Willfully Incompetent Developer and His Team Exposed When Coworker Stops Doing Their Work

A developer and their team were either incompetent or were willfully so when it came to completing their tasks for a project lead. When she stopped picking up the pieces for them, suddenly the project was revealed to be exactly that: pieces. 

I'm pretty sure but not entirely positive that there's some kind of programming happening here. Still, I'm less sure that whatever it is that they're doing constitutes the title of 'developer.' If someone could please let me know what these people are even doing for a job, that would be excellent; there's so much jargon in this post that my head is spinning after reading it.

This thread was posted to r/MaliciousCompliance by u/CreedenceFearwater who tells the story of their malicious compliance when told to take a vacation by the team's manager. 

Scroll on for images of u/CreedenceFearwater's story and the reactions below.

 

Manager Fired On False Accusations, Entire Team Walks Out

There's no better sign of a great manager than inspiring loyalty in their subordinates. Bonus points if you can achieve this while smashing targets. It reminds me of this quote from somewhere that I can't quite place… But I'm certain that it's from some sort of literary masterpiece…

"The truest victory my son… is stirring the hearts of your people." -Terenas Menethil II.

Well, this manager managed to do both the things listed above. She smashed targets and turned around stores, but when push came to shove, and she was pushed out over some petty political bulls#*t, her workers realized that they knew where their loyalties lay. 

This thread was posted to Reddit's r/antiwork subreddit, a subreddit where workers share stories about their exploitative work environments. It was originally posted by the manager's husband, Redditor u/PladBaer, but the manager herself joined to give a first-hand account of the incident under the account u/kiindraka.

Keep scrolling to see screenshots of the original post and the reactions. 

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Stepmother Demands Stepdaughter Wake Up Early To Parent Her Children

OP here is in a bit of a bind, having had more children that she seems to reasonably be able to take care of on her own. Instead of asking the kids' dad for help, she went to her 16-year-old step daughter, asking if she could wake up early, make breakfast, and get her children ready for the day. Being a fellow child who also has to go to school, she very reasonably declined. They're not her kids, and she's technically one of them. But OP doesn't want to take no for an answer.

The internet was pretty adamant about the fact that this mom should have probably had the forethought to not put herself in the situation where she needs the help of her husband's kid just to wrangle all of her children, and went on to press as to why she didn't just ask the kids actual father.

HR Fires Girl Before She's Even Hired, Turns Out it's Because Her and Her Mom ‘Karened’ the Employees the Day Before

You can't 'Karen' your way into a job… 

Manager Orders Muralists To Paint In The Rain, Destroys Work, Employees Leave Business Gutted

It's sort of important to have a boss who knows how your job actually works. Otherwise, they continually demand that you do unreasonable things, make the work itself worse, and end up making everyone at the company look like a stupid jackass. You know, sort of important.

This person's boss in particular didn't know how paint dried. A manager in charge of a team that paints murals didn't know, or wasn't willing to accept that you can't paint in the rain. This seems like a no-brainer for anyone who is worked with or even seen paint before, but manglement wasn't going to let the laws of physical reality get in the way of a completed project.

As it turned out, this was the last straw in a whole bundle of screw ups that led the whole team to realize that they'd be better off somewhere else. It's just too bad this manager won't have to be forced to include on his resume "doesn't know how paint works, made a whole team quit."

For another wild one, here's theemployee who got fired on a technicality so they took their property and left the business nonfunctional.