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welcome to r malicious compliance where you have to be careful what you wish for our next reddit post is from indoman i've never met anyone that said oh good an hoa we all have trash cans but the sight of them offends the delicate eyes of some so i complied with the new rule of no seeing bins from the street i get a notice about my bins being out which is surprising because i'm the only one who touches the cans and i know i'm 100 compliant i call in and ask why i got the notice the full description says bins in driveway with lids off i asked if this happened to be a tuesday and sure enough it was wednesday's pick up and i was doing my weekly cleaning i was effing using them i calmly explain this through gritted teeth oh okay i'll remove the notice great but how do i prevent this from happening again oh uh i guess notify us alright i said i'll notify you every time i'm using my trash cans oh that won't be necessary clearly it is that was five tuesdays ago today i once again called promptly at 10 o'clock and let allan know that i was going to use my trash cans you know what op i'm just going to put a hold on any trash can notices for you hey that would be swell alan that would be swell our next reddit post is from corian i used to work as a manager at a small business i was the only employee on site during the day so i was expected to answer the phone check-in deliveries help walk-in customers etc anytime that they came in because i constantly needed to be available i didn't have a real lunch break i would just eat my lunch at my desk when i had time one afternoon one of my bosses called me on the office phone and very casually asked hey what's going on what are you working on i told him the project i was in the middle of and he said really because i've been watching the cameras and you've been messing around on your cell phone for the last five minutes i explained to him that my fiance had texted because there was an emergency that had come up and i was trying to help him handle it giving him the account information logins and passwords etc since i was working and couldn't handle it his response was i don't care i don't ever want to catch you on your phone again i tried to explain that i didn't get any breaks or anything during the day so i didn't have any of my own time to handle things that may come up but he didn't care so knowing full well that the owners the other managers and staff members constantly texted me throughout the day whenever they needed something i complied the next day i came in and i left my phone in my purse i had a smart watch so i could see when i got a text but i didn't answer because i wasn't allowed to be on my phone after two days of me ignoring the requests during the day and only answering their texts after leaving saying sorry i didn't see your text because i'm not allowed to be on my phone at work i've already left for the day my boss came in and told me we needed to have a discussion he called me out of my malicious compliance but also acknowledged that i was essentially locked in the office for 8 hours a day so going forward i could take a half hour lunch break where i didn't have to do anything else and i was allowed to use my phone during the day as long as i didn't abuse the privilege our next reddit post is from fiona sapphire a few years ago i was looking for a place to live and i came across an interesting advertisement looking for property guardians the idea behind property guardians is that disused buildings are far more secure if they're occupied so owners of empty properties will allow someone to live there temporarily for an incredibly cheap price so the guardian gets to live in a usually quite interesting disused building incredibly cheaper the owner makes a small additional bit of income and has someone keeping an eye on their place this arrangement is usually done through a third party guardian company who acts as an intermediary this particular advertisement was for a pub that had recently closed my interest peaked so i went along to a viewing the space was huge and they were only asking for a few hundred pounds all bills included so i went for it along with a group of other people we all picked our rooms i got the bar area a huge room with an ensuite ladies and gents toilet a big fireplace and cozy pub decor we all had full use of the sizable pub kitchen beer cellar dishwashing room double garage car park and a massive garden with a barbecue area for the most part it was a great gig i got to live in a pub have all the space i wanted and as the building was due to be destroyed we could do pretty much whatever we liked with the internals i put up curtains and temporary walls and made it my cozy home for the next couple of years other guardians moved in and out over the months but myself and a couple of others were there for the long term aside from the odd dodgy person coming and going i had two of my tires slashed at one point but that's another story it was all pretty cushy the owner of the guardian company and thus the person i paid my rent to was a large red-faced man who was quite full of himself he tended to be quite bossy and sometimes aggressive but i stayed out of his way as long as i paid my rent and didn't cause him trouble he left me alone all until the end of the tenancy i had moved out returned my keys and i was awaiting the return of my security deposit at some point a car had been dumped on the property i hadn't noticed because one of the previous guardians who i'll call rob had pushed it around to the back of the property and had been working on it i just assumed it was his car the first of the emails from the guardian company read the volvo dumped in the car park was not reported to us and must be removed from the site rob has declined to take responsibility of the vehicle and has alleged it was reported to the police and yet none of you have reported to us on such a serious issue i would suggest that it be placed on the public highway and then the police will deal with whomever owns the vehicle did you just incite us to commit fly tipping i emailed back and said the car wasn't my responsibility and thus i won't be moving it things went back and forth like this for a while with the owner insisting that we were all responsible stop arguing as i don't care and if it's not gone then you will all be accountable to the issue rob has contacted me and has said that it's not his and now the burden falls on all of you that knew about the car and failed to report it at this point i mentioned small claims court is an idle threat to see what would happen you have failed to report an incident that is something that is detrimental to the property you're in breach of the license for failing to do so happy to see you in court and explaining that you were put into a building to act as security by occupation and while there you failed to report a dumped car right it's on i pulled out the contract and went back over with a fine-tooth comb at this point another email came through dear all please be aware that you were all under license of the property and not tenants under the license you act as security for the property and were responsible for reporting any incidents and also were responsible for keeping the property safe secure and as stated any items left will be charged for removal the items left were dumped outside and certainly were not