r/maliciouscompliance | "You need to check your Employee Handbook NOW..."

hey everybody hope you're all doing well my name is stephen and this is the story time channel we've got some malicious compliance stories so let's jump right into our first story of the day by carl 007 1 check your employee handbook it's right there this story happened about 14 years ago when i worked for a now defunct electrical store in the uk whose name i won't mention but it rhymed with vomit at the time i was a teenager and reliant on public transport to get to work there was only one bus an hour to this out of town retail park and it was scheduled to arrive at 8 55 which theoretically would give me enough time to walk from the bus stop to the store ready to start my shift at 9am however on many occasions the bus was laid due to traffic so i sometimes arrive at work at 905 which wasn't a problem because the store was usually quiet until 11am but the manager accepted that i would make up any of this time at the end of my shift so this went on for about a year with no problems until a new deputy manager was brought in from another store she was a clock watcher and wanted me to be there at 9 00 am every day and wasn't accepting any excuses for buses being late or anything else i asked her if i could simply change my shift from 9 to 1700 to 9 10 to 17 10 which i thought was reasonable she refused completely and told me you have to be on time for your shift check your employee handbook it's right there i did check my employee handbook and it did state exactly what she said but on the same page it said that every employee working a shift longer than six hours is entitled to a 60-minute uninterrupted lunch break uninterrupted is the key word here later that day i was about halfway through my lunch break in the staff room when she came in and said that the shop floor was busy there's not enough sales people out there and there's a customer waiting to buy a plasma tv nobody volunteered so she specifically picked me and told me to go and serve the customer and then come back to continue my lunch break this wasn't uncommon and it wasn't really a problem usually i served the customer processed the sale and then went back to the staff room to continue my break 50 minutes later she comes back to the staff room with a face like thunder asking why i'm still on my lunch break you should have been back on the shop floor 20 minutes ago why are you still in here i calmly replied that i still have 10 minutes left on my 60 minute uninterrupted lunch break i explained that by taking me off lunch 30 minutes early that wasn't an uninterrupted lunch break before i smiled and told her check the employee handbook it's right there she was furious she went to the store manager and said i'd taken an extra long lunch break but when he came in to speak to me i explained to him that my lunch break was interrupted by the deputy manager she protested and said that just because i have to spend a few minutes with a customer doesn't mean i'm entitled to an extra 30 minute break the store manager wasn't happy with the situation but agreed that i was entitled to my uninterrupted break as per company policy by now it was time for me to go back out on the shop floor so i put my lunchbox back in my locker and left she didn't talk to me for the rest of the day but she didn't ask any of us to serve customers during our lunch breaks ever again either if this was you would you have the drive to be able to look her in the face and say check the employee handbook i'm supposed to have an uninterrupted lunch break and then be adamant that you have to take another 30 minutes off because you got interrupted for a few minutes or would you have just dealt with the customer for a few minutes and then gone back and finished your lunch break let me know if you would be able to stand up and be adamant about that 30 minute uninterrupted lunch break in the comments down below our next story is by king geese don't call me mam okay sir obligatory this didn't happen recently this was a few years ago when photo centers were still actually common in stores bit of a background i had your standard terrifying grandma whose fear of reprisal instilled in me a rigid adherence to manners i'll always say pardon instead of what or huh and i always address people i don't know by gender respecting honorifics men are always sir and women i don't know are mam i was raised believing these are signs of respect to people you aren't familiar with apparently that's no longer the case and a lot of women slash karen's take being called ma'am as utterly insulting a lady came in to ask for help with our photo kiosks this is a tertiary service our company offered and was supposed to be entirely customer operated this lady comes in and is told the machine is self-serve and immediately began to scream at us telling us it's our job to do it for her we do nothing else while i was trying to serve another couple and we were good for nothing trying to de-escalate the situation i asked the couple i'm serving to wait and go over to see if i could help what she wanted to do could not actually be done by our machines and i explain that to her don't give me that i've already had it done here before can you get someone who actually knows what they're doing to help me ma'am i do know how to work these machines and what you're asking can't be done her face immediately filled with hatred and she said in a cutting voice don't you dare call me ma'am i'm not a man okay sir i'm sorry i said without really thinking if i thought she was angry before nothing compared to the torrent of hatred that exploded when i called her sir she began screaming at me that she was an important customer to the store i was the worst person she had ever encountered she would be calling her friends in our head office to get me fired by the end of the day and all the other things you come to expect from your middle-aged white woman who has been denied her idealized service of us bending over backwards for her she was yelling so loud the storm manager came out because she was worried interrupting the lady's diatribe she asked what had happened your associates called me sir when i asked him not to call me mam the dumbfounded look on my manager's face was priceless i'm sorry but what do you want him to call you at this point i left and the customer started screaming at my manager about how we were all going to lose our jobs i went back to the couple i was helping apologized and resumed helping them eventually the lady stormed out and my manager called me to her office i walk in and my manager is sitting with her head down massaging her temples i come in and she can only say i hate people is calling somebody ma'am a sign of disrespect nowadays i wouldn't have thought that calling somebody mam was i know it's probably like out of fashion already because people just don't really say that kind of stuff anymore unless