r/Maliciouscompliance Big Boss Messes with IT Guy & Gets Himself Fired! 

"Engineers are professional problem solvers; don't make yourself a problem for an engineer." Amazing advice ☺️

Two important lessons are to be learned from Malicious compliance. 1. Don’t fuck with the It guy 2. if someone asks you „hey can I get that in writing and signed?“ don’t do that

As a teacher, I appreciate that my district has spent pretty much every dollar on catching students up, keeping schools opened, and paying staff more. Hiring educational consultants is a massive waste of money and I feel awful for op. 🙁

Some Executive Manager: (screws over the IT person) rSlash: HOW MANY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO TEACH YOU THIS LESSON, OLD MAN?!

I have never understood the ego and paranoia of micromanagers. Typically, people are very conscientious of the job they do so when you hire them, train them, and get them up to speed they need to be let go to do the job. Bad employees will usually show their hands in an open workplace but great employees will too. I have had too much experience with micromanagers on ego trips in my life and have taken great pleasure in letting them roast themselves... And they do, without fail. Micromanaging is the very definition of mental masturbation.

Big Boss: **Messes with the IT guy** IT Guy OP: *"...and I took that personally."*

I've hearing stories of managers protecting their employees from terrible middle/upper management and/or customers. I agreed with something that an employer did to protect their employee from a team of an awful general manager and nasty customer. Someone actually commented and told me I was wrong and that the protector manager probably told the story in a way that made them look good. I said if the story was even half true I still agreed with them. He replied again thanking me for making him laugh and said that I would never be successful at managing a business. He said that no matter what they say or do you have to treat the customer as if they are right or else you will eventually go out of business. I politely I formed him that the reason I feel so strongly about this topic is because I do run a business and would never let a customer talk to one of my employees like that. My business is doing amazing and I credit large part of that to the fact that I have happy, respected and trusting employees. I added that people like him are the reason that some people feel like they can just bully their way into getting getting whatever they want and that happy employees will get him way further than sucking up to every toxic customer than comes through the door. He then just called me a liar and that there is no way I could run a successful business doing things the way I said I do. I just ignored him at that point but OMG. I really wish that owners/managers would stop catering to rude customers then maybe there would be less of them when they realize that it doesn't work anymore. TLDR: jerk tells me I'd never be able to run a business if I don't believe that the customer is always right. Then calls me a liar when I told him that I do run a very successful business because I know that one of the major keys to success is happy employees.

Damn that first story is amazing, i hope he learned his lesson to never mess with the IT guy!

Don’t people ever learn? NEVER mess with the IT guy!!!

Nah, don't throw the wallet out. That leaves her vulnerable to identity theft. She's a trash person, but that's even worse than stealing some cash. You want to be malicious, turn the wallet into the cops or another store than the blue box :p

*rSlash:* “Don’t mess with the I.T. guy!” *Fresh:* “If you’re gonna lie about someone, don’t @ them!”

I would have taken the wallet to the customer service. But I wouldn't have said anything to that woman about her wallet being in the cart and now on its way to customer service. I would have been satisfied knowing she would panic when she noticed it was gone. Her cancelling the credit cards, having to get new ones. Trying to find out where it might be...

Never mess with: 1. the IT guy 2. people who handle your food 3. The Corn Pop (he's a baaaaad dude)

"Welcome to rSlash maliciouscomplience where a stupid manager tries to mess with the IT team!" Me: Uh oh! This is NOT gonna end well! I LOVE IT!!!

As long as the owner's ID is in the wallet, OP could have put it in the nearest mailbox and it would get delivered to the address on the ID

Ehh... I think throwing away someone's property might be considered theft by destruction. The better move would be to take it to the police station. Her ID is in the wallet and you need to present ID in order to retrieve items from the police station. She'd get it back... eventually

Things to never mess with: 1. IT Guy/Girl 2. Tax Man

Never mess with the IT guy!!

Ah.... an IT story....... this should be fun

The wallet story: I would have dropped it on the ground in front of her as she screamed, called her a moron, and walked away. That’s usually enough to shame people.

