r/maliciouscompliance - *WARNING* My BOSS didn't listen to ME!

hey everyone and welcome to story time my name is Jake and today we are gonna be looking at the subreddit our such malicious compliance where people conformed to the letter but not the spirit of a request if you new around here please do hit subscribe down below so that you never miss out on another video but for now let's sit back relax and enjoy some malicious compliance won't listen to my warnings you're the boss so this was years and years ago back when I was working as a land surveyor basically what we would do is go out with a laser machine on a tripod and shoot it a bunch of mirrors on a stick and because math that would give us an extremely precise map of an area my dad was the one who trained me in the trade and because I have a very analytical mind and this is basically geometry the job I had a talent for it though honestly I wasn't all that fond of the job good at it sure just not fond so one day with my dad's help I get put on a survey team with a guy will be calling Jay he was technically the crew chief which meant he was technically in charge Jay was a dyed-in-the-wool redneck he listened to conservative radio thus forcing me to do the same drove a beat-up old pickup truck lived in an apartment complex that somehow had a rusted out car sitting in its front lawn and had a stubborn streak Texas tall and fueled by his utter surety but he knew better than every damn person else I never heard him say anything to confirm it but if I had seen a confederate flag on his truck it would not have been out of place Jay didn't like me I loathed him we would often meet up at 6:00 a.m. or even earlier to get equipment loaded and set out on a job I am NOT a morning person I'm definitely a night owl and while I'm always awake alert and on the ball while on site the car ride out to the site would often lull me to sleep Jay hated that every time I would fighting to keep my eyes open while ignoring the constant drone of southern-fried conservatism flooding out the radio staff to doze off slightly J started screaming his damn head off telling me to wake up if he had to be awake I sure as heck was going to be awake to ten minutes of him ranting and he'd finally shut up only to start over again would my head drooped an hour later this is an example of Jai's attitude toward pretty much everything he was right I was wrong suggest differently and eat ham at hall until you just gave up so onto the malicious compliance of this story we are out on a massive job we have to survey an entire strip mall complex one of those deals that takes up an entire block to itself with lots of little alcoves and corners that made sight lines difficult lots of setting up shooting a few points setting a traverse point and then breaking it all down again to move to the next point we knew already we were going to be at it all darn day so we broke everything out and got to work so as the crew chief one of Jays responsibilities was that he would plan our traverses he would choose the vantage point he thought we could get the most relevant data recorded from set the Traverse let me shoot it in and then we would switch positions I'd set up the instrument and data collector on the Traverse he would get a back sight from our old set up location so the instrument could orientate itself and knew what direction it was facing and then he would go around with the prism and I take the readings about halfway through this massive job I've just broken down the instrument and I'm heading to my next Traverse when Jay stops me hey you forgot to shoot in the archway I should point this out for non surveyors you may have noticed as crew chief and prison man Jay is the one who picks what to shoot in so when he says you forgot what he meant was I forgot but I want to shift the blame onto you anyway go back to the last point we need to shoot that in so if I go back to where I just come from I set up the instrument and get on the walkies hey J I'm dialed in just need a backside you were just there you don't need a back sight just shoot it in I can't shoot it in without a back sight if I don't get the orientation the rest of the job could be pivoted Jay has all the swagger but I doubt he understood three whole words of what I just said he was crew chief on seniority not an actual mind for the math basically since I had broken it down the instrument didn't know which direction it was facing so it would pick a direction at random and just assumed it was facing that way which means any points we shut in including all traverses we shot from that point forward would be pivoted around that point at random and arbitrary angle you bleep shoot what I bleep and tell you to bleep and shoot take the shots so I shrugged technically he was in charge he was the one who literally called the shots he was the one responsible so I took the shots and we carried on with me knowing everything was being increasingly transposed as we carried on cut to the end of our day we had finished up pretty early compared to when we thought we would be getting out the way we did things is we would shoot the points then upload them to our company server through a desktop with a mobile modem this was exclusively my job because Jay was a monkey he wouldn't know a file repository server map to a network drive from his bar so we packed up all the equipment get in the truck and I start uploading our points file Jay likes to take off from the job site immediately even though he's supposed to wait for a word from our tags confirming they got the points but by a stroke of luck he decided today he wanted to relax with a cigarette before we laughed usually he'd smoke as we drove but I guess he just wanted to chill in any case we were actually on the job site not on the road when he gets a call from Home Office Jay answers the phone expecting permission to screw off for the day hello the phone makes muffled muttering sounds what points the phone makes more inaudible muttering I don't understand what's wrong with them my ears perk I know exactly what is wrong with the points through straining my hearing and knowing roughly what the tech is about to say I can barely make out the following control points over 400 yards now one might be wondering what control points are well dear reader I shall now edify thee with an explanation you see when surveying a large area standard best practice is to do it in a large loop you tell the data collector that point zero zero one is at position one thousand one thousand zero and then collect the other points in relation to that arbitrary point so when you circle around the area being surveyed you collect the position of the first same point again it's your last shot so the texts know roughly what kind of error margin drifted in while you were traversing and needless to say when you're dealing with measurements with precision down to a one thousandth of an inch an error margin of 400 yards