Petty Yet Effective Power Moves Employees Pulled Off

Thursday, October 15, 2020

Petty Yet Effective Power Moves Employees Pulled Off

Never underestimate the kinds of petty lengths people will go to in the workplace environment to make their power known, or get back at a particularly insufferable coworker. This collection of petty power moves are as impressive as they are just terribly petty.

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Text - r/AskMen u/plagueisthedumb • 5d + Join What is the most petty but effective power move you have done? Good Fucking Question A new senior supervisor started at our workplace a few months ago and I would be working under him as a particular zones supervisor. I'm 30 so l'm out of the ordinary supervisor age and looks etc normally its an old boy thats been in the industry forever. I see the new dude in the car park and go to introduce myself. He looks me in the eye as he's walking towards me

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Text - I was standing there pretty baffled about how rude he could be but then chalked it up to not realizing so after he goes into the office and comes back out I assume he has found his bearings so fast forward a minute or two and we both find ourselves at the coffee station and I go back in.. outstretched my arm and go "hey mate l'm co-" and he cuts me off. "The milks empty can you get me another." Just talks at me, time to give the boys their prestart before we get out there. About 40 of us

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Text - Darren trys to interject to correct me so I talk over him and let the boys know let's get to work so everybody left. It took him about 4 weeks to correct everyone seperatly for his real name but even now people call him Darryl. Fuck you Darryl 10 6 a 2 5 7 19.8k 1.3k 1 Share

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Text - Artifex75 • 5d 2 Awards Our assistant manager has changed the schedule several times without notice, then happily tries to get us written up for being late, not showing up. I religiously document the schedule by photographing the screen, since we can't access it at home. After having to come in to HR twice on my day off to prove the schedule had changed, I began writing her up for every single time change without notification. She is let off the hook because l'm just a peon, but she still

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Text - storming_bridgeboy • 5d When I worked at a grocery store I was in the meat dept. We closed the counter at 8 and cleaned until 9. My dept manager said if we finished cleaning early we could head out. But he was 9-5 so he wasn't around. I worked there for some years, and as the years went on one of the front end managers that did closing didn't like us leaving early. It wasn't up to them. They were not my boss. At some point they implemented a policy where we had to call the front desk and

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Text - Draconus83 • 5d I worked in a call center that had a Keycard security entry at all outside doors. My team supervisor was a tool who would penalize the smallest deviation from any rules yet he ignored them when it suited him. One day when entering I realized too late that I had forgotten my Keycard at home. A friend swiped me in. I was ripped a new one and told everyone had to swipe their own card or they weren't allowed entry. Under any circumstances. Fast forward about three weeks later.

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Text - Brother_Farside • 5d My director had minimal respect for me, but our corporate office insisted I be a part of the management team. Meetings are held at a rectangular table. knew he'd sit at the "head", so I arrived early and sat at the other "head". He had to face me during every meeting. Reply 1 2.4k ...

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Text - workingnights • 5d 1 Award Last day at a job, been at the place for 5 years. Going round, last chat with different folks in different areas. One guy who always tried to get a reaction from me, I walked up to him and said I never bothered to learn your name. Walked off happy. Reply 1.5k

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Text - fredsterchester • 5d I learned that my manager hated me and wanted to fire me but I was so good at my job and we'll liked by the rest of the company that HR wouldn't let her. I showed up on time every day and completely ignored her. would take smoke breaks and chum it up with the other department heads. When I finally got a better job and could escape her I gave her flowers. She was such a toxic bully Ive never encountered someone so deliberately malicious and to this day I don't know exa

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Text - ItsACaptainDan • 5d • Male I was an MA for a very wealthy, pretty arrogant doctor. They'd regularly not finish or even properly code charts, which means we don't get paid for anything we did, yet they never knew why we were losing money. They'd let the unfinished charts pile up into the hundreds and then task us with going through the notes ON OUR DAYS OFF while they sat at home, cruised on their yacht, or, my favorite, left the country entirely for a vacation. And, they were a jerk to me

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Text - Wang_Fister • 5d Lost out on a promotion to leading hand (construction) to nepotism. Nevertheless tried to give the guy some advice when seeing some rookie mistakes popping up, which he promptly pulled rank and told me to follow orders. So me and the team complied with instructions to the letter, resulting in $500k damage and the communications for a whole town cut off and the company nearly going under. Reply 2.4k ...

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Text - My old buisiness partner tried to enforce a non- compete even though I was only doing residential work with the business I started. We had previously had long email discussions and arguments where he refused to do residential work and was very clear he was only ever going to do B2B. The non-compete got thrown out 5 seconds into arbitration (sadly, I never got to use the emails I had saved). After we left the courthouse I sat in my car calling every single customer I served when we were pa

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Text - AptCasaNova • 5d • O I had a manager try to twist me into working on a day that l'd booked off for a family funeral. It was not a direct relative and I didn't bother checking the official policy about what I was entitled to, but I did mention when I booked it off that it was for a funeral. Nothing was asked about who it was or if I was ok, but I didn't offer any details. Anyway, manager fed me some crap about 'Friday not being ideal for time off' and asked if I could work anyway. I said n

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Text - shogi_x • 5d I regularly butt heads with the sales team so when I saw the sales director at the front door fumbling to get his access card out, instead of opening the door for him, I stood there and watched him struggle. It's a glass door so he could see me standing 3 feet away, enjoying my coffee. Looked him dead in the eyes and smiled. Man that felt great. Reply 1 1.2k ...

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$Text - jaggerman503•5d I was recently moving out of a toxic living situation. When i sat down with my 2 roommates at the time to give them notice, i agreed to pay all bills up until 30 days from that day, as a courtesy(and to try and maintain some semblence of a friendsbip with the one i had known for 6 years. They started to nickle and dime me on everything and decided that they wouldn't give me my portion of the security deposit. So after i moved out a week later, they texted me for the rest o$