r/Maliciouscompliance My Stupid Boss Ruined The Company 

Story 1: Tbh that new manager is a blessing in disguise, the fact that OP wasn't being paid more or anything for maintaining the whole system bugs me.

First Story: Well it seems like this new warehouse manager seemed to not be very observant or pays much attention. The fact he didn’t see the red flag in that phrase "can I get that in writing" is insane. Honestly, this entire company's management is a shitshow. The warehouse manager screwed everyone over by telling OP to not fix any issues with the ERP and I find it funny that the VP still expected OP to continue to do extra work for free. Second Story: Why is K even a boss if she treats her employees like this? I feel like she just wanted to try to use this training as a power play Third Story: This hospital HR sounds absolutely useless. The fact that it took having the cops show up and make a report for them to actually do something is baffling Comment: Lmaoo, I bet the thief really enjoyed that cat food 😂 Fourth Story: I would’ve dropped Bridezilla as a friend after the first tantrum for not getting her way. The fact it took this long shows how insanely patient they all are

As a glasses wearer, that last story makes me so mad. It’s like, glasses have been so normalized that people think it’s fine to treat glasses like they’re not a disability aid. It’s not her fault she can’t see, and not everyone can/is comfortable wearing contacts. She shouldn’t have to be blind for the day because a bridezilla doesn’t want her wearing her glasses.

Its shocking just how many medium to large companies rely on one underpaid guy to function.

I hate that so many people let jobs exploit the heck out of them by making them do things that they dont get paid for. And making them feel like the bad guys by not doing extra.

As always, your first clue that you're making a terrible decision as a manager is when your employee asks for your new directive in writing.

1st Story: The fact that OP was doing all that extra work for free with no reward says a lot about the company. OP should’ve negotiated a raise from the start. NEVER do extra work like that for free! I’ll never understand why corporate punish/exploit go-getters, like they think it won’t blow up in their faces. OP NEEDS to see how much they’re worth. Hell, I would’ve seen if that ERP company had any openings. Opening resume experience would be: “I’m the reason why my warehouse company discontinued your services”

Online gaming has ruined me so badly that I can't hear ERP and take it seriously. Like the entire time I was imagining company funded catgirls and bunny boys doing their thing.

Manager: **Messes with the IT guy** Everyone in the solar system: "Oh no, he did it, he did the thing."

Just wanted to shout out my dad: last night he asked "what's that podcast you listen to in the shower? The adventures of Opie?" I listen to your uploads daily when I shower and he’s heard you say OP so many times that he had to ask about their crazy life 😂 Thank you for giving us that opportunity to laugh!

Story 2: I don't know if this is just power tripping or just her getting joy out of torturing all of you but everything you listed here has got to be illegal. I feel like somebody could sue at least for unnecessarily putting their staff in danger even though there was a remote alternative.

“Dont mess with the IT guy” “We got a new manager” The two phrases in a story for you to immediately know how it ends.

Story 1: Sometimes, people don't realize how much extra work is being done by one employee until you tell them not to do it anymore. But if you're getting to this point, you might want to question your own abilities as a manager

Story 4: Imagine killing your friendships over glasses (well, it's more of a last straw). Like, why make such a big deal over it? It's not like glasses is going to run an image! People need to see y'know

every time I click on an rSlash video it feels like we're all gathering to hear some juicy gossip

Never mess with the IT guy! How many times do we have to teach this lesson?!

