r/Maliciouscompliance "I Want It EXTRA EXTRA Spicy!" 

4th OP is the GOAT. Not only is he doing malicious compliance, he's helping protect his coworkers from perverts. King.

My mom, a packaging engineer, used to work for a pharmaceutical company. The number one rule for EVERYONE in her office was “make sure you have all documentation and processes available so that, if you get hit by a truck the next day, people would be able to seamlessly pick up where you left off. This sort of industry, with all the regulations, needs to always have this sort of very stringent documentation.

The spicy food story kind of reminds me of my brother, except that my brother is some kind of anomaly where he has literally never found anything to be too spicy for him, also he isn't an ass about it. He has eaten a lot of different cultures' foods and asked for the most spicy things they have. They usually say things like, "are you sure? This stuff is extremely spicy" and he always ends up loving it and telling them that their food is amazing.

honestly, that spicy story wasn't even malicious. Like, the dude entirely did that to himself, and he got EXACTLY what he asked for.

Ive told my story before.. Indian restaurant.. i asked for them to make it as spicy as they could.. the lady looked at me, warned me, but went with it.. when she brought it i saw her smile thinking it was going to be my downfall.. she would have been right if i ate it there.. i tried it and it made me cry and sweat so i called her over.. "thank you cuz i have the blandest indian food in my fridge and mixing this in it will allow me to eat both" .. she laughed

Honestly kudos to the guy for actually eating the steak

I genuinely do love super spicy food. When I ask a restaurant to make their spicy dish spicier it just comes out really salty.

I worked in a bar in college and we had a customer like the guy in the Mexican restaurant. He was drunk as well and complained that his Buffalo wings weren’t hot enough so the cook added some hot sauce to them and he came back again and yelled at the cook, who apologized and said he’d make him a fresh batch. I saw him put every hot spice and pepper we had in the kitchen on those wings. And in ridiculous amounts! We both expected him come back pissed and in serious pain. He did come back 10 minutes later and shouted loud enough for the whole bar to hear, “now those are some hot wings!” Left a big tip too. I guess he wasn’t kidding. 🤷‍♂️

Story 1: the reason Bobby is the man is due to the fact you have to be trained to the specific machine and know how to fix anything in the moment. Plus those machines can cost a lot and take up a lot of space as well. They may have sick cover but possibly they don’t know the machine half as well as Bobby

Story One: You know those guys who are really good at their job to the point of being efficient? They're often the ones who can utterly ruin things for everyone else by simply stopping what they're doing! Don't mess with them! XD

Story 2: OP made him eat his own words in a more literal sense than usual. He really underestimated those peppers. Don't brag about something because you'll eventually have to swallow your pride in pain

Story 4: Miserable managers bring miserable environments. Best part is the trolling, that's for sure. Funny how Karen complaining about OP wearing non-violation yoga pants makes me wonder if Karen just didn't like seeing yoga pants but couldn't ban it outright

I love when people ask for spicy stuff in these stories, pretty funny

Damn feel bad for bobby, put in the work and still got the new foreman on his back

This is the 3rd time I hear Bobby's story, and it doesn't get old. So satisfying. I love to see bosses begging their employees for forgiveness after wronging them.

Customer: "I want the steak extra hot!!" OP: **Makes the steak extra hot** Customer: **Smugly takes a bite, and realizes his mistake** Also Customer: "I may have made a huge mistake."

As someone who likes to eat super spicy stuff, I learned one important thing: Always treat everything spicy with respect, especially when you eat it for the first time. You never know what's gonna happen after that first bite 8)

"Could've been incompetence, could've been greed." Or, y'know, both. They're classic partners in crime.

Story 2. The customer was a chad by finishing that meal. I can respect that.

Second story was a treat. I love spicy food, but I can't really handle much more than a jalapeno. Hearing people brag about how much heat they can handle makes me laugh.

