r/maliciouscompliance | I was asked to "Step Down" from my position by my Bad BOSS

hey everybody my name is steven and welcome back to the storytime channel without wasting any time let's get into our stories of the day god has to step down from a position years ago i taught sunday school on a voluntary basis at a mega church in my town there were so many children in this church that classrooms were made available to group children with sunday school teachers for every year of their life until middle school and high school at which point they attended a larger group with similarly aged peers in separate wings of the building i taught two-year-olds and i loved every moment of it my classroom boasted a huge number of children at about 20-25 per service i was supposed to have an adult co-teacher but all the other adult volunteers were sent to other classrooms with a higher need i had two high school aged volunteers best friends who often spend service time playing together despite repeated approaches to asking them to play with the children one of my volunteers was the director's son who i couldn't replace because of his mother and who clearly did not want to be volunteering despite this and despite inheriting a huge classroom full of several special needs children my children played calmly throughout service and enjoyed a routine and simple rules i set to run the classroom efficiently children arrived played calmly sang songs ate snack and went home even in the face of this obvious evidence that my classroom was running efficiently i was repeatedly asked by church leaders to adopt certain mannerisms around children i found inauthentic and frankly patronizing i don't and won't speak in a high-pitched voice to anyone child or adult i don't and won't use words like oopsy daisy these requests were persistent it was the opinion of the church that i was not warm and welcoming enough it was modeled again and again that the church would prefer i over animated in a huge smile hug i'm so glad you're here kind of greeting one summer day we were all called some 50-plus room leaders and volunteers into a mandatory meeting you know those meetings where you instantly know they're talking about you the policies on words like oopsie daisy were now set in writing and i was surely asked to step down for not using these phrases i was not allowed to prepare my children for the transition to a new sunday teacher i was immediately replaced by a friend actually and was fairly crushed about the sudden break from little people i liked spending time with and furthermore it made me question my abilities to work with children an endeavor i had already devoted my life to unbeknownst to my church i had long been working at a career in early childhood intervention teaching a classroom full of two-year-old child victims of trauma and abuse with a heavy caseload of special needs children my coworker called me over one monday as i was the two's teacher asking what i made of this email she had just received concerning a church with an out of control two's room requesting that someone come consult with their new staff and help implement some new classroom techniques to manage difficult behaviors naturally i agree to do the consult in person as soon as possible and asked my coworker to let them know i would meet with them on a completely voluntary basis at their next sunday service it was absolutely my pleasure to greet my church leaders and friend as their specialist consultant to their confused surprise i walked them through all sorts of interventions and strategies i had previously used to create a calm classroom environment and strongly advised against the use of overly excited greetings and phrases like oopsie daisy in place of direct redirective requests an example please put your feed back on the floor it was my strong written recommendation that the written policies on these strategies be amended and for staff to be immediately retrained in accordance with actual therapeutic practices it was my last time stepping foot in that church and will forever remain my most deliciously cherished memories of vindication it goes to show you that not everybody knows how to handle situations involving kids that are younger or are special needs do you have any tricks or tips when it comes to these things let me know in the comments section down below i don't work there anymore my employer decided to convert all of a certain class of our records from paper-based files to digital there were three immediate problems our company was not going to buy a generic system but develop our own unique tailored system it was to be done on the cheap with net savings for record keeping from year one the guy in charge let's call him genius always and i mean always thought he was the smartest guy in the room believe me he wasn't anyway one of the girls i worked with took on the project on the condition that she could have the next july off for her wedding and honeymoon she worked hard and the project was actually making progress one of her duties was passwords none of which could be written anywhere because genius knew this was bad she periodically reminded genius about the july wedding and he told her it'd be fine but never signed off the paperwork come mid-may the project is way behind mainly because genius told management it could all be done in-house at negligible cost and genius kept changing the design every time he read a new magazine article on it my friend was then told six weeks out from the wedding that her leave was cancelled the project took priority and she'd just have