The way the people in charge of a school’s funding choose to spend those funds will never cease to baffle me

Shopping carts are a great test of human decency. You don’t gain anything from putting it away properly, but you’re a horrible person if you don’t

From the experience I've had; when a employer/company/whatever hires a consulting firm, the end begins as soon as the contract is signed. And the bubble popped after about a year of filling up. It popped about 6 weeks ago. So not only did my boss (also the owner of the IT firm I work at) lose our biggest contract, which it was by a country mile, their best in-house tech quit after getting thrown under the bus. I can almost guarantee they'll come crawling back because they'll realize that we would literally leave another client and go to whatever office needed worked on. The loss of said tech just doubles the pain.

I love it when terrible bosses screw themselves over. Satisfying.

love your videos, they’re perfect for listening to while waiting for queues in game or just lying in bed to enjoy!

Micromanaging GF reminds me of a restaurant I worked in years ago. There were two owners, equal partners, but one owner's wife would come in and throw her, not inconsiderable, weight around. I was the Sous chef, and she hated me - she was caught on more than one occasion lying about me in order to get me fired. Her husband was told that the next time she came anywhere near the kitchen the entire staff would walk. This was later extended to the whole restaurant, effectively banning the owner's wife from entering... hilarious.

I already hear rSlash blubbering by the fact that some smuck messed with IT

As an engineer myself, I love that engineers were able to maliciously comply. Warms the heart. Side note: team building excercises suuuuuuck

How much you wanna bet most of us haven't seen the whole video and just posted a comment

Fun fact: if you tape the driver's license to the outside of the wallet, and drop it in a USPS box, The party office will deliver it to the address on the ID, because it is a government document. Hope the last doesn't mind waiting a week to get her wallet back!

As an educator, that last story was beautiful!!

"Boss Messes with IT Guy" Again? When will these bosses learn not to mess with an IT guy?

Don't mess with the food guy or the IT GUY!!

10:16 I'm almost positive that other people would do worse then that, I won't advocate for thievery, or identity theft, but I'm pretty sure people would take advantage that woman's arrogance

I did it boys I stayed up long enough to listen to two Rslash

The staffing issues story is *Exactly* how you should respond when management is trying to squeeze your team as much as possible. Letting go of people and not replacing them, hoping that everyone is going to give their 250% just to keep the work going as good as before. Instead do as OP instructed his team. They were definitely giving it their "all" but not single drop more than that. As long as things keep chugging along just fine then management will continue on that path until there's only a skeleton crew of severely overworked and thus underpaid workers. But hey, it would look amazing for management and they will get their full bonuses!. So remember kids, only ever go that extra mile for your work if you *know* you are gonna be compensated and recognized accordingly.

Goodmornin to all❤

The Wallet: I would've just given it to Customer Service. Without telling her lol When she gets home, she'll get the shock of their life and try to remeber where she might have been. Would've been much funnier, in my opinion :D

Nothing better than a cup of tea in the morning and a malicious compliance story involving an IT guy! Perfection!

let's say it all together now: *You don't mess with the IT guy!*

Wow this is the earliest for me. Today is going to be a good day.

Spicy Nuggets

Listening to Rslash is how I like to destress after a long day at work. Thanks Rslash. 😊 Keep up the good work!

Say it with me class: "Never Mess with the IT guy"

I've had a similar situation along the lines of the wallet story, but I did not turn it in to customer service. I threw it as hard as I could away from the Karen, across the parking lot. A homeless guy got to it first, used one of her cards to buy some food from the nearby golden arches. He was caught the next day and spent a week in jail. The cops did also find me the same day, the Karen claimed I knew the homeless person (I did not) and planned to rob her. I simply said to the cops I tried to get her attention to give her the wallet back, but since she was so rude I chucked it across the parking lot to make her get it. I was let off with a warning was told next time just bring the wallet to customer service.

My store manager failed to meet his yearly expectations (due to his own stupidity). I later learned that the bonus he missed would have been enough to buy a Lexus.

Malicious compliance and IT guy in the same phrase? This gonna be good

OP said "I won't do it, you'll treat me with respect" while the older engineers said nothing and acted out the "Or else". Truly a beautiful F* around and find out.

If I were the mother in law, I would have said. "you're right, it's none of my business and the cart is fine right where it's at." And leave it and the wallet right there and go do my shopping. Not my circus, not my monkeys.

