r/Maliciouscompliance I Cost My Boss $3,500,000 By Obeying Him 

When will bosses ever learn, if you tell your employees "if you don't like it you can leave" you're straight up ASKING them to quit and indirectly ruin your business!

I love the French chef joke but I think would've been funnier if she just give her nothing but raw materials and say cook it yourself do you think you're better than us.

“We will discuss salary later” always means “we pay so low, nobody wants the job.”

Gabrielle: *Writes a nasty note to the waiters* OP: *"And I took that personally."*

Im french. The "that is not how it's done in france" made me laugh so much. And accent was almost on point.

It makes me giggle how Gabrielle randomly becomes Gabriel throughout the story lol

That snooty girl ought to try Gordon Ramsey's cooking. Oh man that would be one hell of a Hell's Kitchen episode.

That last guy should have offered to sell the list back to the restaurant so that he can at least get some money out of his work. That would've been a better revenge ;)

I can already imagine how when OP warned the diner staff about Gabrielle, they started yelling "Code Karen!" in the kitchen. XD

as a french person who makes fun of americans for being so mean to restaurant staff, I am so, so sorry

I truly believe the first story to be true because almost the exact same thing happened in a factory I worked at. The factory packaged a food product in sterile PE coated cardboard cartons(very similar to cardboard milk cartons). The cartons are sealed with essentially hot glue which is melted in an approximately 5 gallon pot and then pumped through a filter screen and then through hose that went to the glue nozzle in the machine. Anyway 3 maintenance mechanics out of 6 on duty were working on changing the filter screen mid-run because it was plugged (frequent occurance). They had locked out power to the glue pot which was mounted on the side of the machine away from all other moving parts of the machine. They left the rest of the machine on so the positive pressure system that kept the inside sterile would continue to run otherwise it would have to be re-sterilized which took half a shift. New manager sees them doing this and suspends all of them for three days. So for the next few days those of us that remained started locking out entire machines not just components. We were so mad about this we made it a goal to get down time over 90%. We refused to back down until the suspended workers got back payed for their suspension. Best part is the maintenance managers were behind us and would give us ideas like "Oh you're going into the freezer? You'd better thaw it out first just to be safe."

I saw the story about the step mother who is awful to restaurant staff. People were commenting that the husband and step kids were responsible for not ‘controlling’ her, but I argued that she was a sentient adult who is responsible for her OWN behaviour. The only thing they could do is ask her to behave better, but they can’t force her. I guess they could refuse to go out with her until she learns to behave, but they still can’t ‘control her’ or ‘force her to behave.’ Sentient adults are responsible for their OWN behaviour.

ever heard of "dont bite the hand that feeds you?" yeah that applies to that story where op told their dad what that woman wrote at that restaurant

Acting like a Gabrielle is how you get unwanted fluids in your food

That last OP has no idea how much he actually lost, not won. Two days of free labour and basically the warehouse got a deepclean for free. It can either sit for months now or they can find a new warehouse manager who will take the pay. OP got his ass kicked.

You can tell all you need to know about someone by how they treat the wait staff at a restaurant.

My therapist: Rslash with a bad French accent is not real, he can't hurt you Rslash with a bad French accent: 5:47

That first story actually makes me pretty uneasy. Lock out tag out is a process to make sure the machine has no chance of turn on while an employee is doing maintenance on it to prevent them from from being maimed or killed by accident. Now I don’t know the exact details of the loto plan in question (on our site it is usually as simple as unplugging the machine and locking the control panel) but it sounds like op is bragging about putting company profits above their and their coworkers safety

Hey rSlash, I found a post on r/entitledparents called "NO. LET MY TODDLER SQUEEZE YOUR CAT TO DEATH - it's pretty ridiculous in my opinion.

Gabrielle isn’t malicious compliance, that’s r/prorevenge! I damn near clapped when I heard/read the punchline.

I went to culinary school. But I’m still the least experienced of all my coworkers. Sure, culinary school taught me how to cook. But it didn’t teach me anything about cooking in a restaurant. Experience is often more important than education in the kitchen

Did anyone else think that they should have told Gabrielle that they got Breakfast from a prestigious French cafe and then when she says she loves it they reveal that it is from the American diner?

If you’re good at something. Never do it for free, clearly OP in the last story is any warehouse worker’s dream boss and an organization master

Salary should always be discussed... During your interview or at most, during the new hire meeting right before you start your shift, not 2 days into your job. That way you don't get a nasty surprise and you get to decline working like a slave for a shit salary. There's nothing wrong with asking about what salary you can expect and getting that into writing, if anything, that's you being proactive because NO ONE would be working if it wasn't for their salary.

