, being nearly 20 years older, Sally was insanely jealous of my talent as well as my ability to relate to even complete strangers. I was barely past legal drinking age when I met her and she was in her mid-forties parading around, with her nose in the air, acting like she was going to be a star in the business world. As anyone knows, having lived through these types of situations, when someone has to go down their life's resume of virtues while extolling all of the qualities we should admire in them, usually that person isn't even worth giving a passing glance. If I only knew then what I know now. Sally sort of adopted me as her "work son” claiming she wanted to show me the ropes. Even though we were in two completely different realms of the industry back then, her plan was to cross-train and expand her skills. She made it seem like it was a you scratch my back and I scratch yours, tit for tat, quid pro quo type of thing. One of many things that became apparent after listening to Sally speak for more than a few minutes: she seemed to have an itch in her mind that she wanted to fast track everything and take the elevator to success. There's no such thing. You have to take the stairs. It turned out she was notorious for using her phony charm to exploit people who had a resource she coveted, while riding their coattails, contributing the bare minimum (if anything at all) to any project she was involved in, then rushing into the spotlight to claim credit for a job well done. Her backstabbing, manipulative behavior rubbed a lot of people the wrong way, which is why she ended up clinging to me: I was the only one who didn't know what she was really like--yet. Cliff notes version: Sally stole my intellectual property, slapped her name on it, rewrote the material (badly) and then tried to pass it off as her own. Had she not been so sloppy about everything and kept her smug, bragging mouth full of tobacco-stained teeth shut, she might have gotten away with it. Two applicable sayings are: "be careful when you burn bridges” and "the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” Sally might have won the battle, but when she, without even a second thought, isolated herself by napalming every relationship around her, turning every single person she knew into an enemy, she lost the war. Eventually the truth came out and Sally was left spinning in the wind, hanging over the hole that she had dug for me which turned out to be the grave for her professional career. Everyone professionally connected to her was furious that she had wasted their resources (time, effort and money) on her bad investments. When it came out that the work she had used in her business proposal pitch to everyone wasn't hers but mine, they deserted her at the drop of a hat. Her lack of integrity was apparent, but the shit show she created, proved beyond a shadow of a doubt, that she was nothing more than a grifter with zero skills and even less talent. Everyone turning their backs on her was the icing on the cake. Who wants to be connected to something that could be a potential source of litigation? In her woefully pathetic attempt to do damage control, she called me up flipping out. It was clear she expected me to accept her impromptu, heavily embellished tale of fiction as irrefutable truth. All I had to do was tell her that I knew everything, that she wasn't the only person I talked to and I knew she had screwed everything up by overstepping her bounds again. I even told her I had seen the e-mails. They didn't exist, but due to her intense paranoia, she believed that I had seen incontrovertible proof in black and white. Hearing that, she completely deflated. It totally derailed her entire one-woman show and she devolved into a simpering mess. Through crocodile tears, she tried hoovering, breadcrumbing and pleading to get me to not "abandon” her like everyone else. I was completely flabbergasted, that she still was trying to act like the victim in a situation she caused. I didn't waiver and responded coldly. I gave her the biggest verbal slapping I had ever given anyone in my life up to that point. She was stunned silent. I told her, in no uncertain terms, that I had all of the documentation proving that my work was my own, that everyone knew what she had done and her reputation preceded her exponentially. I said she was nothing but a lying, thieving, no-talent fraud who would have sold her own children up the river to get what she wanted. I ended the call with: “You see, Sally? I haven't trusted you for quite some time. Now I just don't like you. Get a life. One that doesn't involve me.” Aside from the death of a mutual colleague that she tried to use (as one of her spotlight moments) in her one final attempt to wheedle her way back into my life, I haven't heard from Sally since. It's been over a decade. As it is a small industry, I hear whispers. It should be of no surprise whatsoever, Sally never bounced back after her monumental screw up. She just kept running her small time hustles and cons while heading down her one-way road of self-destruction. Her career is in tatters and her life is a putrid pile of garbage. Knowing her the way I do, she'll never be able to look in the mirror and realize that she did it all to herself. Karma is, indeed, a bitch.
I had an event like this. I asked for the denial of my request (previously approved verbally, but now denied) in writing. No a single manager up the chain would give the denial in writing.
11:28, I work for a huge hardware/home improvment store... this happens all the time... I call it Tardis packing. I once managed to fit a lawn mower in a super compact mini sudan!
11:15 actually, they don't line them up with multiple soldiers and all fire live bullets; they line them up and only one gun is loaded, the others are blanks, so that way, none of the soldiers know who actually fired the killing shot and thus don't have to have that on their conscience
A minor point but…. The idea of many shooters firing at a single person set before a firing squad is so that only one person has a live round so no one knows who killed the victim. But that’s not the point you’re making; I get that.
It's 50/50 between live rounds and blanks, because they also avoid accuracy problems. Missing could be considered unnecessary mental torture, which violates Geneva Conventions!
13:00 it *might* have been okay if the weight was spread between each seat and the trunk, just like if the concrete bags were passengers. (Like two or three to a seat ish, not the full load) but hearing they all went into the trunk....ooh man... That poor car
11:13 The reason for multiple gunmen in a firing squad all shooting at the same time wasn't so that the person being PTD was made extra dead. It was so that no one executioner could know that he was the one who delivered the fatal shot.
Hearing "the top comment from Vore_Daddy" caused me physical pain. I wonder if he even knows what it is? probably not, I think he'd have laughed reading it otherwise lmao
13:00 if I was the kid loading the little car with concrete, would have call the police whilst inside. Just so when they pulled out and that happened, they would inevitably have a tickets for unsafe driving
OMG I was just talking about the topic of the first story with a co-worker the other day, just a couple weeks ago. They can't replace the people doing the actual work, and they can't really replace the top leadership. But middle management is pretty much two things: organizing data and distributing workload according to criteria. Those are basically tailor-made tasks for an AI. And on top of being more efficient, instantly delivering results and costing less, they have no biases. I'm actually surprised that it's already happening.
Wasn't a malicious compliance, and the guy was extremely reasonable about it. But I have a similar story to the concrete one. I worked at Staples, and we sold desks and shit. One day this guy comes in to buy a desk which is fine. The box stands about 5 to 6 feet tall, about four feet wide, and like four inches deep. We get it rung up, and I use the hand truck to carry it outside. Easy peasy...until we get to his car. It was a 2 door Mercedes sports car. I am not a large man. I am pretty average, but I could not fit in the man's trunk. It wasn't till we got out to his car before he looked and went, "I don't think that's gonna fit." 😂😂😂 We went back inside and ordered it for delivery
Interesting factoid about your reference at 11:20 Only one or two of the soldiers in the lineup actually had a real Bullet in their gun, the rest all had blanks so nobody knew who actually fired the deadly shot
The golden rules of working: - Don't mess with the IT Guy - Do what you're told AFTER you got it in writing - When a subordinate asks for anything in writing, have a good thinkingsessio about what you just ordered them to do.
If there is one thing I have learned from listening to every rslash video is always ask for everything in an email. Worked great with the insurance company that was refusing to do their job!
05:12 I've seen signs on bathrooms that spell it is m e n s with no apostrophe and womens with no apostrophe LOL I've always thought that was the stupidest spelling in the world
Here's the thing with the "customer is always right" quote. It was chopped in half. The full quote is "the customer is always right in terms of taste.". So if they want to buy something that looks completely ugly, let them do it because it's still a sale. But, stupid people are going to be stupid.
