"I didn't know an actual surveyor put down those spikes!" Yeah right! They have been watching them every time they are marking their yard yet they missed the man dressed usually in at least a high visibility vest spending hours looking at plot schematics and placing stakes! Amazing they didn't see that at all when told what they did after was illegal! LOL I love the malicious compliance where they just keep making things worse for themselves and the OP has to do next to nothing but let them dig their own grave!
Fourth story, I'm wondering if the neighbor's wife was hoping that the plot wouldn't sell so that they could expand onto it or that the buyers would be ignorant. Plus, if she really was a city worker, she must've been either a terrible or corrupt one because she had to have known what she was getting herself into with that. Either way, it cost them big if they have to move away.
That also explains why she didn't wanted to get even small claims involved: any problem like that could get her in big trouble on her job, specially if they decided to also review any previous complaints against her and/or investigate her past actions (because I'm sure ilegally removing the surveyor's stakes from OP's property line wasn't the only illegal stunt she ever pulled)
@@ruffr4bb1t In Germany we say, "Wer Butter am Kopf hat, sollte die Sonne meiden", which translates to "If you have butter on your head, you should avoid the sun" - meaning, that if you make a fuzz about small things, you should be sure, that you don't have dead bodies buried anywhere. This woman has likely many things, she didn't want to be asked in a court trial.
@@BeanManolo Part of me wonders if one of the companies OP went to realized what was going on and reported her? I was debating whether or not she left because OP had proof and wasn't going to roll over but it doesn't seem enough?
With the paternity leave story, my guess is that OP took the 2 weeks instead of 12 for the sake of his coworkers. I know at my job if I call out or take vacation, someone else is going to be forced to work more. I know it's not really fair, but sometimes sticking it to the management also can mean sticking it to people who don't deserve it :(
Yeah, I get that and sounds plausible. It could also be that OP didn't want to use up all their PTO and sick leave in case an emergency came up down the road. I know I absolutely would use it all. But I also know a lot of other people who would use only some of it.
I was thinking that if OP was taking 2 weeks then his wife should have taken the other 10 weeks before quitting her job. Then, I remembered the probably lived in the States so it would probably been unpaid for her anyway and so not matter. In the rest of the civilized world she would have been paid at least part of her salary for that time, and he would not have had to use saved up PTO for his 2 weeks either.
He still should have taken that time to be with his baby I think. His coworkers should understand that he is simply being a father, and if they're upset, there's other people who are actually taking it out on them, not OP
I was going to take my paid days off for the year on my normal days off. I work a 4pm to midnight shift. I work my normal shifts so they don't need to find coverage. Then I get extra money. Win-Win. Or so I thought. The boss told me that I cannot do it that way. Mmkay. So now I'm off for a week and a half at the start of December. And now they have to find coverage. Did they honestly think I wasn't going to take my vacation then?
Story 1: They seriously have the gall to demand OP send back the laptop after throwing him away like garbage. Like, what were they expecting? Him to comply without question? No way! What OP did was petty, but pretty justifiable tbh. What are they going to do to him then? Fire him?
@@Wendy_O._Koopagood luck for them if they tried that. It was their property, they were the ones demanding it back, and OP have them in writing stating they would reimburse the return; If they refused, they would lose even more money with OP suing them, specially if they pay for a expensive lawyer just to have a judge berate their stupidity and make them pay anyway.
@@BeanManolo Who said they had it in writing? Didn't he just say "They told him to send it back and they would reimburse him." I assumed it was over the phone?
OP talks like getting fired is a common occurrence for them. Based on this story and OP’s toxic reaction, I know why. If I were that company, I would reimburse for standard shipping costs, nothing more. Let OP eat his toxic arrogance.
I can tell you my reaction, if I were still working in IT I got OP's box, I'd have filed a ticket on that one the moment I opened it. The waste would've been documented, and the extra expense would've been docked against OP's last check. And if it exceeded their last check, they'd end up getting a bill in the mail instead. So OP's grand revenge against their employer was to quite possibly screw themselves out of a final paycheck, lose a reference, and depending on the industry, possibly even get blacklisted. Bravo. Way to go! Top score!
