r/maliciouscompliance | "WORK SMARTER NOT HARDER" said my Bank Manager

hey everybody welcome back to the storytime channel my name is Stephen and let's get into our stories of the day big department manager wants me to work harder not smarter circa 2010 I was working in afternoons gig at a local bank in part to complete an internship class for my coursework the job entailed running batches of checks through a massive cheque scanner manually running a tape using an old calculator called a 10 key with a printing function to make sure the checks matched the deposits and then hopping over to a computer to correct any errors on the teller or customers part when the deposits were made after the bank closed 3 p.m. I was also the one who would stay in print out customer statements and run a long list of processes on multiple machines to update everyone's accounts of the day's transactions upload the information to the website backup and run stapes on all of the bank's data and sort and file through the end of day reports for the different department managers to review the next morning I within lock of the bank and go home in hindsight quite a bit of responsibility for a college student but it was a hometown bank now my manager was a classic Karen before the term existed she managed through fear tried to cover it with small talk and banter and didn't like anyone to shine except herself in the department my two co-workers full time bank employees would always discuss how terrible it was to work for her full time anyway I was raised to be respectful and worked my hardest which to me meant trying to be as quick at my job as possible thus saving the company time and money the closing duties I described took anywhere from one and a half to four hours to complete depending on which batch of statements were printing and how often the crappy printers jammed after about a month of doing this every day I realized much of this time was due to the checklist I had been trained with it was doing one task at a time when actually more than one process could be done at once many times way out of order the list but you had to understand everything's part to really see this I said about making these efficiencies and brought my I'm down to half an hour to two and a half hours after two months I thought this would make my manager happy but nothing was said about me getting out of there faster and so I just kept on doing my job as best as I could fast forward two more months and this bank is updating its service to allow for real-time banking previously unless I updated the website each night balances and transactions wouldn't show up they brought in two large server cases into the office I worked in but it took another three to four weeks for the actual hardware to come in since the old servers were still installed they set the empty towers right in the middle of our office now our office was a very long room the statement printers on one side and all the computers I had to work on each night at the other remember I said the printers jammed a lot well with all the computers and servers on my end of the office I never could hear the beep telling me they had jammed but I could see the red error light this had historically been my little check every few minutes I turn around to make sure the printers hadn't jammed I made sure I did this because every minute they weren't printing was another minute I'd be working the statements took longer to print than the rest of my duties combined however the way they placed the empty server towers blocked my view forcing me to have to get up and walk halfway to the printers each time to make sure they weren't jammed so I simply turned them 90 degrees since the front and backs were full of air ventilation holes this allowed me to maintain my line of sight saving me and the bank time once again I thought I had a great idea no one is using these yet and when they do they won't be in that location anymore anyway in hindsight I should have known better I came in around 2 p.m. after classes the next day and noticed the towers returned back I thought that was odd why would anyone turn them back I asked my coworker and she told me the manager was pissed I had touched them without asking which as I've learned later in life was fair enough I asked had they being turned messed up some workflow I wasn't thinking of but no she hadn't even noticed them until about 11:00 a.m. when another employee mentioned they had been turned so her reaction was pure malice for not having been asked when she saw I had come in she pulled me aside and asked aggressively why I had touched them so thinking this is my chance to highlight my efficiencies I told her all I had done in an effort to make the closing routine more efficient that was evidently the wrong answer I was instructed to do the checklist exactly how it was laid out with no changes whatsoever because that's how it's supposed to be even though I had been doing it my quicker way for two months already with no downsides with regard to the printer she told me to stop being lazy and just get up and walk to it to check on it Q malicious compliance I stopped caring about speed follow the checklist to a tee and unless I had somewhere to be didn't worry about checking on the printer very often if it was still printing after my closing checklist was done I could always read or do homework at my desk wouldn't want to be efficient with the bank's payroll after all suffice to say it went back to taking one and a half to four hours per night and costing the bank much more money in my checks good for me I guess shortly after I found a job working in an electronics department at a superstore and switched over with two weeks notice there wasn't time to train a new person so that manager had to take over the night routine until the new one could be found during my last day I took it upon myself to try and give her some constructive criticism in how her management style affected me and stopped me from caring about my job I'm not sure if it was effective but at least I got