The last story gave me flashbacks to how I pissed out of a almost 9-year friendship with a woman who behaved like the bridezilla. Let's call her Molly. To give you an accurate description, Molly was a blonde, blue-eyed, 40-something when I met her and was well into her 50s when I cut her off. She had two kids, was on her second marriage and was about to become a grandmother by the time I cut her off. Despite her age, she had the emotional maturity of a 6-year-old. Molly had no respect for boundaries, zero comprehension of the word no and no accountability that there are reprisals as well as consequences for her actions. Whenever she didn't get her way, it was a stage for meltdown of a tantrum that would have embarrassed a toddler. When the crocodile tears stopped, she went into full victim mode: blame shifting, name calling, personal attacks, insults, gaslighting, running to flying monkeys to start smear campaigns and then trying to reverse everything when the inevitable guilt set in. Make no mistake, Molly never ever felt guilty for the way she treated me or anyone else: she was just absolutely terrified of people finding out what she was truly like. Rule number one of living in this world: never underestimate people. underestimated me. I was well past done dealing with her crap when my estranged father passed away from stage 4 lung cancer. Molly knew we did not have a good relationship. As stated, Molly did not react well to people laying down boundaries or telling her no. So when I did enforce my boundaries and let her know that I was done with her crap, she outed me to him. This widened and already irreparable rift between the two of us and my father ended up disowning me. So, when he died, she couldn't have cared less and had the absolute nerve to say, this is a direct quote: “Well you two never got along anyway. “ That was it for me. I called her a few choice names and hung up on her. Naturally, she tried to do the whole private messaging in text messaging thing with a bunch of half-assed apologies the whole “I'm sorry but” routine. Her messages went unanswered. I did hear through the grapevine that she tried to spin everything in her favor but was absolutely lambasted by her husband and even her daughter, who was just as bad as she was, but apparently realized her mom had gone too far. Her ability to hit below the belt on that day of all days when I had lost a parentjust showed me how cruel she really was underneath her fake smile and goofy laugh. I used to think that she could be high maintenance and even if it temperamental, but in reality she was just an overgrown middle school mean girl who never mentally matured past the adolescent bully mindset. This was the last straw as I realized that just when I thought she couldn't dig any lower, Molly went and found a sub basement. I cut her off and I haven't had any contact with her since.

I love the line "Can I have that in writing?" I get SOOOO giggly when OP says that!

So disappointed in the remote training OP. That was a perfect moment to take a stand and explain to your coworkers how awful she is, and now you had proof she makes EVERYONE suffer just for fun. Easily could have had a mass walkout, better wages etc. But she didn't. We need more aggressive workers willing to hold bosses accountable.

$200 per hour?! I'm working in the wrong industry.

Okay seriously Why nobody tells the freshly hired managers that there is one specific guy on your team who you should never ever ever EVER antagonize or the whole company would go down in an instant?

God the fact that people don’t start immediately shaking when someone says “can you send me that in writing” is crazy to me 😂

Food theft is actually a tell that someone isn’t trustworthy (unless that person isn’t paid enough to buy enough food, which isn’t the case where I worked). I’ve worked for two Fortune 500 tech companies in my career and they took food theft from the communal fridges seriously. It was actually a cause for termination. Their reasoning, if someone didn’t have the integrity to be trusted to not steal their coworkers’ food from the shared fridge, they don’t have enough integrity to work on government contracts.

For the it story: I obviously don't know how big the raise was that he got, but he should've gotten an offer of atleast what the company was paying the consultants. He also had a very strong bargaining position so I hope he gets paid what he deserves!

Their company has an Erotic roleplay service for the warehouse staff? That's taking amenadies to a whole new level.

The first story is even more entertaining if you make ERP stand for "erotic role play."

Bosses: Antagonize the workhorse employees carrying the office Workhorse Employee: Quits or stops doing what they do to carry the office Office: Devolves into complete chaos Bosses: Why would you do that?

Calling the cops to come to the hospital for theft over some Cream cheese is such petty drama and I am LIVING FOR IT

I simply have never understood bosses stealth promoted/increasing your workload and getting offended when you ask for more money given your higher value, then of course, they go off and spend MORE money then they would have on you just so they dont have to... out of what, spite?

yo so let me get this straight. the VP cut the consultants so OP could be the ERP person. the surpervisor ruined that and somehow convinced the VP to go back to the consultants? That VP is just as bad as the supervisor they are both idiots lol

Thanks to r/slash i learned on time to NEVER mess with the IT guy

I hope that everyone is having a good Monday!