The first story reminded me of a job I had. I quit after a month. Call centres just aren’t for me. So I had to return all the computer equipment. No problem, I’ll bring it all back. The issue was that because everyone was remote, there was no one at the office and so I had to schedule a time to bring it back. The bigger issue was that all company contact was on the computer, which they locked me out of. I couldn’t get onto my company email anymore or look up any phone number to contact anyone to set up a time to return their things. I tried to call and email the recruiter but they weren’t answering me. Finally, a week later, they called me and told me that if I didn’t return their computer, they’d be charging me for it and I said, I’d live to return it, but I can’t contact anyone in the company because you locked me out of every account and way of making any contact. There was a long pause on the phone and then the person said “would you like to schedule a time now?” I returned it to them the next day. Idiots.
That should be legally punishable by the amount of the computer plus interest, if a company wants it back, they shouldn't be allowed to fuck around like this.
Story 6: The professor should've just let the kid write in English and work with an expert in English later. I mean, what did he think was going to happen?
@@ivilivo I'd like introduce you to literally the entire Anthropology and History world. It's generally a very good idea knowing Latin AND Greek especially if your field of study is in Europe even as recently as a hundred years ago. Also physicians, scientists, linguistic specialists... most of them have studied Latin on some level and can read it. I mean, Latin is a root language for every single one of the ROMANCE languages and even English and other Germanic (as English, is in fact, Germanic) languages have been affected by Latin... Latin and Greek is literally integrated into a vast amount of European languages if they aren't otherwise based on either. Science and medical science are literally littered with Latin. I haven't even touched on LAWS yet, where whole freaking TERMS are taken wholesale from Roman laws or DEBATE and PHILOSOPHY. So not only is your argument not backed up by any kind of factual evidence but shows a very narrow world view because if the guy in the story can get taught Latin enough to be able to submit full university assignments in it, then there is more than enough people out in the world to both read and teach it. I suggest using the massive information resource at your finger tips (the net) to look this up and research it at your leisure. Just be sure to examine your resources and check that they come from appropriate educational institutions.
If I were any kind of professor and received an essay in perfect Latin, I'd be nothing but impressed! It shows a number of positive things about the student: he's clearly intelligent, he's not lazy, he follows instructions, he's willing to compromise, etc.
First Story: That is justifiably petty. The fact this company wanted OP to waste their time returning a laptop after firing them is hilarious. Now they can struggle with the heavy box AND pay OP back Second Story: OP had a valid reason to push the date but the managers didn’t want to listen. Oh well, that cost them more money they have to pay to OP Third Story: This is a mistake some managers make, they assume that because someone is young they don’t know any better. This manager got that lesson handed to him first hand Fourth Story: Lmao this man told OP to get the land surveyed and OP did, only to find out that OP had 4 feet of land on their yard. I don’t get why this guy is mad when all OP did was do what he asked. At least in the end he knew he wasn’t going to win this battle Fifth Story: Since when did billing departments need to speak to a lawyer in regards to a billing mistake? All of that seemed unnecessary when the option to represent one's self is always there (which is what OP did) Sixth Story: The professor's pride got to him and assumed this exchange student didn’t know Latin; funny how he proved him wrong
What doesn't make sense to me is why would the billing department speak to an attorney? I never worked in medical or insurance but I have had jobs where the moment any legal action is so much as hinted at, the call is over and I had to transfer it to our attorneys. You don't want the average barely over minimum wage call taker talking to lawyers. You let them talk to your lawyers
@@wingracer1614yeah that didn’t make sense to me neither. What was the purpose of needing to speak to a lawyer about a billing issue? That lowkey makes me think that the screw up was intentional
the reason that the billing department insisted to talk to an attorney is because they don't want to pay that money. they don't really need to talk to a lawyer, but they say they do. so, when someone calls them up to get the mistake fixed they now have to go find and pay for a lawyer, which is both a hassle and may mean that they may loose more money then if they just took the cost of the billing mistake. most people, except for those who are petty or pissed off enough, wouldn't even try to get a lawyer. its a shitty and greedy practice and it most likely works a lot of the time. OP just found a loophole or they thought OP was a lawyer and didn't want to chance it.
Story 1: The biggest problem with OPs malicious compliance is that there is NO guarantee that the company WILL pay or reimburse them. So OPs possibly just spent $840 dollars for...what? Nothing? To be out of pocket? It's only revenge if you have their account number, otherwise you've possibly just played yourself. Seems like a lot of work for no reward.