Story 3: depending on the size of the company, it could also be a procedures problem: where someone has an excel spreadsheet with all the scheduled installs and each time they call, they just bump op as far as they can on it and don't bother communicating on the reason why.

Story 1: They probably have 1 expensive machine that is occupied those hours Bobby works, so they would either need a night shift or an expensive machine, which they may not have space for

That last one, with the line "no one thinks about the night crew" dude isn't lieing one bit. I was on nights for over a year I nor anyone else was able to get even the most basic things we needed. Now I'm on days, and have taken my Petty revenge on lazy supervisors, when my old crew needs something they let me know. I talk to their supervisor first, as a show of good faith, I give it a day or so if nothing happens then I make sure the much higher ups find out about it in the appropriate nose is put to the grindstone.

I worked at a Mexican restaurant in Pittsburgh years ago. Once I had a man very similar to the one from the second story sitting at one of my tables. I went back to the kitchen and told the chef what this man had requested. I watched as the chef reached under his station and pulled out a small bottle with a dropper. The bottle had a label on it that read “ONE F-ING DROP”. He proceeded to put about 5 drops into this man’s salsa….

I love the second story. I love spicy food, but I don't usually get hotter then jalapeños and cayenne. I would have paid to see that guys' face. If he was as difficult to be around as he seems, he definitely deserved to endure that steak.

If I had to guess the reason they don't have another backup employee for story 1, it would be union rules regarding cnc machine training or something. One of the managers probably knows how, but can't unless there's an emergency.

I once tried to cook with a ghost pepper and the fumes coming off of it was so strong everyone ran out of the house. it was like pepper spray, everyone wanted to kill me that day.

Life lesson: never challenge a cook when it comes to spicy food.

The 1st story reminds me of a job I had . They manufactured parts for certain style of cars. My area wasn't the hardest to learn but it was the most important bcuz it was responsible for almost every other area (besides sheet metal) having work. 1 part they started making while I was there & I designed the procedure for cutting them. They were aluminum & very delicate. I wrote down the instructions & the owner lost them. I tried to show my supervisor how to do it & he wasn't interested. I tried to show his supervisor & he wasn't interested. At 1 point I got sick &was out for the whole week. Cost the company money it discounts they had to offer. THEY STILL WOULDN'T LEARN HOW TO MAKE THEM. About a year later, my supervisor tried to throw my under the bus for following his instructions so I quit. I heard it took about a month & thousands in destroyed material to figure out how i did it.

Story 3: I've had similar happen to me. About two years before the end of my military contract in SoCal, I was given an on-base apartment. The base had a deal with a local cable/internet provider whose company name sounds like a male body part, and their installers were allowed on base. So, I called them, set up an account, and scheduled an install. The day of the install came. I'm waiting on my balcony, which has a clear view of the base gate. I get a call from the installer, telling me that he can't complete the work because the base is "locked down". Meanwhile, I'm watching cars and pedestrians be allowed onto base; this guy lied to me to get out of work. I call the company and file a complaint about what happened, and I get told that the scheduling department will call me to set up a new install. A week and a half goes by with no word from the company. I'm on duty, meaning I cannot leave the ship, and I get a call. Worker1: "Hey, I'm an installer with ISP. I'm at your apartment building. What unit are you in?" Me: "I didn't schedule an install today. I'm on duty and can't leave the ship." Worker1: "Oh. Ok, I'll have scheduling call you." Once again, a week passes without hearing anything from the scheduling department. I am now out of town doing a week long ammo onload for the ship. I am a 2 hour drive North of my apartment, and I don't drive. Once again, I get a call. Worker2: "I'm here to install your internet, can you buzz me up?" Me: "I didn't schedule an install today. I never got a call to do so. I'm out of town, and this is now the second time you've tried to invite yourselves over without my permission." Worker2: "Oh. Sorry. I'll have scheduling call you." *Click* I didn't wait for scheduling to call me again. I called the accounts guy again, filed a very frustrated complaint, and scheduled with his manager an install date (this one was successful).

