r/Maliciouscompliance "WORK FOR FREE OR YOU'RE FIRED!" "lol bye!" 

Boss: YOU CAN EITHER WORK AND NOT GET PAID, OR GO HOME AND NOT GET PAID! Workers: Ok we're going home Boss: NO WAIT

Boss: * Pays for 8 hours * Employee: * Works 8 hours * Boss: :0

Boss: Work overtime for free Employees: No Boss: surprised_pikachu.jpg

Once said by an old boss of mine. “People are only coming in here to work because they are getting paid” like it was wrong of them not to want to work for free 🤣🤣🤣

Dave was in the best spot at the best time Get fired? He can sue and completely destroy the company Stay employed? He gets tons of cash and doesn’t have to do much X3

*"Boss forced employee work for free or threaten them by firing them"* *"Employee doesn't do job"* *"Boss's shocked"* *"Outstanding move"*

Some employers just don't understand that their most important asset, above most anything else, is their employees. Treat them poorly, you'll pay dearly.

*"Work for free or get fired"* Sounds like slavery, but with a way out.

If the bartender story is true, what they should've done is gone to a lawyer, and sued the company into the ground.

The story about the bar.... I'm surprised they didn't sue the company for unpaid wages.

Pretty dumb of those managers to assume service employees don't talk to each other about red flag jobs

I had a boss once demanding me to work for free because it was very busy I was lucky to work for such a big company. I said your not big enough if you need people to work for free. I got fired but didnt gave a shit.

Boss: you won't get paid for overtime! Staff: then we won't work overtime! Boss: But you have to work them or you're fired! Staff: See ya! Boss: Surprised Pikachu

Cant you sue the employer for unpaid hours worked?

If children were taught math in school in the way of how much they are paid, hypothetically, I can't imagine how much more math will be more appeal to everyone.

So, one story I have is, two years ago, when I was a freshmen in high school, I was in trouble for getting a bad grade in something (think it was Geometry) and my grandmother said "no electronics", so I unplugged everything in my room, and when she got mad at me I said "You told me no electronics, I'm just doing what you said." Then she lifted the ban on me after I spent 30 minutes trying to find a hand held pencil sharpener (I have an electric sharpener in my room) and I got to return to my precious video games and youtube. not a super long or exciting story, but funny, I think.

I’m pretty sure that it’s THE LAW to pay overtime

When we moved, my mom refused to move into a neighborhood with an HOA, because of a past experience. I'm really glad after hearing this that we listened to her.

Legally all those employees at that bar who were not paid their overtime could have sued the company because they were refusing to pay their workers for hours worked

God, I feel for Dave so bad. 9 times out of 10, if there's someone who's not "putting in their hours" there's a reason why. Either their commute is hell or this is their second job of the day or they are also a fulltime caretaker at home. People who are also struggling are not our enemies.

Meanwhile in school: Teacher: _"Do your homework or get out of my class!!!"_

Boss: Work for free or you're fired. Employees: No Boss: You weren't supposed to do that.

For the last story the bartender should’ve gone to their local department of labor with their evidence of clocking in clocking out hours worked and not being paid. Companies can’t just decide that you are salaried because they don’t want to pay you over a certain number of hours.

Boss : Hey can you guys work here for free? Employees : lmao no Boss : *:surprised:*

"We were pulled into a meeting with HR and management the following week to discuss our "behavior". You mean discuss your boss' behavior. "We'll dismiss you if you don't change your attitudes" You mean your staff will walk out on you if you don't change your attitudes.

Boss: "You can either work and not get paid, or go home and not get paid!" Workers: "Okay" *walks out* Boss: *shocked Pikachu face*

Boss: Work without being paid or you're fired. Workers: Yeah not gonna happen. Boss: You're fired. Restaurant goes under. Boss: *surprised Pikachu face*

"If you're not getting paid, you don't have to work." Go figure, right?

Oh, you won’t work for free? I’ll FIRE YOU! That will make your situation not in the least worse and I will have to find a new employe that will NEVER do this which will make more job for ME! ...wait

Boss:work for free Worker:Not Today Boss:Waaaaiiiiiitttt

Not only should they have sued for unpaid hours, they probably could have made a wrongful termination case to boot.