to reschedule her wedding honeymoon the works genius could not see that this might be a problem so she did her job updated the passwords as required never recording them anywhere as required and resigned without notice the last day of june on her honeymoon she gets a frantic call from genius demanding all the passwords sorry i don't work there anymore click that's why a decade later our company still has a few hundred electronic case files we can't access they think they're so smart they keep changing project expectations week by week i don't think it's a surprise that she resigned after having to deal with this and being forced to leverage one of the most important stretches of her life you want four you get four rather minor but cashiering doesn't offer many opportunities for malicious compliance so i'll take what i can get one of those very loud customers came up to the counter and tossed a round battery under the counter hey you have that battery i checked the size and confirmed that we do sell 2032s well are you gonna go and get it i'll walk over to the battery rack pull one out and return to the register as soon as i step back there and no earlier i need four of those i go back and instead of putting it back and grabbing the four pack i pulled down three more single packs and once again return altogether they cost about twice as much as the multi-pack but you can't put a price on shaving 10 steps off your shopping trip why is the customer demanding that they go get the batteries wouldn't the customer be capable of going over and getting the batteries they need you can just mark the extra price you paid up as a tax for having the cashier go and get it unless you're in the middle of nowhere you have to work during vacation your salary i work for a small company in the trades as head of the i.t department aka the only it person truthfully the gig is pretty great good pay benefits and i can come and go as i please within reason the two people i have to answer to are the vp and ceo and as is par for the course they know nothing about anything to do with technology and generally leave me be as i'm good at my job and everything runs smoothly being a small company a lot of us don't take vacations due to a building the company and b not having replacements for the time we're gone but after two years vacationless we're in the us my wife convinces me to use the time i'm given to decompress and take a small one week getaway i talk to vp and he gives me the thumbs up to take the time barring i get everything in order and do some minor teaching to other staff in case of an emergency cool easy enter fod field operations director a man who is an attack dog for the vp for no reason as the vp is nothing but polite and reasonable fod loves giving everyone a hard time adding steps to tasks to make himself look like he's part of the process reminding everyone how much of a boss he is to the rest of us in management and calling me a nerd any chance he gets fear to say i dislike fod immensely after making my rounds with other staff it's fod's time to do some scary computer-related learning fod refuses to look weak under any circumstances and gets very aggressive when learning new things because i'm the boss i already know in the midst of learning it dawns on him to ask why he has to learn this stuff anyway i'm the nerd and it's my job to do this i clue him in on the week i'm taking off and this stuff is just precautionary this worries fod as he'll have to retain information answer questions and do some minor troubleshooting the conversation went something like this and i wish i could tell you that this guy isn't this much of a jerk but he is who approved your vacation vp did as long as i could get you guys comfortable with some small maintenance i only approve vacation time i'm your boss side note he does this so much that vp actually wrote out the hierarchy in chart form and we all carry a digital copy with us to remind him who he's actually in charge of you're not shows chart well fine but your salary so you have to work during your vacation you'll bring your laptop and work phone with you when you vacation you make it very clear you're unreachable and can't be bothered even if it's an emergency that's because i go to places without service and unless you're going to the mountains you have to work your salary malicious compliance initiated just to be clear if i go to a place without service i won't be expected to work yeah that's right but you're a nerd you don't do anything outdoorsy great thanks for clearing that up fast forward three weeks later and it's vacation time all my ducks are in a row people are comfortable with me being gone for the week and are all encouraging me to just disconnect a close co-worker of mine knows the conversation fod and i had and asks what i planned to do about it so i shared my easy but effective plan one wife and i rented a cabin in the woods two hours from the nearest town and it doesn't have service two set up automatic email replies that have all it questions and concerns forwarded to fod since he's the boss he knows three leave work phone on the charger in my office with ringer on door locked so he has to hear it and voicemail changed to have fod become i.t for the week co-worker loves the idea of flooding fod with questions he can't answer so much that he gets other co-workers in on it midway through the week i get a call from co-worker with an update fod loses it he can't keep up with any requests for help and didn't bother to memorize the simple tasks i showed him so he does what any good boss