Factory Boss Forgot About the Contract & REFUSED To Give Me Tools For 3000 Robot Calibration ! r/MC

welcome to r/m malicious compliance where we share stories of people conforming to the letter but not the spirit of a request and today we have three great stories so subscribe hit the like button and let's begin the first story amid the chaos of a rainforest named company's distribution warehouse an unrivaled worker showcases their unmatched skills and saves the night the Second Story amidst mounting pressure and overdue calibrations a disgruntled technician's refusal to work overtime triggers a chain reaction of disastrous consequences for the company the third story if food is contingent on unpaid work I'll take my lunch instead disregarding wasted expenses today's first story is are you sure you want to do this I give you 15 minutes I used to work for a rainforest name company several years ago that primarily focused on shipping and delivering packages and orders from their customers online specifically I worked at one of the distribution warehouses that was the last stop for packages that were to be loaded into those blue vans that bring your new stuff to your front door big trucks would unload packages throughout the night to be sorted and prepped by the workers and then the full bags of packages would be loaded on to vans in the morning to be delivered by the drivers to houses this system repeated every day with only two sometimes three shifts of workers and as luck would have it I would is happily placed on night shift the work was simple if not exhausting and being at night meant we didn't have to worry about the heat as much as day shift I won't go too deep into detail about how every job worked but I'll try to give enough detail to help give you a good idea of what happened after the usual new higher period where I was just trying to find my groove and get used to the hustle and bustle of the warehouse I found myself assigned to one of the nightly jobs that was unanimously described as the most difficult job there and honestly I completely agree with that the packages would be unloaded from the trucks onto the conveyor belt and need to be pushed to one side of it or the other depending on which side of the building they would need to be going to the packages would have a sticker with a letter A through Z followed by other indicators for where it would go later the letter determining which aisle it was supposed to be in and in turn which half of the building it would need to be based on where that aisle was compared to the belt with me so far good because if standing beside the belt pushing and pulling boxes and paper packages for several hours based on a letter sounds like an easy job congrats you would be placed across from me to get your brain melted by the pace we had to work at imagine if you will a rhythm based video game set to a high difficulty and then replace the buttons or notes with packages of different sizes that would be a fairly close representation of what you would be staring at for not a few minutes but several hours things would get so overwhelming that some workers would give up halfway through the night after getting to dizzy from having the rollers of the belt spinning in their vision for too long the nights were even harder when the holidays came around and the belt would be absolutely packed with boxes falling off the side on the regular but then you would look up across the belt weary from the never-ending Monsoon of labels and letters and see me listening to my nearby music and moving packages around like I had two extra arms and was some kind of splitting God I will admit it did take a while to get used to the flow when I first started and it did put a bit of a strain on the eyes but I would honestly just shut my brain off and let my eyes become unfocused as I just autopilot the job like a madman no one ever did better than me at this job during my time there that's not my words that was everyone who ever tried to replace me from that spot like when our unwitting antagonist of this story finally enters a manager from dayshift that will call Sam occasionally managers would switch around from the different shifts to make sure they all knew how the place function properly cool no problem I got in from my shift on the night Sam was to manage our shift for once I gave the usual Hells and ironic good mornings to everyone preparing for the night shift and went up to the job board everyone got a signed with a little name badge next to the job they would do that night as they came in and since I was usually one of the first ones there I would just say hi to the night manager as I moved my own name to the splitter position as we both knew that it was my spot this night however I went through those same motions said hi to Sam placed my tag on splitter and went to go prepare the split zone for my day a few minutes later I get called over to the JW board Sam so hey I wanted to let you know that I moved you to a section A for the night go ahead and get a scanner set up and head on over me confused but what about the splitting Sam don't worry we'll have it covered we just need you over in a I had already set up my place at the split zone so I could handle it at my best and he was already moving some stuff away so he could do whatever he was doing for the night it was basically just a couple of package racks for damaged stuff I pull off the belt as well as a place for my small speaker I was a bit confused as the package count was higher than average that night and a good splitter really takes a load off of a lot of other jobs down the line me serious face are you sure you want to do this Sam confused do what me are you sure you don't want me up here it's supposed to get pretty busy tonight Sam waving me off we'll be fine if it gets too busy one of us managers can jump in to help when he said that I actually chortled aloud briefly and shook my head I had seen the managers split before and none of them would last the whole night if they had to do it very few could and I was unrivaled at the job so I knew what was about to happen the first trucks had already pulled in and they looked pretty beefy to start with I did some rough estimation me all right I'll give you 15 minutes Sam huh 15 minutes me yep got to go get a scanner now not much time before that belt starts and I have to get ready again he had actually seemed confused as I walked off to get ready for my new job I was a little bummed in all honesty splitting was my favorite job with how I could just shut off for a bit while doing it kind of like being in a trance or meditating but the man said what the man said once the belt started I went along doing my job scanning and placing packages in bags not much to say other than it was slow and boring but the man said what the man said once the belt started I went along doing my job scanning and placing pack packages in bags not much to say other than it was slow and boring but I kept an eye on my watch sure enough barely 10 minutes passed when one of the lane supervisors Ambassador entered my Lane Ambassador hey op me smiling they need me up front don't they Ambassador also smiling yep they just radioed in I'm here to take over until they get a replacement here me checking my watch 5 minutes ahead of schedule too must be pretty bad Ambassador they've already had the to pull jackpot back to the front twice me guess I'll go save the day jackpot