Boss-I won't pay you!! Employee-I won't work Boss-NANI!!?

I have never heard of a good HOA.

I feel so sorry for Dave! Poor dude didn't deserve any of his bosses shit tbh. Hope he could relax afterwards 🙁

Long story - bear with me. I worked at a national supermarket chain, the bigger stores were open 7 days a week (only closed 2.5 days a year) but the store I was in was a smaller one so we were closed every Sunday and all public holidays - important for later. Enter Karen - this was before they were called Karen but I'll just call her that. She marched up to the service counter and one of my coworkers asked if she can help her. Karen: I'm not here to speak to a peon - get me your manager!" I was nearby and walked over, I explained that the manager wasn't in but I'm the 'acting manager' Karen went through a list of issues she had with an online delivery of groceries, so I grabbed a print out of the terms and conditions she is supposed to read and accept before her order can even be processed. The 2 is can remember was she claimed am item was on special but charged full price, i explained when it says '2 for $15, it's 2 for $15, not one for 7.50. Buying just one is charged full singular price. Another was she was charged to much for delivery (it's based on distance) I explained this is distance from the distribution centre where the trucks leave from - not distance from the nearest store. After i point these mistakes out I remind her she accepted these terms and conditions, it's not our fault if she didn't read them. K: This is ridiculous - get me your manager. Me: I told you his not in he - K: I don't F@#king care, you call him and tell him to get his a#@e down here I want him to fix this and fire you IN PERSON! So I call me manager who explains to me what i tried to explain to Karen before she cut me off ... that he was at a conference out of state for the next few days. I told him about this woman and he told me what to say. After hanging up I walked back to Karen and told her "The manager will be here as soon as he can" Karen walked out of the store and sat at a nearby bench of the centre walkway of the little shopping centre we were located in. Fast forward an hour Karen storms in and demands why the manager isn't in yet, i once again inform her he'll be in as soon as he can and she screeches "and when the f$@k is that?" I pretend to type some stuff into my computer and read off the screen (for dramatic effect) "Well the conference in Sydney ends Friday night. He's catching a lunch time flight back on Saturday ... arriving after closing. Then of course we're closed Sunday and the Monday public holiday, but he'll be in Tuesday morning. I gesture to the bench she sat at earlier and said "if you wish to wait so he can reiterate what I told you in person should only be another 140 hours" Long story short after Karen taught me a few new words and suggested I do things which i doubt are physically possible I called security to remove her from the centre, I saw her a few more times but that was my only time of actually dealing with her. Sorry for the long boring read folks.

*That just sounds like slavery with extra steps*

That last story should have been "Have fun running the bar with no staff, while being sued and being investigated for wage theft."

I swear some of these managers & 'business consultants' have NEVER passed a business class. Literally like a 'life coach' who can't get their OWN lives in order.

Sometimes I feel guilty for writing down my hours exactly how I work them (I work in hospitality, too). The bartender story is a good reminder why I do it. The general attitude of wanting people to go above and beyond, including working overtime with little or even no financial reward, is (to me) the worst part of the job. You feel exploited and unapprecciated all the time.

Employer: Work for free! Employees: *leave* Employer: (insert shocked Pikachu face)

The last story really resonated with me. I used to work for a company that capped overtime at 2 hours a day but gave unreasonable quotas that forced me (and other supervisors) to stay 4 hours or more in the office. If we didn't, we would've been written up for non-completion of work. HR knew of this but didn't do anything to change it. I left after 4 months (other supervisors soon followed).

Some of these are really toxic to the enemy and I F-ING LOVE IT!

boss: wOrK fOr FrEe Or Go HoMe workers: home boss: wait, that's illegal

Hahaha” you can work and not get paid or go home and not get paid” . Alright I’ll go home “ Wait , WHAT”. What a classic statement, love it to bits 🤣😂😅

There is nothing deadlier for a business than a 'consultant.' Usually, 'consultants' know f**k all about the business.