Never ever start working without a contract, otherwise it could go like in the last post

Ok can we take a moment to appreciate HOW GOOD that Karen voice of his in the French accent. Perfection!

The French accent for the second story is gold and makes it so much better a good refreshing change from the typical Karen voice

As a french person, I apologize for Gabrielle, we don't claim her

That $50.000 a minute loss gave me a flashback to my first job at Jeep. I pulled rear axles from the axle line and dropped them on CJ's Every once in a while the small hoist I used would break and drop the axle at my feet. It was a critical operation so I had a kill switch. The cost when the line stopped was north of $100.000 a min. It was hilarious to watch dozens of upper management and supervisors descend from all directions on that spot.

OP: *does what boss wants* Company: *loses 3.5M* *Flex tape can't fix that!*

“It’s never about the money” “It’s about sending a message” - joker

Gabrielle sounds like Lumiere trying to impersonate a Karen.

In the second story,rslash voice as the step Mon is hilarious.... I was laughing every time he said it in that accent lol

"I told Mark my plan, and he was grinning ear to ear." So basically he had become the Grinch in that moment.

Karen be like: I WANNA SPEAK TO THE HEAD OF THE COMPANY AND THEY ARE MY FRIEND *When your brother is the head of the company and doesn’t know the karen*

rSlash laughing at his own French accent gives me life

"a magical hoo-ha" I totally lost it! :'-D

I love how rslash pronounces her name Gabrielle for like 5 minutes then starts saying it Gabriel

Boss : If you dont like it, QUIT! Op : ok brb I need to destroy your business

I used to get so upset with my Grandmother at restaurants. She was just like the OP in that story spoke about. She would order steak well done and complain it was too tough, tear into staff for ridiculous things and it was an unending verbal assault of the staff. I love my Grandmother but I wasn't embarrassed I was upset and angry with her for how she was treating people just trying to do their job, many who were very good at it. The problem is that she's my grandmother and berating my grandmother, regardless of her being in the wrong, isn't an option. I love her and for the most part, I respect her. One time this really amazing waitress was incredibly attentive but not in a pestering way. Anytime someone decided they needed her she would already be there when they looked up saying, "Can i get you anything?" My grandmother did her usual thing and she did all that despite her behaviour and I sat the whole time with my head down and didn't order a thing. The waitress brought me a chocolate milk and said, "on the house." Finally my mother decided she had enough. She gave my grandmother the look you get from a woman everyone knows not to mess with when you go too far. She gave a sharp, "That's enough mother!" everyone in the restaurant noticed. Being just a teenager I told my mother I had to use the bathroom as everyone was just outside the restaurant. I went back in and apologized and said I can't stand when she does that and I'm sorry. This was her response. "You're her grandson and a good, respectful kid and you love her. It's ok, you did the right thing and your mom is an awesome lady. I noticed your whole family jump when she spoke. Best to be a good grandson and let her handle it." She was right, my grandmother could be trying at times but she was a wonderful lady most of the time and I really miss her, but I still don't miss going to restaurants and not eating because I know what's coming. It becomes an incredibly difficult situation for everyone involved when someone acts like that.

imo, learning in the kitvhen is better than culinary school, cause exp

Not gonna lie Gabrielle got what she deserves next time leave her at home

When big industry companies try to "cut costs." It almost always ends in disaster. That's What happened at Chernobyl and the Rig in the Gulf of Mexico

3rd world countries aren't the only countries paying people wages that are pretty much impossible to live off of.

Karen: I want to speak to the CEO of God

Hope everyone is having a nice day and staying hydrated ❤️

Malicious compliance stories: the best way to wake up in the morning!

The second story cracked me up. If I had to serve her, I would be the one server who would be teaching that customer a lesson. I can guarantee you that she wouldn't like the consequences.

As a person named Gabrielle who is often called "Gabriel" it low key pissed me off every time you got the name wrong. I mean how hard is it for people to get it right? :'(

Let’s keep it real for a second, Dark Knight Joker is one of, if not the best characters in cinematic history.

