r/Maliciouscompliance Build a Fence? OK, I'll Build the Berlin Wall!

[@ranekeisenkralle8265]

As a German who grew up during the time when the Berlin Wall was still a thing, I can't help but laugh at the tower-comment you mentioned. Sure, the real thing was no laughing matter, but given how that neighbor insisted on a secure boundary, I'd say the reaction is warranted. Putting a mannequin in an NPA-uniform on the tower might be a bit too much though.

[@shinymainespoon]

Maybe some toy soldiers is more appropriate

[@Suchsdirhaltaus]

Maybe they can spray some graffiti on there to ad some west Germany Flair. Might be more appealing if it's good graffiti.

[@shinymainespoon]

@@Suchsdirhaltaus Sarcastic graffiti perhaps. Condescending. Smug

[@Suchsdirhaltaus]

@@shinymainespoon yeah that would be a good idea.

[@Sorchia56]

Way back when, I patrolled the Berlin Wall on both sides as a US government worker. I, too, laughed at the tower but would have taken it further with barbed wire around it, guards and the siren (oh, how I still detest that bloody siren). Perhaps vicious dog barking to automatically go off on a sensor if you get to close. A guard yelling ‘der halt’!

[@dracko158]

OP: "Do you need any bags?" Customer: **smugly** *"LOL Nope."* Also Customer: "Where are my bags??" OP: *"Congratulations, you played yourself."*

[@Richard_Nickerson]

@Tommy Gaming 🅥 Actually a RickRoll. Gtfo with your spam.

[@cececartiere6147]

naw this was a dumb ass question to ask tho ...as someone who works in cs why would you ask that to begin with

[@MyDogIsYoshi]

@@cececartiere6147 in many places, you have to pay for bags, so customers are encouraged to bring their own reusable bag

[@cececartiere6147]

@@MyDogIsYoshi and I get that but I also understand the frustration of the customer as well. I don't think anyone was necessarily wrong here just that we've gotten to a point where we blow everything out of proportion

[@sentientcardboarddumpster7900]

@@Richard_Nickerson you should know better than to click a link in a KZbin comment section. You got what you deserved lol

[@adamlivesay1973]

Last story: when a regular worker is responsible for damages their fired immediately. But when a manager is responsible somehow they have the ability to give a second chance.

[@Crescendobro]

Unfortunately it has to do with ease of replacement and hours invested. A manager takes more training then a standard employee and more people as a general rule are looking for standard employee jobs like students and such. Due to this management often gets more leeway in stuff like this since replacing them would often cost the company more then one spoiled milk order

[@fermitupoupon1754]

In a reasonable country an employer can't fire an employee over this sort of damage. Especially not if said employee was under strict orders to not put in overtime because of tight payroll.

[@Jonathanizer]

This is going to be unpopular, but i know of plenty "regular workers" who f***ed up and were responsible for lots of damage, and did NOT get fired. So it's not just managers.

[@NickSteffen]

@@Crescendobro Also, managers tend to be put in non/black and white situations. This manager could have been told by their manager that no overtime should be worked. Often if you make excuses that the overtime is necessary, they will just tell you to figure it out. When you ask someone to figure out a lot of things all the time, eventually they will not figure something out or they will prioritize the things that need a lot of figuring. This is just one potential scenario but it’s meant to illustrate that often there aren’t clear metrics for determining the success and failure of someone who doesn’t do work directly.

[@RiveroftheWither]

Gotta love employers that care more about employee class then understanding travel cost and expenses 🤣 Can't have the lowly worker bees thinking they're special or valued even if it costs more money. Seriously though, companies that often send employees out on business trips should know how expensive air travel is, finding a flight anywhere for under $400 is not easy... Yet those to employers cared so much about the idea of their employees traveling "first class" that they completely ignored the price

[@fdm2155]

Yeah I've had a bit of this with expenses. My firm doesn't care but some managers try to micromanage the expense reports. You'd think it was coming from their own pockets!

[@black1917]

@@fdm2155 It's so they can say "look at how much money I saved the company, aren't I a good manager, you should give me a bigger bonus".

[@nazc0]

The birth certificate story is bs. Being someone who has had the exact same issue and had to show a foreign certificate, you have to have it translated and notarized(at your own cost). Sounds like someone wanted to make up a story where everyone clapped at the end...

[@that_dam_baka]

My brother's company does the same. Some people are not entitled to plane fare, only train. Some departments/managers would allow plane travel if it was cheaper than a train, but not all. My brother got lucky, AFAIK.

[@phlushphish793]

My dad was a salesman back in the day when white wall tires were a new, big thing. The company provided vehicles; and, expensed repairs, maintenance, mileage, etc., including tires. White walls for the outside sales reps but not inside reps. One inside rep got a deal on white walls actually cheaper. Someone complained. He explained 'Look! They're cheaper!' Doesn't matter. You're not allowed. So he had to go back to the garage & have 'em flip the tires around so the white was on the inside!

[@christibritton1436]

re snooty tellers - my dad worked for a bank as a teller while he was in college. He was let go because his window didn't balance by 25 cents. Banks get very picky about money counting. $10 or $50 is very serious, and the teller would likely have been written up on a 3 strikes.

[@jacob3988]

25 cents....a friggin quarter and he's fired

[@PaveMentman]

--- @@jacob3988 Well, maybe it was back in days when 25-dollarcents was something like 250-fulldollars of today money ( super over exaggeration sure, but inflation in economics no matter how artificially-engineered it is still a real thing ). ---

[@hangontravellers2584]

Also they will charge you for theft and send the police, even if it wasn't your fault. Happened to my brother.

[@christibritton1436]

@@PaveMentman at the time a loaf of bread was 25 cents - so he got fired for the equivalent of less than $5

[@aleisterlavey9716]

Bank manager: "you gave 20$ to much for the third time, do you know what that means? " Bank employee: "... I'm getting fired? " Bank manager: loads Luger "...somehow yes"

[@Bynming]

The story about the Japanese birth certificate is incredibly dumb. Any place that deals with vital records/civil status has translation guidelines because they deal with foreign documents on a regular basis. If their procedure requires a foreign birth certificate to change a birth day, they'd more likely ask for a notarized translation of the document.

[@katrinawendel2647]

Yeah, I was thinking that story was suspicious, too. Many stories on Reddit are not real, though; this may have been one of them? On the other hand, I can see an ignorant clerk not in "the know" panic at the thought of "another language" and "translation" and just put in the data needed themselves. Slightly possible that clerk had access?