you're really taught well growing up and erased really well quite frankly from my experience to be honest but i wouldn't have thought calling somebody mam would be a bad thing unless you know it's probably just a karen projecting the whole ma'am can i speak to your manager or whatnot type deal our next story is by sumo joe x kid wants me to buy alcohol for him i refuse he says come on take the money okay so this happened over 20 years ago when i was in my early 20s i worked at a convenience store our store had a small room built on the outside where we placed cans and bottles into big bags to return to the companies who distributed beer or soda oregon gave a refund of 5 cents each then but now it's 10. anyway one day at the end of my swing shift it was about 10 or 10 30 pm i believe it was my friday and so i wouldn't be back in at least two days i was in the bottle room sorting bottles i took on my shift i hear a hey i look up it's a regular we got in there a 12 year old kid edit i am putting in an edit because it was an approximation he was just a regular didn't know much else about him he says hey joe could you buy me some beer for me and my friends i was surprised what nah man i'm not risking my job for that kid says come on man it'd be easy for you and i'd owe you one i told the kid no again and said i'm not risking my job not risking the fine up to five grand and i have no money kid says here take the twenty and holds up a twenty dollar bill nah man i'm not buying beer dude i repeat myself this back and forth has been going on for five to ten minutes and i'm getting irritated i tell him no again again he says come on take the money i look at him and take the 20. kid says cool i'll wait behind the store i don't say anything as he leaves the room i leave it and lock the door i walk in and look at my co-worker i tell him the kid tried to get me to buy him beer and when i told him no he kept insisting i take the twenty dollars i told him i took it and that it's an annoyance tax i told him have a good night and left about a week or so later the kid is in the store he's looking at candy he waits until no one is there and comes to the counter where is my money he asks i look at him what money my 20 bucks for the beer you were supposed to buy he says i told you i wouldn't buy you beer and after that you insisted i take a 20 bill i say he gets all red in the face you better give my money back or else i lean in towards him or else what you gonna call a cop the kid looked surprised then he walked undefeated never came back in when i was working come on man take the 20. come on just take the 20. poor little kid was just asking for it at that point i know the kid was asking for some beer but like honestly i don't know if i'd be able to take the 20 from a 12 year old i'ma be honest that said i do understand why op did take it and an annoyance tax sounds understandable when you have to deal with 10 15 minutes of this kid trying to get you to do something that could get you fined up to five grand in your job lost honestly people working at a convenience store could probably use a tip like that once in a while this next story is by fused canadian you want me to stay ok so i am currently 7 months into my new job mainly shipping orders online my hours have been constant up until a month ago 5 days a week from 10 until 7. a few weeks ago they changed my hours due to turnovers and new staff i have become part of the veterans the old guard whatever you call it one of the staff who left was on the morning shift so they asked me to start earlier from 6 to 3. no problem i like the better hours cue someone who we will call kurt kurt is the evening weekend supervisor but isn't around my department that much i didn't interact with him nor him me but for some reason this weekend he noticed me leaving at the end of my shift kurt apparently hadn't heard of my shift change for months or just straight up forgot about my hour change but saturday as i was leaving and talking with a co-worker he came out of the door by the one exit screaming like a male banshee opie where are you going i'm going home i'm you are staying until the end of your shift but i'm done for the day you are not done until seven i know that for a fact me comprehension of what's happening hey i started working i don't give a crap about what you started working on get it finished first when you go back into the warehouse me inner malicious compliance gear is set to go okay so i put my stuff back in my locker and returned to the warehouse i look at the online orders oh one popped up a minute ago i should get at it shucks none in the warehouse better find it on the floor oh it's locked up better go back and get the keys okay got keys oops wrong set needless to say that i did a little for those hours busy enough to look busy but did what i could to fill the time today i went to my supervisor and mentioned that i will be adding 4 hours of overtime to my paycheck when asked i told her that kurt asked me to stay until 7. later on my manager came over and apologized to me he told me that kurt was brought in and was asked why he kept me later than was necessary and they had to patently explain the change of hours kurt tried to say i volunteered to stay but it didn't hold water then said that i talked back nope co-worker vouched for me then his hail mary throw i didn't tell him of the schedule change co-worker once again vouched that i tried to tell him but he overruled and yelled over me now i have some extra pay coming my way and kurt has been instructed to look at the schedule immediately when it's put up why would it be op's responsibility to tell the manager or the supervisor what their hours are aren't they scheduled for op and it's something that op agreed to i don't think that would ever hold water as an explanation as to why kurt wouldn't know or why this situation happened our next story is by ellen kell you don't have the parts required but insist i come to sight okay i work as a field service engineer i go to a variety of sites to do specialized work on a variety of different equipment i have a customer that requires a one-hour flight to get to and i usually go there once every two months they had a bunch of big staff changes on site over the last few years and that made the site more and more awkward to deal with they have their analyzer that i service for them it requires chemical reagents to take measurements they report to me that they are having issues with the analyzer and want me on site asap i ask a few questions to try and see what's going on and they very grudgingly give answers too much effort for the manager to bother looking into it or to allow the lowly operator to contact me directly from what little information i do get i'm thinking that they've run out of reagents it's never happened before on this site because the operator knew what he was doing kept a close eye on the reagent levels he checked