First story: This is exactly how incompetent bosses saves themselves a huge loss of income and covers their own tracks, by nonchalantly making their employees break regulations and then throws them under the bus because there's no written statement holding the boss accountable. Second story: Guess this woman fail to realize that one of the greatest qualities of cooking is about the broad scope of individuality you can add to the food. Not all restaurant food has to be equivalent to the minimalistic and overly artistic plates of food served at fancy Michelin-criticized restaurants. If you feel the need to judge hard-working chefs for the food they make with such bias, down to even the smallest grain of salt, then you should be put in their shoes for a day and try proving that you can do better. Third story: People in my country talks about how out-of-hand the immigration is while doing nothing to solve the actual problem with it, and then I read stories like this where victims of a globally fueled war centered in their own country of origin has no choice but to end up living in a developing country where the best they can find are these kind of unsustainable jobs. I can't help but being irritated at how the global superpowers willingly forces people who just wanna live normal lives into these situations. I hope OP can find a way back to a normal life eventually, because the life he's been forced into just isn't right.

In that last story, it sounds like that was the boss's plan all along - Get the person to do the work during the trial, then give them a salary which would make them quit so they wouldn't be paying them to do any of the work to get the stuff cleaned up. If they had given that OP at laptop to work with during those few days, it would have all been for free since they would have likely not allowed OP to delete the file before turning in the laptop.

People "oh, robots will be so much better than humans, no emotions, harassment, etc. Robots: Emotionless Compliance

Back when I worked construction, union and non union. Stories like the first one are very common. They'll hire some new young engineer straight out of college who insist on changing absolutely everything just to show they're in charge. My step dad had 30 years of experience, she was designing the piping for the mechanical room for a carpet mill in his head.. Very complex pipe routing. But everything worked perfectly, he was incredibly smart and had he just went to college, he could have had a much high position. For the degree, not to actually learn. Anyways AFTER we built the first 3 mechanical rooms, 4 in total for that stage of the project. Most of it was identical except for 2 being flipped 180 degrees for being on the opposite side. They brought in an engineer straight out of college to draw everything up in cad... He right away started saying some pipes couldn't go in the places my step dad put them and to move pipes to other places... He hadn't actually visited to site in person yet and was just going on the basic drawings my step dad and myself drew up. He was literally trying to tell us that the cold side and hot side could just be connected to save pipe and that several things we drew up wouldn't work because "pipes can't do that"... I gave up talking to the guy once he started calling me a dumb kid.. I was older than him.. After he finally came to see the already built rooms he still kept trying to say it wouldn't ever work.. But it was already up and running and had been for over a month and was signed off by the chiller manufacturer when they installed them. He tried saying we had to cut it all out and redo it all a d threatened to fire us... Yeah little did he know the owner of the company really liked my step dad, he's saved him tons of money over the years, mainly in labor because he could do things faster and with less people than quoted. So once the owner showed up on site, a surprise for the engineer, he went off on him about how his only job was the draw up what was already built, not to redesign everything and apparently he was told that when he was hired. Owner told him to either do what he's paid to do or leave and stop messing with Ed (step dad). His attitude changed quickly and no longer tried giving orders to us. Unfortunately they didn't treat me as well as my step dad so I left for higher paying jobs. But Ed stayed there until he had a massive stroke and couldn't work anymore. To show how much the owner appreciated all the work Ed did for him over the years he didn't lay him off. He left him on the payroll and paying his full 40 hours every week for the next few months till my mom could get him signed up for disability. Then gave him a quite large going away check. Honestly without all the money (and insurance still being active) we'd have been in major debt. About a year after that he passed away and all the higher ups from his old job came to the funeral. They even let him keep thinking he could come back to work if he got better. Which wasn't ever gonna happen but we weren't about to tell him he couldn't.

See this is part of the reason why I chose not to be a chef. I got tired.of everyone acting like a damn expert, or sitting there and micro managing what I'm making. To suit their own personal tastes and screw everyone else that likes it the way I was making it for them.

Man that OP guy is loosing his bosses a lot of money each video. He's got pretty good reasons tho.

Coming from someone who’s worked in the food industry, that snooty woman sending back food that much would get us in serious trouble. I’m not sure if that’s the same for every place though, but I got some bad flashbacks from that story

It's always the new boss trying to " fix " the things. It never works out well. Funny the way op put him in his place

My best friend johns wife is from France and I'm so glad that she's not like normal french people. She has even stated that french cooking is uderly disgusting and prefers all other food over it. She also just as much of a hick as me and John. It's awesome

Former Shipboard Marine Engineer here. We took LOTO seriously. Thing is, every person performing repairs could use a "day tag/lock" if the work took no longer than the person stayed on station. If the person had to leave station for ANY reason, such as breaks, lunch, etc... then it HAD to be officially locked out. The original story could have been solved had their LOTO procedure included this provision.

The story about the overly complex “LOTO” procedures was straight up mind boggling.