it off my chest I ran into one of my former co-workers at the store a few months later and evidently someone else had out-and-out told my former manager she was a vile and mean person and she was probably going to heck for how she treated people part of her Karen persona was being very religious and this seemed to have scared her into at least some meekness at least according to my former coworker this lady seems so stuck in her ways and stubborn and just one they're like get back at everybody for no really good reason at all for those of you that have worked a job with a manager that upset you like this were you ever able to explain why like Opie did to them let me know your side of the story in the comment section below it looks good on paper so this was a long time ago in a workplace I try very hard to block out of my memory but this was one of the great situations that I remember this place was a warehouse for an automotive assembly plant where we warehouse workers would place parts and to order on carts so they can be used in the production line in the order that cars are being built this process when done perfectly is very efficient and makes the line run smoothly however nothing is ever perfect and this process can also make things run very poorly this is one of those times it is important to note that the warehouse is staffed by a different company than what runs the assembly plant and while things are normally calm between the two companies situations like this tend to get a bit heated with the warehouse company facing penalties for screw-ups background one of the areas will receive in starts for the lines comes from a group of people who put the parts how they were supposed to be on a cart that card is loaded into a trailer the trailer is brought to the plant unloaded and the carts are sent to the line while empty carts are loaded back onto the trailer and sent back to our warehouse this system works pretty well but there is some room for improvement process manager dufus decides that he has the answer to this problem in the form of a new way to load and unload the trucks and goes about telling all of the people in this department to do things his way no attempt to revise the standard process just do it his way now the people who work this area know what they are doing they do this job all day long and can see where the doofus method is going to have the materials loaded in a fashion that will waste a large amount of time upon pointing this out doofus angrily waves their concerns away in spouts the now-famous lines it looks good on paper so it will work just fine he then proceeds to stand around to make sure that things are done his way and when things start to fall behind due to his error shouts the people for not following his scheme he then leaves for lunch with the promise that he will be back and if they follow his process exactly things will get on track and improve malicious compliance now the doofus method is not the standard method for doing this job we have process manuals printed that showed the mostly ideal method of doing things and deviation from that should be limited to only processes that prove to be effective in reducing time as seen by process analysts everyone knows that the doofus method is not going to work so standard compliance would be to go back to the process listed in the manual but this is malicious compliance everyone involved in this process decided to follow the doofus method exactly despite the fact that everyone knows where this will end up as predicted things start falling behind more and more and when doofus returns he finds an apartment that is on the verge of shutting the line down he begins yelling at anyone and everyone for not following his precious method in response to any challenges with it looks good on paper it has to be something you all are doing the fallout as things start getting more and more backed up the manager at the plant has noticed things are not as they should be she drives over to our warehouse to find out what is going on and why this department that normally does not have issues is having issues wine manager says why are things getting so backed up over here the line is close to stopping doofus says we started a new system of doing things and someone is not following the new process is this the standard process for this area why am I just now hearing of this it's a new method that I came up with it should be saving time well it's not go back to the standard process but it looks good on paper if we can find out what is happening we can get it fixed mine manager in increasing irritation we don't have time to figure out where your idea went wrong we need to get moving go back to the standard process dufus increasingly flustered with the paper at this point the line manager has had enough and cuts them off with I don't care about your freaking paper go back to the standard process doofus retreats to his office everyone goes back to the normal process and the situation is sorted out within an hour we later find out that doofus has been reamed by our facility manager our quality manager the assembly plant manager the assembly process manager and just about everyone else that holds even the slightest authority over him since he'd never discussed with anyone what he was doing what he was planning and never had permission to do what he did the phrase it looks good on paper has since become a running joke between the workers there and doofus was fired a few months later due to unrelated issues there's a lot of things I could write on paper that looks good on paper that is either unrealistic or is very short-sighted you can come up with a bunch of ideas and maybe they do seem like genuinely good ideas but I think it's very impractical to write away shove this brand-new idea into a warehouse system that on the surface was already functional I think any time you involve yourself with something like that you need to have foresight on almost every aspect of it as obviously some of the workers could see right through it right away it