r/MaliciousCompliance - Privacy

so I have worked in it most of my life one day in a job I was in it was slow so the manager asked me to check the firewall logs for anything dodgy pretty soon I find indications of a female staff member accessing some racy content of the adult nature this staff member had a reputation for blaming her slow productivity on her computer / network / mousy CT so she was given no quarter I go up to the large office where she was is surrounded by many other staff members but here monitors are facing a wall and only she can see them I politely asked to speak to her in private for a moment in a meeting room her response no I don't have time I'm too busy again I quietly said it would be in her best interest to have this conversation discreetly hello stop wasting my time and say what you need to say I pause clear my throat and say loud and clear okarian manager has asked that you stop accessing bondage porn sites on your work computer there's a moment of stunned silence where the staff member turns scholars and everyone looked at her including her manager me okay see you later and I turned and left the office I work in a casual fine dining restaurant in a downtown area prices aren't crazy but high enough that we don't get a super young crowd I would say average age of odd in a crowd is thirty to sixty although it varies more on the weekend I only include this information so you understand why I didn't initially ask for identification even though you should always check Thursday night a table of four comes in for early dinner to karyn's and their daughters excellent I'm ready for them to split entrees and tip me 15% not the worst type of table if we are being honest but nonetheless they order a pitcher of sangria and I tell them I'll be right back with that for them to which mamma Karen says to me you really aren't going to check these girls IDs her birthday was just last month aren't you supposed to check anyone who looks under 40 she is correct of course that I should have asked for identification even though their girls were with their mothers and I was being lazy by assuming they were of a since their moms did not stop them from ordering drinks I agree with her and tell her that I actually am supposed to check all IDs regardless of age and proceed to look at all four of the lady's IDs unfortunately for Mama Karen her birthday was a few days previously and her ID had expired in the state of Michigan it is illegal to serve alcohol to anyone with an expired ID regardless of age so I had to deny mama Karen a glass for the sangria while her daughter and friend shared a pitcher I didn't really have malicious intentions however it felt good that Karen's antics backfired on her so I've worked in a small barber shop for a year and three months now when I was hired I was not informed of the previous working conditions I was to be filling in for my boss slash shop owner F 62 neglected to inform me that her previous staff had some issues a schizophrenic a gold-digging lesbian who called everyone baby and a former mayor who was beat half to death for sleeping with another man's wife she also had this horrendous tendency of complaining about everything at work some days it was her trans grandkid other days it was how her boyfriend won't propose but when he did she just wasn't good at commitment there were racist comments long about homophobic comments were frequent you get the picture some days however she was extremely laid-back and tolerable i weathered through the rough patches of slow days and her bad attitudes attempted to discuss our issues in healthy ways so she wouldn't share them with clients I even opened and closed the shop and covered for her when she decided to take random vacations eventually things began to settle until about a year into working there she became sporadic and impulsive much more than usual to say the least she would fly into bouts of anger and throw tantrums about clients for no reason she decided to break it off with her boyfriend for not building her a lake house she hired a new barber despite us not needing one she began dodging haircuts she didn't like and more yet the final straw that broke the horse's back was definitely when she tried to sell the shop out from under us without telling us the issue here is that she was telling clients but not her employees the new bother was freaking out clients had begun leaving this was an issue I couldn't overlook so a shop manager I took it upon myself to finally confront her when we were alone in the shop I asked what her plans were and that we just needed to know for communication sake at least so we could plan appropriately with which I was only told don't worry I have a plan you guys can still work here that wasn't an answer for me though so I responded with all right as long as you have a plan and can communicate it with us then I'm fine with that later that night she texted me the following we will no longer be discussing my business if I mention it to my customers that's my business when it has to do with you I will let you know in plenty of time please keep your opinions to yourself I'm not mad this is just simply my business and I would appreciate it if we kept it that way if you don't like the way I run my business and if I get on your nerves so bad you should not be working here from this day forward I will do things my way without any input Thanks so in short I told her thanks for an answer and I'll see her in the morning