Story 3: in one job, they had a pretty bad management, which meant we were always running against the clock to finish the projects, one day i had to stay overtime until around 11 pm, so the next day i oversleep and was at work at 8:30am (my starting time was 8 am) my boss saw me late and scold me and i replied that yesterday i stayed lated more than 5 hours, he said that it didnt matter, that i had to comply with the work schedule, ok, fine by me, that day at 5:30 pm i took my things and say goodbye, everyone look at me shocked, as we were working on a project that was urgent and overtime was necessary, i just said, my schedule is 8 to 5, i stayed 30 min extra to compensate my late entry and left, the next day i make sure to be before 8am, but was standing outside the office, everyone that saw me there asked me "what are you doing?" to what i replied, waiting for the 8am, so i can start working, this went off for 2 or 3 days until my boss went to talk to me and gave me and apology. i didnt stay long at the job, the coworkers where great, but the management was awful
Second story. If HR saw this folder and knew how to do it's job, it should have taken a ~1 minute cursory glance to the contents before fully firing OP. Put OP on temporary probation before firing it. Because firing OP for how it worked, when most of the issues were direct orders from it's superior is not a good move. Plus, it means you are wasting an employee that is already trained. They did a big disservice to their own company.
By the way, the ten soldier firing line wasn’t one man being shot by ten men. 9 of those men had blanks and 1 person had the live round. This is to make sure that none of the men actually feel responsible for being the executioner as no one knew who had the live round.
Dealing with people in hardware sales is a pain. I worked in the paint department in Home Depot. We can only shake paint. A man (customer) asked my coworkers to shake a can of something. I luckily looked over & replied with sorry we can't shake that. The guy rudely asked why? I said, "Sir, it says it flammable on the bottom. .
Had a similar incident to the concrete loading one myself: A customer had purchased a buildable bed frame and I was tasked with bringing it out and to assist with loading it. The problem however, was that the box was longer than the passenger compartment of her van. Even knived in between the seats and resting on the center console, there was still a foot left to go. Rather than giving up, she doubled down, insisting that it'll fit if I just pushed harder. I refused to help, so she pushed on the box with all her might and then proceeded to crack her windshield from the inside using the furniture as a battering ram.
I cant comprehend the thought process of the middle manager. Where I worked before, we tried to use technology to make things easier for the people working. You then can have staff both happier and more efficient. More efficient means you can take on more work and the business is more profitable. Take on enough work, and you can hire more people. If you then manage twice the number of people efficiently, you can easily ask for a bonus, better pay, etc. Focus on efficiency, growth, and looking after those under him. Or the other option is this. Manage up. If he loves AI, and used it to automate his own work, that frees up his time to take on more responsibilities of the person above him. Then the owner can possibly look at starting another branch / location. If you are the branch manager, you get paid more then a middle manager. But no, the people he was in charge of looking after, he tries to get them fired. F that guy.
OP of the paper trail story should have consulted with a lawyer about wrongful termination. I bet HR would have been more than willing to work out a settlement, including that idiot manager being let go ASAP. Honestly, as soon as it was brought to HR's attention, they should have automatically reversed the termination and had a chat with that stupid manager to make it clear that OP is not to be messed with.
rslash, man, I love you. But the fact that I have to listen to up to 1:30 Minutes of advertisement on Spotify on every episode, though I have Spotify Premium, drives me away from you, honestly. Hope you see this, no chance of contacting you via Spotify.
Story 1: I once read a story on Reader's Digest about a man who was hired to find redundancies and make the company work with the exact number of people really needed. The last day, his last order was to fire himself cause he was no longer needed.
#3: Actually, rSlash, the point of the firing lines was that only 1 person had a live round, everyone else had a blank. This was done randomly. This way, no one knows who actually made the killing shot and and it's less likely for one person to feel guilty afterwards.
Oh, that 80lb concrete hit me hard! Last week we had brilliant stone masons putting stone on our house. They ran out of the MORTAR mix they were using. My husband was at work, I had the day off. I said ‘no worries, I’ll run up to Lowes and get more!’. Me being an absolute daft prat, didn’t take a photo of the bag. I went in my truck and purchased 4 80pound bags of concrete mix 🤦♀️. I weigh 85lbs. Picture me picking up those bags of solid dead weight and putting them in the back of my truck 😂. There were contractors, customers, just staring at me! They offered to help but I said ‘cheers for the offer, I’m good!’, only to get home and realise I got the wrong shite! Went back and returned those for the mortar, 60lbs thank the Lord! I had them unload and load it. I was absolutely stuffed from lifting those 80lb bags. I can’t imagine someone thinking THAT much of the concrete mix would be acceptable in a small vehicle! That’s hysterical 😂😂. I learned the difference between concrete and mortar though so that’s a massive plus. I’m a stubborn Irish lass who learned a very valuable lesson, if someone offers to help I will be answering ‘yes, please!’ And tipping them! My spleen didn’t rupture as I thought it did 🤣🤣🤣.
Hey folks, never forget, get every bs order in writing. Every last one. You want me to do something that will end badly? Sure bud sure. Can I get that in writing?
Omg I think I had that boss from story 1. Incompetence, wilful ignorance and - when trying to explain something because you don’t yet realise that they don’t care about what is right, only being the authority - the hostile blank stare. 😅 Also had at least a bit of boss 2 but, sadly, no heroic outcomes-focused senior bosses to do away with stupidly rigid 9-5 rules in favour of productivity.
Remember- the full quotation is, "the customer is always right in matters of taste." What it means is people are free to purchase whatever they want, even if it's garbage. What it **isn't** is an excuse to treat service workers however you please.
The saying is. The customer is always right when it comes to fashion. What that actually means is, who are you to tell a customer that wants to spend their money on something ugly that it’s ugly. If the customer likes it sell it to him. It has nothing to do with concrete or fast food, or any Karen anywhere.
Who wants to bet that the Big Wig Boss never saw the waiver from Store Manager? Once the incident happened, that copy probably went straight to SMs shredder and BWB never had a clue. That’s how I like to think it happened since BWB never called back. Either that or BWB knew and once paperwork showed up, just cut and ran from it.
Jesus Christ. As an owner of a Honda civic, I’m cringing at the concrete in the car. It took me 3 years to save for a decent down payment. How dumb can someone be? 😂😂
To the synchronized slaughter thing: that was not to slaughter a person. It was to alleviate soldiers' consciousness because, with so many people firing, nobody knew who actually killed the victim. Usually, only one gun had an actual bullet inside, and nobody knew which for the sake of soldiers' mental well being.
The irony is that a Honda civic CAN definitely handle 12 80 pound bags of concrete. Its just that it cant handle all of that weight in the trunk. Playing men's rugby, we would regularly cram 5 people with an average weight well over 200 lbs plus all of our gear into small sedans and travel hundreds of miles across the country with no issues. Your suspension cant tell if the extra 1000 pounds is from large men or concrete, but it can certainly tell if the weight distribution is utterly fucked. Had the guy loaded all of the concrete bags in the passenger seats, he would have probably been fine
Story 3. Technically those firing squad executions were meant more for the executioner’s wellbeing rather than the spectacle/executed. Only one of the rifles on the squad was loaded with live rounds. All others were blanks. Everyone was randomly assigned a rifle and they all shot at the same time. So no one knew who actually ended up killing the person
I loved my last job with the flexibility built in. It was during COVID so most of us went to remote work from home. I would get the late afternoon boost that would sometimes overlap into the evening. Or I would have to babysit a deployment that we always performed after hours. We were very efficient and everything got done on time. So if I started a little late one day or took off early, or took a break in the middle of the day my management did not care. We would always put in the 40 hours a week. Management was happy because the work got done on time and with a minimum of mistakes. We were happy because we were treated like people instead of just some cogs in the machine. I am retired now.
