r/Maliciouscompliance Moron Messes with the Wrong Soldier!

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0:00 Intro
0:08 Don't want up the pilots
1:54 Easy way to get sent to toilet duty
2:19 Dishwasher problems
9:08 Should have given me an office
12:47 Phone must be off during work
14:07 Recount the 70 fish
15:38 The hourly angle
"Sneaky Snitch" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) License: CC By Attribution 3.0

[@SoManyRandomRamblings]

Rslash....the reason he was able to learn his lesson is that he wasn't a manager, he was an owner, owners sometimes can learn because mistakes affect the books....that's why managers rarely care to change, their mistakes don't mess with their take-home-pay.

[@MrFriend97]

i absolutely agree with you, i have grown up in a family restaurant and when my father had to put me his kid to do everything and then saw how i couldnt keep up he changed the way things worked the next week as for instance seeing me constantly break cups because of his stupid way of making us stack them on a table made him instantly get a now coffee cup rack. it took about 20 cups breaking on one sunday but it made him change asap. 😂

[@AzureKyle]

This is a rare case of Rslash not actually comprehending the story he is reading. Not only is it the owner, not a manager, but an owner that has never spent any time working in his own store. It is entirely believable that after spending 15 minutes not knowing anything on the busiest day could make him realize just how horribly he'd been treating his employees.

[@MrFriend97]

@@AzureKyle sometimes even a boss who works in the restaurant themselves can still be blind to these issues until they see it go wrong. my father and mother work both 80ish hours a week and my father still doesnt see issues that his new idea’s can cause. but i agree with you that these drastic turns in bosses usually come from bosses whom dont work in their business yes.

[@tamekkaknuth9612]

No surprise :)

[@WardenWolf]

It's good on this owner to realize he'd messed up badly and make it right. The problem had many facets: not enough staff, and not enough dishes to be able to have one set in the dishwasher and still have enough for the floor. And possibly a problematic kitchen design.

[@AlexRising_]

Story 1: can confirm. I was an Aviation Logistics Information Management and Support specialist in the Marines (read: Airwing Tech Support). I got sent on a training exercise in the Mojave desert and ended up sharing a hut with pilots. The hell that was raised as a result of waking them was wild. Hell, someone woke me up and one of the officers threatened to cancel flights for that day if it happened again, and when I pointed out I was just the IT kid, she said “and if I crash you have to be awake to freeze the system for accountability purpose. You work nights, _YOU NEED SLEEP._”

[@myrixica4222]

I feel bad for her kids at bedtime XD

[@mindyschocolate]

Wow, glad you had an O to back you up. I work nights (enlisted who also works aviation fixing broken jets) and no one in my experience cares if our sleep is interrupted Whitley we’re sleeping during the day. Man overboard, cleaning stations, RAS (and the subsequent terrible music blasted in our berthing during breakaway)…nope. No one cares if we work the flight deck sleep deprived.

[@ScyBlade]

@@mindyschocolate My Division has Night Crew help with morning cleaning stations before going to bed. Man Overboard still sucks for whoever gets their sleep interrupted. We've had Man Overboards at 0200, and those were false alarms.

[@alexursu4403]

Instructions unclear. I read the last bit as the most deep voiced, distorted and demonic "YOU ! NEED ! SLEEP !" possible.

[@tamekkaknuth9612]

Desert snakes.. venom er

[@dracko158]

Boss: **Pours coffee on the clean cutleries** OP: "This little manuever is gonna cost us 51 years."

[@gummy2bear358]

why is this so true doe

[@janemiettinen5176]

Co-worker threw dirty ashtrays (late 80s) on my clean cutlery. I was about to walk out, but the cook came to my help. Had to work 30 min later than I should, smoke pouring out of my ears, despite multiple apologies.

[@Scottsteaux63]

LMAO

[@hershy1594]

Just about every lower enlisted is on toilet scrubbing duty at one point. They'll just make that your full time job

[@SeanBZA]

No, as a contractor they will make you the guy burning the portaloos, and give you the shortest stick to stir it. Then you will be filling sandbags, and moving them around, then emptying them out to put in stores, and filling them the next week again. As you are not allowed into combat, no danger pay, even at a forward base.

[@SeanBZA]

@Plink Different countries, different rules......

[@joshdavis5215]

I was lower enlisted but as a Blackhawk crew chief I stayed in the officers barracks due to crew rest.