"No one thinks of the night crew" This resinates with me so much

First Story: Bobby is a legend. All this Foreman had to do was just leave Bobby alone; instead of doing that they chose to give Bobby a demerit slip and in turn, cost the company thousands on parts. Second Story: The guy tried to impress his date and it backfired hard. Not only did he not get a second date, he had to endure the pain of that spicy food during the first date Third Story: Seems like they were very impatient to install what was needed to be installed. I find it funny that the weekly calls stopped after they wasted their time going to the site and having to go back Fourth Story: OP is the ultimate bro here 😂. Not only was he taking advantage of the loopholes, OP was trolling the annoying manager and any perverted customers Fifth Story: Well hey, OP managed to convience everyone in the night crew by following the contract to the letter

I totally agree with RSlash about his comments on the first story with Bobby. It was the same with my dad’s old job. He was an engineer at a company that made designer motorcycle engines and he was responsible for assembling a vital piece of the product. And he was the only person who knew how to do it.?When my dad was preparing to quit the job and work elsewhere, everyone took him for granted and didn’t bother to train a replacement. So when he left, the company was scrambling to find a replacement. And the fact that the rest of his team retired do to age or the pandemic didn’t help either. My dad now works as a supervisor at a supermarket.

I used to be an executive chef, and nothing was more satisfying than the look in a line cook's eyes when a guest demanded their food be "EXTRA" spicy. Pure malevolence.

I like the saying “ Paying a dollar to save a penny”

You either have to hate yourself or just enjoy pain to tell a chef "I've eaten the hottest stuff in the world, and nothing was too hot for me! Make my food HOT!".... that is like a challenge to the chefs that they love to get so they can just watch you suffer.

3rd Story: I'm a project manager for an alarm company. My primary focus is fire alarms & life safety. I've had this same situation happen many times over my 31 years in this industry. What the company should have done and if they had competent PM's is to get a date from OP for when they were moving into the new location, when all services (internet & phones) would be installed and schedule the install around that. His alarm company should have scheduled a date to come in and get the cable pulled, devices installed, system programmed and tested during the last phase of the build out. Then when they had phone and internet the company could have back set that up and do any training. I'm assuming that the alarm company is the one that uses a blue octagon sign and if that is the case then I can totally understand. That company is notorious for using subcontractors that don't actually work for them, the subs get paid based on how many new installs they do in a week or month.

Oh wow... that first story is a train wreck. I work with machinists every day. You need to consider machine errors, offset errors, setup time for new jobs (new code) etc... This company was REALLY playing with fire! If you need 3/day, and the time it takes is more than 1 full shift, you need to have 2 machines at least (assuming one operator can manage 2) or a second shift. Having extra parts is not nearly as bad as not having enough. You can keep it in inventory for when the employee gets sick or quits, but you really cannot go about BARELY making it unless you want to risk the whole business (particularly in this story's case!)

Honestly, that steak sounds pretty good to me and I would like to try it. What some people do not seem to realize, especially these kinds of people who like to show off their spice tolerance (because that is something to be proud of apparently), is that it is possible to ask for things to be made extra super spicy with out being a jackass about it.

My friend and I did something similar, but in a nicer way. We used to order vindaloo from this one place that delivered late (we would finish work at 11pm so after midnight delivery) and they staff there knew us. One time my friend asked for it to be made extra hot, they did, it was great. Next time he called, they asked him if we liked it, he said it was ok, so they made it even spicier. It was a painful experience 🤣

I also LOVE spicy food! I have had food so super-spicy that it took me three days to finish, but it was so good that I didn't mind at all. (Not all left-overs are good to eat for three days, that restaurant served some of the best food I EVER had!) I grew up eating chili peppers, jalapeno peppers, and other peppers my parents would buy and have in the fridge. I have been asked lots of questions about my digestion processes in relation to spicy foods, but spices never caused issues past my mouth. I am sure there is something out there I haven't tried yet that could, or someone will develop one. I don't have a cast-iron gut, but it's not spicy food that doubles me over in pain, it's beans.