I can confirm that if you want to find good home style food ask a trucker. After 3 years of listening to my fellow drivers of good dinners to hit I always destroyed my body with the over abundance of good food I found. Took a lot of work. Installing a fridge and stove top burner and regulating my good and working out to get back into shape. Being a healthy trucker takes a ton of restraint and work

I am a union worker, the first story almost made me sick. How many millions saved is a life worth. It sounds great to save money, but electricity, pneumatic, hydrologic, gravity can all kill.

Regarding the Gabrielle story, how do people not say something sooner? Like how on earth do you let this A: happen once and B: happen multiple times? I can't comprehend how people see this type of behavior, and just ignore it.

I'm in an engineer in a power plant and ive seen people die due to bad LOTO practices. Its hard to listen to this and side with OP. Profits be damned, safety first.

You guys. I went to church today. I saw an elderly lady and her husband in probs their early 90’s. They were wearing masks for upwards of 60 minutes. If you can’t wear one for 15 minutes while your picking up your liquor and cigarettes then remember a 90 year old is stronger and is way smarter then you.

Never start working until you have the salary expectation, preferably in signed contract. Provisional periods are fine, but 60 dollars a day? that is terrible.

That last story... EASILY could become Nuclear Revenge. OP.. Calls Health Inpectors..Auditors..etc

If you were in the US- the safety guy is right... you are required by OSHA law to lockout all energy sources on equipment that you can come into contact with. Any shortcut to save a few hours of production is not worth the risk of losing your life. That's why LOTO laws exist- because thousands of people have cut corners and didn't get to go home one day. On average in North America a worker dies every three days due to not following LOTO procedures. Now, it would be VERY advantageous for your company to co-locate as many energy sources to one location to simplify and speed up the process. But skipping steps is a BIG no-no.

The company owes the OP a debt of gratitude since he costed them a $3 Million in order to save them $24 Million in the short term and Hundreds of Millions of Dollars in the long term by exposing the ludicrous policy as being too costly.

Giggle. I DO love the way rSlash reads these stories. It makes them SO much more enjoyable. Thank you rSlash.

My brother is the male version a Gabrielle. He loves to tell my grandmother who has cooked since she was 5 yrs old, that she doesn't know how to cook anything. At All!

Thank God OP said it.... LITERALLY as I was thinking it, OP calls Magical hooha

Anyone else have fleur delecour come to mind with the step Mum being like “this is not how it is in France” in the second story?

this reminds me of an old reader's Digest article: "how many nuclear power plant technicians does it take to change a light bulb? 53." THIS. IS. NOT. A. JOKE. if one of the bulbs on the warning light panels burns out, they are REQUIRED BY LAW to go through an absurdly complex procedure that requires 53 people!

Regarding the French chef story: can you get a t shirt which says I'm Not Having A Meltdown, I'm Having A Magical Hoo_Ha? Just because you work in these places doesn't mean that you should have to put up with this behaviour, it'd make a Saint take to blasphemy.

LOTO is no joke. I read about a guy who was asked to work inside a palletizer on their first day. No training, just “fix that thing inside this heavy piece of machinery”. He had no LOTO training, and didn’t disable the machine. I bet you see where this is going... Someone saw the machine was offline, and turned it on... reducing this poor guy to a red goop inside of the machine. Yeah, that saying about safety procedures written in blood? That is litteral.

One thing I have learned in manufacturing is that safety is #1 but if you let the safety guys run the show then you'll go out of business because they never stop "improving." Having worked in middle management it's really because they don't have anything else to do.

This is so stupid to say: "If this facility stops for 10minutes it costs X amount of money" Theoretically: Yes, Practically: I have never seen a serious, competent factory not factoring in at least 3hours of buffer in case of critical failure (granted, it shouldn't happen more than once per week, to build up that buffer, but still)

I worked in safety. The first story pointed out what an impossible job this can be. Trying to implement the changes necessary to comply with the applicable laws can be costly. Failure to follow the laws can result in the extended closure of the plant, substantial fines, and even jail time for owners, managers, or lead workers. Damned if you do it right, damned if you don't.

rslash's gabrielle voice is hilarious

6:09 I know there’s subtitles but it sounds like she says “bring us a new, upopened butthole.” 😂

From story 2: I would have told my dad "You have two options. 1 leave her or 2 we will never talk again. My dad once told his brother. Either you do something about your wife's hatred towards us or we will never talk again. Soon after that my dad's brother told his wife to leave or get over it or she will end up regretting it.

Lol your impersonation of French-English is almost spot on 😂

Okay, but can we take a moment to appreciate rSlash's French Karen voice? That shit was E V E R Y T H I N G 😂

The french CLINT with the magic hoo ha. LoL best description of Gabrielle if I ever read one.