[@ShawnRay]

I work retail and I clean the bathrooms once a week. I actually enjoy and prefer it to hanging women’s clothing. I got a literal headache trying to understand sizes. I get a bit of satisfaction at a clean toilet. Did you know there is a size between XL and XXL???

[@CloroxBleach-nu8vo]

Bruhhhh fr it starts from boot camp to in the fleet ☠️

[@platannapipidae9621]

the dishwashing story. i'm really happy for how it turned out. i'm glad that you showed him how the work is done and i'm glad how he reacted to that.

[@fdm2155]

Classic example of why business owners, particularly of small shops, should spend some time working in the shop. My brother had a similar experience running a sandwich shop many years ago. Husband and wife bought a franchise, never worked a day there. Hired my brother who was fresh out of the army at the time. He learned the business and organized that shop within a few weeks. Whenever he asked the owners to institute a new policy or spend a bit of money... they told him no, it was THEIR shop, not his. They would make the decisions. When he found a better job and moved on, the sandwich shop closed within weeks. They had no idea all the stuff my brother was doing to keep that place afloat. LOL

[@tailsofchaos]

@@fdm2155 It says a lot when you're a relying on one person or several. Manager or owner it doesn't matter. You still have to know how many things work. But apparently many do not

[@abby_renee2395]

The few small businesses I’ve worked at were owned by powerful people who fought tooth and nail to get to where they were. Those types of bosses keep businesses flourishing bc they treat their employees w so much empathy it’s crazy

[@casualobserver7867]

The interesting thing about this story is the hand washing bit. Where I live, that would get you shut down. You have to see to believe what an “industrial” dishwasher will do to even baked on debris. Even a coffee house has to do this.

[@fdm2155]

@@casualobserver7867 I did wonder if handwashing met food safety requirements.

[@icaughtalopunny]

If that dishwashing story is true, which I hope it is, I’m so glad that manager not only learned how his establishment works but also got a damn f*cking reality check.

[@SoManyRandomRamblings]

It wasn't a manager he was an owner, that's why he was willing to change. Because mistakes affect his pocketbook.

[@Musicalsfangirl]

That cafe is horrendously run. And there’s no-one to blame but the owner.

[@Nerobyrne]

That's the thing. If you compensate workers at least somewhat fairly and treat them like they're actual human beings, it's pretty likely they'll stay late sometimes, work overtime, etc. We're all just people, and it's amazing how many bosses/managers like to forget that.

[@DarkEinherjar]

Those mandatory sleep hours are not to be messed with... basically, when you interrupt them, they reset, and the pilot/driver is entitled to another full set of sleep hours. I remember this MC where an excursion manager failed to give the bus driver his minimum rest hours... he was forced to call taxis for everyone the next morning in order to not miss any flights.

[@HaefentheZebra]

Not completely related but I think one of my wildest stories when I was a cab driver was being called up to pick up an Air Force pilot, pick him up at his hotel room and take him through security and to the hangers. There were no less than two vehicles following me all the way back to the exit after I dropped him off haha.

[@myrixica4222]

I remember the tour bus one. The cunt tour guide dude deserved it.

[@mostar1219]

Yeah a manager who actually learned is as rare as a parent who actually notices their own bullshit

[@RobDaCajun]

All kidding aside it is possible. It depends if the person is coachable or not. It is rare though.

[@EzraM5]

Even though that should be the bare minimum of that circumstance.

[@fanfictiondreamer7836]

I really like how Dabney insisted on the dishwasher story to be fake just because of that XD XD XD

[@abby_renee2395]

I think that’s the difference. They weren’t managers; they were owners who had no idea of what it takes to run a restaurant. Managers know, but don’t care. These people were ignorant, so there’s room to grow

[@angelaschultze2404]

Glad my boss was a good one. He and his wife would do dishes when needed

[@justicedunham4088]

It’s odd to think how most of the problems with the cafe could be solved by just buying more cups and other utensils. That way the baristas are working through a stockpile while the dirty ones get to go through the dishwasher

[@SoManyRandomRamblings]

For some reason lots of businesses don't want to spend $5 today to save $20 in the long run.

[@MrFriend97]

@@SoManyRandomRamblings i can absolutely atest to this, i grew up in a family restaurant and my dad wouldnt spend the money to fix a problem until it cost him 30 coffee cups in a day because we didnt have a proper place to put them so he made everyone stack them on a table that was infront of the closet that holds the breakers. we had a short circuit during the sunday coffee rush and my manager moved the tablet to roughly and broke 30 coffee cups in one go, next day we had a new coffee cup stacking rack.