*Me who knows a different meaning for ERP* Sooo what does ERP short for within Story 1? cause those 3 letters mean something *completely different* as a MMO Gamer XD

I'll say about that first story: in a professional context, when someone demands to know why I've done one thing but will not listen when I tell them, it's going to get hot. Once I've said what I've done, if my actions were in error I'll take my lumps but I'll be given the chance to explain what and why and if I'm not given that, I promise that no one can speak loudly and longer than I can. I'll be getting heard, one way or the other.

I'll never get those who pick on the ones who carry the majority of the weight in the office like they are the outcasts in middle school. They're not trapped in a building and have to keep their mouth shut as you vent your spleen out on them anymore. Some people never grow up.

As someone who works in HR, that fiasco was a massive lawsuit waiting to happen. Not paying employees is a HUGE violation of labor laws. The company could have been MASSIVELY screwed

I liked the ERP story, but I think OP could've handled asking for a raise better. Perhaps what's in the story isn't a direct quote, so there could've been more to it. But as stated, it would really look like intentional malicious compliance. If you cared about your workplace, you could've warned someone. So as a company exec, I really wouldn't expect him to want to reward OP's behavior and mindset. Having employees, especially high up/important employees who can't wait for any excuse to sabotage the company AND all its workers to extort them out of more money isn't a good strategy. Don't forget, there was a warehouse full of employees who didn't get paid. If it were me, I'd use wording like "I'd like your assistance to make some changes to make sure this can't happen again." You're immediately going to look like a company advocate, not a selfish money grabber. List the steps you think will help fix it. Namely, the job title change. Then at the end, bring up that the issue made you realize that you had taken on additional responsibilities, but weren't being compensated. I'd like to start a path that gets me into a promotion for my extra hard work for this company." Then it doesn't sound like an ultimatum: pay me or I'm not doing it. It sounds like you're going to start working on it now, and you'd really like if this ended in the company letting you know how valuable you really are. You can always ultimatum later, when the company isn't at its knees. But as it stands, it sounds pretty bad.

*Bridezilla:* If you don't like it, I dare you to leave! *Bridesmaids & Maid Of Honour:* _[Collectively walk away]_ *Bridezilla:* You weren't supposed to do that! You were supposed to acquiesce!😢

For the first story. All I gotta say is "If your good at something, never do it for free" and I feel like this fits perfectly.

Man, that bridezilla story. I know it’s super easy to forget nowadays bc glasses are very normalized and accessorized, and that’s great! But glasses are considered a medical device for a reason. A request to remove them for the wedding/pictures? Sure, fine. Every glasses-wearing theater kid has dealt with that, but you better give a heads up so they can prepare to get/bring contacts if their eyesight is bad enough. Id argue it’d be reasonable to ask the bride to help pay for contacts if they didn’t have any already, bc you need an entire check up to get them prescribed and fitted and then a full week of being taught how to use them and training your eyes to accept them, and you can’t exactly just buy a couple of pairs at a time so that’s a lot of spare contacts you might not even use. A screaming-match demand the day of with no consideration of the compromise? Not alright. If this was new behavior on the Bridezilla’s part, it might be worth a discussion to figure out what’s up, though I also wouldn’t blame them for dropping her over this. Considering this is not their first issue with her? Yeah, this is a heavy straw to break the camel’s back. I hope they enjoyed their meal 😄

Glad to have you back rslash hope your doing better and looking forward to your future videos

As someone studying to get an IT Cert, I LOVE the IT Stories. Requesting another episode of Tales From The Help Desk/Tech Support! Thanks for your hard work rSlash!

Glasses story: if the bride had mentioned this before the wedding day the bridesmaid could've considered a solution like contacts. Suddenly having this problem day of makes it impossible to fix.