the next morning I opened the shop as usual and didn't say a single thing to her for the entire day half way through the new girl came up and told me that my boss said I had been kissing her Buttle morning and I was giving her the silent treatment my boss was acting shady because she knew I was up to something so she left early that day in order to prevent a confrontation I helped the new girl finish the day out then I packed all of my stuff in my car and left her a letter of resignation I then texted her to say I left my letter of resignation on your register I appreciate the opportunity to work and gain clients from now on I'll be doing things my way without any input good luck in whatever you do and please do not contact me since then I've been offered jobs by three different shops and have had clients from her shop contact me saying my boss doesn't understand why left and has shut the shop down randomly the new girl said my boss was in total shock over me leaving this is my husband's story happened today my husband duck works as a marine technician boat mechanic for a pretty large shop they pay him hourly but do track his billed hours for proficiency and he gets bonuses or reprimanded based on those numbers he has been told repeatedly not to do any work without a signed work order because they won't get paid properly if he doesn't unfortunately his parts guy Kevin doesn't fill in the work orders correctly most of the time and Dirk has to ask him to fix things before he can get started which means lost time which means lost proficiency today he got a work order that said see if trim tats work now Dirk knows this is supposed to be a diagnosis but he didn't get time added to his proficiency one hour to do the job so he went to the boat pushed the trim tab switch noted that it didn't work then turned the work order in naturally Kevin was not happy in this conversation followed Kevin so did you look into the trim tabs duck yep they don't work Kevin well what do you think is wrong with him duck I don't know didn't look into it Kevin well what do you think duck I don't know does the customer want to pay for diagnosis am I getting time for that Kevin well I guess let me call the customer Kevin was not happy but like damn dude how hard would it have been to tell the guy there was a diagnostic fee up front I have an adoring cat named Minnie and like most people owned by cats I try to ensure that many has everything she will ever need one of said things is a scratching post so she doesn't tear up the carpet in our apartment unfortunately the one she has now has been scratched down to the word my father who is a notorious cheapskate decided upon seeing the poor condition of said post that he can just cover the scratching post with more carpet when I tried to argue it would be much less hassle / cheaper to get her a new scratching post he said I'm not wasting money on something she's just going to tear up when I can just fix it well today my father decided today would be the day we fix the scratching post so we went to the hardware store and starting looking for carpets staple guns blow and the like and I was beginning to realize I was going to be spending my Sunday working on something that I could just buy when I raised my objections yet again my father unwittingly set up his own trap unless you can find me something cheaper we are going with my plan I looked at my brother Kevin who is just as annoyed as I am at my father's insistence of being boneheaded stubborn and opened the calculator app on my phone he got on to finding scratching posts at Petsmart I tallied up all the prices of the stuff we needed while my brother searched for what many needed just as we were about to head to checkout I stopped our father me hey that you have 45 dollars and 72 cents not counting tacks father yeah I've got enough were you tallying up everything me yep look at Kevin so do you have a good option Kevin yet shows firm we can get this one for $25.99 not counting tax at this point my father went white are you sure that's the one you want me yep that's the one after all I'm only trying to save time and money for you as our Father put things away and slunk off to the car Kevin and I high-five each other so many has her brand-new scratching post and our father is quietly eating crow at having been outsmarted by his two kids later edit okay I do owe some explanations my father in addition to being a cheapskate is a bit of an arrogant jerk who doesn't like it whenever he's proven wrong and likes to show off how smart he is also this wasn't a chance for us to do something fun together because it won't be us doing the work and him supervising and then getting mad whenever something didn't go according to plan even if he doesn't do a good enough job explaining he also has a really bad habit of buying things that you really don't need seriously we have six or seven screwdrivers that we've used maybe once or twice in the six years we've owned them we also own two full-sized tool kits which he bought because the second one had the tool he needed don't ask me why he didn't just buy the tool because I don't know he just showed up with the extra tool kit and didn't take it back with him we have very limited storage space in our apartment so it's a big pain whenever he just leaves stuff behind that we use maybe once or twice ever and the worst part is that he mows as for my cat and why didn't we just reupholster the scratching post / use sisal / wood / etc' the scratching post is over three years old and the wood is looking pretty bad I'm intending on buying a new one tomorrow and carpet is the only thing she'll scratch she hates sisal and wood and won't touch either of them better that than us replacing the whole carpet in our apartment first of all I'm sorry for my grammar mistakes English is the fourth language I learned and I'm using a firm also as this happens in a workplace run by the military I'll try to change terms so it's more similar to a normal company I thought this was for pro revenge but giving it some thought it's probably more adequate - this sub this is my first post so any advices appreciated now that this story is just coming to an end I want to take it off my chest and share it with you all it'll start with some context please bear with it since I think it is needed to get all the gist I was born in another country than the one I'm living now and where the story starts my parents divorced when I was very very young and it was my mom who raised me alone without my father support neither economical nor parental since I didn't have contact with him after 20 plus years and that time was brief regarding an inheritance heading my way from my grandpa though that's another story I grew up as an introvert but I had many good friends around my childhood and during some time I was problematic for my mom I played too much games and neglected my studies something that drove her mad for quite a few years when I was the team after wasting many years and some big issues I made a big decision I'll join the military and since then my bond with my mother improved a lot you will see after why this is important as she plays a big role in this story I joined the military as a young soldier on a country where military service is not mandatory I chose the Air Force and after some Exum's and training I arrived at my new unit as a paratrooper and aircraft mechanic I loved my work I was able to travel my country in the world learn many things and get to know the best friends I've ever had and day-to-day life was fun and even when it was hard I had the best people around to laughs even when you shouldn't be able because of the circumstances I don't want to get much deep in what was my work in my unit but I'll say I had a confidentiality clearance and work doing maintenance deployments and escort jobs now with the story it's hard to explain the chain of command in my unit but I'll try my best we were a small team there was me three Calchas a supervisor that also had other tasks and a manager in my work environment usually I would report to my supervisor low ranking officer that we will call Brian and he would report to Mike a high-ranking officer that commanded my section who's the manager of that place and also one of the initial creators of this department this department was figuratively Mike's baby there is also another department that we worked on a daily basis with as they also did maintenance but on electronics and we would share the same buildings offices cars et Cie this department would also respond to Mike and was at his direct command now with the rest of the people involved in this story Brian was direct really good at his work and strict men the personification of army middle-aged men the only flaw he would had it's but the things had to be done in his way being for good or for worst what would lead sometimes to a lot of unnecessary workload that didn't make any sense and ultimately had to be redone afterwards Brian run that place smoothly and was the backbone of all that had to be done since we were mostly young people that would run like headless chickens without him it did happen when he wasn't there he knew a lot of things no one of us did and if he didn't in you who to search after I arrived he took me under his wing and my work ethic has took form thanks to having him as an example I hadn't still have a good relationship with almost all of my cow Walker's back then Sao Paulo I'm not there anymore some of us really get along and we would go every weekend to drink and we would have lunch dinner coffee and do trips sometimes going through hard times together did create strong bonds for this story I will name only two people David and Eric David was a simple guy I didn't have much a relationship with him since we didn't click and he was higher rank than me he sometimes pushed his work on others but was an OK guy not unpleasant to work with sometimes he credited others workers is when reporting to another boss but here we really don't care much about that and no one gave a second thought about his wording when reporting for something done as we don't lose not win anything by saying so eric is one of my buddies I can't count how many times I slept on his couch and we have a blast together he's important in this story because he's the one that uncovers a scary truth happening on my back in the future now into the real thing sorry for the long background it was Friday after work I took a two hours train to go home to check on my mom and my grandma just for a day since next day on Saturday a friend is doing dinner at her home and then we are going to some nightclubs I spend the day with her but she's a little sick so we don't do much I've been going back home almost every week and having a great time with my mom for the last year's next day goes as planned and Sunday I'm hanging out with a girl I met the night before a friend of a friend that was invited to the