'My home, my rules': Grown millennial daughter uses malicious compliance to get her boomer mom, a 40+ year smoker, to quit smoking

Sometimes you have to get a little feisty to help someone you love. When the end justifies the means, ya know? This is exactly what one grown millennial daughter did for her boomer mothers. 

The adult millennial, Reddit user @Ambitious-Writer-825, posted something to the subreddit r/MaliciousCompliance, but a different type of story than the usual one you see on that thread. Usually you see someone using malicious compliance for exactly what it defines to, complying but only with malicious intent. However, this millennial may have felt malicious in her actions and conveyed that it felt more like petty revenge, but her "malicious compliance" actually had benevolent outcomes. 

The millennial daughter grew up in a household with the classic boomer parenting rule, "my home, my rules." It's probably safe to say that most millennials heard at least once in their life, "as long as you're under MY roof! bla bla bla." So, when this millennial daughter grew up, found her own home, and started her own family, she decided that this rule would not just apply to her kids, but to her own parents. She had just had a baby and the mother wanted to spend time with her grand-baby. However, this boomer mother, now grandmother, was a very heavy smoker. So the new mom laid down the rule that her own mother set when she was a child of having to abide by the rules of the homeowner. So she told her she could not smoke around the baby, ever, and she couldn't get wear clothes that she had smoked in previously if she wanted to be near the baby. 

The boomer mother was flabbergasted that her own rule came back to haunt her as a grandma, but she couldn't turn back on her words now. So this "malicious" compliance (or should we say benevolent compliance?) helped a boomer grandmother who had been an avid smoker for 40+ years quit cold turkey. 

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'I suspect workers are sabotaging equipment just to meet the quota': Bizzare safety procedures at work cause cobra effect, corporate bit by malicious compliance

Malicious compliance is often used when the employees feel like they have no other choice than to obey the ridiculous rules management creates on the different whims they have. And boy does management have whims… they don't always necessarily make a lot of sense. In this case, industrial workers began to literally break safety equipment, and fix it, just to write a safety violation report. A new employee who was not informed of this was absolutely flabbergasted.

The same mantra had apparently been going around his office: keep your eyes open, and the violations will appear. In his own words, 'I was the last one to use this ladder the day before, and it was perfectly fine, which lead me to my conclusion that this man was purposely SABOTAGING company equipment just so he can fix it and then write a safety violation report. I feel like I'm in an episode of The Office'.

Scroll down to read the full detailed account of… well, hilarious events. For more stories like this, here is another employee who activated malicious compliance mode, costing the company $6,000.

'Management Uno reversed them': Entire team quits toxic workplace simultaneously, management "rejects" resignations and fires them anyways

In the U.S., each state has their own employment laws to protect both employers and employees. Unfortunately, employers are the ones with all the money, so things tend to fall in their favor over the hardworking employees. Recently, a woman shared her quitting saga on her TikTok. She worked for a non-profit that used business practices that she said "did not align" with her ethically. The work environment became more and more toxic and her and her entire team had had enough. You can see this happening in real time on this woman's TikTok profile, because she posted videos from her getting ready to give her 2-weeks, her and her entire team giving their 2-weeks, and then getting the letter saying they "rejected" their resignations and are terminated. The company really pulled an Uno reverse on them. 

She says the termination letter is not only a slap to the face with disrespect, it was also riddled with grammatical errors. The company really scrambled to put that letter together. However, she was ready to go no matter what and seems happier than ever. Viewers comment on her video encouraging her to take legal actions calling it "retaliation" which is illegal. Others are saying she should be happy that the "Uno reversed" her because now she should be able to collect unemployment. 

She continues to post videos about her adventure down this new path after leaving her job, but one this is for sure, even though it didn't go down as she was hoping, she was still happier than ever to leave that place. So really, Uno reverse on the company because joke's on them, she's into not working for them! 

20 Wickedly weird memes from the deep depths of the internet

The internet has no shortage of absolute weirdness, and just in case we ever run out, people are constantly creating even weirder things. 

Let's talk about some of them, starting with the Doritos pop tarts. Would you eat these photoshopped frights? I would have to try a bite, but I would wash it down with the cursed Nutella burger, which seems intense but still edible. Would not eat: the spaghetti backpack. It would be cold by the time you carried it to your destination. Just add a second backpack full of warm garlic bread, and your problem is solved! 

Everyone's so creative on the internet. Below are 20 images that are so strange that it transports you to another universe where it could actually exist. 

Next up, this woman told her sister in law to stop copying every single thing she does from TikTok…but she ended up getting roasted in the comments instead of being validated in her belief. 

'It was evident who was a contributor and who was a leech': Teacher doesn't let slackers get off scot-free in college group project fail

Whether we like it or not, group projects are one of the earliest signifiers in life of who's trustworthy and who isn't. Whether you're in second grade, junior year of college, or well into your professional career, collaboration can be especially annoying when your team members, to put it bluntly, suck. In this instance, these group project members seemed to really suck.

 

This Redditor was among the few productive team members for this college marketing project, and everyone had literally all semester to prepare their fair share of the work before the final presentation. However, just 24 hours before the project was due, it became quite clear that they didn't have enough material to submit, mostly due to the work (or lack thereof) of a couple of slackers. At this point, the Redditor had no choice but to ask for an extension from the professor and explain why. Keep scrolling below to see how this all turned out for the slackers on the team (I'll give you a clue: it didn't turn out well!).

 

For more stories like this, check out this post about an employee's squeaky chair and his boss's temper.

'Our cat didn't break the towel rack. I did': 20+ Secrets so outrageous people could never tell their significant other about it

Everyone keeps secrets from their significant other, but not everyone would fess up to secretly letting the dog snooze on the bed, or devouring "nine cans of ravioli" when their S.O.'s not around. Thankfully, these folks did for our amusement!

"What's a secret you'll never tell your partner but are willing to tell strangers on Reddit?" one person asked the r/AskReddit sub, and answers of all types poured in. Commenters shared everything from the mundane everyday life secrets to things that would totally end a relationship immediately. 

After you check out these wild confessions, click here to read about one amazing boss who stood up for his employee when she was being shouted at by a customer. 

'She hired him': Legendary manager sticks up for scapegoated black sheep employee, helps them leave for major promotion

Have you ever entered a workplace, friend group, or any social group and been warned to watch out for one particular member? It's an unfortunate aspect of our social nature; we always need a group or individual to be "othered" to feel like we're "in."

While it's important to keep an eye out for red flags and not make yourself too vulnerable to possible exploitative behavior from these people (if what people say is true), it's just as important to form your own opinions. You might find that this person you've been told to be wary of is the black sheep for other reasons. Maybe they're kinder, have stronger ethics, or are simply better than their peers who have groupthink-condemned them. Sure, maybe they're a little weird… but isn't everyone?

I've seen these "Mean Girl" groups in action and seen them do this to a "friend," only keeping them around so that they have something to gossip about behind their back. Once the ousted friend gets tired and leaves the group, it's only a matter of time before the remaining members turn on each other, a singular target for their toxicity being the only thing that was keeping them together. 

This is a story about an individual who was othered by their workplace; when their new manager joined, they were warned about workers but were surprised to find that nothing said was actually true. As it turns out, this worker was the glue holding the place together. So, as any good manager would, they got to righting wrongs.

Keep reading for some screen grabs of this brilliant story, which u/baka-tari told in a thread posted to Reddit's r/pettyrevenge subreddit. For more workplace stories like this, check out this small business that stopped servicing a longtime client at the client's suggestion.