[@fdm2155]

LOL, I wouldn't assume the clerk was correct in demanding a copy of the birth certificate in the first place. Also possible that dealing with a foreign language birth certificate is a hassle for the clerk and they skipped it to save themselves extra work. I've had more than one petty dictator of a clerk making up their own rules. I don't know if they get power hungry or are just ignorant of their own agency policies.

[@scottcameronpedigo219]

Exactly, and where I live (Switzerland) official translations have to be done by an authorized translator of official documents. The translations are stamped analog to what a notary public would do for any other document. They're not at all cheap, it might cost a couple of hundred bucks for a couple of pages. If the story is true, then the smiling guy is lucky he didn't have to get an official translation.

[@Bynming]

@@fdm2155 It's entirely possible that they did not need a birth certificate. Any reasonable authority would accept a passport. That being said, a dumb clerk blind with "power" who asked for an unnecessary birth certificate would probably not be dissuaded by a client smugly going "hah you speak Japanese then?". The clerk would just double down and ask for the notarized document. I assume the story is at least partially made up. But who knows.

[@fdm2155]

@@Bynming I'm with you on the passport. I have had 2 people refuse to accept it as ID because they apparently thought ID only meant driver's license/state ID.

[@PsyAlola]

i've done the same thing with the no bags story, except here instead of me doing "malicious compliance" i'm "being a smart ass" and "taking jokes too seriously"

[@ianaamdan]

same. you'd read MCs and how they got away with laughs. meanwhile back in the day i'd be reprimanded for being a smartass and "why can't you use your initiative?"

[@PsyAlola]

it’s not even just back in the day, man some people still do this 😭

[@9000jamez]

Went to a walmart a bit ago (couple months) and as i was cashing a check the woman at the counter scanned twice counted and paid out twice when i tried to say her count was off she got mad shouted that "I counted in front of you now go i have a large line" to her fault she did have a long line and i say to her fault cuz she spent 25 minutes talking and chatting with a friend who waited in line to speak with her.......i walked out with an extra few hundred dollars i did contact walmart corporate and they told me that if it left the store without anybody noticing the mistake and even when they checked audio/video recording I was not at fault and dont have to return the money

[@phlushphish793]

I once put in for $10 cash back, got chatting with the teller & she forgot to give it to me. Went right back into the store. The mgr. said, "She's clocking out in 10 min. We have to count her drawer. If it's $10 over I'll give it to you." He took her off 10 min. early to count. 5 min. later he opens the door & gives me $10.

[@AtotehZ]

Worst mistake I've experienced a teller make was not multiplying the correct way. I was selling chocolate bars at my school.(boarding school, fancy place) and bought these packs of 5x snickers, mars, twix and bounty. The 5x packs were stacked in around 25x5 in a cardboard box. I had bought 5x boxes total(125x5 chocolate bars), but later noticed I'd only been billed around $12. She hadn't multiplied the different kinds of chocolate bars at all. If I'd noticed when it happened I would probably have told her, but I didn't notice till I was back at my room at the school. I charged 80 cents per chocolate bar(not US, in my country it equated to 1 coin)... Which means $500 minus what I ate myself. Good business for 14 year old me.

[@mrn234]

yup

[@Yumi_Jay]

That happen to me where I was at a store doing a half off sale and the lady didn't ring me up on all the items. I even point it out to her and she goes "that's your sale price." So I was like okay.

[@debbymccormack6525]

Too bad that fancy boarding school didn't teach you how to actually spell BOARDING SCHOOL.

[@markfoster1520]

@@debbymccormack6525 What!? And pay for an English professor!?

[@AtotehZ]

@@debbymccormack6525 I'm sorry, I can't expect plebs who haven't gone to my fancy boarding school to know what a typo is. Always expand your vocabulary Debby. Jokes aside.. The reason I pointed out that it was a fancy place is that literal military school is also a boarding school. Not because I'm posh, cuz I'm not.

[@sydneyyoung7352]

Just because your neighbor owns the fence doesn't mean you have to convince them to upgrade it. You can just build your own fence on your own property, can't you?

[@chriscarpenter3370]

and then spraypaint "fuck you" on the side that faces them

[@fdm2155]

I was thinking the same thing. If you're THAT concenered put up a fence on your property. Problem solved.

[@laurieharper1526]

You can indeed. Unless of course, you're a cheapskate, which it appears OP's neighbours were. Here in the UK, the general rule is that you are responsible for the fence on the left as you look at it from the house. That way, everyone is responsible for one fence only.

[@Frostfern94]

@@laurieharper1526 Also from the uk- There is one fence that borders mine and my neighbours houses. We live in council houses on a council estate. It’s the councils problem, not ours

[@quentingolden6407]

Yeh but then you have two different fences right next to each other and it means you need a few feet between them of wasted land that gets overgrowth and the next fight will be over who has to weed eat that tiny strip portion of land between the fences

[@unvoicedapollo3318]

So regarding the birthday one... I was getting bday wishes from co-workers a few weeks ago even though my bday was months ago. Apparently the company I'm contracted with had my bday listed as November 19, 2019. Was tempted to "quit" because they were using child labor. I think what happened is that I do have a profile in their system and I probably went in there on that date and the bday must've defaulted to it and I nevernoticed. 🤣

[@plantedlife]

So, your company think you're 2 years old?🤣🤣 Honestly, this made my day

[@thehowlinggamer5784]

Idiot manager: Do things this way even though it'll screw me personally or the company Op: *complies* Idiot manager *surprised Pikachu face*

[@latenerd2441]

nah this is corporate shit where GM gets a new manager and the new one is an absolute brainlet. Did 9 years in hospitality 1 as manager before quiting because of this crap. Happens too often.

[@thehowlinggamer5784]

Yeah. I remember during a rush working at a taco bell where O literally could not take a second to step out to grab trays or anything because the second I got done with the line, more people showed up while being the only one up front. Then I got fired because whenI finally did get a second, I'd work on some trays after cleaning tables and didn't notice a customer. Which seemed like bs to me, but whatever.