Story 1: specialist like Bobby cost a LOT of money, and it's hard to find another person with his skills, but if Bobby gets hit by a bus, production comes to a screeching halt.

I struggle with eating spicy food but absolutely love Korean food. In America, we tend to water down the spiciness so I'm able to handle it but when I was studying abroad almost every dish that was "mild" made me cry

First story, just give bobby a second CNC. He can make 4 parts in his 8h shift. Bobby doesn't have to do OT, they could also find a second bobby and work in shifts. Having a bottleneck like that is just had management. What will they do if bobby falls ill or is the victim of an accident? Close the plant?

The spicy food story was hilarious. I used to live in Australia and went to high school and university there and practically all of the Aussies I met could not handle anything remotely spicy (even "too much" black pepper was pushing it - kind of tolerance), so to hear an Aussie man bragging about his love for spicy food had me skeptical immediately. I'm sure there are Australians out there, who can handle spicy food, the few I knew lived overseas for a while - more exposure, I guess?

The way you said "why not just hire a second Bobby?" sounded so funny and cute

Young man: “My steak needs to be hotter” Me: “Hasta a la muerte!😈”

Story One: If I wore OP I would have not only asked for that foreman to be fired but I would have asked for a RAISE! Story Two: It's too bad that OP didn't mix the Apolo Pepper and the Pepper-X together along with all of the other ingredients that were mentioned here? That would have been a hot one. Just put Mad Dog 357 Plutonim No 9 sauce. Clocking in at a whopping 9 Million Scovilles. I highly doubt he would have been able to eaten that meal at all and keep it down.

I love his malicious compliance stories. Always worth listening to.

The second story sounds like my brother. He eats hot foods and brags about it not bothering him while sweating and and blowing his nose every minute.

My favorite spicy story from my own life: Once my friends and I went to an Udon place (a Japanese noodle dish). Their food came with about 7 levels of spiciness (level 0 had no spice, level 6 was for thrill-seekers). I usually got a 2 or 3 since I have some tolerance, but not a lot. One day, this friend of mine, trying to be macho ordered level 6. I still remember his face turning red as he sweated and cried through the meal. Eventually, halfway through, he admitted defeat. Our other friend, who is a five-foot-nothing Korean girl, took the bowl from him and proceeded to eat it like it was chicken noodle. Mr. Macho's ego was dealt a heavy blow that day.

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Story 2: God damn, bird's-eye chilies? OP is a sadist.

Mexican here, let me share a fun fact: many people here eat spicy/hot food. But it's not that they can tolerate very hot food (which they do) but also that they actually *LIKE* feeling pain and sweating from the hotness. So if it didn't actually hurt them they'd say things like "it's not hot enough" and when it gets to that point they'll say something like "this is good". I know that this case is not cultural difference because in the end the dude was still like "could've been hotter" but just putting it out there so you don't think all Mexicans are pretentious like that

As a machinist that first story gave me some joy

They should have changed Bobby's hours based on his work output if they knew that his output was so crucial to their bottom line. Also Bobby could have gone to HR and said that his lateness was due to a form of act of God and got in the right up thrown out.

3rd story: Could just be another malicious compliance 🤣🤣🤣 Someone must've been chewed out if a single appointment set for later wasn't fulfilled or sth.

That last story "No one ever thinks about night crew" is no joke. Everyone assumes everyone else is up during the day, but 4pm is when night shift is sleeping. It'd be like day shift having to be at work for a meeting for 4am because that's when it's scheduled. They'd lose their minds because it's in the middle of the night when they need to sleep but that's exactly what it's like for night shift at 4pm.