Normally malicious compliance isn't my favourite, but I am DYING over the men's fashion story. That was so perfect. I'm so sorry that OP was fired but I just couldn't help laughing. GET IT IN WRITING.
Fifth story: One of the phrases that triggers me the most is "the costumer is always right" because that's both a blaitant lie and en encouragement for entitlement and stupidity. People go with the specialist because they either don't know what they are doing or are too lazy to do it, the last thing you should be doing is berate the especialist.
4th story...someone obviously failed physics in school. 12 bags x 80 lbs each = 960 lbs. Max weight capacity of a Honda Civic is 850lbs, (Including the driver) Yeahhhhh good luck with that.
guy in the car: cars always have some room for weight limits. The customer is always right *car fails* loading guy: the customer can always be stupid too, it seems
Don't mess with IT employees in general, they're are usual smart and in demand and you rely on them way more than you actually know I'm a programmer and I work from, yesterday for example I did not feel like coding anything all day, I try and try but I got nothing, so I took a long nap (3-4 hours) woke up worked 10 hours straight into the morning hours and got sh*t done, it is never a good idea to tie programmers to a fixed schedule
For story #2, she wasn’t worried about a paper trail because you can delete e-mails. Pretty sure people like this exist as a single brain cell hive mind and anytime someone says e-mail, that triggers the escape function. No thoughts after that.
Well aware that cars have weight limits. My Honda CR-Z has the weight limit of the vehicle listed on a sticker inside the door; you can see the sticker when you open it. This little car has a limit (of both passenger and cargo) of a whopping 250 pounds. I knew it was gonna be a disaster the second "1000 pounds" was mentioned. LOL
The thing about AI is it can only parse and sort content that already exists, it cannot create new ideas. It also cannot be trusted for accuracy, even on its math. I've been toying around with Microsoft Copilot, feeding it some physics equations, and so far it's gotten around 4/5 of them incorrect. It even tried to claim that a hypothetical "Mach 1,000,000" was slower than lightspeed, although at least AI is receptive when I correct its math. I mean that's where AI is at today. A HUMAN is correcting its math.
Exactly. A lot of people thinking AI is going to boot everyone out of a job, but there are some things it just cannot do. I’m going for a degree in finance and accounting. AI might become a decent tool in accounting for data entry, but it’s likely not going to evolve to the point it could replace a trained person in the next decade or 3
@@raarasunai4896 Yeah when people hear "AI" what they are actually thinking of is "GAI" or General Artificial Intelligence. AI that exists today is basically extremely autistic, capable of doing one thing pretty well, and that's it. Chat.GPT is great at parsing text, but it cannot itself draw a picture. Something like DALL.E can draw pictures, but cannot write a book. A GAI however would basically be a fully sapient consciousness capable of independent thought and decision making. Sapience without sentience would be an interesting concept.
I used to be a loader myself. I was waiting for a customer with a washing machine, and they pulled up in a Corola, and got mad when I told them it wouldn't fit, and even madder when I refused to tie it to the roof
I'm the front end loader at my local Lowe's, meaning I'm the guy who loads the refrigerator into your truck. I've worked the job long enough that I can easily lift a shopping cart over my head without issue, but lifting even one bag of cement still has me grunting. You could tell me that stuff was made of dark matter and I wouldn't be surprised. It's that heavy
I'm actually surprised the car couldn't handle the load. I wonder if they distributed the weight properly. A Civic can take 4 passengers. 4 passengers my size weighs more than that concrete.
Story 5: so lemme get this straight: they asked to do something that wasn't safe, you refuse to do it, because it wouldn't damage the product, they insisted, signed a waiver exempting you from any liability, you get a copy as well, and then they try every sleazy tactic in the big book of scammers to screw you out of money? To qoate James "Wow! What an asshole!"
I had a similar story instead of concrete it was stones 1st year working in the summer and these people wanted 296 things of stones but they had a small Suv that can weigh up to 1100 pounds so i was told put in half that was around 50 to 60 i said ok. I was annoyed that she is wasting my time because she had a friend that had a f150 but didn't asked him so after getting around 50 we had to wait for another 15 minutes for him to pull up. So we waited her friend gotten the f150 and her other friend gotten the rental truck and we had a forklift and a driver so we gotten all of that over with so i did more carts because I'm the only loader and the other guy had gotten fired but that is another story for another day but so during my break that lady came back piss looking for me because her car couldn't take the weight and had to stop half way from her house to unload to the pickup truck, but my lucky friend who I'm still friends with told her I had went home and couldn't find me but yeah I was just following orders getting it done and not once did she told me how much her car weigh but yeah she told him her car could weigh up to 1100 or 1500 pounds but it all came up to 6000 pounds but yeah now I always ask how much can your car weigh up to. So yeah if your getting stuff from Lowe's or Home depot do your research of the weight of your cars and how heavy the products because most of don't know a damn thing about your car.
Harry: “You can use ChatGPT to cut down employee costs.”
OP: “Then say hello to your replacement, HAL 9000.”
“Hal, run the year end reports”
“I’m sorry Harry, I’m afraid I can’t do that”
So, being a total nerd I actually went to Honda's website and looked up the specified load limits for a Civic Sedan.
Assuming this is the 11th (current) generation, this is what they had to say:
"The maximum load for your vehicle is 850 lbs (385 kg). See the Tire and Loading Information label attached to the driver’s doorjamb.
This figure includes the total weight of all occupants, cargo, and accessories, and the tongue load if you are towing a trailer."
(NOTE: The "doorjamb" is the sticker located inside the door, which includes this detail. I know not everyone looks at every inch of their car, but it's kinda hard to never notice.)
12 bags at 80lbs each weighs 960lbs. So, this would exceed the maximum allowed weight of cargo ... NOT INCLUDING the person driving! And, as a side note, NO, this isn't like the maximum allowed weight on things like trampolines, where you have some room at the top. You don't. If this weight is exceeded, it will cause damage to the suspention.
As the guy in the story found out ^^
I am actually glad you did this, thank you!
Yep those load limits are placed there for a reason. I have had to explain this to people more than once why they could not put more stuff in a trailer that had already reached the weight limit but still appeared to have a lot of room left over. One time they did not listen and they broke the leaf springs going down the highway. not a good look!
Thanks for being the total nerd and looking it up. One thing that may be relevant too it the max weight may assume a more even weight distribution rather than the majority of the weight in the rear.
Okay, I'm a huge car nerd too, and there are a few things that need to be clarified, and corrected. (This is about the US market, other locations have their own regulations).
The GVWR (Gross Vehicle Weight Rating) and the Vehicle Cap. Weight on that door jam plate is created based on a government mandated formula that came out of safety recommendations after the Firestone tire recall in 2000. It isn't really related to the car's actual capacity.
