Relatable Work Memes for Employees With a Permanent Case of the Mondays (February 21, 2023)

After every three day weekend lies the lurking dread of a short week. If a 4 day work week was normalized at your job, it wouldn't be so stressful coming off of a holiday weekend because you probably wouldn't be suffering from a 3-day-binge hangover and you wouldn't have your micro-managing boss breathing down your neck. The freedoms of the last three days have only taught you is that work sucks. Why do billionaires keep attempting to work? You'll never understand that. Either way, here you are, suffering the consequences of your peasant birth, working to make a living, but leaving you wanting more. It's what's led you to scour the pages of Indeed and ZipRecruiter once again. 

'She's not paying rent but is making demands?': Guy told not to cook in his own apartment by his roommate's girlfriend

If you're not paying rent, you forfeit your right to an opinion. It's as simple as that. It doesn't matter how often this roommate has his girlfriend over (apparently, she's at their place like 18 hours a day). It doesn't matter how serious the relationship is. Until she's on the lease and paying her share of the rent, she doesn't get to dictate what the rules are.

 

This thread was posted to Reddit's r/AmITheA**hole subreddit by u/Forward_Society_2253, who shared that his cooking has become an issue for his roommate's girlfriend. After refusing to give in to her demands, the Redditor started to question his decision-making when his coworkers said he was being a jerk. Our take? NOPE! The coworkers were acting like jerks. The roommate was acting like a jerk. And most importantly, the roommate's girlfriend was acting like the biggest jerk. It sounds like the lease is up soon anyway, so my advice would be to cook the smelliest dishes in the time you have left. 

 

Keep scrolling below for the full story. For more, check out this collection of texts from your exes.

'He is the laughing stock of everybody he ever respected': IT worker in charge of CEO's email triggers an email apocalypse

When the CEO of this IT company demanded changes to his email system, he totally miscalculated the consequences. U/dingdongdelongwong shared this story of malicious compliance, which was all brought on because of this bigwig's inane ideas. 

The OP shared that they were tasked with helping the CEO, "Mr. Bigwig," set up an auto reply feature on his email while he went on a vacation. The CEO seemed to not understand why he couldn't send someone an out of office email every single time they emailed him. Apparently he just wanted limitless reminders of how much fun he was having on holiday while his employees continued on with their workweeks. This smug CEO thought he knew exactly what he was doing, but he didn't expect the OP to comply with his demands specifically as he said. 

After you read about this excellent case of malicious compliance, read this story of a teacher who decided to follow their administration's stupid new rules exactly as written. 

'My mom says that it was a mistake': Entitled Mom tries to cheat daughter out of her father's inheritance

There's nothing like money and inheritance to drive a wedge between family members. There is a wide range of potential reasons why this woman's late father did not include her younger sister as part of the inheritance: perhaps he drafted the will before she was born or came of age, or perhaps she has a history of being irresponsible with money, or perhaps she even was included and this is all a lie concocted by the greedy mother. Who's to say?

 

One thing we do know for sure, however, is that this woman is entitled to her fair share of the money. There is no world in which signing that money over to her mother is the responsible solution here, no matter how much of a nightmare her mother is. The Redditor posted this thread on Reddit's r/entitledparents subreddit, and let's just say that people in the comments were quick to give similar advice. Keep scrolling below for the full story! For more, check out this amusing story about a guy's spicy order at a restaurant.

'I would like to get my refund': Absolute Karen gets roasted by business owner after leaving 1-star review for SNORKELING tour because they couldn't swim

I'm all for adaptive experiences for people with disabilities… but when your only disability is that you're an absolute moron, it's kind of hard to accommodate you. There's no shortage of entitled idiots in this world who are eager to blame everything, no—anything else for their problems. Unfortunately, we're stuck on this planet with them, and all we can do is bury our faces in our hands and sigh.

Enter: this guy. The guy who didn't know that he'd need to know how to swim to partake in a snorkeling tour. The most hilarious part of this entire thing is that he specifically addresses the fact that he was annoyed the guide wouldn't "aid" him—what did he think the guide would do? Operate his arms and legs for him? Possess his body and operate him like a puppet, like some sort of swim-lesson demon? Sorry buddy, the "possession" package costs extra—you should have read the fine print. Plus, you must allow enough time at the end of the tour for the end-of-session exorcism.

Readers were astounded when screenshots of the review were posted to a popular online community and were delighted to find that the owner had left a scathing response to the reviewer where the review was originally posted. 

Keep reading to see the review, the operator's response, and the reactions it generated. For more, check out this Karen, who couldn't spell and left a 1-star review for some birthday balloons. 

‘You Won’t Be Paid for This Mandatory Meeting. Also, From Now on You Will Dress for the Job You Want’ : Nepo-Baby Company Lacks Code of Conduct, Micromanager Makes up Rules for Employees, Leading To Malicious Compliance

Micromanagers are suffocating bosses who don't trust you to get the job done and certainly don't trust you to get it done right. This one in particular, 'Sally', was working in a company that was known for its nepotism. The upper-tier management was made up of family members and close friends. The woman who posted the story about micromanagement that led to malicious compliance shared the tale on Reddit — where she gained a lot of sound advice actually.

See, this micromanager ordered the employees to attend a mandatory weekly meeting — unpaid. Which is illegal. So not only was this manager annoyingly bad at her job, but she was also incredibly entitled and delusional. Now, on to the dress code — the company had no written code of conduct. But Sally decided that from then on, the employees must 'dress for the job they want, not the job they have'. 

Which is utterly ridiculous. You're basically admitting that the job they have is terrible. That doesn't exactly encourage them to want to stay there or put in any effort, Sally. Anyhow, what followed was a mix of some fun petty revenge, or rather, malicious compliance. Scroll down to read the detailed account. For more, you can also check out this tale of malicious compliance that has to do with the all-too-familiar attendance system. The employee got fed up after being micromanaged (I'm sensing a pattern here) and made sure to do exactly what his employer said — to a maliciously delicious T.

'I walked down to the office later that day with the biggest grin on my face': Teacher complies with school's annoying new rules, administration is caught off guard

This principal should have known better than to test the patience of this school teacher! Public school teachers already have so much on their plates, but this teacher's situation sounds especially grim. 

As u/Middle_Pound_822 shared to r/MaliciousCompliance, their school is currently plagued by an "overwhelming sewage smell." It's so bad that lots of the teachers have moved their classrooms into the hallway. That resulted in the ire of the school supervisor, who responded with a petty email (and no solutions for the issue of the sewage stench). The whole scenario is nightmarish, and as many commenters pointed out, it could be a serious health concern for everyone in the building. 

Scroll down to check out this satisfying tale of malicious compliance. Then, check out the way this delivery driver got back at rude restaurant workers who wouldn't let her inside the building.