'We just wanted them to honor the contract': Couple moving for work discover they won't be fully repaid, HR director steps in to enforce policy

This company seemed generous at first, but then they refused to pay for their employee's moving costs. That came as quite the surprise to u/nascentia and their wife. The OP's wife believed the company she worked at was going to pay for her to move, and in the contract, it seemed pretty inclusive. The company assured her they'd pay for all the closing costs and fees for both their old place and their new one, since they were moving to a new city. So imagine the OP's surprise when the company decided not to pay that after all. 

The OP shared the entire story to the r/MaliciousCompliance community, who loved this workplace tale. The couple ended up having to work with an HR person to get their reimbursement. It's certainly a bad look for the company to promise to cover a broad array of moving costs — of which I'm sure there were so many, as moving isn't cheap — and then to turn around and try to get out of paying it. That's a waving red flag, and to treat your brand new employee that way isn't exactly inviting them into the role. In the comments, the OP also answered questions about what all went down.

Scroll down to read the entire story, as well as comments cheering the couple on. After that, check out these people who shared the funniest, most bizarre encounters they've had with workplace clients. 

'She was livid': Wedding planner tells sister her marriage won't last, quits, sister loses venue

It turns out this bridezilla couldn't handle the truth. Look, while we admit that there were likely other ways the wedding planner/sister of the bride could have handled this situation, we can also agree that this bridezilla very much did this to herself. There should be a rule that if someone pushes and pushes and pushes for you to be as honest with them as possible, then they should be able to handle the truth. What you tell them shouldn't be held against you if the straight truth was what they wanted.

 

This thread was posted to Reddit's r/AmITheA**hole subreddit by u/planstowed, a wedding planner who normally refuses to work with friends and family but who was pressured into helping her sister out. Because of her job, the Redditor developed a strange gift: she was able to predict how long her clients would last in their respective marriages with a strangely strong accuracy rate. So what happened when the bride insisted that her sister give her an estimate? The planner at first did what any reasonable person would do and said "forever." 

 

But the sister wasn't convinced. She kept on pushing until the planner blurted out the truth: a year and a half. That's when the sister lost it and the Redditor pulled out of the wedding. The only problem is that meant the bride lost the venue too, as the planner and the venue were a packaged deal. Keep scrolling below for the full story. For more, check out these bad breakup stories.

'She served a kid buttermilk instead of regular milk': 25+ Rookie restaurant staffers who made embarrassing mistakes on the job

When you're new in a job, you absolutely have to learn some things the hard way — how else will you learn? 

Fresh employees are always making lots of mistakes. They're new, they're learning, and sometimes that makes you, the seasoned employee, giggle a bit. Sometimes they don't understand rules about when to cut corners or stick to the books. Other times, they're not sure when to get a manager involved or when to handle customers on their own. At least as a longer-term employee, you've already made those mistakes, and now it's your turn to help someone else grow in their role. 

One person admitted to being confused by that thing customers do when you've already rung up their order and opened the cash register — then suddenly they want to confuse you by saying, "I don't need change, here's a five." I've felt my ears burning because I, too, struggle with this type of math. For some reason, customers love to do this, and I've messed it up so many times. I've ended up giving them too much money or shorting them and having them get mad at me… After a while, I just started ignoring them, and gave them their change anyway. 

Check out the answers to this question from u/RootlesssCosmo, who asked, "What's the funniest rookie mistake you made or know of?" Tons of commenters answered honestly with their most naive goof-ups. 

Up next, these people shared their own workplace experiences about their "worst/funniest/strangest client stories."

'I'm feeling guilty': Minimum wage worker goes from making $13/hr to $32/hr, using dishonesty to climb the ladder and support his newborn baby

Getting a good job is nearly impossible these days. One man learned that in today's America, you gotta be a little ruthless, a little dastardly, and extremely cunning in order to get everything you want out of a job. In this case, OP was a minimum wage worker who was living with his parents who hacked the system with a little white lie, scoring the job of his dreams and securing a better future for his baby. Nowadays, a minimum wage job doesn't afford you much of a life, especially when you're a millennial poth3ad with a newborn baby on the way. 

OP was forced to make a tough choice. Should he continue on in his $13/hour job, crashing on his parents couch? Or should he fudge his own numbers a little bit to boost his corporate stocks? In the most quintessentially American way, OP chose the latter and decided to chase after that check, no matter what it cost his ethics. 

Cheating on a test couldn't be as bad as sleeping on a couch… right?

Scroll for the full story on how one man got his payday and climbed the corporate ladder using dishonest tactics and a little cunning to carve out his seat at the top. For more tales of minimum wage workers working overtime, check out this tale of a worker who took on a second job to make ends meet then got told off by their boss for being less available. 

'Boss changed my off days': Employee forced to leave second job after toxic manager changed their schedule with no notice

Managers do not have your best interests at heart. Even if it's the kindest manager in the whole workplace, it's important to always be careful about who you trust. In this case, we have a manager who was well aware that their employee could not work on Saturdays and Sundays because of their second job. Rather than respect those rules that were clearly laid out for them months ago, the manager decided not to honor those days and shift the schedule with only two days' notice.    The employee shared their side of the story via this Reddit thread, and it is probably unsurprising to learn that this phenomenon occurs regularly for the folks of Reddit. When you sign on to work anywhere and make it crystal clear from the get-go that you cannot work certain days, that schedule must be honored. It is the least your manager can do in exchange for your commitment to show up to your scheduled hours on time. If that schedule is not honored or changed at the last minute with no care or respect for your time, you should not be obligated to honor those changes. Furthermore, if an employee doesn't make enough that they need to take on a second source of income on their off days, the proper solution for the manager would be to pay them more in exchange for this schedule change. However, we know that outcome is simply too good to be true.   Keep scrolling for the full account and for the best reactions. For more, check out this post about an overworked employee who asked for fair compensation.