The first guy should have just shut up and let them fire him. Then sued them. Never never never will I live in an HOA.

i would have sued for either the unpaid hours or for the firing because they were fired in retaliation for complying with the law... as far as im aware an employer cannot fire you for protesting unfair work practices

I once worked an apprenticeship for 3 days before leaving because the boss wanted me to use known carcinogens with absolutely no protective equipment. he seemed surprised when I told him I value a longer life over an apprenticeship I'd been at for 3 days

Option 1: Working and not getting paid. Option 2: Going home, not working, not getting paid. Option 3: What my unknowingly boss chose. Sending me home during my regular work hours, because we don't have enough work for you. Later my boss realized that not having enough work was by law his problem and he had still to pay me. Going home and getting paid. xD

“Work for free or you’re fired!” is a pretty accurate way to describe what RU-vid’s doing to rSlash.

I live in an hoa, every time I’ve had an issue they have been very helpful, I was super skeptical at first but after reading the rules which was a lot shorter than I thought I took a chance. Almost every rule had “unless given permission” at the end of it and the general mood of all of it is “just keep your townhouse looking nice and we won’t say anything, we just want normal people in our units”

I once was working on a haunted house that our school puts on every year. The drama teacher put two kids in charge, one never came to school, and the other was a friend of mine that wasn't mature and didn't know how to limit her ideas. So, my best friend and I stepped in and helped her plan the whole thing. I actually took on all the work because I know what is realistic. Both of my friends knew this and were so thankful for my help. The week of preparation arrives and I'm in full work mode, making sure that everyone is doing what they should do (plus giving them freedom, it's a drama class so kids have to be able to have fun). I even typed up documents for my friends to give the separate groups so they had some idea of what to do. Second day in and my teacher pulls me and my best friend to the side. He talks to us about how people were quitting because we were taking control. Which is fair, I'm hella bossy so I usually tell people just to yell at me when I get like that. But then my teacher tells us about how we were not in charge and needed to stop doing things. I was shocked, because the only reason it had gotten this far was because of the work I put in. So, I did what he asked. I apologized to the girl that quit and said if she changed her mind we would love to have her back, and then I stopped being in charge. People kept going to my friend who was supposed to plan it to ask what they should be doing. She gets mad easily and doesn't like explaining things. She just wanted to do her special effects makeup and be done with it. People started coming to me next and I just shrugged. Almost immediately the teacher realized he had miss understood the situation and came back to apologize to me. I started helping again and we managed to pull it off. The girl that quit came back and helped us a lot so it actually turned out better. Bad news: the friend that got tasked with doing the whole thing, took credit for it and said it was all her. But, what can you do.

HOA’s seem so weird to me (live in and from Scotland) if anything remotely like that happened here, they’d have their windows bricked lol

I miss the old rSlash... The swearing rSlash! SCREW YOU RU-vid! rSlash: Forgets to censor out swear word RU-vid: hippity hoppity your money and channel is now my property

Boss: *WORK FOR FREE!!!* Workers: No! :D Boss: Your boss has ran into a problem and needs to restart.

I had a senior at my job saying "but we work unpaid overtime all the time and so should you" Yeah, your job sucks and we don't want to do it.

Here is my malicious compliance story. When my brother and I were teenagers, we both used curse words a fair amount. This was never a problem to our mom our whole lives, and then suddenly it was for some reason. She decided to set up a swear jar in the kitchen to help curb our potty mouths. My brother and I being 14 and 17 weren't thrilled with the rule change. But we decided to happily comply. For two weeks we saved up all the money we could, which ended up being about $20 each. Saturday morning, with our mom in line of sight of the swear jar, we both declared that we were going to pre-pay for our whole weekend of swearing! We spent the next two days cursing casually about everything. "Will you please get me some fucking water?" "Fuck yeah I will!" "Pass the bitching mashed potatoes, please." Our mom was so mad and couldn't do anything about it because we were following her rule. When we came home from school Monday the swear jar was gone and she never spoke of it again. My brother and I are in our 30s and speak of it often.🤣

Drives hours on end, works overtime and doesn’t get paid to do so... Good luck finding someone else like me >:D

If I was the person from the last one, that final meeting would have gone VERY differently. Something along the lines of: "Oh, we're going to be fired for not working the hours that we AREN'T paid for?" *pulls out phone that has been recording the whole meeting* "Would you care to repeat that clearly into the phone? Because I already have lawyers working on a lawsuit for our unpaid work, and I bet they would LOVE to hear that even just a little more clearly...... Now this can go one of two ways. Either we get our pay for our time worked, both past and a guarantee for the future, or in about a week, y'all get a subpoena for violating labor laws, which will end up in court, because I think I speak for everyone on this side of the table when I say 'I refuse to settle.'."