is completely unacceptable now what I could have done is asked Jay to let me talk to the tag informed them that Jay refused to take a back sight at one of the points and tell them to take all points above point X pivot them around point Y by Z degrees all numbers that I had memorized that would have lined up the control points compensated for the error completely and we would have driven home having done a good job but I couldn't do that could I that would have indicated J was wrong and J is never wrong so I held my tongue and tried not to smirk J refuses to believe our points are wrong Opie must have uploaded them wrong idiot do it again I'd do it right this time of course it's my fault it was always my fault in Jays opinion so I uploaded the points again and the tech informed him that the points are still off J seizes the laptop twenty minutes of the monkey stopping at the keyboard in skews with him having to get the very patient tech to guide him step by step through the incredibly simple process of dragging and dropping the points file into his yeah and again the tech informs him the points are wrong he is incensed so minutes later we're piling out of the truck and grabbing all the equipment again so we can set back up the point J messed up on with a back sight this time your figure and Reis you every single point in the back half of the job we just completed I didn't mind I was being paid to watch J curse and fume and whine at me about was both knowing I was the one who would warned him about the issue of course he keeps blaming me for the mess up but I just take that as an occupational bonus in the end J got bald out by the big boss for wasting company time and money my dad told me his check got docked for the screw up me I got overtime after all J was the one responsible for the accuracy of the data I was just the monkey pushing buttons on the instrument some people just have a too much hubris don't they they just need to tone it down and get down to earth with everybody else a Richard and his pens during college I was a cybersecurity engineering intern at a government agency which alcohol agency that's super-secret a SS a SS used many defense contractors including wood will call Maquis the Lawton contrary to popular belief mock head and other big contractor engineers are generally just as bad as and often worse than government engineers but I digress one such bad mock heed engineer was a guy we'll call Richard because well he's a Richard you see Richard loved to inform his government employee counterparts about his much higher contractor salary his fancy car and his PhD from MIT it's a running joke in the industry that phd's can't code but with Richard it was true he couldn't use a get such version-control exclusively used ColdFusion for database work and he wanted to use JavaScript for back-end services for our less technical readers he isn't the best programmer on the poopoo platter despite this mock he'd was able to bill him and not so raid because of his PhD and ten years experience and thus the gears of the military-industrial complex rolled on casually messing over taxpayers as it went anyway everyone hates Richard but everyone particularly hated his fancy pens which he wouldn't shut up about he requisitioned them from the government and they delivered to his desk the overpriced ink dispenses about three months later I did say it was the government because there was a three month lead time Richard had to order in advance lest he need to use normal pens like Oz non PhD plebs well one time the administrative assistant who would receive some unwanted attention from Richard received a box full of fancy pens for delivery it turns out had run out of ink just the day before and this delivery was perfectly timed but you see Richard made a critical mistake instead of writing fancy pens or box of fancy pens on the order form Richard Roe fancy pens box and so the assistant dutifully distributed all of Richard's fancy pens to everyone else on the team and left the empty box on his desk for when he returned from lunch of course Richards shriek of anguish upon opening the long-awaited box of pens and finding it empty was priceless Haas was the argument he had with the administrative assistant so too was watching him refile the order form presumably realizing he'd have to spend three whole months without his precious little pens but the moment I will always cherish the piece de la resistance if you will it's when Richard trudged to the office supply cabinet side as he selected a really bad paper mate pan and turned around to see all of his co-workers dutifully scribbling away fancy pens in hand this guy definitely sounds like one of those people to have a bonsai tree on his desk and every time his assistant walks in he just screams at them basically a Richard yeah two hundred and fifty dollars to turn on a power strip I used to own an all-around tech company we did it all well my team did a lot of our work was sales and tech support we had a contract with a bank in Five Points Atlanta but had issues about every single weekend we got a nice bump in pay for any weekend trips to fix their nonsense yes it was always nonsense this is just the story that sticks out in my head the most so it was around Saturday in the late 2000s around 2008 I think we get a call that the main teller station won't turn on knowing these people I asked her to check and make sure everything was plugged in and that the power strip was on etc the teller told me she already checked all of that and she's not stupid well I informed her that being a weekend that if I show up it was going to be a two hundred and fifty dollar charge no matter what the issue was base charge she told me to get off my butt and hurry up so I roll into the bank and the first thing I did was push the power button just to make sure it didn't boo sure enough it doesn't so then I notice this Dom woman has her purse on the power strip connected to the computer I mover sure as heck the darn thing is off I flip the switch press the power button and boom what do you know it lives side now all of our calls were taped so I played the tape for the bank manager the next day this poor sap was getting hosed every other weekend and it seemed for stupid service calls like this needless to say the teller who messed up had to pay for this call or she was going to get fired oh yeah I checked that I'm not an idiot oh hey everyone I hope you all had a really good day and that you enjoyed that video if you want to check out some of the videos then click on screen right now or check out the playlist down below if you enjoyed that video then please do leave a like and if you want to submit your own stories then you can do so by joining the discord in the top link in the description but thank you so much for watching and I will see you very soon

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Length: 16min 54sec (1014 seconds)

Published: Tue May 28 2019