I completely agree. There is no way I could or would spend that much in hopes that they would reimburse me. Anytime that I hear the suggestion that I will be paid back for something, I know I'll be screwed.
@@Shonda72 And spend more time and money on legal fees/small claims? At that point it may not even be worth it. Pretty sure a big corporation's gonna have better lawyers than OP.
@@samaccardi oftentimes a lawsuit is enough to get them to pay, it's not always gonna be defend everything. Not to mention that the defendant usually ends up paying a lot more in a lawsuit than the plaintiff from my understanding.
OP probably didn't take 12 weeks because it was coming out of his benefits and he probably intended to use some of that for actual vacation sometime. Similarly, I ended up using my massive backlog of sick pay for my entire absence during our store's covid shutdown because my nice boss offered to use it, but then when my dad needed sudden surgery the next year, I ended up using vacation time since I didn't want to totally empty the sick pay.
I worked for a cleaning company 35 minutes from my house and they gave us company phones. When they fired me they asked me to drive there and return it. I refused and they never bothered coming after me for it
Property and school taxes for homeowners are not only outlandish but based on a percentage of the property's value. Would you want to be paying a buttload of taxes on an entire property but not even using all of it while your neighbor pays for only the value of his property but claims a hunk of yours? Keep in mind, too, that a lot of property borders have lines of trees, and we all know from r/treelaw that those are worth a bundle alone. That would be like ordering a stuffed crust pizza, paying full price, and then having the dude behind you in line stealing all of the cheesy crust and eating it for free. I'll be damned if you take that melty, melty goodness for nothing!
Someone who likes to take care of their own yard, maybe plant some nice things there? Or someone who wants to use someone else's yard to their own benefit.
I said it elsewhere for this story - OP didnt have to pay anything to send those items back, he could have sent them Cash On Delivery with the likes of DHL. That is assuming that he had it in writing that they were demanding the items back and said they would reimburse him the costs. There is ZERO cost to OP then because armed with that email he can show the courier company that email, and send it back without any costs what so ever. Another way was to make them come and pick it up themselves, simply put it in a box in near the door and wait for them to pull their finger out. Again armed with an email stating they will organize such. OP didnt need to lift a finger. Also, the fact that they gave him an account code to use, which was fake, also meant that those items could have been abandoned. All OP needed was the manager of the place he took it to to ship it off through to write a letter stating the code was invalid. If they sent police after OP, or tried to sue, all he would need to do is produce that documentation showing they gave a fake account number and counter sue for emotional distress of them accusing him of being a thief.
Yeah, I would've flat out refused to return the laptop myself. They want it? I'm too busy looking for another job and I need to save all the money I can, so they can come and get it themselves.
Yeah, OP is a bit of a doofus tbh, there is no guarantee for them to even pay him back that $800 shipping fee. Then he would have to waste his time to take them to court and deal with all that bs for however long it takes to get his money back...
RSlash, you should really start branching out subreddits. I remeber when you often did r/niceguysvsnicegirls r/treelaw r/nuclearrevenge r/antiwork, etc. I miss those! Your videos now are great, but you really only seem to shuffle between r/maliciouscompliance, r/prorevenge r/entitledparents, and most frequently r/AITA. All your vids are great, just miss the variety
The last story is priceless! As someone who studied latin in high school, I am outright jealous that I never had that opportunity. Well played! I did once have dealings with an HR manager who loved to throw latin phrases at me, the humble shop steward, often getting them wrong. One day he mistook dissolving a grievance "ab initio" for something else entirely, and I had enough. My response was in perfect latin, including a line suggesting that if he thought we were going to simply pretend the grievance had never occurred (that's what ab initio means) that "sterecorum pro cerebro habes." Evidently his latin was not up to that bit, which means "You have excrement for brains." And people say a classical education is impractical.
In the case of the Friday meeting, the obvious solution: Don't deploy stuff that can break production on a Friday! Nor the day before a long weekend for that matter. I agree prioritizing a meeting is stupid, but delay the deployments to Monday!