does and puts in a request to take a vacation until i get back retreat is always an option nothing screams leader more than retreat it's not weakness and failure if he's not there my co-workers were unable to manage and fod got his three-day vacation unfortunately after the week off i'm called the vp's office to catch up and get things back on track vp obviously heard of the hardships fod faced in my absence and laughed at my malicious compliance surprisingly vp struck a deal with me moving forward since it was made clear to him no one else knew how to do my job i can go on vacation wherever i'd like as long as i bring my laptop and phone and check it once a week they'll refund my vacation time for that day even if i only work for five minutes i took that but with the caveat of making fod actually learn some of my duties just in case vp agreed now i do an hour of teaching a week to a very surly fod after all he's the boss he's gotta know none of that get them fired get them embarrassed anything just frustrate the heck out of them and make them have to do the things that they really didn't want to do to the extent of having to learn it for an hour a week that's a good malicious compliance and now it's my pleasure to allow my friend trent to read a few stories for you to wrap up this episode if you like him then check out life stories at the end of the video hello story time viewers my name is trent and your host jake has so graciously allowed me on his show to read some stories out for you i'll get to that in just a minute but if you want to hear more of what i have to say over on my channel life stories check the link in the description hope to see some of you there anyways let's move on to the stories for our first malicious compliance story we've got one titled don't want to believe in what the navigator has to say let's add two hours to our travel time this is a story about how my mother insisted that waze a navigating application is not accurate and how my dad maliciously complied so we are coming home from a 250 kilometer ride from a beach resort as we stopped by the last gas station before the end of the expressway my dad opened up ways sent home as a destination and took off now a little off topic a major and very busy highway in the philippines is called edsa a 24 kilometer stretch of road that runs through the center of metro manila what makes this a really bad road is that heavy traffic is normal and bumper-to-bumper situations can happen just to give you a perspective on a busy day you'll be driving at a blazing speed of 15 kilometers an hour or 9.3 miles per hour for my imperial friends and this is a four lane road on each side back to the story as we're approaching the roundabout that waze showed us my mother retaliated saying don't believe in that ways it's not accurate what's wrong with us going through the usual route my dad explained that the difference in travel time was two hours and it's only five kilometers longer my mom still insisted that it wasn't worth it and that we should drive this way pointing to the traffic jam as far as the eye can see my dad being really tired of her complaining decided to give in and show her the faster route she wanted him to drive through the fallout we ended up spending two hours in stop and go traffic and those redditors who drive know how tiring this can get because you'd have to press the brakes for just under two hours straight midway in the traffic my mom starts to complain about why we didn't follow ways and all the other things she decided and blamed it on us and neither my dad nor me had the energy to complain unsurprisingly she didn't say sorry because it was my dad's fault for listening to her instead of navigation mom i don't hate you i just hate the things you do from time to time now i live in canada and i hear nothing but horror stories about giant interstate highways in other countries never experienced anything that bad personally but i can only imagine our next story on the docket is a small one and it's titled cat wants treats cat going get treats i have two cats and one of them lucifer is really smart she knows how to open doors she also knows how to get her way a few months ago we had a new scratching post lucy was not a fan and decided to scratch the carpets instead a few times i saw her trying out the new scratching post so i started giving her treats every time she used it worked perfectly she started using it every day and then she would wait near the post and start scratching whenever i approached she was swimming in treats and loving it but it was not enough no she needed more so she started regularly walking over to me starting to meow for me to follow her to the post and start scratching and since she's so cute i have to give it to her this is what we call the cat tax this hits extra close for me because i have a similar conditioning issue with my cat except instead of using a scratching post he uses me as a scratching post anytime i walk in the kitchen he assumes it's time to be fed and every time i don't feed him and leave he bolts after me down the hallway and gnaws on my leg it's wonderful but you know i'm not gonna give you guys my entire life story haha pun intended because this is jake's channel but again as i said before our stories began if you want to hear anything more of what i have to say check out life stories links in the description that's all the time i have on this installment and jake thank you for having me

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Length: 18min 24sec (1104 seconds)

Published: Sat May 30 2020