Boss: YOU CAN EITHER WORK WITHOUT MONEY OR GO HOME WITHOUT MONEY. Me: OK I'm going home. Boss: *Surprised Picatchu Face*

Work and not get paid or go home and watch rSlash and puppy bloopers... looks like rSlash is the best option.

* waits for puppy bloopers * * realize there is none * * shocked pikachu face *

Boss: I want you to drive halfway across the country, do 8 hours of work, then go back home. Employee: When do I get to sleep? Boss: I don't care, sleep at work after hours for all I care, BTW you are not being paid for overtime. Employee: Bah Bye!

My sister once was working at a restaurant and they didn’t pay her for 17 *hours* of work. She went to my dad (a lawyer) and they wrote a letter that if they didn’t pay her they were getting sued. They held off and my sister (16/17 at the time) went to my dad and again said if they didn’t pay her they were getting sued. They payed her and all was well. But to make this story funnier the thing was, you could walk to this restaurant from my dad’s work, meaning, they were right next to an associate of lawyers.

I’m so glad my mom and I are moving into a NON-HOA area. She absolutely refused to move into a home covered by HOA. After hearing all the stories I can see why.

Isn't that last one Employer Retaliation? They should take the evidence to a lawyer and TAKE the money they are owed. PLUS damages.

Boss: you can either work and not get paid, or go home and not get paid! Workers: umm, I'd rather stay home and not get paid... Boss: *suprised Pikachu face* NANI?!?!

that bartender is a LEGEND. Even if its not official, there is NOTHING sweeter than unionizing against abusive management.

Rip grumpy cat 😿😿😿 You will always be in our hearts!! (4 April 2012) - (may 14 2019)

Wow, that last story. Anyone offering an ultimatum so logically flawed as that has no business being a manager or owner.

Boss: Pays for X hours of work Employees: Work X hours Boss: *surprised Pikachu face*

“Work for free or you’re fired?” Sir, where would I benefit from this arrangement?

@rslash Soo, gonna be honest, I'm not totally sure if this counts as Malicious Compliance, but what the heck. This was at my private high school that I attended years back and like most, we had a somewhat strict dress code, all though some parts of it were never that heavily enforced....until one day out of the fuck all blue. At the time, I was a part of a local fencing club and I was a proud member. To show my pride, I regularly worn a hoodie with the fencing club's logo on it, and I had worn it several times to this school without complaint or notice. On this day, like most others, the teacher had it freezing in the classroom so I was wearing my hoodie with the hood up to keep warm and sat at my desk to work. Suddenly, someone had jerked my hood down. I look behind myself and see it is the teacher who tells me "You need to take your hoodie off." ME: No, it is freezing Teacher: You need to take it off. She walked off and I just turned back to my desk, pulled my hood back up, when back to work, and moments later she is back jerking it down again. This went back and forth several times before finally, she went to the director of the school who can in and told me I had to take it off or I would be suspended. I don't remember what bug was up my butt, but I just flat out refused. So they sent to wait in a conference room till my mom came to get me. They had told her what was going on, and even she though this was stupid. Bare in mind. The rule was for something like, so students couldn't wear gang colors or signs in school. This was a WHITE hood, and the logo was a stick figure in a fencing pose...really?! My mom walked into the classroom to talk to the teacher and the moment she stepped in, she was freezing. Mom: Why is it so cold in here? Teacher: Well, I get hot in here during the day. Mom: So why can't the students have jackets or hoodies on? Teacher: It is against school policy Mom: Since when? After that, my mom completed me and we went home for the day, the students were outside on their break and most were kinda rooting for me as I got in the car and left. The next day we were back and in a meeting with me, my mom, the director, and the owner of the school. I sat in that meeting, bitting my lips to try not to laugh as my mom chewed BOTH of them a new one about how stupid it is to keep a class that cold and not expect students to warm themselves up, about not giving students any warning a policy will be more enforced, and how I have always been an outstanding student and how they mistreated me. Neither of them said much in return. I was never bothered about my hoodie again.