I was a little worried and confused at first because ERP has a vastly different meaning to me and my friends

I've been craving some r/letsnotmeet so crazy. But idk if it's hard to find a real story

Story 1 : How many times do we have to teach you this lesson Old man don't piss off the mvp of your company!!. Story 2 : K is a damn fool.. Story 3 : The husband played dirty but to stop the thief he had no other choice... If I was him I would've bought the spiciest cheese in the universe to teach the thief a lesson.. Story 4 : bridezilla was being a bully and the bully got stomped out.. F her .. the bridesmaides did the right thing by pretty much telling the bridezilla to go hump a stump for trying to bully another person..

For the first time in forever, I'm actually first 😃👍

wait in america its morning?in roumania its noon

Hey beautiful rSlash fam! Hope your week is amazing! 🥰

ERP service.... NGL I was thinking it was something else there.

I can totally see where the warehouse guy is coming from, but I could never bring myself to just sit and watch a trainwreck in slowmotion like that. I would have just gone to the VP as soon as my manager made the stupid decision and avoid costing the company a bunch of money and my coworkers a bunch of undue stress.

Was I the only one who thought of something completely different when he said "cloud-based ERP?"

first story I love how the VIP didn't want get OP a raise and hired the outside company and nobody got paid and then VIP finally accepted the defeat and gave OP a title and a raise and also hope the OP old manager got fired to cause he try put all the blame onto OP when he first got in trouble

As for the last story about bridezilla, I hope that the groom, now husband, has a very happy marriage with a hint of good luck and patiance.

I had a food thief problem at a summer camp job and everyone was sick of it. So I decided to make the "Satan's burn" sandwich. Classic wet catfood, Carolina Reapers, ipecac syrup, chocolate laxatives, and crab apple juice. We found out very quickly who was stealing food, I got in some trouble but was off easy because the food theif stole from the owner of the camp as well.

Thanks again for my morning entertainment, Rslash :)

Never mess with with a person's cheese, cops will be called 😂😂

Someone kept stealing my pizza slices I'd leave in the frig. So one day I carefully peeled back the cheese and laced the pizza with 5 pills worth of crushed Ex-Lax. Found out it was the security guard stealing my food by the sounds of his groaning and painful moans in the toilet. He never stole from the frig or me again.

Regarding the story of stolen lunch food, I witnessed a similar problem as a contractor. We had a team of (5) programmers working at a client site, developing and installing a new computer system. Because of the office’s remote location it wasn’t possible to go out to lunch, eat and get back within an hour so we were forced to bring lunch. It was summer and we with much grudging we were finally permitted to place our lunches in the office refrigerator. On of my team members complained that someone had stolen part of his lunch, several times. I relayed the complaint to our company contact in the office who ignored the problem, suggested that WE were the problem and WE did not need to use the common refrigerator. After about a week we started spreading a rumor about a new std that would turn your pee blue if you contracted the virus and this symptom usually resulted in a fatality. The following week we laced several lunch desserts with methyl blue crystals and waited. What followed was chaos as an ambulance was called for the owner and his son. Seems they both started peeing blue the same afternoon. All office staff and onsite contractors were lectured about malicious pranks but lunches were never disturbed or stolen again.

Story 1: The story of a not confident employee. If he would be confident, he would call the ERP consultants and get a job there. Or better get information to get a certification on the ERP system and consult on his own. Imagine a normal warehouse inventory pay to a 200$ per hour consultant pay added to the monthly few of consulting them. That is also the reason why workers who are comfortable and content with their job work for far less pay as their coworkers who know their value and are not afraid to change companies.

R/slash's personal motto, "don't mess with the IT guy". He even got his family coat of arms updated to include it 😂😂😂

Beginning to sound like a broken record everytime we have to tell people not to mess with the IT guy...

:)

They really take their ERP seriously x'D

Fun fact: malicious compliance has another name. Italian strike or white strike, by which workers only do what they are contractually obligated to and nothing more. This has been known to reduce productivity by anywhere between 30% and 50%. What I'm saying is, you deserve a raise. Go unionize.

Why would a company use an erotic roleplay service?