[@latenerd2441]

@@thehowlinggamer5784 I literally walked out mid shift one time. New manager shouted in my face despite me running 2 sections (40 tables) with a full party of 16 by myself because apparently I wasn't fast enough. Dude was lucky I don't like prison. Found out later dude was an cokehead. He's serving time now. Company went under. Based Karma

[@ShiftySqvirrel]

As a Norwegian I am always fascinated by Americans being so inconvenienced by having to bag their own groceries, that's pretty much the standard most places I think.

[@bragnir]

Kinda standard for the cashier to genuinely ask if you need a bag or not, regardless of how many grocieries you're purchasing- plenty of people do actually bring their own reusable bags nowadays.

[@SALSN]

exactly, what else am I going to do while the groceries are being scanned, I'd rather do it myself instead of having the cashiers spend time on it, we all know where their saleries come from.

[@Avalikia]

As an American, I'd like to comment that I usually bag my own groceries because I usually use the self-checkout, because I don't like talking to people. :P Though if I'm in a place where they do it for me, it's nice to not have to do it myself. Still, that being the case, I'm right there with you when it comes to thinking people who get upset over it are weird.

[@SkittytheKid]

We do that at Aldi's where to make things cheaper they don't have baggers and reusable bags. But at my local grocery store, they hire special needs people to bag stuff instead of cashiers. The owner or founder has special need kids and wanted to provide them with a job since its so hard to get them one. never had any problem there and lines went by real quick

[@ShiftySqvirrel]

@@SkittytheKid I mean, hiring people that have difficulty getting hired is good and all, but I still don't see why people can't generally bag their own groceries.

[@franl155]

One of my utility companies had me down as "S [name]" when I'm "F [name]". I pointed this out to them several times, asking them to change it. Nothing happened. After a while I got fed up with it and told them that "S [name]" was my brother [true] and that I didn't understand why they kept sending me his bills, and that I wasn't paying any bill that don't have my name on it. They corrected their error within days.

[@TheBlackadder-Edmund]

On the birth certificate date one, he was lucky, ive had to look for a certified translator from the country of origin, aporoved by the consulate from the country of destination to translate and certify, then the document had to be certified by the consulate of destination in the country of origin... Sometimes documents only have a 3 month validity and you have to go in person to the country of origin even if you do not live there (no mail)... When this happens to me i have a grin... The grin of a madman that is going to do something... Unpleasant...

[@bostonrailfan2427]

my uncle had to get his from Puerto Rico and needed multiple forms and translations that my aunt had to help with before he could send in his copy to Social Security. it’s a BS story, they require confirmation that the IDs and passports don’t offer to fully confirm a major error like that

[@TheBlackadder-Edmund]

@@bostonrailfan2427 yes, most of these stories are most probably fake, its just entertaining 😅

[@hilaryhongkong]

Yeah. And apart from that, you may need to apostille your birth certificate, which can only be done with the signature of a official in their rules as a no official from the country (for example, the head of Hong Kong is the chancellor of all universities so a university diploma from Hong Kong has the signature of the literal head of state of Hong Kong, but still wouldn't be accepted as they were not signing it in their capacity as Chief Executive), which may normally only be done with a statutory declaration *in person*, and all these take at just days if not more to be done.

[@TrixityMcLight]

Yeah, went to check if someone had posted this. Dude was lucky on that one. Usually they'll ask you to go get an approved translation of said birth cert.

[@gbennett9297]

Years ago my wife and I found blue wii consoles at Walmart for a discount. Paper with a barcode and price taped to every console. We got 2 soda's and 3 wii games coming to about $90. The console was $150 and the paper barcode would not scan. Cashier tried multiple times and then the manager came over. Scanned the paper too, my wife and I suggested scanning the barcode on the box. We were told multiple times NO. The manager typed in something and said you're fine now. Grand total, about $90. Thank you for the free wii

[@phlushphish793]

I once went through self checkout at Kroger's. The register locked & I flagged the guy down. He waved his card in front of the screen & said to continue. It still didn't work. I went back & waited for him to finish with 2 other customers; then, instead of being a prick & saying, "You didn't fix it right, you stupid!" I just looked at him innocently, shrugged & said, "Uh, something went wrong." Not blaming him at all. He walked over, cleared my order, & said, "OK." I was nearly done scanning. Had 3 items left totaling $13. As far as the cameras saw, I had trouble, flagged the guy down, he reset it, I continued, paid & left. I walked out with a whole week's worth of groceries for $13!

[@HappilyHomicidalHooligan]

Punch Clock Story: In all honesty, the Dairy Wastage is actually on the Chef since OP TOLD them at 8:45 PM when he was assigned to unload the pallet that he was REQUIRED by the new Manager to clock out at 9:00 PM on the dot without fail and that was only 15 Minutes from now, so Chef should have bloody well known there was no way in HELL OP was unloading the entire Pallet in 15 minutes and checked on it at 9:00 PM to assign someone else to finish putting it away... Well, OK, SOME of the Blame should land on the New Manager for her not listening to OP when they explained their hours...

[@shiny4984]

"We don't have enough money to replace the old wooden fence" *_proceeds to build berling wall_*

[@shinymainespoon]

I don't have enough money to buy a pint of milk! Oh well, I guess I'll buy a gallon of milk then

[@troncis2940]

"Sorry,we don't have enough money for the house. I'll buy the billion dollar mansion instead."

[@SendarSlayer]

To be fair. A secure wooden fence can take more work than dropping a slab of concrete in place.

[@bostonrailfan2427]

yeah, makes the story complete BS

[@danielthecake8617]

Concrete usually is easier to get than fancy wood.

[@Richard_Nickerson]

4:24 WTF? Obviously a case of a tiny bit of power going straight to someone's head. They just enjoy telling people no. You had multiple proofs in-person, you know your own birthday FFS, and it's not as if you're 20 and trying to convince them to make it look like you're 21 or something. It was quick and easy, and super important for one's paperwork in life, but they'd rather spend the time arguing about it than just doing it?

[@deniseeulert5220]

The first story, with contempt for a blue collar guy, reminds me of a story my dad told about his older brother. My uncle went to a car dealer after work, dressed in his denim overalls and plaid shirt. He intended to buy a new car. My uncle was actually very well off. The salesman was quite condescending, uncle got fed up and left. He went to another dealer, bought a car on the spot, and drove it through the other dealership, honking his horn.