Two thumbs up to that bar staff 🤣🤣🤣

A good boss will never fire you, they will invest the time and resources into training and molding you into a better employee. . .

Can't believe no one from The Last Story sued that bar for wrongful termination

I like how he is RENTING and the home OWNER association is bugging him XD

This is the earliest I've ever been for a RU-vid video lol

Boss: Hey work rush hour for free or leave. Workers: k bye Boss: nANI?!

Work FREE or else! -Boss Nah -Worker *It’s super effective!*

When I watching/reading the Dave story I got an ad which started off with “this is Dave” what a coincidence..

When my friend bought her 2nd house, it was in an HOA. She immediately got onto the board so she doesn't have to deal with any of their crap hahaha.

That story about Dave was an emotional roller coaster.

Yea HOA pockets all the money for themselves lol

Hey I live in Fort Wayne and I work with the guy from the first story

Where is puppy bloopers? That’s the whole reason I watch this channel. NOW MY PRECIOUS ANGEL IS CRYING. LOOK WHAT YOU’VE DONE! Now we deserve Yugo more than you!

5:57 "Congratulations, Dave, you've beaten us with our own rules. Rest assured we hate you now and you'll be first to go the minute there's any kind of general layoff. Don't think of it as a reprisal for our humiliation, think of it as impossible to prove."

I have a similar story to the bartender story where I was working at my local grocery store. I enjoyed listening to music it helped me with stocking shelves at a quicker pace and also move quickly and I had it at a low enough volume that I could hear the customers when they wanted my assistance. No one ever bothered me over it until two of my bosses (low level management, something like team leads) got power hungry and gave me a ultimatum 15 minutes before closing, I could either take the earbuds out or go home. Please keep in mind I was on my two weeks notice had 4 days left and was transitioning to another job into plumbing, and I was one of 5 guys stocking a whole 53' semi trucks load overnight (sometimes we didn't finish until the early morning the following day) I quickly said "thank you so much for the permission to go home" and left them shorthanded. Also the team lead that gave me the ultimatum had no authority to do so and said that the other had told him to give the said ultimatum, I could have had the support of the manager on duty (whom I'm still friends with) to keep the earbuds in and continue working. But I was fed up and tired of the petty coworkers and the bullying, and I also had a better job on the way anyway.

HR: You can either work overtime and not get paid or you're fired. Me: Ok I'll take my final paycheck, please! HR: You weren't supposed to do that

staff:you can have bussiness with staff ir no bussiness wit no astaff boss: i choose no staff pls staff:whut

So much crazy shit happens in Indiana for how small and usually not cared for it is.

Thumbnail: “WORK FOR FREE OR YOUR FIREDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!” me if I was in that situation: *”I’m 4 parallel universes ahead of you”*

Should have sued right away for their overtime.

"Do it, and we will take you to court for refusing to pay for our over time wages and for firing us for leaving on our schedule time as this will be breach of contract"

I have never heard a good HOA story, and I have heard several stories of employees winning lawsuits over companies violating labor laws, makes me smile every time too.