That mandate includes the required presumption that all adult passengers (including the driver) weigh 150lbs (which is why if you look at the Honda website detailing the Civic load capacity, it talks about people weighing 150lbs).
The maximum weight is based on the maximum passenger occupancy, an amount for luggage. Which is why most five seat sedans have a rating of 850lbs, not just the Civic. That's 5x 150lbs (750lbs) and 5x 20lbs (100lbs) luggage for each passenger, for a total of 850lbs.
Vehicles are tested to that weight plus an "industry secret" safety margin. All cars must pass safety tests with that load, but some cars will far exceed that capacity. No cars, however, will be rated for their actual safe capacity, because the government formula is all that matters.
Manufacturers have been trying to get things changed, because this formula restriction on cars means that certain cars (mainly two seater sports cars) end up with ridiculously restrictive capacity ratings. For example, with a driver and passenger that weighed about 200lbs each and no luggage, you would still be over the capacity rating for a Corvette! Do you really think a Corvette can't safely handle a load of 400lbs, when a Civic can safely handle a load of 850lbs?
Now, that doesn't change what happened. But it is important that people are aware of what the details on that plate actually are. This doesn't mean you should go exceeding them (your liability in the event of a collision can be affected by exceeding that capacity). I am, however, absolute in my belief that we should always have the truth about things like safety standards.
I googled this myself lol
The big thing about people pushing AI in jobs is that they don't realize *they* are the ones that are going to be cut out and lose their jobs. Because why keep the guy who's worth a lot and pushing it when you can teach someone else that's cheaper to do it?
again "i never thought the leopard would eat my face!" says the person who voted for the leopard eating people's face party. these kinds of people think they are above consequences and so never even seem to realize that they aren't that special.
Plus, while I do kind of support using AI for jobs, I'd rather that the AI be used for tough/dangerous jobs than small jobs like cashier or art!
Middle Manager Harry: **Exists**
ChatGPT: "Hippity hoppity, your job is now my property."
I mean, he kept harping on about AI and ChatGPT, what did he expect?
For someone lower then him to get fired
@@bibigamer502 than* - also, I think the question was rhetorical.
@@nexieane7577 this is you: 🤓👆
He understood neither the limitations of modern AI nor the relevance of his own position.
2017 ah comment 🙏😭😭😭
If there's one thing I've learned from r/Maliciouscompliance, it's don't mess with concrete/cement people. It doesn't matter if they drive the truck, it doesn't matter if they load a car. If they have anything to do with cement or concrete, let them help you.
I'm the front end loader at my local Lowe's, meaning I'm the guy who loads the cement into your truck. I've worked the job long enough that I can easily lift a shopping cart over my head without issue, but lifting even one bag of cement still has me grunting. You could tell me that stuff was made of dark matter and I wouldn't be surprised. It's that heavy
First story: Honestly, bosses that see ChatGTP as a way to get rid of employees is a huge sign that the boss is a cheap micromamanger that would actually demand pay for people to work for him. I'm studying in computacional science and here the discussion of AI replacing people's work is constantly present, I believe that AI has to be seen as a tool to help on work, not as a legally cheap worker.
In the long term, there is functionally no difference. If AI is used as a tool, and allows one person to do what it takes 2 people to do today, then the company has to hire half as many people to do the same work. That's just the same as if AI replaces half of the jobs, just under a different name.
If anything, the tool-like approach is worse (from a keeping-people-employed perspective), because it's more likely to succeed. "Replacing" narratives will often fail because you can rarely ever just take someone's job and give it to an AI. All lasting automation comes not by making a machine that can do what a human can do, but instead by changing the work into work a machine can do.
@@Keisuki Not quite. It might assist with reducing the load, but it makes mistakes and a trained eye to spot them. In addition, the tool approach is the best. As a developer, I can use ChatGPT as a tool to learn new systems or styles that I had not heard of before, I can use it as a tool with explaining complex topics in a simplified manner and have it showcase examples of converting convoluted mathematical equations to code.
What I can't do is have the tool write complex code that handles edge cases for me. It will give generic cases that are good starters, but it cannot come up with a lot of the more complex edge cases. You would have to prompt it to be able to do that and 9 times out of 10, it is more work to do the prompting than it would be to write it yourself.
I'm a professional software engineer with 10+ years of IT experience (Salesforce, C#, and many other languages / frameworks under my belt) and a hobbyist game dev that also writes on software topics. Trust me when I say, it is a great tool, but can't functionally be more than that.
@@GameDevMadeEasy Nothing you said here seems to reply to anything I said. I agree with everything here.
@@Keisuki The disagreement was with the tool approach being bad. Although, I think it might have just been the wording.
@@GameDevMadeEasy The tool approach is bad from a "keeping-people-employed" perspective. Because it's very successful in the "allowing-fewer-people-to-do-more" perspective.
You can bet, when “the customer is always right” guy came asking for my phone, I’d be petty. “Oh man, what happened to your car? Did it break something? Well…did you remember to tell it that, as the customer, you’re always right? Surely it would defy physics because you said so.”
Story 4: My parents own a Toyota Sienna, and for a few years in a row, they've had to load multiple bags of soil and mulch at the same time, and yeah you can FEEL the difference, it was literally slowing the car down much faster on hills. Cars have weight limits, y'know, don't expect a car to handle absolutely everything you load it with
My aunt had me pick up a slab of rock and bags of gravel. The store said it would overload her Toyota suv, so two trips. One for the slab and one for the gravel.
I bet that car would have handled it better if the weight had been distributed more evenly such as by putting some of the bags in the front seat
2JZ swap it :D
Dabney: ”Welcome to rSlash maliciouscomplience where a stupid manager gets himself fired!”
Me: ”Wait! Lemme grab some popcorn!”
Things I’ve learned from rslash
Never mess with the it guy
Never live in a neighbourhood with a hoa
If someone asks you for a demand in writing rethink your order because it’s probably dumb
Don't forget never ever cut down someo else's trees.
NEVER EVER CUT DOWN A PERSONS TREE
Also, FEAR TREELAW.
In addition to that, and tree law, “THEN Y O U DO IT!”
If you demand someone else take someone in, also be ready to take them in
+ SEE ya! wouldn't wanna BE ya!
Story 2: Lying on the resume, trying to get rid of people she didn't like via BS Rule changes, literally plagiarism, this woman is immature as hell. I hope she never works at that kind of job again, because we don't need people that wrecks a team just because she doesn't like some people
I was going to say 'or maybe she is someone with a Cluster-B personality disorder' but, given how emotionally stunted those people are, 'immature as hell' still fits. 🤣
With how stupidly stringent job applications are nowadays, i genuinely dont blame her for lying on a resume. Everything else tho thats fair game
@@firewizardrunepro if you are going to lie on your resume you don't grab a megaphone and yell out how shitty you are at your job. you keep your head down and toe the line, not make a spectacle of yourself. this chick was a fool
Based on the state of reality...
Shit ton more of her lind are in the same position still...
What I'm more curious about is how the HECK did she get through life thinking "mens" is the possessive form of "men"?!?
I had a manager like Dave who insisted on 8-5 (one hour lunch). I was talking to him and his boss when the clock hit 5 pm. I said, "Bye, guys, see you tomorrow." Manager's boss asked why I was going? I explained that manager demanded work end at 5 and it was now 5:01, so toodles, I'll be back tomorrow. There was a bit more flexibility in working hours.