them once a week changed them when needed and got replacements ordered when needed to these aren't things that you can bulk by for the year and forget about the shelf life isn't great in them and a bottle of reagent could last from 3 months to 18 months depending on the reagent the analyzer required 10 separate reagents so there's a little bit of effort required to manage the reagents properly and keep everything going with the analyzer before this issue the operator was allowed to order stuff themselves now everything needed to be approved by big boss manager guy who had a very high opinion of himself and he didn't think it was necessary to order replacement reagents when the operator said they were needed i tell him that the issue looks like the analyzer is out of reagents and i'm pretty sure they don't have any spare we had quoted them after my previous service for reagents the operator asked me to and we hadn't received an order for them yet so i know they weren't ordered so there's no point in me going to the site unless they have those manager guy insists that i come over emailing me with a bunch of high up staff on the site cc'd i reply with a date to travel over asking if that date is ok and restating my concerns about their lack of reagents and that they have several weeks of lead time i get to site a couple of days later i do an inspection on the analyzer a bunch of the reagent bottles are empty everything else looks fine nothing i can do one or two people are getting a bit grumpy with me that their analyzer isn't working i restate everything about the reagents why didn't this happen before well your operator was allowed to get stuff ordered himself and now he's not someone never signed off on that a few weeks ago guess i'll see you in a few weeks for the next service visit after the new reagents arrive and here's an invoice for a couple thousand euro for this emergency visit that ye insisted on having don't you love it when everything is running absolutely smoothly and then somebody gets put into a place of management where they can just do whatever they want mess whatever up change whatever and then all of a sudden proof things stop working things aren't as efficient and oh but why we were just trying to cut costs we were just trying to get more optimized well you didn't actually look at what was working and why and our final story of the day is by mr010 my gay friend explains to my other friends why he doesn't like them my friend let's call him nick recently came out to our friend group all of us were happy he found himself and all the good ally stuff but like even though they were supportive three of our mutual friends let's call them friend one through three for simplicity started acting weird around him we all changed in locker rooms together since middle school and i'm not trying to make it weird but i'm 100 certain we've all seen each other's privates but the second my friend came out they all got weird and was like he was checking them out and they were uncomfortable nick tried to explain that he had a boyfriend but still left the room out of respect i thought they were overreacting but it's not my place to think for someone else anyway yesterday i'm in a group chat with all my friends and friend one makes a comment about he's so hot he turned straight guys gay nick didn't respond to that comment and friend one asked him if he was hot enough that nick wanted him i could tell nick was uncomfortable but they kept pushing it even after i tried to change the conversation friend three asked nick out of the three of them who he would most likely sleep with nick is a perfectionist and to be honest sometimes a tick because he's brutally honest only recently has he realized being honest all the time isn't always that nice nick explains to them he really doesn't want to hurt their feelings and says drop it but they won't let it go and said they want to be raided by him they were being so annoying two other friends left the group chat but not me i'm noisy as freak because i knew what was coming so nick is like freaking since you want to know so badly let me tell you exactly why none of you are ever on my radar nick explains to friend one that he isn't attractive since he doesn't know how to take showers right and always smells like body odor mixed with body spray he also goes into how his personality is literally playing sports in video games and besides those he doesn't have any other talents or hobbies friend one can never keep a girlfriend for longer than a few weeks since he has commitment issues and can't handle being rejected nick said that friend 2 isn't attractive because his head is disproportionate to the rest of his body friend 2 is really muscular but his head is kind of small he also said that just because friend 2 is ripped he thinks he doesn't have to put effort into anything else like brushing his teeth and friend two just always smells like sweaty down their hair because he knows he doesn't wash down under just rinses it and expects it to be clean finally nick said friend three isn't attractive because he has a forehead that's so big that if he was nearby the malaysian flight 370 could have landed safely and nick was certain if he shaves his eyebrows he would find twizzlers hidden inside after nick finished they were just silent friend one tried to play it off but i know it hit a nerve nick explained to him that he thinks they're all cute in their own way but just not to him he explained that just since he's gay now doesn't mean he's staring at their junk when they change together i think they got it now now they're back to normal around nick and apologized but i for one didn't stop laughing for hours but hey they asked i mean if you're gonna pressure a guy about his preferences and the guy is willing to be honest brutally honest i don't think they should be surprised that they're not in their preferences just because they like one type of gender doesn't mean that they like every person of that gender right i think it's a pretty easy to grasp concept i'm sure most people listening to this understand it's very easy to understand but i guess some straight guys like that just think gay guys like all guys because i i don't know but with that being said that's all the time we have for today so if you have a favorite story of the day let me know which story and why in the comments down below but besides that if you enjoyed the video today please give the video a like and subscribe if you haven't and turn notifications on so you'll never miss an upcoming video no matter what you did whether it was just watching the video subscribing commenting thank you all so very much for supporting me right here on the story time channel i hope you all have a wonderful day and i'll see you all next time right here

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Length: 21min 29sec (1289 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 13 2020