r/MaliciousCompliance | TURN MY CAMERA ON?! I HAVE CANCER!! - Reddit Stories

welcome friends to another r slash malicious compliance video if you're not a malicious soul consider helping out by hitting the like and subscribe buttons down below also i've set up a channel membership just in case you want to show your support and help keep story time going for as long as possible so if you love my videos or want to have your comments shown like this one by phantasm click the join button below this video that said our first story of the day is by rainier cherries supervisor a student with cancer to turn on their camera during a virtual meeting and you won't believe what happens next clickbaity article titles aside it's a long one it happened two days ago and i'm still giddy there's two important background things to know for the story one i was diagnosed with a rare ovarian cancer at the beginning of the year i had surgery and some chemo and i mostly recovered now i still have to go in for frequent testing and occasional monitoring i'm a private person to the extent that i've dated people for years without telling my parents so you best believe random co-workers and bosses are unaware of my medical history two i attended a university that has an ambassador program basically if you have a high enough gpa you're able to interview for the program and if you get in they pay for your tuition during the time you're an ambassador in exchange you work five hours a week and work graduation and other events i'm one of those ambassadors this is my story law order sound effect dun dun my supervisor for the ambassador program miss m has spent the majority of our time together belittling me as i sit here about to type about her i find myself already exasperated thinking about reliving some of the details so i'll be short and sweet for both your sake and mine she follows every rule to the letter and leaves no room for collaboration or discussion as an example we use microsoft teams for communication and she has his clock in and out in a group of 20 people by saying i'm here and i'm leaving so every day you have to scroll through dozens of messages to find anything of import and listen to notification sounds every time someone so much as takes a lunch break i suggested using the time clock function on teams and even offered to set it up for us and was told that i was deliberately undermining her position another quick example is her vehemence when i told her i didn't have any social media to advertise the college she was certain i was lying and went so far as to ask the other ambassadors to try and find me they didn't there's nothing to find crazy concept i've challenged her at a couple of junctures but ultimately realized i was fighting a losing battle and i'd be better off keeping my head down laughs and dramatic irony fast forward to four days ago friday there's a mandatory virtual event in three days monday where the dean of the college would talk to the ambassadors as well as live stream the event to the college's website and youtube page miss m sent out a message that i'll copy and paste here because the formatting is so dramatic that it makes me chuckle students must have their cameras on and phones off repeat phones off cameras on like come on lady bold caps or italics your email almost gave me a stroke i follow up the same day saying miss him unfortunately i'll be at a doctor's appointment at this time and will be unable to turn my camera on during the event no response i sent another email to follow up no response the day of the event rolls around i direct message her through microsoft teams 10 minutes before i see that she's seen the message with a red receipt nothing okay video chat starts and several students join the session with their cameras on then the dean he gets halfway through introducing himself and miss m interrupts him as he takes a brief pause and says excuse me could we please have all of the students turn their cameras on i say nothing but put a quick message i already had typed in anticipation in the group chat miss m i have a private situation that bars me from turning on my camera i've contacted you individually not but a few seconds after i send it i get called out by name and i respond audibly miss m i cannot turn on my camera at this time and she responds expectations were clear and you were told multiple times about this every other student here managed to do it and i expect the same out of you now one of the cool things about having cancer is you become very familiar with the hospital staff and if you're lucky they're fun to talk to during kovid my nurses were my tethers to sanity because no one could visit me while i had impatient infusions so i told one of my nurses amy about this situation beforehand she joked that if i was told to turn my camera on i should really play up my illness in any other situation i would have been entirely opposed but sweet revenge was in sight when i replay it in my head i imagine that anime fist clenching thing when the protagonist resolves to get revenge i set my laptop back a bit further for myself on my legs so you could see the entirety of me in my hospital regalia teams will display the person currently talking is the largest image in chat everyone had their audio off except me the dean and miss m so when i turned my camera on i was displayed as the ekg loudly thrummed away on max volume thanks to amy silence i say i asked miss m through email and teams if i could opt out of having my camera on but she insisted i waited a beat to see