Story 1: Why not hire a second Bobby? Now I'm imagining the company doing a hire, only for people named Bobby XD

Oh I have a story of malicious compliance (sort of) involving spicy food (as told to me by my mom). So, my grandfather(her dad) would sometimes make batches of chili to bring in to work. Now his chili, if you follow the recipe is fairly spicy enough. Well, as the story goes, one time some guys at his work (I *think* they might have been Jamaican? all i remember is they were not white and from somewhere where they eat a lot of spicy food) made a comment about it not being that spicy and that white man can't make spicy food. Challenge accepted apparently. So the next time he made a batch to bring in he doubled up(at the very least, might have been more) on all the spicy stuff in it. Apparently they really liked it.

I grow Carolina Reapers as well as a whole host of other hot peppers. A few years ago when I was working as a Greenskeeper at a golf course I had bought some pizza and put it in the frigerator for me to eat for lunch and someone ate it. I want would only get taken when I made homemade pizza. This was going on for a few months so one day I took the Carolina Reaper hot sauce that I had made and use it in the pasta sauce for the pizza. The Carnage that fell on him that day was epic. He threw up like three times before he got sent home and I heard that he ended up with diarrhea the next day as well. It was awesome!

Final story really resonates with me because it is 100% true, fuckwits who work as day shift management NEVER think about the night crew. I've had night shifts where they want me to come in for some BS meeting like an hour after my shift ended because its convenient for everyone else, even though its literally keeping me up. Every single time the meeting is always pointless!

The second story reminds me of that one story Dabney read where someone kept saying they wanted spicyer pizza and then the op ended up making it with like excessive peppers and the juice from the pepper thing and made it extra done and apparently the people who ordered it absolutely loved it. This story pops into my head often

Story 1 : It's mad how many industries have production steps where Bobby is single-handedly holding the company afloat and if Bobby disappears the whole production screeches to a halt. Have a second Bobby on staff, or at least have Bobby write enough training documentation so that Jimmy can take over in a reasonable time if something happens to Bobby but first, do not upset or attempt to get rid of Bobby under any circumstance until and unless you can replace Bobby. It shouldn't be that difficult to figure out!

Now this IS the rSlash content I fell in love with!! Keep this up and don't do AITA!

That third story reminded me of Hanlon’s Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity; but don’t rule out malice. Or in other words, don’t automatically assume that they are jerks; they could just be stupid. But they might be jerks.

It used to be: Do not screw with your IT guy. Now it is: Do not screw with Bobby.

Like in story 2, I remember when I went with friend on a pizza. I liked a little spicer food, my friend liked more spicy food than I. When I ordered pizza with jalapeno, i thought it will be a green jalapeno from shop which that time, were not that spicy for me. But instead I was given a red jalapeno home grow :) By Odin's beard, it was so hot for me, but somehow I've menage to eat it whole :D My friend who liked much spicy food, was in heaven while eating it :)

Fun times with the 2nd story. Have a friend who loves growing jalapenos and ghost peppers. Once in a while the jalapenos if they're not watered for a few days they become as hot as a ghost. Definitely makes people think twice about trying them and accusing my friend of giving them a ghost pepper.

The last line of story two... it's good thing Reapers weren't around yet, OP might've killed the guy! Lmao Had to look up birds eye chilies to see how hot they were (before I sounded like an idiot), but honestly that steak sounds kinda good? Never had a spicy steak before lol

The reason they don't wanna hire a second CNC machinist is probably that they don't have enough work for a second CNC machinist. Like sure the redundancy is great in theory, but scaling up the entire company 2x ain't trivial so...

8:26 no wonder he suffered from the spiciness, as drinking water only makes whatever you are eating even hotter in taste. If you ate something too spicy you should drink milk, eat icecraem etc. It happens because capsaicin doesn't dissolve (not sure if thats the right word in english) in water which causes it to just transport further which in turn makes it more painful. It does however dissolve in fats such as those present in milk.

With the alarm company, my guess is that it's case of "let not the left hand know what the right hand is doing" i.e. lack of communication between different teams and/or departments.