I used to work a full time job that I started in fall of 2020 and left in October 2021. Keep in mind my job was as a sewing artisan which my duties required me to machine sew bed skirts, bed runners, long arm quilted throws, HAND TACKED throws(most consisted of 200+ hand done hand tacks that would take sometimes over 15 hours total), all of which were custom made (designers would send in a ticket of what they wanted made and then they often sent in fabric with it. Probably halfway through a year the plant supervisor (was basically a warehouse and everything was handmade) started getting me to train in other departments which I was basically flip flopped all over doing valances, drapes, cornices and expected to keep up all the ticketed designs in bedding which was supposed to be my main department. Keep in mind drapes was basically like an assembly line so there was lots of different things I had to learn, cornices were also a pain because they’re solid wood upholstered with foam and fabric, at first I was excited to do cornices because I loved building things and doing things like that, I grew up on a farm so it felt more natural to me. However as I said halfway through the year or so because I was flipflopping everywhere I was required to work over time, also at first I was fine with because I would get paid time and a half. It gradually started to increase to the point I was doing over 50+ hours a week and sometimes extra on saturdays. ALSO starting pay wasn’t but 9.50$ per hour, I got a .50cent increase at 3 months but never received another raise till after an entire year which I had to be evaluated on everything I had produced. When I left I was only being paid $11 per hour and expected to work 45-50+ hours per week along with all the other employees(I am only 20 so I was the youngest employee there). Everything that was made for this company was worth sometimes several hundreds of dollars to sometimes $1,000+, I still to this day believe I was severely underpaid for that line of work and had way too much expected of me and other employees. I won’t name names because I did become close with the people I worked with but a lot of people there that had been working there for years up to 20+ hadn’t even gotten near $15 per hour at all. When I first started I absolutely loved my job and loved learning new things everyday, but as time went on my health declined, I barely slept, I could barely keep anything around the house caught up anymore let alone taking care of myself, I screwed up more often during work because everything expected of me drained and exhausted me too far. I was mentally and physically done and couldn’t take anymore, I had even requested to lower my hours back to just 40 per week which would be the normal 8am-4:30pm, I had that maybe 2 weeks then was asked to go back to 50. There were so many nights I cried when I got home or when I got off work and got in my car, I was just so tired beyond belief in my entire existence. Working 10+ hour days for 5+ days straight took way to big a toll on me, the plant supervisor always said “you are too young to be tired or you are too young to have back problems.” I genuinely felt less then every time I went to work and dreaded every minute. The owners of the company even pushed for long hours and said that they have to to get more products made and shipped out by the deadline on each ticket. If people got a better pay of $15+ there and stayed at 40 hours with maybe an hour or two overtime they would’ve been better off with keeping employees and getting more stuff done. You can only push people so far and I was pushed to work TOO hard, I was afraid of the plant manager because of when I asked to lower my hours, when I turned in my two weeks, I was sent to her office and she asked “is it a money thing? What is it?” I genuinely was too afraid to really answer her, I used college as an excuse because I had taken a gap year when I graduated to save money up and when I got this job later on down the road I thought to myself that yeah I could totally do college now, I could afford community college. I was way too tired to do anything other than sleep when I got home, I don’t know how I would have been able to do college and work at the same time. Now I know my worth as an employee and I can’t continue to be a people pleaser. To this day I am still unemployed because I want to focus on getting my health better before doing anything else. I think that’s a higher priority than working myself to death.

ah, i see there are no puppybloopers again...you are really asking to be sued

Love your vids, I love listening to them whenever I'm working on projects at home. My malicious compliance story, was when I worked third shift. Hate those hours. But the bonus is I'm mostly in the warehouse, and not around customers. I stocked liquor and tobacco products. Seems pretty easy, when you don't have a supervisor that does not hate your guts (implyed sarcasim here). She tried a lot of BS with me, and whatever steps to make my tasks difficult which I completed flawlessly. On my last week, due to my husband getting stationed to another post so i go with, she told me that I had to reorganize the entire section of wine and hard liquor. She was far too lazy to do it herself and always complained that the products were too heavy. I get a smile on my face and say sure thing. When the day came when the truck arrived for more products to come in, I did reorganize every single box to what brand a were. Only I took every single heavy box that was on the bottom shelf and put them on the top shelf, and put all the lighter products on the bottom shelf. She was not happy when she found out I did that, but what could she do I was moving?

That last story really should have been followed up by a trip to the local department of labor. Not paying OT is major, major bad juju. I work in a right-to-work state, but we also have the 'good faith and fair dealing' clause in our RTW law. The local department of labor absolutely loves stomping companies abusing the good faith and fair dealing clause into the ground. In fact, going in with a Good Faith complaint usually makes the DoL staff's day!

The last story basically happened to me. When I worked at a restroom in a mall, I was being asked to work overtime but not get paid "because your overtime pay comes out of my salary" as if poor shift schedules, other people coming in late, and what my manager gets paid is my problem. So when I started clocking out as soon as my shift ended, during rush hour so leaving many people waiting, they tried to terminate me for walking out. When I showed HR documentation of my manager changing my clockout times, my manager was fired instead and I recieved compensation for overtime hours I was not paid