r/maliciouscompliance | I made my Landlord pay $100,000 for repairs...

hey everybody hope you're all doing well my name is steven and this is the story time channel first things first congratulations to our giveaway winner for this week ladydragonpoet if you're interested in entering the giveaway this week stay tuned until later in the video and i'll tell you exactly how to that said we've got some malicious compliance stories so let's jump right into our first story of the day by lucanos do not make any contact with anyone from work once upon a time i was working with a major australian telecommunications company i worked in a call center with a group of underemployed lateral thinkers it made work great as you were always discovering new things but it made us a bit of a challenge to manage as the department tried to hobble us to fit into cookie cutter molds they expected of the call center operators we had a manager who was if i was to be generous useless he once went on leave for two weeks without a replacement being arranged i put a balloon with a face drawn on it at his desk as our interim team leader team productivity under mr balloon was measurably better than when the team leader was there and i proved it with reports and all suffice to say our manager did not command respect fast forward a few months and one of my colleagues figured out how to spoof emails our manager had a certificate he proudly presented on his desk saying he had graduated something something college having completed a course in frontline management he was extremely proud of this and so the target vector was clear my colleague went to an internet cafe back then they were a thing and sent a spoofed email to our manager the email was built to look like it was from something something college the email demanded that manager provide evidence of his competence as a frontline manager or his certificate would be withdrawn now manager's world was appropriately shaken when he got this email he must have complained to the appropriate higher ups because the infosec squad jumped straight onto it they traced the email back to the cafe's ip address okay in retrospect we could all see this error in judgment they printed out mugshots from the company's internal directory and identified my colleague as being the person who sent the email colleague was pulled into a day's worth of meetings as manager managers manager etc all went on him pretty hard trying to get him to confess so they could dismiss him for misconduct i think the company realized they were on shaky ground to try and prove that colleague had really done anything wrong oh the days before bullying was codified having sweated colleague all day with no effect manager's manager put him on paid leave pending investigation with strict instructions do not make any contact with anyone from work as they didn't want rumors of a pleb messing with the ruling class get out months pass colleague has not been in the office the company has completed their investigation but needs to let colleague present his defense but his mobile is disconnected and he has connected a new number with a competitor and he has moved home and he is not replying to emails he has ghosted and the company doesn't know what to do more months pass i guess it gets to a point where the company can declare colleague legally dead or at least say he has abandoned employment they stop paying his wages a few more months pass managers manager is walking through a business district in the city and runs into colleague colleague is in a flash suit with a briefcase obviously hustling to a meeting himself manager's manager says hello asks colleague what he's been doing with himself i work for a major tech company now i've been working with him since couple of weeks after he was put on paid leave i would have told you but i was told not to communicate with anyone from work thanks for that second paycheck though one of the best instances of malicious compliance i have witnessed and probably the most profitable so if this was you would you have gone ahead with this plot and tried to silently distance yourself and see how long the checks would keep coming in or would you be a little too scared about i don't know maybe legal ramifications what not i'm not sure and wouldn't go through with it let me know in the comments down below our next story is by gibberish making my landlord pay over 100 grand for fixing a sink so i'm a college student and i rent a room from a landlord and live in a house with multiple other students the contracts for my room clearly says that i have to fix all the damages to my room that i have caused at my own cost and that all the bigger issues in the house will be covered by the landlord well one day i noticed that my sink is kind of clogged and it's making a weird noise he says it's probably my own fault and that i should get a plunger to fix the problem a little background info about the house that i live in all the sinks at the top level of the house connect to the same pipe and everyone heard the same noise so the chance of it being my fault would be almost zero but since i had to fix the problem on my own i tried my best however you might have guessed it but i'm not really good at this since it's not my job i even have my dad check it since he knows more about this stuff than i do and he says the pipe is clogged somewhere but doesn't know exactly how far down the pipe so i tried my best to fix the problem myself but since it's clearly a bigger issue that is not my fault i contact my landlord once again he still refuses to come and fix the clogged sink even after me clearly stating that everyone is hearing this noise in this house and tells me to solve my own problems like an adult would well since i'm legally not an adult yet and having tried my best me and the other residents in the house have decided to give up trying to fix the issue and just let it be a month later one person in the house had water coming out of her sink because it completely clogged and