dinner then I get a call from a voice I don't recognize something about my mom being sick and that I had to go back home fast I asked for an explanation and I don't receive any so I just hang the phone I get another call immediately this time is my grandma your mom is dead come back I won't delve much into what happened after that I cried myself out while driving to the station to take the first train there was while I was in the train I tried to call Brian but he didn't take the phone and after some tries I ended up talking with David telling him what happened and that I won't be at work tomorrow Monday now that all has been told there a need for a Time skip one month after I'm back at work the funeral has been done but the paperwork is still in his baby stages people who had had to dealt with this kind of paperwork regarding inheritance taxes payments bureaucracy know what I'm talking about so in preparation for all that task and get some needed rest I tell Brian I want to leave from work as it is in the lore I have the right to ask and get it he just asks me to please wait till things get better since we lack personnel and a big operation is undergoing in a month right now it's just me and another one besides him as recently another buddy had been granted a transfer to another unit I agree but I make sure to tell him I'll have to take days off to do paperwork in another city he says there is no problem since I still have all my days for this year and they will not give me trouble for that so I asked for my leave and it gets trough my leave will start in a three months from now a couple weeks later Brian leaves the country and David is assigned as our temporary manager this is the moment things turn south you probably guessed where this is going on there is just me and David working right now rarely we get some help as we have a lot of work to do it not just in our location but around the world we are used to work overtime and without personî oh so it's not a problem for anyone the problem starts when I asked for a day off I had an appointment to sign some legal documents and retrieve others from the state and I asked David about it he says this week is not a good one and next week we can try to make it happen okay next week I asked David about having a day off he tells me he's busy and to tell him tomorrow next day the same and into the next day I repeat to him I need a day off and then he goes off berating me for some I'm supposedly not doing well storming out I'm shocked I'm just asking for a day that they have to give me by law fast forward after more than a month I haven't done any paperwork and when I ask for a permit I'm just getting responses towards delaying the permit to the end of the week to see if there is going to be work on Friday or not since a while I can't sleep and I'm just unable to cope with all that's going on right now during my sleep or free time though I still have a strong front that I try to act if I was just fine there is one day that I can't stand it anymore since my deadlines for taxes and inheritance are getting really close when someone dies in my country there is a time for when the inheritor is able to pay taxes and present paperwork to the state to claim property so I just get an appointment with the needed parties and say to David I'm taking this day off I've been waiting for months now and I can't delay it anymore he agrees and tell me to give him the permit tomorrow to sign it and tomorrow as I have the permit to be accepted for next week just for a couple days Friday and Monday guess what I couldn't find David next day he's too busy tomorrow he will sign it now it's Thursday in the morning of the other week and I'm standing towards David with the permit on one hand towards him and start again me can you sign my permit it's for tomorrow and Monday as we agreed upon he takes it weeds a bit and takes it to Mike's office he tells me mike has denied the permit and he can't do nothing there is a big operation coming next week on Wednesday and they need me here now believe me I'm a chill person that I was mad hate was clearly coming through my eyes but I said okay and just leaved remember this is the military even when you're being f ed you have to be careful and cover your back now I understand something was going on I don't know what it is exactly but something is up I started to talk with all my co-workers and trying to poke info about what's going on I do some calls and at some point across paths with Mike in the office he starts to talk me about why he can't give me the permit and so I tell him what's he's confrontational and says I have to do what I have to do just bear with it or leave this is the military I then repeat that I've been asking for this for a lot of time already and it's my right to take a permit if I have an official appointment and if there is not an order on paper with the proper justification as to why I couldn't take this days off in my hand by the end of the day I'll not be here tomorrow he says we will talk in a few hours and leaves I inquired a lot of things that day some Calchas told me stories that this thing is not the first time it happened before there has been some people having to put up - even worst crap than this david is well known for giving his job to other unqualified people and well that even ended in injuries complains bribes ensuing mike has done some nasty things to other people but he's always been unscathed of any consequences but those