I saved a very large plastics company potentially millions by implementing safety procedure which prevented burns that almost always require skin grafts (a skin graft of this type can cost hundreds of thousands). I also discovered a 5,000 gallon tank of highly flammable solvent was improperly grounded, which could have exploded, killing who knows how many. They fired me for it. I guess they got in trouble for the problems because they should have cought them. No good deed eh?

As a french man, I am sorry ... We are not like that. OK we are proud of our cooking skills but I will never refuse the food of another culture because it's not done like in France. Ma'am YOU ARE IN ANOTHER COUNTRY WITH DIFFERENT CULTURE, respect that

Fun fact: you didn’t finish the video yet

As a French guy, I just want to say that most of my compatriots know how to behave and respect people in the service industry. Unfortunately Karens are everywhere.

That production plant math about _"lost money"_ seems to come from the book: The Goal from Eliyahu M. Goldratt. Basically, it bases itself on the notion that the sector or machine where the product to be sold spends the most time being transformed or worked on constitutes a production bottleneck and that the production cost incurred by that bottleneck not performing its job is not the hourly rate at which it is operated but the entire production facility's cost for the same hour. It is an interesting read, if only to deal away with some commonly wrong assumptions on production and cost management.

My sister had a masters in safety and my dad has a bachelors with over 25 years experience. I’d love to see the safety record from the previous safety manager vs the new. My guess? The previous SM’s record wasn’t too good. My dad fights with people on the floor in lock out tag out ALL the time. He’s usually hired because the previous safety manager was incompetent. He has won awards at every company he has worked at for their safety record. It is shortcuts like these that make people literally lose an arm or get electrocuted. The manager was WAY out of line to ask him to do it anyway and the safety manager should have had some input from the floor.

I used to have a father inlaw that would make waitresses cry. He would be angry before stepping foot in the restaurant. This always upset my stomach and ruined my meal so I stopped ordering food when we went out and so did my daughter. My wife and the rest of her family didn't see what the problem was. I got divorced then my daughter and I left that crazy family behind.

This reminds me of something my son once did when he was a teenager - but instead he ended up his boss some money by bending company rules. My son was working at a pizza place on the front desk - taking orders on the phone and at the counter. It was a rough area, and from time to time a gang of street kids (aged about 10-12) would come in and bug him to give them free pizzas. He found them cheeky and funny, and essentially harmless, so he would sneak them a couple of free pizzas by using spare gift tokens. They'd say "thanks, mate" (we live in Australia) and run off happily to eat their pizzas. The boss never found out and my son never got in trouble about it. But one day he came to work and got a shock - every shop in the street had had its front window smashed with a brick (by 'guess who'). The only shop in the whole street with an intact window was the pizza place where my son worked. Turns out, bending the rules and giving away a few freebies saved his boss a hefty repair bill!

I've really only had 2 restaurants give me reasons to complain. One didn't bother seating me, give me water OR a menu to peruse to order. Staff stood 10 minutes with a mostly empty restaurant and didn't come to check up at all. THEN complained I didn't tip at all, I wonder why. Second one was a bit more mind boggling. I had a dead phone at a restaurant and the restaurant had 3 registers with staff standing behind them on their phones. I got up to order my food naturally since I see people behind registers but was told I needed to scan a QR code and order online. I explained that my phone is dead and could not order so their answer was a shrug and "guess you can't get food" then went back to their phones. The restaurant is gone now, I wonder why given their service was out of this world.

Man, I cannot understand how people can complain at restaurants. Whenever I go out to eat anywhere, even if they mess up I bend over backwards to try and be as polite as possible, because I know how difficult it is to work in one.

Oh boy. I don't know what it's usually like where that last OP lives, but to me an unpaid "trial" period is a huge red flag.

I never understood bosses like from that last story. They could pay that guy 3x more than they offered and still be better off because now they're loosing money by throwing away product. Not to mention just loosing money to how slow and unorganized the business is. It's just insane.

I just wanna point out that Parisians are not french... they are parisians. As a French person who worked in hospitality for years overseas, i must say that most entitled guests i had were... french. "We do not tip in France, so i do not think i should tip you, right?" "Well, we're not in France you know...," When i was working as a manager in Australia, many backpackers told me they were french, the country of cheese and wine, therefore they knew everything about wine. I asked them the same question "what's the difference between a cabernet sauvignon and a merlot?" 99% could not even answer... it is not become you consume a lot that you know what it is...

RE: Warehouse job in Sudan. “Glorious” and “Mess” are two words that don’t bump up against each other often!