within days everyone was having the same issue because now everyone was complaining to the landlord he had to fix the problem since it was a bigger problem within the house that everyone was experiencing not only did he have to fix the clogged pipe of all the sinks but he also had to fix the water damage that we all had in our rooms because the water would just come out of the sink when he finally decided to hire someone to fix the problem the costs were already up to 100 grand and will probably be even more since some of the other people living within the house have sued the landlord for not agreeing to the contract and for neglect of his basic duties as landlord he even called us and screamed at us why we didn't mention the problem earlier to which i replied that i tried to solve the problem as an adult by informing my landlord who was supposed to fix it but that this clearly didn't help it would just suck to have a landlord that just doesn't care about the property you're living in that's a pretty bad sign i would think one of the last things you want to mess with and let's sit around is problems with pipes in the house and plumbing so despite the fact that they had to pay 100 grand and it did bubble up into something huge it was a pretty big red flag that they were ignoring the sync issue our next story is by xlicious bank selectively enforces rules loses business and money in the 1970s with the uk suffering a recession and work hard to come by my then childless dad had an opportunity to move to dubai for work my mom was able to go with him they'd have accommodation provided a good income higher than the uk equivalent would have been and were able to fly over and check everything out before committing all in all a great opportunity they took the plunge and decided as they had no accommodation costs in dubai they would keep paying the mortgage on their uk house so it would be available to them if slash when they returned my parents had a uk current account with one bank let's call them goodish but their mortgage and saving account was with a different bank let's call them muppets every month dad's salary was paid into his current account with goodish and he then phoned them to ask to move the money into a savings account with muppets as this is the account his mortgage payment came from he never had any problems one day mom writes a check from the goodish account then later realizes the account will not have sufficient funds to cover it no problem thought dad i'll give muppets a call and ask them to move some back out of the savings unfortunately muppets didn't want to transfer money out of their account and so informed dad that the only way he can remove money from that account is in branch in person using his savings book now muppets didn't have a dubai branch in the 70s the only way he could comply would be to travel 3 500 miles home frustrated at the repeated refusal to help dad resolves the immediate check issue another way and looks at when he'll be next in the uk fast forward a couple of months and dad is back in the uk armed with his little savings book he strolls into his local branch of muppets and asks for confirmation of his savings balance and mortgage balance he then hands over the mandatory savings book and requests to withdraw the full savings account balance in cash dad then pays off the outstanding mortgage in full and asks for an envelope for the excess dad then closes the savings account walks the goodish and deposits the remaining savings bank manager tried to stop this happening but once dad pointed out that he technically isn't able to transfer money into his savings account without using the savings book he'd have no way to pay the mortgage the mortgage itself had no restriction on early repayment and thus he could do what he liked with his own money the bank definitely lost out on this because they're going to have interest on that mortgage so having that mortgage get paid out in full right in that moment they ended up losing a good amount of money because they should have been getting that little bit of interest every so many often times in that time frame the next story is by venerias how i got the final laugh at a slum lord years ago college days i had a slumlord for example he was an unapologetic butt barge in a girl's apartments to show new potential tenants unannounced even when the girl was unclothed in bed and wouldn't leave in our state they are required to give 24 hours notice before entering in my apartment i complained about a leaky sink in february 40 gallons a day when i measured it and it took him until november when i found a sink new in box at my back door i called him about it and he said he thought i'd get the hint and install a new sink myself the firebox to control the alarms was outside my door and it was faulty and would go off three times a day and night and i would have to dash to the box to reset the alarm kept calling him about it and he didn't care keep resetting it he'd say cue malicious compliance i started calling the fire department every time it went off instead of resetting it the fire department would have to come down to investigate reset the alarm and leave after the third call slash event they started finding him i think it was like a thousand bucks for each event the fire alarm was fixed within a day after that when i moved out i mailed the key back to him too late he received the key on the fourth when technically he should have had it on the first mind you i was vacated and moved out by the first but the mailed key didn't arrive to him by then i had even cleaned the entire apartment spotless better than what it was when i moved in to ensure he wasn't going to give some bs reason to keep my deposit so he took me to court for three grand three months worth of rent because he didn't get his key back by the first i told the judge the story but he said other things didn't matter technically i should have gotten the key to him by the first he asked the landlord when did you rent the