[@halo129830]

The reason that bank teller urged him is because she got in trouble and until she gets that money back she has a strike against her. Anything over 5 dollars is immediate termination depending on the bank branch and manager yes banks are stingy and yes they will fire you over a few bucks

[@sleze]

I was a bank teller in my former life. Being out of balance at the end of the day was bad and put you on the way to get fired.

[@99temporal]

you got reincarnated or something?

[@jay._.01010]

Can you explain former life

[@Darkwiccawillow]

I’ve also had this happen: Me: would like some bags today? Customer: just one. Me: *looks down at the 2-3 bags worth of the stuff on the belt* okay Me: *waits til they have paid then proceeds to stuff as much stuff as I can into one bag* Customer: can I have another bag? Me: sure, 5 cents please I also forget to charge for bags 90% of the time.

[@CookieDog800]

Bags are $.10-$.15 depending on the store and county you’re in at my state. So yeah…

[@namelessminionveinreaver3763]

I live with someone that's been in banking for the past 50 years. A teller getting a count wrong, whether it's over or under, is a big deal. Depending on the amount, there isn't even a warning. You're just fired. If the person mentions that their count is different than yours, it's in your best interest to count it again, more slowly, until everyone agrees or you are willing to bet your job on them being wrong/lying. There is a reason they count it in front of you. It's not for your benefit, it's job security.

[@topasu9454]

i really don't understand the stonewalling when it comes to these tiny fixes like a spelling mistake in a name or a incorrect birthday. clearly it only takes a few minutes since they eventually do it, but why refuse not to do it in the first place? so bizarre

[@TinyTyranitar95350]

It might be because of some burocratic nonsense like the employee will actually get in trouble if they make the change without it escalating to a certain point.

[@sophdog2564]

Real "Bank error in your favor" energy on that first one

[@MarkBishop-jg8nc]

The fence story reminded me of when my family and I were moving to a new state. It was a neighborhood being developed and my parents were building the home with a developer. My mom is pretty particular and my dad is a no nonsense engineer, so he was there often enough to come take a look at progress and make sure my mom was happy. Now, here comes the neighbor. Apparently the property lines were set wrong between our two houses and the neighbor claimed that the AC units to our house were technically on his property and he wanted them removed. Mind you, the house was nearing final completion, but there was a pool being installed on the other side. The old guy had a really nice garden on his side of our fence and when he caused a stink my dad just told the guy with the excavator to bulldoze the fence and we’ll rebuild it in the proper place. Neighbor freaks out and says no no no, never mind and then just comes back with some paperwork at some point to have my dad buy out the section that f property so that it would now be a ur families. Needless to say we had a relatively rocky relationship with that guy until he eventually passed away.

[@SquashyPan]

Is the birthday one malicious compliance? I mean, in most countries of the world they would say "this certificate is not in the right language" and you have to pay someone 300$ (rightfully so) for an official translation

[@champagneprobl3ms]

In my country you don't pay for that, you just to your region department, say that you need your birth certificate in such-and-such language and they hand it to you pretty quickly

[@sydneyyoung7352]

That's what I was thinking. That's the case here in Canada. Not sure about the cost, of course, because I was born here and all my documents are from here.

[@jefftitterington7600]

@@sydneyyoung7352 yes, it can be expensive. I had to have some lengthy documents translated for a foreign government (back in the 80s) and it was 50 per page plus Priority Post to and from my remote community. 300 might not be unreasonable these days, given the translator's' expertise and the cost of being certified.

[@AlreadyTakenTag]

I wouldn't have left improving the wall there. I would have tried to get a bunch of guard dogs and armed guards to give them the full premium Berlin wall experience. Of course there should also be a nice line of good old barbed wire on top of the wall.

[@Suchsdirhaltaus]

Ad a guard tower with a mannequin in NPA armor. (stolen from w different comment)

[@Gaarafan007]

As a cashier in a retail store, I can say that I've done that many times. Customers were not happy when bags started costing 5 cents even though they were informed months in advance that this was coming. Our store has an added bonus where we give a 3 cent credit if they bring and use their own bag. But no, some people refuse to pay for bags, some forget their bags in the car/at home, some decide they want bags after everything's rung up and paid for, and some make the same snarky comments as OP's customer. I will slowly bag everything up afterwards and then tell them they owe 15 cents and refuse to let them have the bags until after they pay. I've even had people refuse to pay it, so I just remove everything from the bags again. Seriously, so much drama over three nickels? At least we don't have pennies anymore!

[@Richard_Nickerson]

Replying sarcastically to someone who's just trying to do their job, especially such a mundane and helpful question to begin with, is just crappy. Just don't treat retail workers that way. It's like making the "I guess that means it's free" joke or something... it's unoriginal, and it's not funny. It's more likely to irritate the employee than entertain them. We've all heard it a million times, and the answer isn't ever going to be "you're right," so just stfu. They're just trying to do their job. They don't get paid enough to both serve and entertain you.

[@derekwhite1870]

I don’t who told them it was funny. Ive also gotten, “oh, I made it myself.” when checking large bills. I had one dude get mad at me at some stupid he made because I didn’t laugh. Said I didn’t have any humor or something. Wife shooed him away and apologized

[@MrKingArthurhk]

I spent my time with my first on the books job after I started working at 13 at 16. I worked everything in a Grocery store every summer and every Sunday and every holiday to help pay for University back when dinosaurs ruled the land a cell phone wasn’t even imagined and the internet wasn’t even thought of. I dealt with drunks and people wanting to get into fist fights because eggnog had been bought out. That being said, to this day at Aldi’s I like bagging my own groceries. I am approaching the mid century mark and it doesn’t offend me to bag my own groceries. At least I know it is being done right. It is a skill you don’t lose and appears to be a dying art.

[@limiv5272]

Art? Putting stuff in a bag??

[@SpeedWarrior93]

@@limiv5272 it may seem simple, but it's actually complicated in trying to maximize the correct weight (personal preference) and space used in the bag.