For the "Staffing Issues" story, I agree that Middle Management was trying to squeeze extra labor out of the smaller team, & then use it to claim a big bonus but they for got one thing long term, that leads to worker burnout & said employees finding other opportunities. They'll work a staff as hard as they can until they've successfully killed the golden goose & then try to shift blame downhill.

oh god it's IT

I like to listen to Reddit posts being read allowed while I do other things online. It is very refreshing to have a REAL PERSON reading rather than the darn British sounding robot.

People who hold the most power in a Business: 3. CEO 2. IT Guy 1. janitor

As a mechanic that has worked on cars, trucks and heavy machinery I can safely say that engineers are professional problem creators s as well

That Christmas Eve meeting was genius. No one wants to do that.

How are yall today?

10:04 no no no, what you do is go into the wallet and completely reorganize everything inside. It’s a fun way to inconvenience someone further without them potentially losing photos they only have one copy of that they keep in their wallet

Story 1: Never ever mess with the IT guy. They can mess you up right out of a job.

I’m literally 12 seconds in and I’m already like, “the IT *team*…? Insane asylums are still a thing, right? ‘Cause this guy may not be violent, but he’s dangerous enough to make companies collapse like a house of cards when it meets a sack of hammers.”

11:43 As an engineer I will proudly state: Don't fuck with how I do my job unless you want problems, we all work the way we do because it's the best way for us to do it. I'm lucky I've always had great management and customers but people I've worked with have had PLENTY of stories.

The engineer time story reminds me of when my work tried to dictate how much over time we did. They tried to demand that we should be off the clock at exactly the time we closed. They learned shortly that an extra thirty to forty minutes is what is needed for us to be able to finish up cleaning and putting away everything. Guess they don't like the morning shift getting angry because we didn't have time to do everything we need to do.

Never mess with an IT guy

In the Wallet story I would have kept it for about a month then wrapped it up,address it to her & drop it off in a mailbox. The hassle she would have gone through to cancel cards,get new ones including a new DL & worrying about identity theft would be fitting. Plus I would have added a note inside saying"don't be a such a b**** to someone just trying to help you. Hope you learned a lesson Karen".

It's amazing the lengths managers and higher ups will go, just to satisfy their unempathetic egos. Even going so far as to self sabotaging.

Story with the wallet. In Russia, if you try to bring a wallet back, more often then not a person will claim that there was "three months worth of salary there, where is it?!!" Janitors are actually instructed to throw wallets away.

Another alternate ending for 3rd story: "Oh no! Lazy grunt's wallet fell out of the cart and landed in the storm drain!!" :/ Riiiiight through those oh so tempting slots that your brain sometimes suggests you should drop your phone into.

Morning RSlash family.

Never fuck over the IT guy

“A manager messes with the IT *team*” Me and My Dad: Uh oh

As a retired techie, I'll give you a heads up (if you really need it), do NOT screw with the guys that 'Push the Buttons'.

As a teacher there are few things more insulting than overpaid consultance without actual experience in education telling you how to do your job. We're a stubborn and confident lot (requirements to survive within the field).

Good Morning!!! ❤🧡💛💚💙💜

That wallet story, the correct answer is you leave all the money but you toss out all the identity cards if they've truly being nasty. Getting all your identity cards back when you have none left is absolute hell.

as you know from other rslash episodes were bosses mess with the it techs the boss will soon learn that its not a good idea to mess with your it techs

If they were an A-hole then I wouldn't say anything about the wallet, liberate it of any cash and then drop it off at the customer service desk. Call it the A-hole tax...

"Hey look buddy, I'm an engineer, that means I solve problems. Not problems like what is beauty? Because that would fall in the purview of your conundrums of philosophy. I solve Practical Problems"

Karen in the last story was literally just Dolores Umbridge and no one can tell me otherwise

I just had an evil idea. Take one of the photos in the middle of their wallet album, rip it in half, and put it back as neat-looking as possible.

WHEN WELL PEOPLE LEARN?!? DON’T MESS WITH THE IT TEAM EVER!!!!

Best birthday gift :)

If there was a single puddle in that parking lot, I would have found it and, ever so carefully, deposited that wallet into the deepest part.