"The customer is always right" might be the quote vapid Karens love to use but its "the customer is always right when it comes to matters of taste". That means if the Karen wants a pickle and licorice sandwich then thats on them however that does not give them the right to scream at unfortunate teenager employee because they are too inept to understand simple things. 🙄
It’s the same as “blood is thicker than water,” the quote people use to say family is more important than anything. the full saying is “The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb,” meaning those who would stay at your side and fight to the end are far greater than those related to you biologically, the exact opposite of what those people think they are saying
And this is how history gets twisted by people with an agenda. Cherry picked words taken out of context to fit what you want.
I'm cracking up at the idea of a pickle and licorice sandwich. Thank you for that.
@@raarasunai4896 omg I love that you brought that up cause thats the other misquote I love to correct. It's these 2 Karen's and shitty family members love to try and use and the meaning is the complete opposite of what they believe.
In terms of taste just refers to marketing decisions. Basically "dont fight the strategic environment or claim the weather is wrong" kind of sentiment. If its a typhoon out there and you wear your dryest outfit, youre ruining your suit, minimum. If you want to launch product A or B, the market has shown which it prefers, you dont say "sucks to be them" if you wanna stay in business. Matter of taste.
my understanding is the reason for the firing squad was to prevent anyone from knowing who fired the killing shot.
It is.
lmao I immediately went to the comments to see if anyone else was gonna say this. The firing squad is my roman empire 😔
It is. One gun also has a blank that no one knows where it is
iirc the whole process of setting up a firing squad is specifically set up so that only one bullet is actually fired but not a single person involved in any of the process can deduce which soldier fired the bullet
Thank you, was looking if this was already said or not. or if i should post it.
Employee: "Get it in writing."
Boss: **gets it in writing**
Employee: "HA! YOU ACTIVATED MY TRAP CARD!"
The second story: This is eerily similar to what I went through with a former colleague. We were equals, but she often acted like everyone's boss and thus rubbed many people the wrong way. She was what we now refer to as a stereotypical common garden variety everyday Karen. Let's call her Sally. At bare minimum, Sally had an extremely huge opinion of herself, an even more huge fragile ego, no respect for boundaries, zero regard for the word no being a complete sentence and nothing resembling a sense of accountability. All of this only conflated her sense of self and her ability to believe whatever fell out of her mouth. After having a few run-ins with Sally, I later learned, that if her lips were moving, she was either whining about someone/something, lying or both.
In this case, she claimed she was a skilled "writer” but her experience went no further than ranting on the Internet.
Sally clearly loved being the center of attention, having all eyes on her and being in the spotlight. When asked to actually put her money where her mouth is and prove herself i.e. walk the walk, she was suddenly all thumbs or suspiciously quiet.
I found Sally's claims quite suspicious. Despite having a four-year degree in which she majored in business and minored in drama, her writing was so bad it looked like two people had sex on a keyboard and it wrote something.
When I tried to coach her and help her improve, she would be extremely resistant to any kind of criticism or gave a lame excuse like: “Do you know how long it's been since I've been out of school?” For clarity, this was a middle-aged woman, with a grown daughter and a high school-aged son. Sally's writing was beyond bad, it was almost indecipherable. She repeatedly mixed up her homonyms and homophones, let alone didn't know the difference between the two, used commas as end punctuation, often misspelled simple grade school-level words, wrote in run-on sentences consisting of only lowercase letters, consistently failed to capitalize proper nouns, etc. That's just the tip of the iceberg regarding the discrepancies with her writing skills. She couldn't even write a simple declarative sentence let alone know what one is.
On the extremely rare occasion, when everything in what she had written was spelled correctly, there were usually numerous grammatical errors. When I pointed that out to her, she would spout the tired excuse of: “Well, spellcheck didn't catch it.” I shot back with the example of if she typed the but meant them, of course, spellcheck wouldn't catch it because, you know, it's a word. She refused to accept my logic and accused me of being purposefully mean to her. I reiterate this was a grown, married woman in her late forties with two nearly grown children. Not at all the attitude a professional would have.
I haven't even touched upon her lack of creativity or diversity in any story she tried to ’write.’ Every one of Sally's attempts at creating a written work was deathly boring and repetitive drivel i.e. there was never anything resembling a plot, the characters were so two-dimensional they barely even qualified as caricatures, the dialogue was stilted and awkward, descriptions were often too long and full of redundancies that never got to the point, etc. I couldn't even get through the first few pages. Once I implored her to write an outline, take notes, create character bios, etc. She dismissed all of my advice stating those were all things ‘losers’ do then chuckled like an idiot as if she had said the funniest thing ever.
Despite having “been at it” longer than me, being nearly 20 years older, Sally was insanely jealous of my talent as well as my ability to relate to even complete strangers.
I was barely past legal drinking age when I met her and she was in her mid-forties parading around, with her nose in the air, acting like she was going to be a star in the business world. As anyone knows, having lived through these types of situations, when someone has to go down their life's resume of virtues while extolling all of the qualities we should admire in them, usually that person isn't even worth giving a passing glance. If I only knew then what I know now.
Sally sort of adopted me as her "work son” claiming she wanted to show me the ropes. Even though we were in two completely different realms of the industry back then, her plan was to cross-train and expand her skills. She made it seem like it was a you scratch my back and I scratch yours, tit for tat, quid pro quo type of thing.
One of many things that became apparent after listening to Sally speak for more than a few minutes: she seemed to have an itch in her mind that she wanted to fast track everything and take the elevator to success. There's no such thing. You have to take the stairs. It turned out she was notorious for using her phony charm to exploit people who had a resource she coveted, while riding their coattails, contributing the bare minimum (if anything at all) to any project she was involved in, then rushing into the spotlight to claim credit for a job well done. Her backstabbing, manipulative behavior rubbed a lot of people the wrong way, which is why she ended up clinging to me: I was the only one who didn't know what she was really like--yet.
Cliff notes version: Sally stole my intellectual property, slapped her name on it, rewrote the material (badly) and then tried to pass it off as her own. Had she not been so sloppy about everything and kept her smug, bragging mouth full of tobacco-stained teeth shut, she might have gotten away with it.
Two applicable sayings are: "be careful when you burn bridges” and "the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” Sally might have won the battle, but when she, without even a second thought, isolated herself by napalming every relationship around her, turning every single person she knew into an enemy, she lost the war.
Eventually the truth came out and Sally was left spinning in the wind, hanging over the hole that she had dug for me which turned out to be the grave for her professional career. Everyone professionally connected to her was furious that she had wasted their resources (time, effort and money) on her bad investments. When it came out that the work she had used in her business proposal pitch to everyone wasn't hers but mine, they deserted her at the drop of a hat. Her lack of integrity was apparent, but the shit show she created, proved beyond a shadow of a doubt, that she was nothing more than a grifter with zero skills and even less talent. Everyone turning their backs on her was the icing on the cake. Who wants to be connected to something that could be a potential source of litigation?
In her woefully pathetic attempt to do damage control, she called me up flipping out. It was clear she expected me to accept her impromptu, heavily embellished tale of fiction as irrefutable truth. All I had to do was tell her that I knew everything, that she wasn't the only person I talked to and I knew she had screwed everything up by overstepping her bounds again. I even told her I had seen the e-mails. They didn't exist, but due to her intense paranoia, she believed that I had seen incontrovertible proof in black and white. Hearing that, she completely deflated.