was just stuff that they couldn't see themselves changing channels is a turn okay so my brother and I are always fighting and this quarantine is making everything tenser so the agreement we had before was that if you watch one movie I'll watch one movie same thing for shows story so one day I was just browsing the channels looking for something to watch then my brother annoyed that I still haven't chosen anything decided to wind to my mother he kept on saying that whenever I chose a channel it was a turn my mom annoyed it his whining said fine new rule okay then so the next day I pretended to be asleep but I had a pen in a small notepad with my watch with me I then waited for him to turn on the TV I thin took a list of all the eleven channel see browse through I then waited until yesterday to put my plan into action with my compiled list of the eleven channels all with the date and time I made microwave popcorn and got comfortable after my first movie my brother demanded that I give him the remote but I didn't he then went to our mom and whined I then showed her the list and reminded her of the new gruel my brother then tried to contest the rule but I reminded him that he was the one to make the rule in the first place my mother relented and said that it was my turn for the next 11 movie slash shows I watched all of the Avengers movies and a few episodes of the Grand Tour he was so upset when I decided to watch infinity war and endgame that's it my short but sweet malicious compliance don't do the crime if you can't do the time they're the one that made the rule May gotta live with the results my mother told me to pick all my stuff from her place so I did it the relationship between me and my mother is really bad and always has been I might tell about that later in a different community but here's some backstory my mother is very narcissistic so every fight between us has always been my or my father's fault last year I cut ties with her but it hasn't been that easy I have also a sister who was still in connection with her their relationship is a big part of my mother's and my bad connection but enough of that now julia is my sister and Claire is my mother names are obviously changed I've collected some stuff from Claire's place before but I didn't want the rest of my stuff to be there anymore since my official address is in my dad's place now I call Juliet to go through my stuff and our call which she did I was going to pick the stuff that I wanted to be at my new address later that evening it was Thursday because of her and Claire's good relationship Julia wanted to confirm that it was okay to Claire that didn't go so well Claire flipped completely to Julia because I still had a key to Claire's place I ended the call with Julia so they could start the fight in the call with Julia we had gathered up a big bag of stuff Julia got really emotional because Claire yelled to her because Claire was angry to me after midnight I called Julia and Claire has already gone to sleep we talked about the situation and she told me that I had to get all my stuff from there and return the key to Claire's new partner if I wanted some stuff I would have to get them all after that I decided to call my dad about that and he said that we will get the stuff later with a trailer so it's Sunday now and Julia was at clearest place alone so we went to get the stuff Claire told Julia to say to me that I had to get the stuff when Claire's new partner was home because I couldn't give the key which I still had - Julia Claire's partner wasn't around but we still went to get the stuff they are my stuff and I should be allowed to get dumped if you don't agree please tell that to me in the comments maybe Claire meant with all my stuff a huge box of my belongings but we took it all my desk shelves schoolbooks nightstand noticeboard dishes old toys the box of my stuff and a huge part of my baby pictures and keepsakes Claire will be very pissed and sad but honestly I don't care anymore because she has hurt me mentally countless times I also left the key on the table I didn't give it to my sister I'm just glad that there was a moment where Opie and their father could go to this place get all of their stuff without having to deal with Claire at all dinner time compliance back when I was a kid we had a rule where you weren't allowed to start eating food before we had said the blessing the penalty for doing so was having to wait one minute to start eating after the blessing for each bite you had taken before the blessing I hated this rule because they didn't like waiting to eat what I figured out is if I eat my whole dinner before the blessing I wouldn't have any food to have to wait to eat after the blessing I got about halfway through my plate before my mom figured out my plan and the jig was up but it was totally worth it I ghetto piece plight and I get that they were a kid but I feel like even out of politeness you should be able to hold out for the grace I don't think it's usually a very long process but with that being said that's all the stories we have for today so what I want to know is which of these stories is your personal favorite of the day and why let me know which story and why in the comment section down below and thank you all so very much for watching and listening to the storytime channel today if you haven't yet please consider subscribing and don't forget to turn notifications on so you'll never miss an upcoming video from the storytime channel thank you all again so very much for watching and listening to the storytime channel

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Views: 34,658

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Keywords: storytime, story time, life stories, r/maliciouscompliance, r/idontworkherelady, r/entitledparents, r/entitled parents, entitled parents, maliciouscompliance, malicious compliance, prorevenge, r/prorevenge, r/pro revenge, reddit stories, funny reddit stories

Id: 3SaTlx2H2uU

Length: 18min 21sec (1101 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 25 2020