'City attorney...refuses to work with farmer neighbor': New neighbor refuses farmer's trade offer, becomes infuriated when his taxes skyrocket

This attorney moved from the city to the country without considering the consequences. It's a major life change, as u/USPO-222 writes. 

Social media often glamorizes life on a farm. On Instagram or Tiktok, people who act "trad" (meaning traditional) show off their relaxing, low-technology life. Some people will share their days of baking fresh bread, doing household chores, or feeding chickens. Farm life is all that stuff, but there's so much more that goes into it, especially for those who have made farming their livelihood. Farmers have a hard life — they wake up in the middle of the night to begin caring for their cattle or tending their crops, and most don't quit until dinner time. It's no 9-5 office job, that's for sure. There aren't really "vacation days" for farmers, since they always have to care for either their animals or their crops, or both. 

The attorney in this story decided to buy a 50 acre property on farmland. After moving from the city, he met his new neighbors, including a farmer who'd had an agreement with the previous land owner. The farmer tells the attorney that he will mow his fields a few times a year and harvest a few trees, and in return, the attorney would receive enough chopped wood to heat his house all winter. But the attorney seemingly thought he was too smart for this deal, and was convinced the farmer was taking advantage of him. After rejecting this offer, he must have regretted it. 

Next up, this HOA was tired of looking at this person's 30-year-old car, so they demanded they move it, but the car owner had the last laugh. 

'Force me to do Karaoke?': Non-singer pressured to perform at show-off's karaoke party, cue malicious compliance

Karaoke is not for everyone, and it's ten times worse when you have an actual good singer present. We all know why that is. They hog the microphone, they take it too seriously, they pick obscure songs (probably musical theater), and belt crazy notes that don't actually sound as good as they think. In short, karaoke is only fun when everyone in the group is on the same page about what this is. You can either have a room full of show-offs and legitimate singers, or you can have a room full of non-singers. Anywhere in between could be a recipe for danger.

 

This thread was posted to Reddit's r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit by u/Iborrador, who begrudgingly attended a friend's party where he was forced to participate in karaoke. He complied but only in a way that would reveal how silly this self-obsessed "singer" was acting. For his song, he chose the band Polyphia. For those of you who didn't know (I didn't), Polyphia is an instrumental band. So, this dude did participate like he was supposed to while also managing not to sing a word. 

 

Our self-obsessed "singer" host was ticked off for sure, and when she organized the next party, she made him sing something with lyrics. Of course, our Redditor managed to get away with another form of karaoke sabotage. Keep scrolling below for the rest of the story and for some funny karaoke suggestions from folks in the comments section. For more tales of malicious compliance, check out this post about a fast food worker who was told never to talk back to their manager.

'Phone must be off during work? You're the boss': Employees lose customers for hours after their bosses insist they turn off all mobile phones

Turn all phones off? Okay, if you say so…

Phones in the workplace are quite the divisive topic. You could argue that these days, people really need their cell phones to run their lives effectively. For example, if you're at work, but you get a call or text that your child is sick and you need to get them from school, having your phone on you is the best way to communicate.

On the other side of the coin, however, phones are so addictive that it's easy to get lost for hours browsing social media and chatting with friends. In the workplace, even a few minutes of phone time is too much for many bosses. This person's boss is no exception. They laid down the law — no phones at work whatsoever. Okay, whatever you say, boss.

This OP, u/Super-Monkfish, shared their tale of malicious compliance that took place when they worked at a betting shop. It was the morning of a big horse racing event when they decided to comply with their boss's rules, no matter how impractical. 

Check out this story, plus delighted commenters who added their own thoughts. Then, read this story about a family who visited a college campus, only to majorly embarrass themselves by overreacting. 

‘They never did it again': Resident gets even with neighbor's kids who dump trash over fence, throws trash right back into their backyard

Having kids as neighbors can result in quite a hassle if their parents aren't doing their job right… These kids in particular were an absolute headache for an entire neighborhood, as they would constantly throw trash (among other things) over their backyard fence. One of the residents in the neighborhood had been moving some of the stuff that had ultimately ended up blocking the sidewalk for years. That is, until he ended up scrolling the neighborhood Facebook, finding out that he wasn't the only one who was absolutely fed up with their antics.

These kids' parents had been contacted too many times to count, and the general consensus was that they simply didn't care that their kids were being a bother. And the Parents of the Year award goes to… not these people, that's for sure. OP hatched a petty plan for revenge; his goal was to get these children to stop throwing their trash over the fence. To say he succeeded would be an understatement. To find out how exactly he got these kids to grow up, despite other people attempting to do so for years, scroll down. The full detailed account of events is below. For more, here is an employee who left the payroll tab open, allowing all other employees to see how much each person's salary was after his boss annoyed him.

'They completely bombed': Student gets forced into doing an entire group project alone, fakes flat tire on the day of presentation so they fail

Show me someone who has been assigned a group project, and I'll show you someone who has had a terrible group project experience. Although if the experience of having a bad group member in a group project is as universal as it's claimed to be… some of us must be lying. You never see or hear people talking about the group projects where they were terrible group members… 

"Oh, yeah, I had this project with Jennifer in high school where we were supposed to do an oral report on the usage of the tersorium in Ancient Rome and its role in the spread of typhoid and cholera—totally had her do the entire thing, bro—it was epic!"

I've probably shared this before, but the icing on the cake of my school group project experience came from one of the final projects I had to complete to get my degree. This was for a non-disclosed pre-med course. I was paired up with an individual who absolutely could not care less about the project—as long as I secured them a top mark—since they had "more important" things to study for. I wish I could say I did something creative, but—quite liking that class and wanting to get a good grade—I somehow ended up letting myself get coerced into doing the entire thing. I'm not necessarily proud of it, but I got a good grade and avoided conflict.

That individual is a doctor now and—well, I'm not. So I don't know what conclusion we really should be drawing from all of this. All I can say is I hope they don't cut the same corners in their medical practice that they cut in their education.

Anyways, this group project member came up with a better solution… and faked a flat tire on the day of their oral presentation.

Next, see this other story of group project revenge.

‘Our eyes met; she knew it was up to me': Employee uses promotion to shut down boss's retail store, leading to boss's termination

Don't bite the hand that feeds you… unless of course, that hand isn't yet feeding you. Sometimes you can't know these things beforehand. As told by u/kaltics, this is a story of petty revenge that went a little further than initially intended. OP was working as a retail store manager but was promptly demoted during a mass redundancy thanks to their boss and the obvious managerial differences they had between them. Upper management, huh? OP was mad enough that they were seriously considering quitting and going to work somewhere else, but in the end, they were glad that they stayed.

Bouncing from store to store within the company, OP finally landed a position for the company's call center development and processes team. Some more time went by, and soon enough, the time for some petty revenge had arrived. In other words, the opportunity presented itself at the perfect moment. OP was given the power, so to say, to decide which retail stores within the company would be a part of a new sales experiment. The forecast was that this experiment would be very successful, so all the retail stores wanted in. During the meeting that this was to be discussed, OP noticed their old boss out of the corner of their eye.

If you guessed that OP took their advantage, you'd be correct. But OP's decision to keep their old boss's retail store out of the experiment didn't exactly go to their original plan… scroll down to read what happened next. For more, here is a waiter who demanded to be compensated for a $3,600 table who didn't leave a tip, then quit when they were denied said compensation.