My husband works from 6:45am (he must clock in by then) to 7pm. On a normal night, he's got just enough time to eat dinner, get his lunch ready, and take a shower. They have meetings every month to tell the employees how well the company is doing, like they care, on their first day back. He doesn't get home until 8:30pm and has to work 4 more days in a row. I swear some things should be illegal.

Hey rslash I know you've been doing consistent uploads daily for years, but I don't think anyone would be upset if you wanted to take a break for mental health

I love those “make it EXTRA spicy” stores.

I used to love really spicy food. I'm getting old so I can't handle as much as I could when I was younger, and I always prefer flavor over heat -- extreme hot sauces suck because if you ignore the heat they usually taste awful. I've asked for very spicy food before. I'm always polite about it. I have yet to get something I've regretted eating. Even when it included 11 scorpion peppers. My body rejected it after the meal was over... but I would absolutely eat that dish again (but maybe with only five or six peppers). That chef knew how to make it DELICIOUS. Sadly, the restaurant closed after I moved away; when I came back to town for a visit, they weren't there anymore. :( If the first story had happened to me, even if it ended up being too hot for me to handle, I would have given my compliments to the chef, said thank you, and tipped well. Not to be pompous, but because they did their best to accommodate my request. That deserves respect!

Story 1 "Why don't they Hire another Bobby".... It's not that Simple. REALLY Good, Experienced machinists are scarce, and getting Scarcer because everybody wants a College Degree, and looks down on Blue-collar jobs. It's not anything that's new either, 15 or more years ago a Company I'm familiar with in Tx was DESPERATE for Machinists, he had a Govt Contract, with the opportunity to Double it if they could ramp up Production. They were paying Recruitment Bonuses to any employee who referred someone, Sign-on Bonuses, Full coverage of Moving Expenses, and Assistance with rent until their Home could be sold, or they found a permanent place in Tx. it STILL took them almost 9 months to get enough new people, they also hired some new Machinists just out of school and trained them as well.

ME: Bobby, congrats, you just got promoted to Foreman with a pay raise.. you need to hire a replacement (or 2 at half salary) AND train them.. good luck and welcome to your future

3rd story: It could have also been the software that the security company used for Work Orders. I know my company uses software that has comments on it, but it also will give out a report every week saying these Work Orders aren't complete and it looks bad as far as the numbers go. So their is a very good chance that every week they had the report and some tech got a call to go take care of it.

So I live near the US-Mexico border. We have Mexican restaurants. A LOT of Mexican restaurants. The one hard and fast rule of eating at one is never EVER challenge them to make something EXTRA spicy. They will dip into a personal stash of humblingly hot pepper and hot sauce. Like the kind of hot sauce that comes with a legal waiver before they sell it to you. You will not have a good time.

spicy steak: the first year my father grew habanero peppers in his garden, the Buddy of my downstairs neighbor bragged about how much he liked hot peppers. it was a boone year for the garden, and everything did really well... we harvested parsnips and carrots a foot-and-a-half long, 2 bushel baskets of tomatoes every two weeks, and several bushel baskets of habanero peppers, all from only two gardens each the size of our house. one morning the day after our first habanero harvest this guy was visiting my downstairs neighbor, remembering how much he said he likes hot peppers I went down to ask him if he wanted to try one. of course he was estatic so I brought him one. my father warned me to tell him to try a small bite first before committing, and that's what I did. this guy though nibbles a bit off, chews for a second, and instead of waiting to see what happens decides it's fine, and pops the whole thing in, as I'm warning him to wait a little bit longer (I had watched my father try one the night before). it didn't take long for the smile to leave his face. and the first outward sign was the sweat beading up on his forehead, then his face began to get flushed. he tried to hold out a little bit longer, and began moving from foot to foot, about 5 minutes in he gives up and runs for the kitchen for water, milk, ice, whatever.