was a term we used for any packages that reached the end of the belt without being sorted they were put in a large container and wheeled back to the front to do the whole run of it again I handed the scanner to her and quickly made my way to the split Zone it was absolute Mayhem I saw the poor replacement splitter and two managers including Sam trying to calm the monster that was this night's intake packages were falling from the belt people were being buried to their knees and Sam looked like his eyes were about to explode with how wide they had gotten I took a deep breath and cracked my Knuckles mid stride as I moved to the front of the line me I've got this get those packages picked up and put into a jackpot Sam I'm going to need those racks back over here once it's cleared up other splitter back up a bit and double check my work there was absolutely zero room for debate as everyone had no choice but to listen to what I said as I began to split the belt like I was conducting three orchestras at once that 10 minutes I was gone took me another 20 to get things running smoothly again needless to say I was thanked for the rescue and told to stay there for the rest of the night much to my pleasure Sam also proceeded to ensure that I was designated splitter every night I was there to avoid further problems they also started to include me in conversations on How to Train new splitters for the nights I was out and any advice to pass along from my own experiences I guess it sometimes does pay to be so good at a job that no one one can question you aside from a couple future stories I might tell some other time there were still nights that they put me at other jobs but it was usually slower nights I would usually be called up if someone gave up or it got busy though which I didn't mind too much as long as we were clear that at the end of the night that was my spot the second story is you can't work overtime even though we're 3,000 behind okay I won't then I used to work for this hell hole of a job I was a Cali ation technician and my job along with the two others we had was to keep our tools and robots in the plant in line with our customer specs failure to do so would allow our customers to pull out of their contracts with no legal ramifications so an important job however the rest of the plant didn't think so and neither did my supervisor who the company hired off the street with literally no knowledge of the job at all story for another day there anyways we were behind on calibrations Big Time this was due mostly to the fact that the lines refused to get us the tools to calibrate them because they didn't want to affect production and my so-called supervisor had no spine and kept telling us to work around it for reference we kept 6,000 different tools and robots calibrated and almost 3,000 in the system were overdue so yeah we were in trouble and it was a ticking Time Bomb one of our customers had called and said the next Monday they were coming in for an inspection which you think would be a big old OS moment but no one seemed to care I volunteered to work that weekend to get everything on that customer's line calibrated so so we could avoid the sh storm but my boss told me that he couldn't approve any overtime without a detailed list of what I plan to do I told him I couldn't give him a list ahead of time as I had no clue which tools were where or what I would have to replace but I could log it all as I went and give it to him Monday he said no it was either now or I wasn't allowed to show up so I didn't next Monday customer comes in within an hour of being there realizes almost all their tools and robots are 4 months out of date immediately shutdowns production sends those employees home and pulls their contract because now they had to recall 4 months worth of product they start slamming on my department to which I just looked at my boss laughed and then quit because F that one of my friends that works there after I left told me the customer renegotiated the contract much more in their favor meaning the company got paid way less than they were originally per product and the company took a loss on profits that year because apparently the customer went and told all the other customers it could and an sh storm hit that place they ended up selling the place after another half year year the third story is the provided lunch is for those who work through lunch only you got it the company I work for and specifically the team I used to belong to was one team of a department of like 60 operations people and twice a month we had peak days which were just high volume and crazy to help on these days one day the management team decides to start buying the department lunch on these days so we can work through our lunch and not have to worry about food now please keep in the back of your mind that this is enough food for the 60 staffers and the 20 or so managers and supervisors now this goes on for about 3 months and we work through our lunch and always finish the work and put in our OT no issues but now it's my manager's turn to set up the food order but she can't just do that no she needs to project her skills so she makes an announcement to the whole department it's been brought to my attention that some of you have been taking food and not skipping your lunches the provided food is for those who work through lunch only now if she had ended it there that would have been one thing but she didn't she adds and for the record OT will not be approved if you take the food we're providing you lunch in exchange for your time barring how illegal this is we're all peeved and start checking our pay stubs and sure enough we were not paid for OT on the last few peak days lunch shows up about an hour later and not a single effing person outside of the managers got up and took the food not only that none of us put any OT that day at the end of the day the management team tossed all the food 3 weeks later on the next Peak day the same thing happens again and then again on the peak day after that the next time the MD managing director comes on the floor in the morning and announces that there will be a change in the policy team we're tired of ordering food and throwing it away we're also not keeping up with the volume of work on peak days food is anyone who wants to work through their lunch and of course you will be paid for your OT in fact we will be retroactively paying you for unapproved OT on your next paycheck but we need to get the work done so let's come together on this turns out one of the older ladies who had been with the company for like 40 years put in a call about what was said and happening to HR and a lawyer she wanted her OT paid it got so ugly that HR ended up pulling badges to see what time everyone left for a 90-day period and paid us any mot to the minute past our scheduled time for some people it ended up being several hundred edit I'm pretty sure they thought they'd get away with it h they did also get in trouble later on for telling us that working on a holiday entitled us to a floater day expected as hourly employees we were actually entitled to time that was a nice retroactive check too thank you for watching don't forget to subscribe if you want to know when the new video comes out and hit the like button to support the channel

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Length: 13min 42sec (822 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 07 2024