r/maliciouscompliance | I got my Family to hang up the UGLIEST Painting EVER

hey everybody my name is Steven and welcome back to the storytime channel without wasting any time let's gonna do our stories of the day I guess I'll reply to all I'm a software developer my department and another department each made different products but a customer would often have both and these products need to communicate with each other both teams at the task of adding a feature which required some modification to how the products communicate communication is done via a published protocol which means that Alber two teams just need to follow the spec which is great the teams are in different countries so time zones make direct collaboration somewhat challenging my team finished our changes and so I reached out to my counterpart on the other team to arrange for testing our products together they were still working on it and that was all I heard from them for a while that's fine we were ahead of schedule I can wait until they're ready I set up a sample installation on a spare server and told them how to access it remotely and asked that they let me know if they need anything a week or two passed before they were ready and they started testing on a Friday they encountered some problems so they sent me an email because of the time zones this was past my working hours and I wasn't checking my work email when I didn't reply they brought another email see seeing their boss and my boss when a reply to that email didn't come quickly enough they see seed even higher on the chain of command demanding that my team work to fix the problem they further stated that if the problem was not immediately fixed their release would be late and it would be entirely my team's fault on Saturday I got a call from my boss explaining the situation he politely asked me if I could spare some time to come in on the weekend to troubleshoot the problem I agreed I spent some time reading log files and packet captures and comparing system behavior to the spec soon enough I found the problem their product was sending messages that did not conform to the spec I was able to simulate the bad message and a fixed version of that message to confirm that our product handled both as it good nobody from the other team was on line so I send my report by email remember how they sent that email blaming my team for their problems the email that went to their boss their boss's boss my boss and my boss's boss yeah that was the email I replied to replying to all I very politely and professionally explained exactly what the problem was making sure my explanation would be clear to those upper level managers before going into the technical details and what changes they would need to make to fix the problem clicking the send button has never felt so satisfying working on the weekend resulted me and being in a much better mood than if I'd stayed home the whole time and per department policy I took some comp time during the week to make up for those weekend hours this is my first time working with this team but from what others told me this wasn't an unusual experience a few years later the company was restructured and that office was closed down completely it must have been incredibly frustrating for all that to have not have happened within their working hours and then realized that the other team got frustrated and sent an email to their boss and their boss's boss claiming that they were the problem forced my superficial family to hang up the ugliest painting ever my dad and stepmom recently bought a beach house that's an eight-hour drive from where I live during a visit with him a few months ago he asked me and my sister to create liquid paintings abstract marble looking canvasses the desperate artists sell on Etsy for the new beach house he demanded that each of us create one liquid painting so that he could hang them on a wall together at the new place what was this so important to him well for almost 10 years my dad has lived with my stepmom and their house is a 1.5 hour drive from my primary residence he chose to live there but for the sake of maintaining the image of a nuclear family he insists that I Drive myself and my sister back and forth between houses whenever he wants to see us he has us posed for family photos greet neighbors to make it seem like we live with him and then drive back home a deer to later it's all about creating the illusion of family togetherness and the liquid paintings were the latest manifestation of this idea my dad and stepmom had already made their paintings to Bluegreen beachy designs cute my sister followed suit using the same comfortable color palette I realized what I needed to do they gave me online instructions that told me exactly how to create my painting but they never said I needed to use the same paints I dug around in the basement and found some red gold and black acrylics for my design even after following the same instructions everyone else used my final product was a gory nightmare that resembled pasta sauce their reactions were immediate while I was still mixing the colors my stepmom said red interesting after a dried my dad said it's so dark pleats later at the beach house I found the stack of paintings hidden in an empty room exactly as I expected they couldn't hang them together on the wall because mine was