[@Brandonnn9164]

I flew helicopters for a little while and let me tell you that rest time isn’t just a guideline it’s a full on necessity 2-3 hours of flying and I’d sleep the rest of the day. I would get so task saturated I would forget to breathe (I wasn’t that great)so it’s not like being a driver where you have 8-9 hours where you’re supposed to sleep you need it

[@SeanBZA]

Yes that 8 hours bottle to throttle thing is important, pilots may think they are performing great with lack of sleep, but they are not. Do remember going in to the medics, and there is a captain in front of me (RHIP), who gets grabbed by the sister, who looks at me, and asks what is wrong. Headache, like the captain, so she says to fill out the form, and she will be back shortly. Comes back with 2 trays, one carefully held not to warm up the contents from the fridge, and gives me the other 2 phials to use, telling me to go find a medic, she has a patient. Hold them in my hand, warming them up, and go find one of the medics, and let him make me a pincushion. While he is doing that there is a muffled scream from the closed exam room, and after a minute this captain comes out, dragging his leg behind him, with sister busy scolding him out, and that she was also at the officers pub last night, and saw him parting like there was no flying in the morning. Then she shoos him out, and switches on the smile, and fills out my form for me. We had exactly the same injection set, just his went in fast, large needle and just above freezing, while my one went in at blood temperature with a 22 gauge needle. She did teach me a lot about injections there, especially when she had children to care for, when the suckers would come out, and they would feel absolutely no pain. I learnt how to do it with no pain, which has come in handy over the years. No, not a medic, just first aid training.

[@silverflight01]

Story 2: Man, it took a giant rush for him to finally see his faults and start working on getting things right. I'm kinda glad OP decided to help him start on washing the dishes after the boss had his "Oh crap!" moment

[@NightStormPony]

That last story i have gotten to do myself. It was so satisfying when the old dude saw i was giving him more the first scoop. Stores like that don’t even have a super good way of making sure we have exactly the right amount of fish and so many unfortunately die daily so we (or at least i did when i worked there) would give people extra incase they died before feeding.

[@silverflight01]

Story 5: Sister screwed herself out of extra fish. Should've just kept her mouth shut

[@SeanBZA]

Yup, employee is there already, and if he is counting out 70 fish, or cleaning poop out of cages, or cleaning floors, the pay is still the same. Just the 70 fish is a lot less smelly. Still, I never bought feeder fish, just used to grab them from the dam, where there were thousands of them near the shore, so a net and bucket once a month was enough. 2 survived and became tankmates, after they grew big enough to not fit in the mouth.

[@Estarile]

I mean, your paying for 70 fish. If you think that your getting less you would speak up.

[@vanillaoreo251]

Is this story fake? It sounds like an exact retelling of the same story I heard months ago, bur from the employees perspective

[@1bendykat]

Three rules RSlash has taught me: 3. Don’t mess with IT. 2. Don’t mess with the military. 1. NEVER mess with trees.

[@ladykemma3]

Don't mess with the school secretary.

[@melrobertson2743]

If someone asks "Can I get that in writing?" you might want to rethink your choices

[@1bendykat]

@@melrobertson2743 True story, someone above me in rank once asked me to do something that would essentially break the law and I asked for the request in writing. Suddenly, they rethought the request.

[@songohan3321]

The Cafe story raised my hope for humanity slightly.

[@gingerkays7362]

Since Thanksgiving is in a few days and one of the stories this episode features something I am thankful for, I have one thing to say. If you are reading this and are a current or former member of the Armed Forces, thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for your service. It is because of you that our country still stands tall, proud, and free

[@Spectre0799]

Whenever I hear Soldier in the title of an rSlash video I know it's going to be good

[@lolin6379]

The franchise owner of the fast service restaurant I work for comes by and helps from time to time, for lunch rush or whatever. I don’t know why, probably to keep in touch with his staff and make sure things are going ok. My manager does all the things I do, plus her manager responsibilities (ordering stuff, schedules, whatever else managers do). It’s overall a great job, not like the hell people always make fast food out to be. I’ve had 2 bad customers in the last 3 months. Really a great job, even if we are a little short staffed.

[@idontsignin]

Shockingly it happens a lot in cafes. The manager, and yes every single manager I've ever had, never seems To hire enough people, and the staff that are already there are running around with what seems like rockets up their arses doing a hundred things at once. And the managers being the absolute bright sparks that they are never help out.