Don't want to be a thief either, but giving any money in the wallet to a homeless person, then dumping it in the trashcan seems the correct approach here.

"Many of whom had been teachers for longer than the consultants had been alive." Yeah, that's exactly what the problem is. I ended years behind on my education because of a crapton of teachers who were close to retirement, done trying, and insistent that their decades old teaching methods were perfect.

i absolutely LOVE malicious compliance😊 it's so funny

The veterinary clinic that I worked for hired consultants to help us "improve as a business and family". They weren't very helpful and eventually, we all just went back to doing what worked before they came on. They finally left. I don't think they lasted 3 months.

6 weeks vs. 1 week Notice Story: If I'd been OP, I'd have politely but firmly told the Girlfriend that "she is NOT in my Chain of Command and has no Authority to give me instructions OR interfere with my work so please leave me alone." I'd also inform the Boss what his Girlfriend is doing and how it's costing the Business money (slowing me down, making me do work twice because she messed up the File organization etc.) and please make sure she stops interfering with my work...

another amazing video from rSlash story 1: well i hope that guy loves some challenges otherwise he might seek longer story 2: this a good story to say "work smart not hard" to story 3: besides not stealing (i don't like theft, only for a joke aka give it back or steal something that was origonaly mine) but not only could the mil see who's it wass by passport/ID card/ driverce licence she maybe got some other details like a phone number or other vailable info that can be gotten agianst the other person like it being stolen or just stolen cash (like cords to a hidden spot) story 4: let the people running jobs where they have to be flexable be flexable (like in supermarkets, on the farm, engeneering,etc) otherwise you'll run in problems like in the story story 5: some how i felt a bit like the guy that gets up and points while he made a littl whissle noise (idk the movie and guy acting it but its a meme on the internet) when in the sil posision because of the way they done it story 6: i hope SHE cancelsher jobs in the entire field (all types of school work like: teaching, cleaning,etc. in most types of schools like: college, unevirsety, high school) because she isn't suited for that

Story 4: _Hey look, buddy. I'm an engineer, that means I solve problems. Not problems like "What is beauty?" because that would fall within the purview of your conundrums of philosophy. I solve practical problems._

I would have told her to just hire the sister, you know since she's not part of operations. And since she obviously wants to be the manager since she's always correcting OP

I love the ones when they enter and leave work at *exactly* when their bosses demand lmao

"if the code wasn't custom built for its purpose, it wasn't worth anything." Bruh that guy has either never been the legwork developer or only did it for a short time. I don't have much experience in the coding world but even I know it's stupid to build things from scratch that are already out there. sure, some things are good to customize for your unique needs, but you definitely don't need to do EVERYTHING new. if it ain't broke, don't fix it. coders borrow open source code like borrowed puzzle pieces all the time.

The wallet left in the cart: get a bag and pull everything out of the wallet and scramble it up in the bag. Let Karen reorganize it herself when she gets it back

Don't mess with IT, finance, or the people serving your food.

That last story made me ROFL as a TA. Thankfully my district actually put that money into raising the minimum price of paraprofessionals in our district (before we were the lowest paid para's in the county) so no consultants but I have some story of difficult Karen's in similar situations.

How many times does this need to be told, don’t fuck with the IT guy

16:37 it was a Christmas freaking miracle, as my cousin where works for elementary school students, it's remarkably exhausting to teach and hurdling rowdy "gifts from God" as some parents put it, she was smiling but I could tell right away that she wanted to get hammered everyday at 4 PM

Il be honest, for the wallet one I wouldn't take anything out as yes that would be stealing But that doesn't mean I won't rearrange everything in there

Damn that boss was smart with setting up the revenue sharing method instead of what would've probably seemed like a reasonable up front amount of money at the time

This is for anyone that needs to know. If you tape their id from the wallet on the outside and drop it into a blue usps box it legally has to be sent to the address on the id. And if you do this even out of spite knowing the person it belongs to is sitting right next to you, its legal and it has to be mailed out since its technically mail and could be considered tampering if retrieved from the box by anyone besides a mailman. And just to clarify, it will take sometimes up to 2 weeks for them to receive their id back.

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