It totally derailed her entire one-woman show and she devolved into a simpering mess.
Through crocodile tears, she tried hoovering, breadcrumbing and pleading to get me to not "abandon” her like everyone else. I was completely flabbergasted, that she still was trying to act like the victim in a situation she caused.
I didn't waiver and responded coldly. I gave her the biggest verbal slapping I had ever given anyone in my life up to that point.
She was stunned silent. I told her, in no uncertain terms, that I had all of the documentation proving that my work was my own, that everyone knew what she had done and her reputation preceded her exponentially. I said she was nothing but a lying, thieving, no-talent fraud who would have sold her own children up the river to get what she wanted.
I ended the call with: “You see, Sally? I haven't trusted you for quite some time. Now I just don't like you. Get a life. One that doesn't involve me.”
Aside from the death of a mutual colleague that she tried to use (as one of her spotlight moments) in her one final attempt to wheedle her way back into my life, I haven't heard from Sally since. It's been over a decade.
As it is a small industry, I hear whispers. It should be of no surprise whatsoever, Sally never bounced back after her monumental screw up. She just kept running her small time hustles and cons while heading down her one-way road of self-destruction. Her career is in tatters and her life is a putrid pile of garbage. Knowing her the way I do, she'll never be able to look in the mirror and realize that she did it all to herself. Karma is, indeed, a bitch.
After a decade working for corporate IT for several companies, I can tell you that the first rule of IT isn't "google it", it's CYA.
I thought it was have you tried turning it off and back on again?
@@undrhilrSlash covered a story some years ago where a *_toddler_* did just that!
What’s CYA?
@@kyototomokui6676 Cover your ass.
@@undrhil Nah, usually we would just have restarted it before hand using remote tools.
We getting out of the basement with this one, boys!
What
I have been out of the basement for 3 years now. It's not safe out here. I'd advise against it.
That's exactly why I keep those people in the basement! Protection! Finally someone gets it! @@Magnarmis
Is this implying that Hiroshi7025 is ChatGPT?
🤣🤣🤣 EPIC
Any time someone asks for it in writing... you'd better double-check yourself!
I had an event like this. I asked for the denial of my request (previously approved verbally, but now denied) in writing.
No a single manager up the chain would give the denial in writing.
@@acrandal "Have it in writing or it didn't happen."
11:28, I work for a huge hardware/home improvment store... this happens all the time... I call it Tardis packing. I once managed to fit a lawn mower in a super compact mini sudan!
Liking for the Doctor Who reference :-)
Much like Homer Simpson seeing packing the family car as a game of Tetris.
I love the Malicious Compliance stories. Please do more of these!
This and TalesFromTechSupport.
11:15 actually, they don't line them up with multiple soldiers and all fire live bullets; they line them up and only one gun is loaded, the others are blanks, so that way, none of the soldiers know who actually fired the killing shot and thus don't have to have that on their conscience
A minor point but…. The idea of many shooters firing at a single person set before a firing squad is so that only one person has a live round so no one knows who killed the victim. But that’s not the point you’re making; I get that.
It's 50/50 between live rounds and blanks, because they also avoid accuracy problems.
Missing could be considered unnecessary mental torture, which violates Geneva Conventions!
13:00 it *might* have been okay if the weight was spread between each seat and the trunk, just like if the concrete bags were passengers. (Like two or three to a seat ish, not the full load) but hearing they all went into the trunk....ooh man... That poor car
As a Walmart worker these malicious compliance stories always deliver❤
11:13 The reason for multiple gunmen in a firing squad all shooting at the same time wasn't so that the person being PTD was made extra dead. It was so that no one executioner could know that he was the one who delivered the fatal shot.
I was not expecting to hear Rslash say "vore" like... EVER.
Hearing "the top comment from Vore_Daddy" caused me physical pain. I wonder if he even knows what it is?
probably not, I think he'd have laughed reading it otherwise lmao
I had to rewind to make sure I heard him correctly 😂
It put a big smile on my face.
Could someone explain to the lil ignorant baby over here. Plz
Glad I'm not the only one who didn't expect that.
1:11 What’s crazy is that at the time this was published it was right that GPT can’t see your screen. Now it can if you let it. 👀
Why does that not surprise me...
13:40 when the customer asked for the phone, I would have fired back:" of course here you go, the customer is always right...right?"
Day 13 of asking rslash to read wholesome stories once a week
13:00 if I was the kid loading the little car with concrete, would have call the police whilst inside. Just so when they pulled out and that happened, they would inevitably have a tickets for unsafe driving
OMG I was just talking about the topic of the first story with a co-worker the other day, just a couple weeks ago.
They can't replace the people doing the actual work, and they can't really replace the top leadership.
But middle management is pretty much two things:
organizing data and distributing workload according to criteria.
Those are basically tailor-made tasks for an AI.
And on top of being more efficient, instantly delivering results and costing less, they have no biases.
I'm actually surprised that it's already happening.
Story 2's manager fell victim to one of the classic blunders.
Never start a land war in Asia?
@@Ahrpigi also that, but don't let someone who doesn't like you document your bullshit.
11:13 That's called a firing squad. I believe it was typically used on members of the military.
Wasn't a malicious compliance, and the guy was extremely reasonable about it. But I have a similar story to the concrete one.
I worked at Staples, and we sold desks and shit. One day this guy comes in to buy a desk which is fine. The box stands about 5 to 6 feet tall, about four feet wide, and like four inches deep. We get it rung up, and I use the hand truck to carry it outside. Easy peasy...until we get to his car. It was a 2 door Mercedes sports car. I am not a large man. I am pretty average, but I could not fit in the man's trunk. It wasn't till we got out to his car before he looked and went, "I don't think that's gonna fit."
😂😂😂
We went back inside and ordered it for delivery
Interesting factoid about your reference at 11:20
Only one or two of the soldiers in the lineup actually had a real Bullet in their gun, the rest all had blanks so nobody knew who actually fired the deadly shot
2nd Story if OP got fired for something they were told to do OP could've easily sued the company from being fired the way they were.
Probably how Op was hired in a different department at the same company to avoid a lawsuit
The golden rules of working:
- Don't mess with the IT Guy
- Do what you're told AFTER you got it in writing
- When a subordinate asks for anything in writing, have a good thinkingsessio about what you just ordered them to do.
If there is one thing I have learned from listening to every rslash video is always ask for everything in an email. Worked great with the insurance company that was refusing to do their job!
05:12 I've seen signs on bathrooms that spell it is m e n s with no apostrophe and womens with no apostrophe LOL I've always thought that was the stupidest spelling in the world
Another error that is never corrected is, "X items or less," where it should be, "X items or fewer."
Hey, what ever happened to "I don't work here lady" stories? Those were fun
Not as many lately, maybe?
Here's the thing with the "customer is always right" quote. It was chopped in half. The full quote is "the customer is always right in terms of taste.". So if they want to buy something that looks completely ugly, let them do it because it's still a sale.
But, stupid people are going to be stupid.
