'I’m milking every minute to abide to your rules': Fast-food employee maliciously complies to manager's strict closing-shift rules and gets several extra hours of pay

Sometimes actually following the rules makes you more rebellious. That's right, it's called malicious compliance and it is a tasty form of protest. One person who works in the service industry at a fast-food restaurant played a grade-A malicious compliance tactic that actually had them getting paid more. 

They had gotten in trouble for starting their closing-shift duties early so they could leave earlier. The place closes at 9 and they didn't want to be there until midnight, so they would start a bit earlier, which we get them done closer to around 10 or 11. However, the manager caught wind of this and wrote them up. So they decided to do exactly what the rules told them to do. They didn't help with anybody else's closing duties any more, they only concentrated on their own. And they didn't start their closing duties a second before 9pm. And then once 9pm came around, they would take their time, making sure all of their closing duties were done properly. This had them staying until almost 1am, which means now, the company is paying them for several extra hours. When they were doing the closing-shift duties earlier, they were able to clock-out earlier. But since getting in trouble for that efficiency, they decided to make the company pay. 

Read the entire epic malicious compliance situation below:

'They complained I was arriving late': Guy gets revenge on nosy coworker by stealing their coveted parking spot

Coworkers either become some of your closest friends — or they become the most infuriating plague on your existence you would have never hoped for. They're either some of the most chill and kindest people in the world, or they're nosy, backstabbing, and cruel — there is no in-between. Unfortunately, some workplaces tend to have more of the latter category, and these coworkers make the workplace a toxic apocalypse.

This worker had to endure a nosy coworker who was determined to make worse the fact that their commute was becoming increasingly grating and made a point of broadcasting every time they were a few minutes late to every supervisor they could corner. 

This went on for longer than it should have before the worker decided it was time to exact a little petty revenge on this coworker. They began stealing the nosy coworker's coveted parking spot — ensuring that they were at work on time and that their coworker had to go without. 

Keep reading for this petty act of revenge; for more, check out this coworker who was tricked into thinking they had hit the jackpot and quit. 

'Everyone laughed... he was very angry': Employee maliciously complies with company's 'black footwear' policy by showing up to work in rubber diving flippers

Working for a company with a dress code can be exhausting. When you were hired, you had your own style, but now you have a closet full of cookie-cutter outfits that a blind librarian might wear to a funeral. Lame! Sometimes, if you have a chill manager you can get away with some small customizations to the dress code, but in this case, OP had a micromanager who rudely made the announcement to the whole office that, from that point on, black footwear would be STRICTLY enforced. 

Cue the malicious compliance. OP thought it would be funny to play a small prank on their micromanaging boss, but it quickly backfired into a full-blown rebellion (on accident of course). The day after the announcement was made, he showed up in a pair of black rubber diving slippers, the kind you use for scuba diving, which technically, according to their boss's request, fit the requirement of being a black article of clothing that is worn on the feet. Needless to say the boss was pissed. But this little act of rebellion sparked a hilarious uprising throughout the workplace, inspiring everyone to express their own individuality through their technically-black footwear. 

Scroll to read the full details of this flipper-wearing, workplace legend. For more stories about malicious rebellion, check out this story about a man who put a $31 lien on his HOA president's $20M property because he refused to Venmo him his debts.

'My mom had to literally be the one to fire my sister': Mom gets unemployed daughter work twice, daughter gets herself fired both times

This daughter needs to learn that no job is beneath her. Especially after getting herself fired twice from jobs her mother secured for her. Talk about doing the bare minimum that is required of you to get a job and yet, she still managed to find a way to screw things up.

 

This thread was posted to Reddit's r/EntitledPeople subreddit by u/DaFoxtrot86, who is the other daughter in this family and who clearly is ever so slightly resentful of her sister. Personally, I don't blame her, and of course, I feel particularly bad for the mother at the end of the day. She stuck her neck out for her daughter numerous times, only to have to fire her herself the second time around. Keep scrolling below to hear about the fallout and to read some of the best reactions to the whole debacle. For more stories like this, check out this post about an employee who got fired after discovering some major discrepancies at their company.

'I wasn’t allowed to discipline': 17-year-old allows spoiled niece and nephew to destroy the house after getting reprimanded for putting them in time-out

If you ever babysat as a teen, then you will feel this to your core. People think babysitting is an easy job, that's why teenagers are allowed to do it, right? Wrong. The only teenagers that don't struggle with babysitting are usually the ones who are older siblings and have had to watch over their younger siblings before. But if you as a teen who has zero experience in childcare, then you should be prepared for a lot of bumps on the road. 

For example, this 17-year-old Redditor who took to the subreddit r/AITA for a babysitting gig they recently did for their brother and sister-in-law. This teen had never babysat before, but apparently they were in a pinch and really needed a sitter STAT. So the grandparents, aka the teen's parents said they'd pay, so they took the gig. However, it turns out these kids were spoiled brats and had zero discipline. They were wrecking the house, so he put them in timeout. Apparently the SIL rushed home and instead of reprimanding her children, she yelled at her inexperienced teen babysitter. 

However, turns out nobody wants to watch these kids, because they asked for the teen to babysit again. Since this adolescent has no experience taking care of children and now has no authority to reprimand, they did exactly as they were told. They just watched the kids to make sure they didn't run away or get hurt, but other than that, they let them do whatever they wanted. So the kids (a 3 ½-year-old and a 2-year-old) destroyed the house doing toddler things like coloring on the walls and flushing toys down the toilet. 

The mom was upset, but the teen just did what they were told to do. What did the SIL expect? Do you think this teen was the ahole of the SIL? Read for yourself below! 

'Okay, I quit': Overworked worker denied a raise, immediately quits

Being denied a raise that you've legitimately earned often won't cause you to quit on the spot—but you might wish that you could. Often an organization won't see your contribution from your point of view, you might be coming from the standpoint of your raw productivity, but they're considering the entire weight of the top-heavy organization you've got presiding over you that they think is enabling that productivity to happen (and they have a point.) Plus, they have a standard to set; from their point of view, they just can't go ahead and give in to every demand. If they pay you at (or above) market rate, pretty soon, everyone is going to be asking for it. 

This worker shared their experience on Reddit's r/antiwork subreddit. They report that they had been led to believe by their employer that they were going to be eligible for a raise once they finished their degree. During the course of earning their degree, they had repeatedly gone above and beyond, taking on more and more responsibility before formally asking their employer for a raise once they had earned their degree. The employer shockingly told them no, leading them to quit on the spot.

The biggest mistake this organization has made, other than the fact that they haven't given this worker the raise that they probably deserved (regardless of their degree,) is leading them to believe that they were going to receive a raise before throwing it back in their face. Not delivering on that expectation has done insurmountable damage to the relationship.

Read on for their account of events below and the responses from the thread where they shared it. Next, check out this plumber who quit without notice for a massive raise.