if anyone would say anything and then continued with my special vocal blend of melodramatic gratitude and illness-laden shakiness virtual engagement is so important for this new era of learning i can see why having the camera on is important though i was hoping i might be granted an exception the dean says opie you're more than welcome to turn your camera off i'm so sorry for the misunderstanding i say thank you so much for making a special exception for me it's been a difficult week but i feel grateful to be here then two people leave the call one was miss m and the other was anthony who was miss m's boss i didn't know he'd be there i haven't heard from either of them yet but i'm awaiting a follow-up with anticipation i'm typing this from the hospital and feeling gratitude for a lot of things tis the season after all i'm here i'm alive and above all this stupid disease won't stop me from putting a bully in their gosh darn place if you found yourself in such a sensitive position like op is here and somebody is not realizing the situation at hand would you be willing to go forward with something like that about yourself just to put them in their place in front of everybody like that or would you rather just get yelled at or whatever with your camera off and explain afterwards let me know what you would do in the comments down below our next story is by cran as per my nda i'm not allowed to discuss this position with former employers since my firing is effective immediately you're now a former employer gather round as i tell you the story of the time i got fired at the worst place i've ever worked from day one it was a nightmare there were zero onboarding or training i was simply given the login info for a couple of different websites and told to get to work this company planned large conferences and i was in charge of speaker coordination i was the only person in this role the information solely resided with me not a big deal i say to myself i'm good at thinking on my feet i'll just ask questions when i need clarification on something that turned out to be impossible my manager's first language was in english i'm all for learning new languages i think it's a great skill to have and it takes a lot of work and being able to speak multiple languages is impressive the problem was that her english was so poor that it was very often hard to understand what she was trying to say i once asked if she had time to hop on a call and explain something to me and she responded with no opie soul skills is a must i am bird without head it took me a few days to find out what she was trying to say was that things are hectic she was running around like a chicken with its head cut off and she needed me to be self-sufficient regardless i did my best in the position small mistakes happened here and there but overall all the speakers were very happy and felt well supported i struggled on the communication with my manager but i thought the company was happy with my work until four months in when i was randomly pulled into a meeting with my manager hr and legal effective immediately i was fired i asked why i was being fired and why was this the first i'd heard of any problems why wasn't there a write-up or a verbal warning my manager said it was because the 10 minutes i ran the analytics it takes me to respond to an email was too slow that was a bs reason and we all knew it if you don't like me personally fine but don't try to make this seem like i was a bad employee to be honest i was furious we do the exit interview with hr and then she asks me to send over any documents i had we worked on personal computers remotely and described where i was at in regards to our next event and our speakers ndas are really common in this field i've signed one at every job i've ever worked but this employer's nda had a clause in it that worked to my advantage i said as per my nda i'm not to discuss intimate details or share documents relating to this position with any employer past or future since this firing was effective immediately we are now a former employer and i'm bound by my nda hr hem in hot a little bit telling me that of course i could speak to them about it this was about their event i pulled out my copy of the nda always save contracts and pointed out the exact clause and said that it clearly stated that if i violated this nda i would be sued so no i couldn't talk to them about the position hr turned illegal and legal pointed out that i was technically correct they were a former employer and i was bound by my nda they fired me 17 days before the event they didn't have time to start over from scratch i still keep in contact with some of my co-workers and apparently the event was a crap show and the manager nearly lost her job because of it over half the speakers pulled out once communication broke down all because i take too long to respond to emails honestly i think what i'm struggling with is what the actual reason was they just didn't like op was it the communication barrier did op ask for too much help overall it seems just dysfunctional from top to bottom something good to note though if somebody fires you effective immediately you don't have to stick around and answer their questions if somebody fires you effective immediately and then asks for all the information you left behind you can tell them that you're doing some consultation services and they can pay up if they want that information you can't tell me that i'm out of a job and i'm not employed with you anymore and expect me to just be like oh okay well