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Hello one this morning for the first commit

Took a 4 year hiatus but I'm back to watching your videos ❤

As a FFXIV player, I too am an expert in ERP :)

So does ERP stand for "Erotic Role Play"?

Story 2.k is short for Karen

1st story: the supervisor should've back tracked when OP asked "can I get that in writing?"

Good morning!

Good morning, rSlash!

Enjoyed all the stories 😎🤙 Would love to see an entire episode of MALICIOUS COMPLIANCE, PETTY REVENGE or PRO REVENGE dedicated to food theft 😂

Hey Rslash, I think there’s a mixup with your time stamps going on. I went to yesterdays video and checked those time stamps, and they match the stories from today. The ones on this video don’t match up at all

What up

As a former admin for a roleplay site, the words Cloud Based ERP service made me freak out

The first OP should've piped up the moment he was told to do the ERP work, he silently agreed to the extra work for free. Everything that followed, was his fault, and I genuinely feel sorry for everyone he took down with him

Story 1 is a great example of why you don't do extra for your company for free. You won't be rewarded, chances are promotions and leadership roles will be chosen through nepotism, and you'll have more responsibility than your getting paid for.

The less story about the glasses is ableist. People often don’t think about the fact that without glasses, many glasses users would be legally blind. That wasn’t a trivial matter, and was more than enough on its own to be a reason to cut off a friendship. I wear glasses. if I had a friend demanding I not wear them all that tells me is that my friend does not give a shit about my basic needs and values vanity over my ability to fucking see.

Vrchat have given me brainrot. The second i heard ERP my neurons activated

Story 1: Sorry as an MMO player I can only hear ERP as _that_ kind of ERP

Ok. Requeijão is NOT like cream cheese. It's softer, it's _BETTER._ And I love cream cheese. It's closer to laughing cow, flavour-wise, and softer. And it's _worth_ the fight (whereas cream cheese is not)! I miss it so much.

If there's one thing we all know from watching your videos is never messed with the IT guy

Story 1: No intelligent input i just heard the vine boom every time he said “ERP service”😂

371st...

If you steal food/don't check the labels. And then get an allergic reaction, or get very hot sauce, etc..... That's your fault. I would not feel bad at all. Maybe they will stop stealing.

Its unrelated but everytime I heard r/slash say ERP I giggled to myself, I hope I ain’t the only one

7:30 seriously? Just give him a little pittance and they would have saved so much money. But no, they chose to pay out the butt with the old consultants. Don’t feel sorry for that company at all. Edit: guess they boss finally got over himself and did the one thing that could save the situation.

It's not "just" glasses - to not wear them for a day would, for many people, make them blind. I get so stressed without mine, even with help, because I can see blobs of color and movement, nothing else, and I've been like this since I was a child. TBH, I wouldn't have even agreed to take them off for photos. No one would know who I was without them anyway.

The groom on the last story must either be completely blind, or just like her... If I was the groom in that wedding and witnessed that? I cannot be with someone like that and I would have called it off right then and broke up. No way... That is also assuming I would have ever made it to that point.

Thank you for another great upload Rslash! Hope you had/are having a good vacation with your family!!

The first story is twice as hilarious I’d you think ERP stands for Erotic Role Play

"Cloud space erp service" you mean f-list? XD

Honestly my mind went into the gutter with the first story the moment ERP was mentioned because I didn't think of anything else except for erotic roleplay XDD

Oof.. Inventory / ERP story, i don't want to sound like a stiff and ruin OP's parade but that ERP maintenance block from his boss should have been reported to Management / HR right away, that was gonna royally DUCK a lot of people including his co-workers. You wanna MC to the deserving few, fine, but don't drag everyone else into it.. Then once the consultancy got slammed and couldn't fix the HR issue on time OP's hands would have been clean and he would have nailed himself a fat raise.

Good morning RSlash, thank you for another episode, just wanted to let you know that your timestamps are wrong. Maybe they were meant for another video.

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