[@Trijem]

@@limiv5272 Yes. Art/ skill. Imagine getting home to find out that the ID10T bagger put eggs or bread on the bottom, or too much canned goods for the bag to be manageable. 🐾🐺🐾

[@kr0159]

The busboy story reminds me of a story my trainer once told me, we work in a quality control lab for a polymer production facility so we basically check if the product that is being produced is up to code or if certain additions/changes need to be made so the product falls within client expectations. He told me that some line managers (there are about 5 lines or streets that produce product separately and each one has its own manager who needs to procure samples for the lab) had a habit of taking a sample just before their shift ends (cause it looks good on their end, they kept doing their job until the last moment) problem was this meant that just before shift end multiple samples would arrive in the lab at the same time causing my now lead to have to go over time to test these samples to see if corrections were needed. He was also called into a meeting to discuss his frequent overtime to which he responded that he would make an effort to leave on time. So then when all these samples arrived he usually just tested one or two depending on how much time was left and the others were left over until after the shift change (which could take a while because of necessary briefings between shifts). New meeting with the lab staff as to why some of these samples were taking too long to be tested and thus corrections were being delayed. "Well you can either tell the line managers to spread their samples out or take them earlier, or you can let us keep the lab running the way it has been for years and approve the overtime necessary."

[@Loganl1980]

There's a guy here in Montana who repairs old cars, and has a bunch of old classics in various states of disrepair. Some people must have complained, because the county made him put up a fence all the way around his lot, but he wanted people to be able to see the cars he had for sale, so he hired an artist to paint all the same cars, in the same condition, on the fence. It looked just the same as it did before, and nobody could do a thing because it was art.

[@DarkEinherjar]

That's how you deal with lazy employees: make the problem hurt THEIR pockets.

[@kellyashland379]

Bank. Years ago my husband and I were using our bank drive-thru. He was cashing his $815 check and depositing $215 and getting $600 cash. When we got the tube thing back there was only a deposit receipt for the $215 and NO cash. When I asked where the cash was the teller rudely said our check was only for the $215. We both said you need to read it again, it clearly says $815. So where is our $600 cash. The bank manager over heard this and told her to get our check that should have been on top of the pile but she says she can't find it. So we went in the bank and the manager found it almost at the bottom of the pile. We got our cash and the teller got the boot.

[@jacob3988]

Did she really think she was going to get away with that? She has better odds on the lottery

[@swiggieow2509]

Hey there rslash! I really appreciate the videos you put out, I've been dealing with some really bad back pain for this last year. Your content helps me calm down my nerves as it gives me something to focus on other than the pain that goes through my legs, you're awesome and I hope you continue to make great content and more puppy bloopers please!!

[@Trijem]

Yep, I'm missing hearing puppy Hugo in the background. He's such a cutie! 🐕🐶 🌟🌟🌟🌟👍 🐾🐺🐾

[@Mak_Vintage]

I hope you get better Derrek. Us rSlashers are sending you our love

[@rome0610]

1st story: happend to us, too! Back in the 1980s, when travel cheques and cash were more common than credit cards, we went on a vacation in the USA to a bank in the Yellowstone area to change our local money to USD. Since the clerk wasn't allowed to do this some supervisor was called. In her back office she called HQ for the exchange rate, witch was obviously not an easy task. Than she got the money and counted in front of us. With all the bills the same size and color (not familiar to us) something seemed wrong to us, but we couldn't address. Later back in our RV we realized we got way to much. Not about 200 USD as aspected, but about 20.000 USD! Of course we went back in. Shere horror and disbelieve in there faces (supervisor and office manager!). They thanked us for our honesty thousands of times, called again for the exchange rate, discussed on the phone for half an hour and finally got us the nearly correct amount. I don't know if this was again an error or the best rate they could have given us - something about 240 USD.

[@averagejoe8358]

OP should've hired artists to graffiti the fence just to take the piss even more

[@fish3340]

I'm so glad the algorithm lets you semi-swear now! You're officially a large KZbinr!

[@G-y_m]

No

[@Frostfern94]

@@G-y_m no what?

[@Frostfern94]

Heck yeah!!

[@gedion4000]

I'm a bit doubtful on the passport/social story. I worked in that field for years, to get a passport with a foreign birth cert it need to be translated. Meaning assuming he had an American passport, they already had an English birth cert he could have used. Not to mention, as long as it was a valid passport it's should have been sufficient.

[@healingthroughchrist1988]

I thought OP was in the U.K.

[@gedion4000]

@@healingthroughchrist1988 were they? I guess I didn't catch that

[@healingthroughchrist1988]

@@gedion4000 I double-checked it and OP is a UK citizen who was born in Japan. But OP's story took place in the U.S.

[@jefftitterington7600]

I've seen requirements for "original birth certificate" where translations wouldn't be accepted. And often times "government-issued ID" means driver's license, not passport. Some systems are stupidly rigid.

[@catlillith]

Not a bank teller but cashier at a large retailer. Had something similar happened to me, but in this case the guy said I owed him change. To make a long story short he miscounted the change.

[@Yumi_Jay]

I once got told by a customer that I didn't give back the right amount of change. Turns out he misheard me how much his total was and he was expecting a 5 not 4 and some change. I even told him 3 times. He then proceeds to berate me and such. I'm one of the best associates on the cash registers and I rarely have a till be under so I'm always on the dot. Also math and history are my favorite subjects and I was taught how to do sales by my mom.

[@catlillith]

@@Yumi_Jay not only did the idiot customer say I owed him change; when checked his wallet again, he found the rest of it in between a bunch of old receipts. I wanted to kill him.

[@Alpha0727]

I am waiting for the day that my manager tells me to be clocked out at 10:30 pm. I get between 15 to 30 minutes of overtime a night. I am one of the few people outside of management that has authorization and keys to close at the end of the night. If I don’t close properly, then they can’t open properly in the morning and have to get corporate to approve and fix it. A few managers have told me that the policy against unauthorized overtime doesn’t apply to me because I have one of the most important jobs.

[@karenstubbs94]

Throughout my career I have been a manager or director at several corporations. The most important lesson I learned was, that when starting in a new company, was for the month to spend that time getting to know the employees and systems at my new position. Do not starting by trying to enforce my authority by changing everything.

[@josephhenderson2538]

I took 4 semesters of Japanese in college and some of it managed to sink in, so I wonder if I could read that guy's birth certificate.

[@Yumi_Jay]

I'm able to read and speak some Japanese but not semi fluency. Simple words like hello and such written in their forms are easy for me to read. I probably am to speak Japanese better than I can read.

[@LyehtOfficial]

"Build a Fence!" "Okay!" (Builds the great wall of china) "Congratulations, you played yourself, 'Tis I, the Introvert." (Sorry if this was offensive)

[@aurorafrost288]

Why the hell you apologizing? There is absolutely nothing in your post anyone with at least 2 brain cells to rub together would take offense at.