so drastically different three cool paintings like ocean waves and one marinara sauce volcano I suspected from the start that they couldn't exclude my work but they would never accept it either I gave them the benefit of the doubt maybe they were still busy unpacking other stuff but then my stepmom ambushed me with perhaps the greatest gas lighting I've ever personally witnessed you know it's not too late to redo your painting if you still want to in the week since creating my masterpiece I never considered redoing it she desperately wanted to incept that idea in my head I replied no is something wrong with it she said of course not a month later back again at the beach house I asked my dad why the painting still hadn't been hung up he just didn't have a good answer the best he could manage was we haven't found a good spot for all of them the fit I almost laughed out loud at the time all of the walls in the house were blank the next morning I awoke to see the array of liquid hanging on a wall over the stairs a bunch of abstract ocean designs alongside my blood fury square after years of driving back and forth to complete my dad's perfect family image and in advance of many eight-hour drives ahead I finally got to create my own image so if you were given the opportunity to paint whatever splotches and abstract designs you want on this blank canvas what colors and maybe even what kind of design would you want to go for let me know what you would have done in the comments section down below spoiled ketchup really makes a huge mess back in the late 1980s I worked as a server at one of those restaurants with the large boy statue dressed in red and white checkered overalls standing outside of the building every evening as part of close up procedures we check all tables to clean the table seats walls replenish sugar packets and refill the ketchup bottles while checking the ketchup we'd look at the ketchup in the bottle for any bubbles which meant that had gone bad and we'd put the bottle at the edge of the table to be collected emptied out washed and refilled it was okay we take off the caps put them in bleach water to wash top off the ketchup wipe off the bottle top clean off the caps and put them back on if there were no bubbles I'd always quickly sniffed the ketchup because I didn't trust that no bubbles meant to was okay one night I'm doing my rounds check a bottle no bubbles take off the cap to clean it sniff yeah but cap back on and place at edge of table move to the next table head server let's call her Amy comes by picks up the bottle and looks at it why is this bottle on the edge of the table it's boiled no it's not there are no bubbles it smells funny Amy takes off the cap and smells it no it doesn't it's fine come clean it and top it off no it's boiled and it needs to be thrown out no it's fine come top it off I went back over to the table took off the cap cleaned it topped off the ketchup cleaned off the bottle top replace the cap then gingerly placed it back next to the wall this whole time Amy is standing over me looking smug okay there I did it but if it explodes I'm not cleaning it up Amy still looking smug fine now go finish the other tables I shrugged and deliberately moved over to the other side of my section Amy picked up the bottle again opened it smelled it shrugged her shoulders captain almost slammed it back down on the table and turned away she hadn't gone more than five steps away when pop the bottle exploded glass and spoiled ketchup all over her back multiple booths the floor and the ceiling I smirked and kept on cleaning the other tables the other servers were trying not to laugh as well come clean this up nope I told you I wouldn't you didn't believe me so did you clean it up dome I know you're fired manager then spoke up from kitchen doorway no she isn't she warned you and you agreed clean it up yourself neither of us had seen him come out of his office when he'd heard Amy yelling at me earlier but I'd have walked out rather than clean up the ketchup in glass so I'm glad he saw what happened and stood up for me guess who never second-guessed me on ketchup being spoiled after that she didn't like me after that but the manager made sure she didn't retaliate well not too bad anyways also fair warning from a former server it's a good idea to check the ketchup containers at any restaurant you go to most of them just top them off and leave them out on tables all day and overnight for weeks on end you know I would never really was thinking about it too much but after reading this I'm gonna have to check all the condiments whenever I go out pint guy gets exactly what he asks for these to work for this family-owned Farm is a manager for their ice cream counter sometimes during the day there would only be a few of us called in because it was so empty on this particularly quiet Saturday I was by myself behind the counter I don't know where this large man burst through the front door and makes his way over to me clearly in a rush and stressed about it he demands a pint of in my opinion one of our grossest flavors and begins to tap his foot and annoyance while he waits manners who is she I start to make his pint in seeing he's in a rush trying my best to be quick about it keep in mind I was a 16 year old girl and he was a large man in his 50s I was anxious to say the least I finished