The lawn story : so did the neighbors expect to keep OP's land on top of OP's continual upkeep of the lawn? 😆 god, people stupidity and entitlement never cease to amaze me but man, do I wish it'd stop 😮💨
The last story reminds me of an exchange student I knew in high school. She was from Montreal and decided to take French as an "easy" class. She spoke English pretty well too, but claimed she was struggling with writing in English. The teacher had assigned an essay, to be written in English since this was French level 2, about a historical event in France. The exchange student asked if she could write it in French because she was struggling with English. In reality, she was trying to show off. The teacher agreed to this, and when the student received the essay back there was a large D written in red ink at the top. Most of the information was fine, but the grammar and spelling were so bad, she almost failed. Apparently, her French was just as bad as her English.
lol montreal is like the one semi-english city in quebec. that being said, quebec french is veeeerrrryyy different from european french that most schools teach.
I would suspect that the teacher was expecting proper Parisian French while the student likely wrote in colloquial Quebecois. It would be similar to someone from rural Mississippi or Australian outback going to school in France and writing in their local dialectic in an English class. Quebecois is quite different from Mainland French. There are similar situations with a variety Latin American Spanish dialects vs continental Spanish. (Something I don't know is which form of Spanish is typically taught in US HS, I took French so I actually don't know).
@@thereareantsbehindyoureyes7529 A quite different variant. I have heard it described as "medieval", and a continental French speaker listening to a Quebecois speaker is like a modern English person listening to someone from Elizabethan England (Shakespeare). Quebec was isolated from France in 1760s so the language diverged (and most of the colonialists came from Western France so they already had a different dialect than Paris).
The FMLA story reminds me of when my son was born. I had a boss that was a real piece of work, the biggest jerk ever. When I came in and told my crew that my wife and I were expecting my boss grabbed his calendar and figured out that my son was due right around Christmas. With a real snarky voice my boss said "There is no way you're getting Christmas off". I just shrugged and said "Whatever" and went about my day. Come Christmas Eve my wife says it's time to go to the hospital. 😊 Sure enough my son is born on Christmas Eve. The phone call to my boss informing him that I would not only be taking Christmas off but also New Year's was glorious LMAO.
That student in the last one is a god among insects. I’ve never heard of such a niche malicious compliance. I am sick of teachers who don’t teach so much as they bully students.
Story 2: FMLA is only split for the 12 weeks maternity/paternity leave if both parents work for the same company. Otherwise each parent can take the full twelve weeks
heh, the surveyor did op a good bit of service by showing they got more land than they previously thought. that extra 4 feet in some places is really gonna come in handy when the playground is built for any kids they might decide to have with someone. its also a good thing the op got more land because that raises the value of the lot up as well.
Rather than postponing the meeting to Monday they should just have the meeting on Monday as the normal meeting time since it seems like that's when they normally do it anyways.
For the first story, I do think it’s f-ed up how they gave the guy they just laid off the run around. But technically they could press charges for stolen property if he didn’t return it so I think the way he handled it was the absolute best way to have done it
The charges would be dropped as soon as he handed the computer over to the police. And there isn’t a guarantee that company would reimburse him for that amount of shipping. He should’ve insisted on being given their correct account number for the shipping company.
Honestly, I see nothing wrong with a German professor at a German university expecting assignments to be done in German. If you want to take college classes in English, maybe go to school in an English speaking country. There are lots of choices out there.
Story 2: The company would have been better off just changing those meetings to Monday in the first place, you know, to discuss what changes HAD been made, rather than what MIGHT they make 🤦♂️
FMLA leave is per person, not per family, so both people can take 12 weeks off, and your job/position will be somewhat protected (there are some limited circumstances where you can still be let go, but the important bit is you can't be fired simply for needing extended leave to take care yourself or a family member) You get 12 weeks per year, so long as you have been continuously employed by that employer for the previous 12 months, you can take them all at once or you can split them as needed
For story one they usually keep a deposit off your first few checks incase you damage it or dont return it mine was $200 so he might have the same situation
The property lines one. This is foreign to me. Where I live, the properties, especially the established ones, have walls around the yards 2m high - that wall would have to be approved. While I am not saying property disputes can't happen. I have never heard it happen. There is a lot of other property disputed though. Land encroachment like this is very unusual.