apartment and he replied within two to three weeks it was rented so the judge ruled that three months rent was ludicrous and the apartment was rented within a month but since they technically said he didn't have the key on the first i would owe him one month's rent cue malicious compliance your honor i am but a lowly college student with very little income can i make payments in the amount of 50 a month until the debt is repaid and like that it took this guy 20 months to get his darn a thousand dollars and i wrote one letter in each czech's memo freak you repeatedly well it definitely sucks that because the key was three days late you have to pay a thousand dollars that said stretching it out over all that time making them wait nearly two years to get that thousand dollars that's a good little blow to the gut on them trying to get back at you so quickly now i just want to give you info on the giveaway so if you want to be in with a chance to win 30 dollars in amazon gift cards all you have to do is leave a comment pertaining to something you saw in the video on any video we upload this week and i will pick a winner from a random video on sunday night after the last video has gone out and announce it on next monday's video so feel free to comment on every video from the week to better your chances of winning again i do want to stress that the comment has to be related to the video so you can't just leave a random comment and expect to win and whilst you're at it why not like the video because it helps more than you know that said our final story of the day is by arabic davis1240214 you're counting minutes i can count seconds i recently had fun reminiscing in this post on don't work your lady about the ridiculous nonsense i dealt with while working as a grunt at a lower level corporate law firm in the early 2000s that story reminded me of this one that fits well in this sub the backstory takes a little while but basically the partner i worked for had let a project slide and was behind the eight ball with a big client deadline coming up i had a free weekend so i offered to work late a couple of nights and through the weekend to get it all caught up and ready i wanted the overtime i had a trip coming up and he was thrilled to be bailed out i took over a conference room and spent a few hours friday night plus most of saturday and sunday getting all the files in order and correctly documented i probably put in a total of 18 to 20 hours which would have put me at around 55 hours for the week instead of my normal 35. i was stoked because the first 10 extra hours were straight pay 20 an hour but the next 10 were 1.5 times 30 an hour i was pretty beat on monday but i'd scored 500 in overtime pay before taxes and was feeling pretty rich monday morning i showed the attorney and he couldn't stop thanking me monday afternoon though i got called down to the hr office yes the same hr lady from before where i was informed that they were very upset that i'd worked over 45 hours because the firm did not like paying 1.5 times overtime i was perplexed because i knew they were billing the client 95 an hour for my time so the extra 20 hours that netted me 500 was billed to the client for 1900 they were clearing 1400 on the deal and they hadn't missed the deadline i tried explaining that but she was adamant that it was a real problem and that it could not happen again i don't know if she saw me roll my eyes but i promised it wouldn't i went back to my cubicle and figured it was over nope not so fast a couple of days later hr lady called me to her office with good news i was getting a promotion and a raise the promotion was to the exact same job i already had literally no difference at all but a title the raise was 500 a year and the catch was that i was now salaried instead of hourly which meant no more overtime ever yeah i know better now super illegal and super unethical here's the malicious compliance okay so you don't want me to work overtime fine from that day forward i wrote down the exact minute i got to my desk 8 57 that's what i wrote not 9 o'clock back from lunch 2 minutes early write it down phone call kept me at my desk until 506 it's all in the desk calendar and at the end of the week on friday afternoon i'd take time to tally it all up company time and if i showed that i'd worked an extra 17 minutes that week you bet i carried my butt out there at 4 43. it was petty as freak but for the remaining year or so i worked there i put in exactly 35 hours a week not 34 hours and 58 minutes not 35 hours and 3 minutes 35 hours on the dot i had never been that way before i probably averaged 15 to 30 minutes of extra time a day that i didn't claim as overtime i was just doing the job but when they showed how closely they were watching my time and then took advantage of me to screw me out of even the opportunity for the old time i was legally entitled to well let's just say i could count minutes better than they could no matter how much of their time i had to spend to do it hindsight is 2020 but looking back on this you really wish you did have a better idea of the legality of these moves that they did you wish you could protect yourself better and get yourself in that situation where you're not getting screwed over that said op i feel is totally justified in what they did if you're going to kill their chance of getting any kind of overtime don't expect them to work overtime opie didn't get too into the specifics on how they treated them in regards to them working specifically 35 hours but i'm sure it was a little less than desirable for the management and hiring in hr but with that being said that's all the time we have for today so if you have a favorite story of the day let me know which story and why in the comments down below but besides that if you enjoyed the video please consider giving it a like and subscribe and turn notifications 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Length: 19min 56sec (1196 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 10 2020