[@bubbykins4864]

The Great Wall of China looks better than the Berlin Wall, and is a source of pride, rather than a source of shame, for China and East Berlin respectively, so it's a sociologically better upgrade than the Berlin Wall.

[@kharissims9054]

If I was the dude in the 1st story, I'd have been even pettier and said aloud, "Oh, I get $50 extra? You must be feeling generous. Thanks!" before walking away. Guarantee she'd have started begging you to come back as you walked out.

[@buffaloditka]

The no bag story also can be considered petty revenge, depending on who’s asking

[@telefonmobilni2765]

About the busboy, i think the manager was right. Because unless its written in his contract (job description) he should´n do other jobs.

[@trindalas]

Yea if I was told it wasn’t my job I just wouldn’t do it regardless of they asked me to do it. My boss told me it isn’t, who am I to argue. The chef or manager can do it themselves if they want it done at that point.

[@telefonmobilni2765]

@@trindalas And if you hurt yourself in doing job that you are not hired, insurance company won´t cover that.

[@kenkahre9262]

1st story. Similar thing happened back in the Fifties to my mother who did all the family finances and the contracting company as well. One day our family checking account had an extra 500 bucks that shouldn't have been there. In those days, a lot of money. She went in and tried to tell them that they had made an error, except nope - the male bank teller condescendingly told her that the bank never made mistakes and when she pressed the matter, he told her that she - a woman - should never worry her pretty little head over such things. So she gave up and came back home. A week later an audit must have alerted them to the mistake, because they called us at home, asking for the money back. But Mom said, "Sorry, its like you said - you never make mistakes."

[@yosiahw4305]

That last story is so relatable. I used to work at a grocery store unpacking pallets and stocking shelves and my manager told me that I need to stack the boxes onto the trolleys at least 160cm high - at which point the boxes would wobble and make it difficult to turn corners. One day our district manager came in and there I was pushing roughly 180cm of boxes through the aisles when I bumped into a customer and the boxes toppled everywhere. Luckily nobody was injured but I had never seen my manager look so panicked. I could hear him getting chewed out from down the aisle and wouldn't you believe it, we were only allowed to stack boxes up to 80cm high after that incident.

[@MorbidKat]

Thank you for being here for me every single morning I'm sitting in the parent drop off line at school. It makes it all more bearable

[@paspax]

In Australia, fences go ON the property line, are the responsibility of BOTH homeowners who must SHARE the cost of construction and maintenance.

[@Ragehunger]

OP in the last story should've just called out that uptight new manager about their condescending attitude and told the general manager that they wouldn't go back to working overtime unless the new manager had been properly lectured and told to apologize for wasting company money over their disrespectful micro-managing. I wouldn't have settled for less.

[@franktuckwell196]

When it comes to money, there was a time when i was working at a London train station, where we did everything, between despatching trains. I was asked to do a first litter pick, this is after the evening rush hour, but before close of service. I was out with a few black bags and a litter picker. When i asked two young men if they could just move for a moment so i could get all the rubbish from under the bench they were sitting on. They swore at me and shouted, "Well if you want it, you can have it!" At which point they threw the carrier bag they had and the contents of their pockets and half a cup of coffee got thrown under the seat. They left laughing, well i picked it all up, including the cofee soaked £20 note they carelessly threw away with everything else. I went to thank them for the tip, but they had gone. This was about 2003, i retired in 2007.

[@DarkEinherjar]

And they did nothing about the stupid manager who told OP to clock out early in the first place... disappointing.

[@skorpiongod]

She was probably chastised by the GM and the issue was corrected. Which is pretty clear considering he was able to resume his overtime duties.

[@michaeltelson9798]

Our neighborhood is on a hill and all of the backyards are terraced. The house uphill from us has been owned by 3 different people since we moved in. The first two were nice people so much so , that at one time I was cleaning out sand that was trickling out of his retaining wall. He was working in that portion of his yard and noticed my actions. I informed him that the sand was coming from his retaining wall. He thanked me, then dug down to reinforce the wall at that point. Very important as they had an illegal in-law unit that came with the house even before we bought our house and it used part of the retaining wall for its foundation. That is very illegal, but they were responsible people and I wasn’t trying to be a nasty neighbor. The third person that bought the house is an AH. Not even trying to introduce himself he wanted us to pay for half the cost of a new fence on his retaining wall. My wife told him to pound sand. Retaining walls also constitute the property boundary. Of course, we didn’t give him a cent. We are waiting for his wall to break down. The portion that the fence is on is bowed out, force of the earth going down hill, and a crack reappeared with the MIL unit that he expanded upon. Legally, the failure of the retaining wall is up to him, then the illegal structure will be discovered and removed. It can’t use the retaining wall as a foundation. Both areas will just flow into my backyard and should not damage my house, but I will sue any way.

[@theldraspneumonoultramicro405]

the old fence one, it absolutely is unreasonable of the neighbors to demand you to replace the fence without pitching in on the costs, they have no rights to demand anything from you besides the obvious such as "dont park on my drive way" or "dont make to much loud noise" it would be a entirely different matter if it was the OP who had the dogs and their dogs go in to the neighbors yard, in fact, since it is them who have dogs it is the OP who can demand they get a fence to deny the dogs access to OP yard.

[@Torsin2000]

Last story. Did the Chef magically forget, or did every other restaurant worker/employee just ignore all the product on the pavement?

[@jefftitterington7600]

Sounds like other people were doing their own malicious compliance, yes?

[@Torsin2000]

@@jefftitterington7600 possible, more likely it's an over-exaggerated story of the 'hey, wouldn't it be coool if I did _____?' variety.

[@penguin-schluppstudio]

4:38 This is why you be nice to retail workers! They will find ways to fuck with you without getting fired.

[@Rattys]

In most of the US, if you build a fence on the property line, YOU are responsible for maintaining it, but if it is inside your property line, you can change it however you would like.

[@dogdog4753]

The thing in the picture is a old way to detect aircraft in ww2 before radar it works by focusing all the sound from the incoming aircraft so you can hear the incoming aircraft if you are standing in the center

[@rustymustard7798]

Once i cashed a check at a store while on the road. I was in a hurry so i took the cash and left. Later that night i finally got a chance to count the cash and realized the cashier had given me 100s instead of 20s, turning a $200 check into $1000. I WOULD have returned the money, but i couldn't even remember where i cashed it.