quickly in Hanuma spite and without flinching asks me to weigh it I try to explain to him that a pint is a measure of volume and not weight but he refuses to hear any of it I obliged trying to get him out the door as quickly as possible I don't remember what unit the scale was set to but needless to say the scale redpoint 900 for some reason this infuriates him and he barks actually the scale should say 1.0 as a female working in the service industry I get a lot of BS from male customers especially once telling me how to do my job this point something inside of me snapped and I turned to him with the thickest smile I could muster and said of course sir I added an extra scoop onto the top and reweighed it one point 100 he seems pleased then since he's in a rush starts grabbing over the counter for his pint cue malicious compliance oh no sir you said you wanted this exactly one point zero zero zero I have to make this correctly I explained in a sickly-sweet customer service tone y'all know the one I made this man we didn't extra ten minutes while I painstakingly added and subtracted minuscule scoops of ice cream to get exactly one point zero zero zero to read on the scale when I finally handed him his pint he was so upset and now late so he mumbled some choice words at me I don't know exactly what he said but I heard stupid and wish you knew the math through his money at me and rushed out the door best part my boss known for being hard on employees and a stickler for the customer is always right comes out from the back room to tell me she heard the whole thing and she thought it was the funniest thing she'd heard all day I have since quit that job but while I was there he would come around to start arguments with the younger employees about the weight of his pints but would shut up when my boss and I walked out to confront him probably at a fear of getting embarrassed he is somewhat of an inside joke between all the employees but I hope mine guy is living his best life with his pints of nasty flavored ice cream I'm really wondering what flavour it was if it was so gross actually I just looked in the comments it was cherry Jubilee a homemade concoction with cherry ice cream and cherries apparently it tasted like medicine to Opie on paper doesn't sound terrible though turned a nun required signature into a work of art a few years ago I was in a job that provided me with a work vehicle and fuel card I was always pretty busy in this role so refueling was often and time consuming in the scheme of things the fuel card stated clearly on the reverse side signature not required one day the guy serving me asked me to sign I advised him that a signature wasn't required for this card for some unknown reason he found it essential to insist rather than argue I signed a quick Peter in balls looked up at his dumbfounded expression with a smirk and walked out this then became my go-to scribe when asked to sign rather than waste time explaining it wasn't required I don't know of our finance department ever saw it but I always have someone with a sense of humor spotted it edit I'm female the best way you could handle this is if the cashier noticed and looked up at you confused or whatnot you just look back at them yourself and be like what can you not read it very well or what and hopefully just confuse them even more deliver tomorrow okay at a previous job without getting into detail we stored important items for different businesses when they needed any of these they sent through a request and provided it was before 4 p.m. we delivered it the next day there was an unspoken understanding that if it was a large order they would put it through early to give us plenty of time to deliver it until one day one of our bigger read in titled clients decided they needed 100 boxes delivered the next day a friendly phone call to them was unsuccessful basically they told us it was in before 4:00 they need it tomorrow I spoke to my boss and we came to an agreement next day I sent my drivers to do the rest of the run while I picked up the order I then loaded it into a spare van and continued with the rest of my work Bree p.m. comes and I let my boss know I'm taking the van home he smiles so see you tomorrow and I'm off at 3:30 I arrive at the clients to them in a panic thinking I'm not coming and they close at 4:00 when they ask why I'm there so late I merely responded we got them your next day didn't we after they had to stay late to help unload everything to their credit they apologized and never pulled that stunt again all it takes is a little painful retribution for them to realize that what they did was not very cool but with that being said that's all the stories we have for today so what I want to know is which of these stories is your personal favorite and why let me know which story was your personal favorite in the comment section down below and thank you all so very much for watching and listening to the storytime channel if you haven't yet please consider subscribing and don't forget to turn notifications on so you'll never miss an upcoming video from the story time channel thank you all again for watching and listening to today's stories on the storytime Channel [Music]

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Length: 17min 1sec (1021 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 19 2020