As someone who studied Latin, I think it's a bit of a pain of a language to write stuff in, because it's not really modern and it's not often used for speaking. Kudos to that guy
After hearing [ 1:03 ], I facepalmed so hard I now have almost as much brain damage as the Op: Op's ex-employer gave them a [fake] shipping account code, then when it didn't work, said "Oh, well, I guess you (Op) will just have pay for everything up front yourself," Which is shady AF. Despite "saying" they would, it didn't sound like they ever planned to reimburse Op at all, let alone for $840. Here's hoping if Op at least sent it COD
1st story Besides being fake and something OP dreamed up in his head that he wanted to do, if he did do this and charge 800+ out of pocket to ship he wouldn't have been reimbursed a penny and good luck suing for that because no judge would deem what he did reasonable. Also sounds like he gets fired often since he often sends back company laptops when his employment ends to say some send boxes while other told him to keep it.
Yeah, assuming (for the sake of argument) that it's a true story, that man's got a lot of faith that the company will reimburse him. I would only attempt that stunt if the return code actually worked.
@@Wendy_O._Koopa Honestly after the account code failed, i would have just kept the laptop and send them an email to come and get it. I did my part and even gone beyond to accommodate them while not even employed by them any longer, they can do their part if they want the laptop back. There is no way i'm gonna be paying out of pocket trusting in a company like that...
bro, if a company did that to me, I'd just reply with: "I'm sorry, I am no longer employed by this company. Please have someone pick up your property, or it will be considered abandoned after the legally required X business days."
FMLA is paid time. You cant be docked or penalized in any way. And retaliation for it is harshly punished, and easy to prove. For thise of you wondering, ive dealt with FMLA and seen people clearly abusing it but we could do absolute shit about it. And some conditions are basically unlimited time. You could have it, work a week, then use it to have a salary for years. At some point the employer could recommend SSDI if theres enough documented time out. But if that employer is governmental in any way the chances of them doing so is slim. Show up a few times a week and enjoy. But dont abuse it. Doing so could be proven and then you get in trouble. Act accordingly.
the laptop guy is an idiot they are not gonna reimburse him the full amount if any at all lol if their code didnt work why does he think they will pay him back lol, i would have got one of those cheap boxes from the post office and throw it in there and ship it off maybe if would arrive undamaged maybe not they didnt say get insurance for it just to ship it. its like 8 bucks for one of those boxes maybe 16 lol that op thought he was doing something spending what 500 or 800 bucks to send all that stuff out of pocket, yeah they are an idiot so wonder the fired him lol
my company will send a manager and a police officer to collect the company property. we've had a couple of terminated employees try to keep equipment out of spite. another odd thing, other companies hire our company to go retrieve their company equipment end products and supplies from their own employees have been terminated and keep things at their house. although we haven't done it since Covid, now that I think about it. we would have to collect their laptop, company phone, any marketing materials, products, cut up their company credit card right in front of them and ship the pieces back with the electronics. marketing materials would go in the dumpster at the office when we get back
Land surveyor here. That wife who works for the city should know that that city mapping is based off gis data and states that it is between 10 and 30 feet off. And in practice, that is usually quite right.
@@teofrancocremonesi506 You know I don't actually know where Latin comes from? Like I've never heard of a place called Latin before like I know England is where English comes from and Spain is where Spanish come from and Italian comes from Italy but I've never heard of a country called Latin before.
Some people are SO petty about their yards. I have a neighbor, who has a lot of recreational stuff he rotates throughout the year - a small boat, snowmobiles, 4x4s - and he doesn't have a lot of space in the back to park them. Parking on the street is not ideal as it is a very busy semi passthrough. So he mows the grass that is technically my property by the garage, and I let him use the space to park his stuff. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Less work for me!
Story 1: Yes rslash you can get into legal trouble for not returning the company's property. This nearly happened to someone at my company when they took over 4 months to return our laptop. So please DO NOT follow rslash's suggestion.
property line story: OP should have quit pussyfotting around and gone straight to the police at the first sign of them doing something illegal. no note, no explaining anything, just skip that and go straight for the police.
OP1: YTA. This stuff is laid out in any work from home agreement. People lose jobs. It happens. I seriously doubt they're going to pay for hundreds of dollars of an adult tantrum. PS Rslash: It's very likeky that the remote agreement sprcifies that severance and things like earned vacation pay won't be dispersed until after company property is returned.
→Whoa!!! Op gets 12 week maturity leave. Here in Canada women and surprisingly men get 1 full year of maturity leave. →Normally it's the mother that take the maturity leave. I work with a couple once where the mother took the 1st half year paid off maturity leave and the father took the last year paid maturity leave. It was this male co-worker that said that. →He is taking 6 months of maturity leave to bond with his new born child.