[@rex8255]

Re. the first story: I was at a store one time buying a few groceries (like 4 to 6 items). The Cashier gave me a total. I told her the total wasn't right, and he looked worried and said "What, it's to much?" I said "No, not enough". Turned out that he'd forgotten to ring up the pineapple. He let me have it for free because I was so honest, and the people behind me in line seemed to enjoy the wholesome moment.

[@samuelhelderman]

Should put up 3 rows of barbed wire. On Berlin Wall. A couple of dummy security cameras, blown out spot lights. Lol.

[@pc4189]

not sure how the laws are in the UK but in Canada, you can't leave the ugly side of the fence facing your neighbour. If the law is the similar in the UK then the neighbour may have a case for OP to either smooth their side of the fence or tear it all down and do it again with the smooth side facing the neighbour.

[@TheOriginalJphyper]

One time, my local bank gave me too much. When I realized it, I came back with the money and informed them of the mistake. It turns out their policy in such cases is to let the person keep a portion of it as thanks for their honesty.

[@headraline]

I was a cashier for 4 years. If the customer tells you the count is wrong, you always, ALWAYS offer to recount -not so much because you'd care if they were indeed short, but exactly for the amount of trouble you'd be in if you gave them too much! Those tellers deserved it. I'd have sacked their asses then and there.

[@thebigr3dfox]

19 cents? Wow, what a dream. Here we try to coexist with gas prices reaching from 6, 21$ to 7, 49$ a liter, because the companies "need to follow the prices of the market". For clarification, we don't earn enough to spend that kind of money "with conscience in our pockets clean".

[@soulgazer11]

I'm a trans man, and I can attest that legally changing your name, for any reason, is VERY difficult. It's even more of a hassle when you're trans.

[@leonardofusaro6029]

fr it costs like 435 dollars or smthn where i live and im like oh 😃 i guess ill just suffer then

[@fnjesusfreak]

@@leonardofusaro6029 $210 here, but you also have to take out a notice in a newspaper that the judge determines at your own cost. And when you have a risk of reprisal, you might not want to take out that notice.

[@hauntedshadowslegacy2826]

Makes it all the more heartwarming to know that a high school class got together to pay for a trans classmate's name change for their birthday. Truly baller, yo.

[@sarahp5003]

@@fnjesusfreak If you get lucky enough to get the right judge, they will say a newspaper somewhere in the country, and then provide the proof. A friend of mine got a judge like that on the east coast and she put the notice in my local paper where I was in Missouri at the time so i was able to send her a copy of that newspaper.

[@fnjesusfreak]

@@sarahp5003 Certainly if I could get it in the Pall-Times it would be less damaging than if I had to put it in the Gazette ;p

[@TimeSurfer206]

My story about travel: I was in the Army, and getting transferred. I got off the plane in Seattle, and a Limo Driver offered me a ride to Fort Lewis (Before the "Joint Base" days), for about 70% what I was told to expect for a Taxi. You bet I took it. Next day, a Finance Clerk is trying to disallow the cost, saying "We aren't paying for your Limo Ride! I'm not allowing this!" Et Cetera... Just going Full Karen Petty Tyrant E-4 to an E-5. "OK, fine, in that case I'll take the Flat Rate Taxi reimbursement." She opens her book, looks it up, and says "Oh." I smiled at her. "You already disallowed the Limo. Cough up." I got $50.00 for that "Taxi" ride. The limo was $35.00. I did tip, too, but, wasn't claiming that.

[@furrymilkshakes5837]

LOL.....I was born in Greece to a US military family. Since i was born off base my BC was issued by Greece ..IN GREEK...LOL I had dual citizen ship until i was 18 like the OP in the story . Tons of fun when places INSIST on seeing your original BC. I bring it with me to places that request it since it has happened more than once. Want to see the orginal...sure...here ya go...have fun trying to read it...it's all greek to me.

[@hauntedshadowslegacy2826]

'it's all greek to me' goddamnit lol

[@griffinrandomness9159]

With the last one, did anyone else expect a different out come with that? I was totally expecting the GM to have to call in OP's supervisor and tell them off for what happened, and what not.

[@black1917]

Oh I'm sure he did, in private. Can't let the peons know that their betters all fallible after all. But you also don't want them to start thinking they can/should pick and choose which orders to follow and when.

[@griffinrandomness9159]

@@black1917 That is true.

[@AtotehZ]

The wall used in the thumbnail is an early warning system against air raids. This is what they did for a while before radar. I believe that specific one is in southern England. Sound waves would bounce off the wall and center at one point where they had a microphone which picked it up. Depending on where the sound came from they could calculate the direction of the attack.

[@Mythical4227]

The first story, the teller gave him what was equivalent to $1009.5 USD, from 1935 to 1947 gas was 15 cents or 19 cents a gallon, a dollar back then is equivalent to $20.19 today.

[@l00k69]

RSlash, the bit about the grocery store bags isn't that the guy took his card out to pay for a small number of bags, but for a small amount of money for bags. Some stores have a plastic bag surcharge about 5-10 cents per bag used. So I think OP was noting how the guy had to get his card to pay about a dollar.

[@fjtalleyauthor2242]

10 dogs and they bothered with landscaping? We have three, and just having what passes for grass is good enough for us.

[@paulredinger420]

10 dogs? Don't you need a kennel license after so many dogs? Hmm. I have always found that being a bigger bumhole then your neighbour works best. They can't attack you if they're defending themselves. It works great!!

[@thebirdchannelforfans623]

The one about the guy sarcastically saying he didn’t want shopping bags: I work retail, including several grocery stores, I have customers pull that crap and I don’t understand it. Surely, they understand people bring their own bags, that stores offer paper, plastic, and reusable, etc, so we have to ask. I’m usually a friendly cashier but I pull the malicious compliance in these situations

[@HappilyHomicidalHooligan]

Berlin Wall Story: IF OP is going to put in the Guard Towers, he REALLY needs to scale the size of the Towers to fit the size of the wall so it looks like the true wall in miniature... Give the Towers tiny motion LED Search Lights that are turned on by and track motion too...maybe some miniature Intruder Warning Sirens that turn on with the lights JUST to add to the realism (and startle the HELL out of any wandering cats, squirrels, raccoons etc. that get close enough to get 'Spotted/Tracked' by the Guard Towers)...