Story 3: in one job, they had a pretty bad management, which meant we were always running against the clock to finish the projects, one day i had to stay overtime until around 11 pm, so the next day i oversleep and was at work at 8:30am (my starting time was 8 am) my boss saw me late and scold me and i replied that yesterday i stayed lated more than 5 hours, he said that it didnt matter, that i had to comply with the work schedule, ok, fine by me, that day at 5:30 pm i took my things and say goodbye, everyone look at me shocked, as we were working on a project that was urgent and overtime was necessary, i just said, my schedule is 8 to 5, i stayed 30 min extra to compensate my late entry and left, the next day i make sure to be before 8am, but was standing outside the office, everyone that saw me there asked me "what are you doing?" to what i replied, waiting for the 8am, so i can start working, this went off for 2 or 3 days until my boss went to talk to me and gave me and apology. i didnt stay long at the job, the coworkers where great, but the management was awful
Second story. If HR saw this folder and knew how to do it's job, it should have taken a ~1 minute cursory glance to the contents before fully firing OP. Put OP on temporary probation before firing it. Because firing OP for how it worked, when most of the issues were direct orders from it's superior is not a good move. Plus, it means you are wasting an employee that is already trained. They did a big disservice to their own company.
By the way, the ten soldier firing line wasn’t one man being shot by ten men. 9 of those men had blanks and 1 person had the live round. This is to make sure that none of the men actually feel responsible for being the executioner as no one knew who had the live round.
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Fall down the basement stairs… Hear the door shut! SMH 🤦♀️ I forgot I’m a girl! My fault, sooooo sorry!😮
Dealing with people in hardware sales is a pain. I worked in the paint department in Home Depot. We can only shake paint. A man (customer) asked my coworkers to shake a can of something. I luckily looked over & replied with sorry we can't shake that. The guy rudely asked why? I said, "Sir, it says it flammable on the bottom. .
Had a similar incident to the concrete loading one myself: A customer had purchased a buildable bed frame and I was tasked with bringing it out and to assist with loading it. The problem however, was that the box was longer than the passenger compartment of her van. Even knived in between the seats and resting on the center console, there was still a foot left to go. Rather than giving up, she doubled down, insisting that it'll fit if I just pushed harder. I refused to help, so she pushed on the box with all her might and then proceeded to crack her windshield from the inside using the furniture as a battering ram.
I cant comprehend the thought process of the middle manager. Where I worked before, we tried to use technology to make things easier for the people working. You then can have staff both happier and more efficient. More efficient means you can take on more work and the business is more profitable. Take on enough work, and you can hire more people.
If you then manage twice the number of people efficiently, you can easily ask for a bonus, better pay, etc. Focus on efficiency, growth, and looking after those under him.
Or the other option is this. Manage up. If he loves AI, and used it to automate his own work, that frees up his time to take on more responsibilities of the person above him. Then the owner can possibly look at starting another branch / location. If you are the branch manager, you get paid more then a middle manager.
But no, the people he was in charge of looking after, he tries to get them fired.
F that guy.
OP of the paper trail story should have consulted with a lawyer about wrongful termination. I bet HR would have been more than willing to work out a settlement, including that idiot manager being let go ASAP. Honestly, as soon as it was brought to HR's attention, they should have automatically reversed the termination and had a chat with that stupid manager to make it clear that OP is not to be messed with.
rslash, man, I love you. But the fact that I have to listen to up to 1:30 Minutes of advertisement on Spotify on every episode, though I have Spotify Premium, drives me away from you, honestly. Hope you see this, no chance of contacting you via Spotify.
Good managers are hard to come by
Like shiny Pokemon
welp. xD im an IT guy, trust me- AI isnt there yet in terms of intelligence.
He played himself like a fiddle xD
Story 1: I once read a story on Reader's Digest about a man who was hired to find redundancies and make the company work with the exact number of people really needed. The last day, his last order was to fire himself cause he was no longer needed.
Story 4:
It's rare you actually see someone own up to their mistakes and not throw blame around in these stories.
It's kind of refreshing.
OMG... I literally burst out laughing when OP said that the AI could replace the middle manager! 🤣🤣🤣
The Honda civic story should have made either 2 trips or 3 with about 500lb for 2 trips or 3 with 350 lb. He could have googled it and did some math
2:09 Excuse me, what daddy?
#3: Actually, rSlash, the point of the firing lines was that only 1 person had a live round, everyone else had a blank. This was done randomly. This way, no one knows who actually made the killing shot and and it's less likely for one person to feel guilty afterwards.
Oh, that 80lb concrete hit me hard! Last week we had brilliant stone masons putting stone on our house. They ran out of the MORTAR mix they were using. My husband was at work, I had the day off. I said ‘no worries, I’ll run up to Lowes and get more!’. Me being an absolute daft prat, didn’t take a photo of the bag. I went in my truck and purchased 4 80pound bags of concrete mix 🤦♀️. I weigh 85lbs. Picture me picking up those bags of solid dead weight and putting them in the back of my truck 😂. There were contractors, customers, just staring at me! They offered to help but I said ‘cheers for the offer, I’m good!’, only to get home and realise I got the wrong shite! Went back and returned those for the mortar, 60lbs thank the Lord! I had them unload and load it. I was absolutely stuffed from lifting those 80lb bags. I can’t imagine someone thinking THAT much of the concrete mix would be acceptable in a small vehicle! That’s hysterical 😂😂. I learned the difference between concrete and mortar though so that’s a massive plus. I’m a stubborn Irish lass who learned a very valuable lesson, if someone offers to help I will be answering ‘yes, please!’ And tipping them! My spleen didn’t rupture as I thought it did 🤣🤣🤣.
Hey folks, never forget, get every bs order in writing. Every last one. You want me to do something that will end badly? Sure bud sure. Can I get that in writing?
that "in compliance with Dave's 9-5 rule we must log off now"
I can only imagine what those executives must've told him.
Omg I think I had that boss from story 1. Incompetence, wilful ignorance and - when trying to explain something because you don’t yet realise that they don’t care about what is right, only being the authority - the hostile blank stare. 😅
Also had at least a bit of boss 2 but, sadly, no heroic outcomes-focused senior bosses to do away with stupidly rigid 9-5 rules in favour of productivity.
Remember- the full quotation is, "the customer is always right in matters of taste."
What it means is people are free to purchase whatever they want, even if it's garbage.
What it **isn't** is an excuse to treat service workers however you please.
The saying is.
The customer is always right when it comes to fashion.
What that actually means is, who are you to tell a customer that wants to spend their money on something ugly that it’s ugly. If the customer likes it sell it to him. It has nothing to do with concrete or fast food, or any Karen anywhere.
Who wants to bet that the Big Wig Boss never saw the waiver from Store Manager? Once the incident happened, that copy probably went straight to SMs shredder and BWB never had a clue. That’s how I like to think it happened since BWB never called back.
Either that or BWB knew and once paperwork showed up, just cut and ran from it.
Once again, arrogance and incompetence have been spotted traveling in the same sinking boat.
Jesus Christ. As an owner of a Honda civic, I’m cringing at the concrete in the car. It took me 3 years to save for a decent down payment. How dumb can someone be? 😂😂
So op1 gave someone more work n removed another from their position? 🤔 Thats not win
Op2 was fired wrongfully and he didn't bother to care
"Sir, robots are going to cost the same as real people."
Or watch the episode of Twilight zone from 1964 "The brain center of Mr. Whimple."