that sucks anyways what i did before i got fired was this this and this i would be like oh you jerks okay i see how it is see you later and our final story of the days by tsuki suki five buki hr tries to gaslight me and screw me they end up bending over backwards i work for a multinational consulting company i just recently finished my engineering degree and since i was already working there as an intern when they offered me a full-time job i figured i'd accepted while i looked for another job that i would enjoy more the project i was in was a complete crap show the client was always angry at us because we were late on our deliveries constantly the project leader was a good guy but didn't have a clue about what us pawns were doing on a daily basis and would chew everyone out whenever things didn't go as he planned and the project itself was boring as heck so there really wasn't any challenge or opportunity for learning anything valuable to top it off while most of my coworkers were cool guys some of them were slackers that just try to do the absolute minimum and often times not even that which usually meant more work for me there was a huge amount of turnover too so high that i was one of the vets despite having been there for only six months so the project never really felt to be getting any traction to be fair though they always treated me well and with respect so nothing to complain on a personal level after two months with my new contract and that sucky project i finally found a job at another company that i really liked salary and other benefits were far better than what i had at the moment and the project was much more interesting i passed all the interviews with flying colors and they offered me the job starting the following month great in my country you usually need to give a 15 day notice before leaving your current job or you risk facing penalties now it was my first time switching jobs so i called hr to confirm this and they did it's also relevant that once you put in your leave notice the company can actually let you go whenever they want before the 15 days are over this meant that if i would have told them right then that i was leaving next month they easily could have let me go the next day and i would have been left without a job for the entire month with all this information i decided to wait a couple of weeks before putting in my leave notice about 17 days before the starting date at my new job so i could at least guarantee myself half a month's salary the day comes in and i talk to hr to put in my notice they're very polite trying to convince me to stay but give up when i tell them what my new conditions will be then the conversation goes as follows they say all right then we'll process your leave request your last day being the 1st of october you'll be deducted 6 days of salary i say wait what why they say oh you need to give us notice of 15 labor days before leaving it's company policy i say but i literally talked to you a couple weeks ago and you never specified that they had to be labor days we always talked about natural days they say i doubt that it's always been labor days not natural days this exchange goes on for a bit and i start having the feeling that he's gaslighting me so i try to think of another solution i say i still have six vacation days left over can't i just take those right after i leave they say no sorry can't do company policy so here i am thinking these duplicitous gaslighting unhelpful tobys at hr have got me by the balls the only thing he does is remind me that company policy is set in stone finally i tell them that i'll look into my options and call back i started going through my contract to see if i could do anything about this and i gotta say i struck gold the contract i signed was a regular indefinite time contract however the first three months of it were probatory which meant that the company could terminated at any time without repercussions for any reason i looked it up on google and i confirmed my suspicions the same were true for the employee it had only been two months since i signed so i could leave whenever i wanted no notice needed at all with the biggest poop eating green i could muster i call hr back hey it's me op calling you back about my leave notice i just read my contract and since i'm still on probatory period i take it i can leave whenever i want no penalties whatsoever like for instance right now at 12 39 in the afternoon is that correct silence for one two three four five seconds hr says i guess we can probably arrange it for you to leave right before the 1st of october if you wish no crap that's really just how you have to handle people that are like the contract says what the contract says it's company policy those are the times you go deep diving into that big wall of text to find out a if they're telling the truth and b if you can weasel out of it somehow sometimes it pays off big time like how op figured it out here but with that being said that's all the time we have for today so of all these stories i've read today which is your favorite and why let me know in the comments down below and if you haven't yet if you could like and subscribe that would mean a lot to me whatever you do whether it's liking subscribing turning notifications on all of it helps grow this channel and i appreciate the heck out of it so until next time i'll see you all tomorrow with some more stories

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Length: 17min 19sec (1039 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 26 2021