[@jesperstoringgaard8367]

On the spoiled milk story, i used to work in a goods recieving area for a company that made valves for oil tankers and oil rigs. It would sometimes happen that i punched out, and as i walked out delivery cars would come in. So i'd quickly unload them, register what had arived and the following day i'd let my manager know and he's just update it in the system (We weren't allowed to punch in for a few hours after punching out). One day my manager was out, and i had a substitute. It happened and i told him the following day and was met with "Too bad". I didn't have the balls to follow the MC when it next happened (plus my manager asked me not to, and i did quite like him). But if i had done it, it could've resulted in several days worth of delays for products, and in the oil industry that can easily be 10.000 dollars pr. day.

[@exodous02]

That first story happened to me. She counted out the money, all $20's, and I was walking away counting it. She gave me an extra $20 so I got back in line and let people go ahead of me so I could get her again. I went up to her and told her she counted wrong and she rudely said I'd have to talk to her manager so he could confirm it with the security cameras. I asked how long that would take and she said probably a few hours, again rudely. She obviously thought I was trying to get more money but I said 'well, you gave me an extra $20 but I'm not waiting a few hours' and walked out while she was saying 'sir, sir!' I only go into the actually bank like once a year so I never saw her again.

[@AsianGanyu]

3:14 Mr. World wide

[@barryallender8694]

I used to work at a bank years ago. Everyone hated working the drive up window on Friday. This was because Construction guys and laborers cashed their checks. I gladly took the window and worked late alone. Truck loads of guys came and I laughed and joked with them. They passed ice cold beer to me and I had a couple at the window and usually had a mixed six pack to take home. If your nice to people they will be nice. Always remember the golden rule.

[@nigelskinner8988]

Interestingly, the image you used was of a sound mirror on the south coast of England, an early attempt at detecting incoming German bombers in WW II by using assorted parabolic concrete structures to focus the engine noise... apparently you could get a general idea of direction but not much more... thank God radar came online before the Battle of Britain kicked off or we could all be living in a very different world...

[@ashv9565]

An older couple was at a drive thru window at my local Wells Fargo. They'd cashed a check for, I wanna say $1200 or somewhere around there. They never got their money. They called the teller back to ask what the hold up was and she told them she'd already sent it. Apparently she sent it to the wrong car. And Wells Fargo refused to take responsibility.

[@grannyka6934]

That last story. Not really OP's fault that he didn't stay later than scheduled. And no one was helping unload the truck? That's also a safety hazard.

[@bcaye]

Was working as a traveling healthcare provider. One night a fairly heavy piece of equipment fell on my head when I was trying to get it off a tall rack (I'm 4'11", so it fell about a foot). As head wounds do, it bleed like a fountain until pressure was applied for a minute. The shift supervisor insisted I go to ER and after 45 minutes a RNP put in a single staple. The next night the evening shift supervisor helped me put in a worker's comp report, so all is good, right? Nope. They had changed or missed some part of the reporting process without informing people who should know. Even better they got my address wrong so I never got the bill from the hospital to deal with it immediately. I got a $700 bill from a collection agency over a year later. Now I have been at this address around 17 or 18 years at that point-my address and phone # are not secret. When I called the hospital they completely blew me off. Same with collection agency. I returned the favor. I was debt free at the time. A couple months ago, returning from a visit in WY my car blew up just south of Caspar. I found out that car rental places no longer accept debit cards. Ended up buying a gorgeous new car (my first ever) and I was wondering if that incident would sour the deal. Apparently not. Within hours I was the nervous owner of a new car with 57 miles on the odometer, and they allowed me to pay a down payment with my debit card, lmao.

[@stephenodell9688]

On the Berlin wall thing, I thought it would be cool if the neighbors behind and on the other side put up a similar wall would make an interesting effect.

[@yougosquishnow]

Yeah that phone bill story didnt happen. The asociate could easily have been like "oh well rod didnt pay his bill, guess we shut that off"

[@corbeauAnim]

I was very confused with the story about the customer being sarcastic about the bags until I remembered that it took place in the US. I mean, where I live, it's pretty common to go shopping with your own bags that you kept from previous shopping so the question is always a pretty reasonable one to ask. And the customer has to fill the groceries in it himself while the cashier scan it. So this kind of stories always baffle me a little, I admit. XD

[@marlomoth3275]

,,Greeniepi" ... I must have re-roll that name once. Then I realized that I need Jesus.. xD

[@massivepassive]

As for that last story, I can guarantee OP got passed up for every single promotion they may have been eligible for. Dumb move

[@BloodrealmX]

Well of course he did. He actually did his job well. Nobody like that ever gets promoted.

[@XoRandomGuyoX]

@@BloodrealmX So true. Most jobs don't respect the people that get the work done. The more you do, the more management will push. But once you back off and stop doing the extra work they'll criticize you relentlessly before giving up completely when the next person they ask to do the job stops at like 20% of what you did previously. They always seem shocked when the people doing the job expect proper acknowledgement.

[@halo129830]

That first case the bank teller is in serious trouble handing out op much cash is investigated and until the money is found your in trouble once found your punishment is one warning or instant termination.

[@Sakiko23]

During the first flight from train story it sounded like the manager was either too lazy or hadn't thought to check online for the price difference first or ask their employee for them before complaining. They also didn't listen to their employee about being able to save the company money using the first option. Some managers just don't listen sometimes and need to see things happen in order to believe them.

[@charleshunt3806]

For the first part of this video gas averaged $.19 a gallon in 1935. Accounting for inflation fast and $50 with a 10 equivalent of $1014.41 so that means that $50 back then was worth quite a bit that teller really screwed up.

[@starwarsguy9803]

Finally, after several months, I’ve finally watched every single r/Maliciouscompliance video

[@NavySeal2k]

As a german, any cashier could only fill the bags wrong anyways, so we pick out our own bags and fill them by ourselfes correctly. ;)

[@Freeman-Dl70]

A bank once gave my Grandpa an extra $100.00. They also stated that the "never make mistakes" when he tried to return it.

[@OynxWolf11]

"I won't change the name". "shrug" Fine, then I won't pay the Bill. "You have to!!" Eh, no I do NOT have to.*smir* Because THAT is not my name. Good luck finding the guy. *O.O*.

[@Lego_Trunks460]

I find it amusing that some of these aren't really malicious complicance but more like mildly inconveniencing compliance.