are other stories at the end of the day I've been given both Friday and Monday with some word saying how generous Mike is and a warning about speaking directly to Mike by David David also tells me that I'm risking to have detention and an official aminah station also that I will have to hand over justification of my appointments next week in Mike's desk and that thanks to me he will have to work this Sunday instead of me he planned to give me some work that had to be done on Sunday that doesn't belong to me either and camps that a family trip he had planned weeks before oh the irony so now it's Monday morning and I wake up at 8 a.m. - some messages from David and he's mad hysterical I get paragraph after paragraph of crap from him he says hour left of battery starter stranded on the road and found something out of place at the workshop he doesn't find some stuff and he is fuming he says we will talk tomorrow and that I have to be prepared for consequences this time at this point I'm not even mad I'm exhausted I have so much issues right now that my seat can't handle this guy's BS anymore I just want to start my work leave get over this and get out of there I didn't tell you but during my leave I'm doing some Exum's to be promoted in the army I've been studying hard and when I have more time I will study harder this exam period is well-known since every year in my unit many other takes this Exum's get promoted and go back to study / train in the academy never coming back again it's relatively easy if you have the requirements and if you prepare with some months beforehand so there everyone assumes that if you take part on the promotion exam you pass and they are right so I get back to work next day and I'm being berated over something I don't even know about and I'm being told my attitude is bad and I need to work harder and put work in much higher priority I just don't understand what's happening I don't see myself as lazy every other cow worker would agree I put everything on the line and him dedicated David ends our first meeting with we will talk later I'll discuss this with Mike I'm somewhat know in the back of my mind that something is not right I talk around with people and they consoled me a little trash talked about Mike and David and tell me not to worry much and get out of here as fast as I can here comes Eric in my story my friend I introduced before he takes me to a quiet place and tells me house over her David and Mike talking about me on the office and how he listened them talking about stopping my chance this year to promote in the army I think to myself for a few moments and thank him ok I know their cards now I get a huge breath of air as I start to make a plan in my head I talked with a few people and call a friend whose father is a lawyer that has won some big cases in military law even ruining some big shots career in this same base before she gives me his number and I get an appointment this afternoon so comes the end of the morning and David takes me to a side and tells me that I will be given a detention soon for three days or more then he starts rambling without me talking even one bit about how it will be good to me and how I can get things through and a year more working here will go well with me and after I can become leftenant or whatever anyway he rambled how its usual for this unit to give detention for this little things even though in other units it would not happen since we are really strict gave some examples of other people getting detention and that this will make me stronger I hear him but I'm only listening to my heart's translation I want you to work your butt off here to work as three people for one more year if you're not here I can't slack off anymore and I will continue to mess with you anytime I have a chance he thinks he has make himself clear and Pat's me on the back and leads after the meeting with my lawyer I went to the doctor told what's happening at work and left with a medical leave that same day for two weeks that I will end before it expires just the day before my work leave Stark's next day I went to work in day to day clothes and told David what's going on he didn't expect it he was nude for a while and went to talk to Mike Mike came to talk to me and being in a cynical tone and a smug face asks why I wasn't in my uniform told him I wasn't capable of work right now and I'll be seeing the base doctor to pass on the medical certificate I already have his mad but he contains himself and leaves talking to himself I talked with my cow Walker's gossip a little here and there and leave to my house to take my staff and go to you my old home in another city faster with a weakened a couple days I go back to my workplace that day my work leave starts and say goodbye to my friends and close Calchas might cause me again to his office and the rates me for a while I'll try to transcribe his discourse as accurate as possible I don't talk much and is mostly a one-sided sherrard Mike you are in the army what do you expect up what are you going to do now on you've been on medical leave for more than a week freeloading from the state I'm here to pay for your nice car I have a sports car with a big engine because I'm a car guy and he asked me to test-drive it months before and I didn't let him since he's also a drunk yard at the work place and coincidentally your medical leave ends when your work leaves starts right there is so much work to do and you are leaving all your companions