there throughout your time on site and must have been placed there by one or more of you this was accompanied by photographs of even more stuff that the guardians have left in the property furniture etc but i wasn't going to be responsible for any of their stuff the guy thought he could bully us out of our money because we didn't have a legal tenancy and were therefore not covered by uk laws protecting tenants i wasn't going down without a fight we may not be covered by tenants rights so everything would fall back to basic contract law i have found all the interesting parts of the occupation license agreement that i had with the guardian company damage security payment means the amount payable by the guardian to cover the cost of any damage caused by the guardian but not anybody else and since this contract is between myself and the guardian company with no jointly and severally liable claws i can't be held responsible for anyone else's mess great and there's more this one is interesting the guardian company provides services to property owners too among other benefits secure premises against trespassers and protect such premises from damage the guardian company has agreed to provide such services to the owner in respect of the property so we don't provide security that's the responsibility of the guardian company which we are not part of but wait there's more the guardian will not remove anything from the property other than things that he or she brought there boom gotcha i fired back an email please see section 3.1 of the license agreement signed by myself and the guardian company owner it stipulates that you the guardian company provide security not us the guardians please also see section 10.1.10 given that i didn't bring either the car or the furniture onto the property it would in fact be a breach of your own license agreement for me to remove it in this case i'll be complying with your contract and thus will not remove the items that i did not bring onto the property please return my security deposit within three working days or i'll be forced to take legal action their response at this point we're happy to see you in court and please do not contact us unless by your lawyer as we'll be charging for our time to deal with such matters if you can demonstrate who's responsible for leaving the items for us to deal with we'll take a look at it but as stated previously these items were not here previously and have been dumped outside all of you failed to report the car sounds like he was a little shaken up and probably hoped i was bluffing unfortunately for him i wasn't i filed the court papers after three working days he caved as soon as he received the court papers and realized that i wasn't bluffing he repaid our deposits along with my court fees the very next day victory down in the comments i'm going to read this reply from fat cats too fat because i was thinking the same thing good for you for using the contract to your advantage but this whole guardian thing sounds super sketchy it sounds like a way for an owner to make money off of an abandoned property by renting commercially zoned property for residential use while dodging tenant protection laws our next reddit post is from for sure girl during my last semester my bachelor's degree i already applied for my master's degree at the same university so i go through the normal application process and get accepted yay but as i didn't have my bachelor's degree at that point i had to produce a certified copy of my degree as soon as i could yes i had to give a certified copy of my bachelor's degree to the university who issued that degree in the first place and no these were not different departments it was all done by one lady in the examination office but whatever weird bureaucracy is weird and boy was it annoying at that university because all students of my department had to go through one lady and i think she just hated to do anything like seriously she was so annoyed when you showed up at her office to just do anything when i turned in my bachelor thesis she straight up said that she's so effing annoyed that all the students turned their thesis in at her office well we don't have another choice there is seriously not another way to turn my thesis in and don't even think about asking her anything so i'm already looking forward to picking up my bachelor's degree no we don't have a fancy celebration normally you would get an email when your degree is ready but since she hates our effing guts you just have to guess when it's ready we don't get an email two weeks after your last grade is put in the system it's probably ready so i did just that i show up at her office and hooray my degree is ready she says here without even looking at me thank you but i need a certified copy of that excuse me what i need a certified copy could you please copy it and certify that it's a copy of the original i know what a certified copy is you can get that at the town hall i know but i can also get it here i know for a fact that you have to give me one if i request it a five second staring contest ensues fine she takes my degree back turns around copies it and signs that it's a certified copy the lady hands me the degree in the copy here thank you now i would like to give you a certified copy of my bachelor's degree for my application for my master's degree i hand her back the certified copy are you serious yeah i thought if i'm already here i could turn that in as well so i don't have to come back again later another 5 second staring contest ensues the lady just takes the copy out of my hand and turns around and with that i left with the biggest grin on my face what did she expect that i go to town hall wait there for probably one to two hours get a certified copy that would cost me 13 euros the one at university was free and then come back another day hell no especially because she had the weirdest office hours ever it was something like two days a week for one and a half hours in the morning and one day for one and a half hours in the afternoon so i probably would have waited days to turn that in but her face when i asked for a certified copy was just glorious and down in the comments we have this story from chaos for quality ugh i had to do something like that once at my government job i needed to fill out a form and give it to a guy named joe so i fill it out to the best of my knowledge i give it to joe and he says you need to fill out this field here it's some id number associated with my account okay but how do i get that info joe he gives me a blank stare okay well i'll try then i spend half my day going to visit my co-workers my boss the floor admins how do i get this number i get various iterations of i don't know or go talk to bob try linda i'm running around the office like i'm on a scavenger hunt which of course i am but alas no luck nobody knows what this number is i go back to joe and tell him sorry i just can't find it joe stares at me for a few seconds then he sighs opens a drawer pulls out a stack of paper finds the magic number and copies it onto my form he had it the whole freaking time that was our slash malicious compliance and if you like this content then check out my podcast where i publish the exact same episodes also be sure to hit that subscribe button because i put out new reddit videos every single day

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Published: Tue Aug 25 2020