To the synchronized slaughter thing: that was not to slaughter a person. It was to alleviate soldiers' consciousness because, with so many people firing, nobody knew who actually killed the victim. Usually, only one gun had an actual bullet inside, and nobody knew which for the sake of soldiers' mental well being.
The irony is that a Honda civic CAN definitely handle 12 80 pound bags of concrete. Its just that it cant handle all of that weight in the trunk. Playing men's rugby, we would regularly cram 5 people with an average weight well over 200 lbs plus all of our gear into small sedans and travel hundreds of miles across the country with no issues. Your suspension cant tell if the extra 1000 pounds is from large men or concrete, but it can certainly tell if the weight distribution is utterly fucked. Had the guy loaded all of the concrete bags in the passenger seats, he would have probably been fine
Story 1 in a Shellnut:
《x》 "Thanks, for the promotion, idiot!"《x》
《×》 _"GET SNUCK-UP ON!"_ 《×》
Story 3. Technically those firing squad executions were meant more for the executioner’s wellbeing rather than the spectacle/executed. Only one of the rifles on the squad was loaded with live rounds. All others were blanks. Everyone was randomly assigned a rifle and they all shot at the same time. So no one knew who actually ended up killing the person
I loved my last job with the flexibility built in. It was during COVID so most of us went to remote work from home. I would get the late afternoon boost that would sometimes overlap into the evening. Or I would have to babysit a deployment that we always performed after hours. We were very efficient and everything got done on time. So if I started a little late one day or took off early, or took a break in the middle of the day my management did not care. We would always put in the 40 hours a week. Management was happy because the work got done on time and with a minimum of mistakes. We were happy because we were treated like people instead of just some cogs in the machine. I am retired now.
4th story: the full quote is "The customer is always right, in matters of taste." More people should be aware of this.
"Vore_Daddy" leaving a comment about being eaten by leopards is way, _way_ too on point.
Story 1 :plot twist IT guy messes with Himself
Normally malicious compliance isn't my favourite, but I am DYING over the men's fashion story. That was so perfect. I'm so sorry that OP was fired but I just couldn't help laughing. GET IT IN WRITING.
Fifth story: One of the phrases that triggers me the most is "the costumer is always right" because that's both a blaitant lie and en encouragement for entitlement and stupidity. People go with the specialist because they either don't know what they are doing or are too lazy to do it, the last thing you should be doing is berate the especialist.
4th story...someone obviously failed physics in school. 12 bags x 80 lbs each = 960 lbs. Max weight capacity of a Honda Civic is 850lbs, (Including the driver) Yeahhhhh good luck with that.
2:06 "Vore" what?????? 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
Work Hours: Dave is a great Manager! 9-5 is great for the workers.
guy in the car: cars always have some room for weight limits. The customer is always right
*car fails*
loading guy: the customer can always be stupid too, it seems
Don't mess with IT employees in general, they're are usual smart and in demand and you rely on them way more than you actually know
I'm a programmer and I work from, yesterday for example I did not feel like coding anything all day, I try and try but I got nothing, so I took a long nap (3-4 hours) woke up worked 10 hours straight into the morning hours and got sh*t done, it is never a good idea to tie programmers to a fixed schedule
For story #2, she wasn’t worried about a paper trail because you can delete e-mails. Pretty sure people like this exist as a single brain cell hive mind and anytime someone says e-mail, that triggers the escape function. No thoughts after that.
Well aware that cars have weight limits. My Honda CR-Z has the weight limit of the vehicle listed on a sticker inside the door; you can see the sticker when you open it. This little car has a limit (of both passenger and cargo) of a whopping 250 pounds. I knew it was gonna be a disaster the second "1000 pounds" was mentioned. LOL
I work in the IT field, I VERY RARLY bring up automation for this exact reason
The thing about AI is it can only parse and sort content that already exists, it cannot create new ideas. It also cannot be trusted for accuracy, even on its math. I've been toying around with Microsoft Copilot, feeding it some physics equations, and so far it's gotten around 4/5 of them incorrect. It even tried to claim that a hypothetical "Mach 1,000,000" was slower than lightspeed, although at least AI is receptive when I correct its math.
I mean that's where AI is at today. A HUMAN is correcting its math.
Exactly. A lot of people thinking AI is going to boot everyone out of a job, but there are some things it just cannot do. I’m going for a degree in finance and accounting. AI might become a decent tool in accounting for data entry, but it’s likely not going to evolve to the point it could replace a trained person in the next decade or 3
@@raarasunai4896 Yeah when people hear "AI" what they are actually thinking of is "GAI" or General Artificial Intelligence. AI that exists today is basically extremely autistic, capable of doing one thing pretty well, and that's it. Chat.GPT is great at parsing text, but it cannot itself draw a picture. Something like DALL.E can draw pictures, but cannot write a book. A GAI however would basically be a fully sapient consciousness capable of independent thought and decision making. Sapience without sentience would be an interesting concept.
of course vore_daddy makes a joke about leopards eating a face.
I used to be a loader myself. I was waiting for a customer with a washing machine, and they pulled up in a Corola, and got mad when I told them it wouldn't fit, and even madder when I refused to tie it to the roof
I'm the front end loader at my local Lowe's, meaning I'm the guy who loads the refrigerator into your truck. I've worked the job long enough that I can easily lift a shopping cart over my head without issue, but lifting even one bag of cement still has me grunting. You could tell me that stuff was made of dark matter and I wouldn't be surprised. It's that heavy
I'm actually surprised the car couldn't handle the load. I wonder if they distributed the weight properly. A Civic can take 4 passengers. 4 passengers my size weighs more than that concrete.
There are just certain things that I never expect Dabney to say out loud. Such as "Vore_Daddy"
fyi for y'all - the actual saying is "the customer is always right IN MATTERS OF TASTE."
Working as a Pro Loader at Home Depot your car has to be grossly tiny to recognize immediately that it can’t fit only 12 bags of 80lb concrete
Story 5: so lemme get this straight: they asked to do something that wasn't safe, you refuse to do it, because it wouldn't damage the product, they insisted, signed a waiver exempting you from any liability, you get a copy as well, and then they try every sleazy tactic in the big book of scammers to screw you out of money? To qoate James "Wow! What an asshole!"
The 10 soldiers exacuting the prisoner only 1 gun has a real bullet just so the soldier don't know who fired the shot
I had a similar story instead of concrete it was stones 1st year working in the summer and these people wanted 296 things of stones but they had a small Suv that can weigh up to 1100 pounds so i was told put in half that was around 50 to 60 i said ok. I was annoyed that she is wasting my time because she had a friend that had a f150 but didn't asked him so after getting around 50 we had to wait for another 15 minutes for him to pull up. So we waited her friend gotten the f150 and her other friend gotten the rental truck and we had a forklift and a driver so we gotten all of that over with so i did more carts because I'm the only loader and the other guy had gotten fired but that is another story for another day but so during my break that lady came back piss looking for me because her car couldn't take the weight and had to stop half way from her house to unload to the pickup truck, but my lucky friend who I'm still friends with told her I had went home and couldn't find me but yeah I was just following orders getting it done and not once did she told me how much her car weigh but yeah she told him her car could weigh up to 1100 or 1500 pounds but it all came up to 6000 pounds but yeah now I always ask how much can your car weigh up to. So yeah if your getting stuff from Lowe's or Home depot do your research of the weight of your cars and how heavy the products because most of don't know a damn thing about your car.