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Shorts not allowed as part of the school uniform? No problem!

Not my own story, but my original retelling of a public one....

[REPOST] Send 3 years' worth of documents? OK sure!

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Don't follow the manual, follow what I say!

I used to work the evening/night shift at a coffee shop chain. That time of night in inherently slow, so we would get saddled with the general upkeep of the equipment. Nothing too high tech, just simple disassemble, clean, re-assemble (coffee grounds get into EVERYTHING). I took a shining to the task because I’m fairly handy...

You need to know what I'm going to do with MY money? Ok...

This is a story from my dad....

How to close down Production 101

A few years ago I was working as an international buyer for a manufacturing company....

The coupons have been applied, as requested (lemmy.world)

[REPOST] A Manager Has To Dismiss Me? OK, I'll Just Get Overtime For Doing Nothing Then

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The EU forced Apple to allow users to replace their own batteries, Apple did so by making the process as troublesome for users as possible. (www.ifixit.com)

[REPOST] Our head of IT needed a new password, and an explanation of due process

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[META] 2.8k subscribers - welcome! Updates, Rules and Navigating the Fediverse

WELCOME!...

That time I followed my employment contract to the letter

It’s a 3 months long malicious compliance but it was the first time I didn’t cave in front of a bullying team of managers:...

Breaking Down Barriers: Starting today, all Subscribers to r/PoliticalHumor are now members of the Landed Gentry. - r/PoliticalHumor (reddit.adminforge.de)

That applies to newcomers too. For example, if you want to lock a thread, simply comment "!lock".

Won't let me use someone else's (free) rewards card? No problem, i'll make you sign me up for another card!

(full disclosure - I posted this on reddit about 6 years ago, just saw it while I was deleting my reddit posts and thought I would port it over)...

Admin work matters!

To understand the context: this happened around 15 years ago, when automation was still somewhat new....

No bicycles/skates? Fine. (i.imgur.com)

Don't want to listen to the information I have to tell you? Your loss.

Here's a shorter story of malicious compliance, again from when I was working front desk at a value/budget motel....

You really need to think about what is more important...

Almost 15 years ago. Not my MC, but I worked at the same company for several years leading into it. None of the glory is mine, and I am not any of the named or fired characters in this story....

[REPOST] You might like to back up that decision...

[REPOST] Years ago, I was the CTO of a software company that was perhaps the worst run company I've ever seen. It was run by a "chairman" who used to be a flight engineer, and who had no experience at all in the software industry. One day, in his expansive wisdom, Mr. Chairman decided that we were going to give his friend (a...

r/tattoo is now a fanpage for t.A.T.u. (www.reddit.com)

How John Oliver became a weapon in Reddit’s civil war (www.theguardian.com)

Moderators flood feeds with pictures of TV comic as they fight owners’ plans to go public

"Don't you dare put one foot out of the house!" OK! (static.boredpanda.com)

Dispose of financial records? You got it, boss.

So I once made the mistake permitting a client to store some (say a dozen) boxes of financial records in my home for a couple of weeks. By 'permit', I mean they just dumped them there, and I didn't physically restrain them from leaving. This is in Vietnam, where you are required by law to keep your corporate records for 35...

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