stranded when you come back we will have a serious talk and if you expect a good evaluation me you must be dreaming after this but well if you don't like it you could always leave and seek another job if you think you're too good to work here just don't get in the way in my country getting a job right now is really hard for young people I leave that place and a boulder is lifted from my shoulders now I have three months to organize all the things I had to do since my mother funeral I even cried a little in the car since I hadn't had time to cope with the loss of her and I still need healing but he told me right I could just leave I did everything I had to do during this time my mother even though she raised me alone worked very hard never remarried or anything like that she just worked hard and was really valued at her company she was making almost six figures at the peak of her career this is a lot in my country I had some good savings as I did some lucky but good business decisions years prior plus I inherited some property and also had other income so anyway I was set for life while on leave I choose a Flight Academy and started training to become an airline pilot now my lawyer prepared all the paperwork for me to leave the army as Mike recommended me and as the day approached for the end of my leave I went there again dressed in a day to day life way let me tell you the face Mike and David had when they saw me without a uniform was priceless they weren't able to understand why I wasn't going to work It was as if they had a seizure because the day prior Mike asked told me to sign my negative evaluation next day at what I had agreed upon they surely had some plans built up against me that I just made useless scenes they were out for blood as I was told by my buddies that overheard them talking they thrashed taught me a lot and David was found checking on my personal belonging in the office trying to find something we need that no one know what was for or what it was just guess I don't even know I laughter that I gave the papers my lawyer prepared to Mike and believe me when I say this when he heard the word lawyer he went apposite on his mind fell on his face he stared at me for a few seconds and didn't say anything else aside one remark that if I wanted to leave the army by lore I can't be on leave and that I'll have to come to work in 15 days to present this papers but in working condition and in uniform I told him that I will discuss that with my lawyer and we shat hands me Mike army grade you told me my choices and you were right I have to leave guess what he made that back quote Laura so if I did as I was told and went to work in 15 days he would use the military law to punish me with some reason regarding my attitude towards superiors and some [ __ ] he could made up forcing me to work or to even face jail time with my lawyer in tow I just ignored his demand and presented all the things I needed to the proper parties involved defense ministry from the government not Mike never ever heard of Michael David directly again from then on nor they tried to contact me after I didn't show up 15 days after and now you are thinking what about the consequences well technically till a couple months I'm still assigned to their unit you remember how low personnel we were and how I told you I did almost everything there right I knew my department wasn't going to work if Brian or I wasn't there and they needed a SAP to fill my position but to ask for someone to come and fill my position they have to wait till I get officially out of the system and that's about one to two months after I cease to be in the army something that has yet to happen so david has been having to work a lot lately and the problems keep piling up because he's messing everything and the work can't be done with the irresponsible and untrained personal left that was something I knew as much as David knew but Mike was going to learn now the things went so sue south after me leaving that the department is going to cease to exist and be absorbed by another one in the near future because his poor performance this department was created originally by Mike and he isn't able to stop the problems from going to the surface anymore my case has been the talk around my unit a lot and I've taken the opportunity to make a file with the problems of my department and some underhanded things they've been doing all this years filled and handled over to his boss when I was asked by him about my reasons years working there had made me really knowledgeable about some really blatantly illegal and dangerous things that has been going on at his command and to his knowledge Mike's position will cease to exist and he will have to relocate his family to another base in another part of the country where his house will not be paid by the state as they asked yes and the rule back quote first-come first-serve is in place point knowing I have a big part on his current predicament doesn't make me sleep better at night I feel it's just a bit of Karma paying him back well Mike I could just leave if I don't like to be here right and that is what I just did now I'm about to take my first solo flight as a pilot in command and I look back at this last year and feel like it has been a decade that I can't be happier where I'm now in life if you enjoyed the 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Length: 34min 13sec (2053 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 24 2019