Yeah, working 3rd shift at Home Depot, really has shown me that third shift are the unsung workers of stores. The sheer amount of product you put away is surprising. My managers have been trying to get more interaction with day side, but it does feel like we’re sometimes the cleanup crew that cleans up the daily garbage from dayside :/

This just made my day- Im an aspiring CNC machinist and omg people dont understand how hard working it is- while yes it seems like we dont do much while it running, Making the code is hard as is, plus we HAVE to make sure nothing goes wrong or else oops there goes 15 grand

I love that for Bobby, being literally irreplaceable as an employee is so nice

Okay, "Very Spicy Food" the guy may have been a jerk but have to give him credit for saying it needed to be hotter at the end.

The only thing I can think of for the first story is "Dang it Bobby. That boy ain't right." Bobby done gone something great. *Lemme also add that I am making a reference there. I'm sorry if you do not get it.*

With the story about Bobby, there's an old saying that applies very accurately here: he was hoisted by his own petard

I tuned out at the first story and caught up with Bobby making three pieces a day. I immediately thought this was a story about Bob Ross.

i definitely feel that last story, i used to work night fill at a supermarket, shifts were 6pm to 10pm. Just before Christmas, management would host a barbeque for the staff, it was just like sausages and meat and stuff, which they would cook a few times during the day and you could go eat on your break. But by the time we on the night fill arrived it was either all gone or just stale and cold, one year i came in at 6pm and there was 1 cold sausage left, thats it. I was not very impressed by how they treated our department, especially because of how important we were, like back then there was 3 maybe 4 people on day fill, and 20 to 25 people on night fill, it literally kept the store going. Night jobs usually get the short end of the stick sadly, though i will say that the night fill managers we had were some of the best management staff ive experienced in my life, these other store level decisions were usually made by either the store manager (who was an incompetent fool as well) or the day fill manager, which for whatever reason had way more authority than the night fill even though they did next to nothing.

First story: That's what happens when you attack someone with more power in responsability. The system works, if someone is proven to be a problem for the system they will get rid of it.

"Why don't they hire another bob?" because bobs are rare, most are already hired and companies do everything to not lose them like this one did by taking the foreman out of bob's way, and warning the new one not to mess with him.

Night crew has special magic powers. They work during the night and get to spend all day doing chores and errands. Or just enjoying the day if its nice outside. They don't need to sleep other and a nap when they get home. I swear some people don't realize that night shift people sleep during the day and that convent 1pm meeting would be like asking the meeting to be at 1am

I have long held that reddit is the ap where people pretend that they actually made that clever remark that they thought up half an hour after an interaction.

Obviously they need to hire a second person to make the part in the first story but also it might work out in their benefit if they can have the person work a second shift like when the first guy gets off shift they have the second guy get on shift.

The ego/power trip the foreman had going on was nuts. The manager was immediately on him about screwing with Bobby and to leave him alone. Then he went behind the manager's back and got the union involved using an act of God and technicalities. Which cost them tens of thousands. Then tried to get Bobby fired. Which would've cost them way more if not killed the company. All because Bobby said no

The second story is the opposite of my fiance. He loves spicy food, craves it a lot. Which helps when living in Southeast Asia where multiple cuisines have spice in it. Personal favourite goes to spicy fried chicken

Unless the factory also works nights, they might not be able to hire another Bobby. There isn’t always room for another machine (especially with supporting equipment and utilities), and those things can be VERY expensive. If the factory works nights they could do a night shift for the core part, if not then supporting staff for a night shift for one machine at could make it cost prohibitive. This is indeed (potentially) a really bad situation to be in.

I dislike OP of the second story. "I took an immediate disliking to this guy, so I poisoned him." If OP had "liked" the guy, they would've made a normal spicy steak. I do like that OP had to keep assuring us that the guy was a jerk. What probably happened in reality was OP already had their panties in a bunch, and when a customer asked for an extra spicy meal, OP made up this MC for karma. Either way, I think OP should be fired and not allowed to work with food anymore.