[@thetruth1223]

The last story is the equivalent of " just keep your mouth shut or face the flipping consequences you doink "..

[@mr.scarlo2234]

I hope that everyone is having a good Sunday!

[@arandomcrowe]

You too

[@Skeleblog]

I hope that you have a good sunday, too :)

[@emmadilemma4177]

thanks you too!

[@ajlyric804]

Thanks, you have a great day as well!

[@pyromaniact-80u64]

Thanks you have an amazing one to

[@xKCAZxLEADER]

First Story: Honestly it sounds like things in the military is difficult to deal with. You would think that these soldiers would know better regarding this Second Story: You would think that the person who actually knows what they're doing would know better. Obviously, the boss has no idea what he is doing and the fact that he was over-working a teenager. At least OP showed this boss how much he was over-working OP and decides to start helping. I’m glad he actually learned from his mistake and apologized. Lmao, I agree rSlash this does sound too good to be true Third Story: So this one leader hates OP for no reason and outright just disrespected OP? Well at least the president put that man in his place for OP. Wow, all that to get the conference room as an office lmao Fourth Story: I mean literally all OP did was just follow policies. Fifth Story: She wanted 70 fishes so the employee gave her exactly the amount she wanted. OP's sister probably shouldn’t have complained about the amount of fish she got

[@guzuv]

thanks for your input!

[@xKCAZxLEADER]

@@guzuvdidn’t give me a chance to edit lol

[@maieen2665]

Malicious Compliance! I ain’t seen’t you in a while! *Second OP:* I’m glad OP’s boss finally realized what OP and the baristas had to deal with, and made the necessary changes. I like when stories end on a positive note. 🙂 LOL at rSlash. I want to _believe_ !

[@rowanedmunds7574]

I worked in a really busy cafe as in que out the door all day every day, 50 odd tables with none empty for more than an hour, 2-3 tills, literal bus/ coach loads of people for the lunch rush. The 14 staff were worked way too hard but the boss was there every day from opening to well after closing (as was needed to finish clean up). If he were not there working harder than any of us the staff turnover would be way higher.

[@kylestanley4734]

In The last story You're correct in all but one thing. The employee was not wasting his time as he was getting paid hourly. As anyone who spends their time interacting with customers and stocking shelves can tell you 10 minutes of easy work in the middle of it can be a nice little break especially when you're still getting paid and being able to give a silent fu to a customer is a nice cherry on top.

[@JBonkerz96]

My husband is air crew in the Canadian military... that sleep rule is hella strict!!!

[@andrewlanglois6362]

9:06 Be nice, rSlash! Some people like to think that, and sometimes people do get those kind of stories once in awhile.

[@deeboyce1175]

Exactly. Like I'm sorry if humanity has made you bitter but there are still some good people out here. I'm a stay at home mom now but when I was a manager for a security company, even a retail store, I also did the same amount of work my staff did. I would never ask you to do something I wouldn't. That's my standard, even with my kids. If I ask them to clean, I'm cleaning right along with them

[@catkin567]

Uhhh did you not get that he was joking?

[@deeboyce1175]

@@catkin567 his tone wasn't joking. Duh 🙄

[@catkin567]

@@deeboyce1175 Sure if you don't don't get an overly sarcastic tone is supposed to be joking, then I am sure it doesn't sound like joking to you... duh

[@andrewlanglois6362]

@@catkin567 uh..... yeah! I get that he was joking, I was joking with him when I said that

[@GodIHateThisSite1234]

When you think about how expensive planes and their pilots are (considering how long it takes to train a pilot), it's no surprise they would be very careful to avoid unnecessary accidents.

[@dragonetafireball]

I know enough gamblers in the UK to know the no phones rule is basically necessary in most bookies because there’s always at least 1 person perpetually trying to hustle

[@improv6132]

Oh the office story was beautiful. The president made such an awesome power move giving OP the conference room. I LOVED that outcome. It was probably also a petty revenge for the boss who had to deal with some similar garbage when she was coming up.

[@ichmeiner4531]

My first boss actually was a good employer. He owned a restaurant (nothing fancy, but delicious), I was a waitress (I was around 15-16). Best situation to describe what kind of a boss he was: one fine day, lunch time, a man and his gf/wife came to eat and sat in my section. They ordered a bottle of wine, too. I brought the bottle to the table, opened it and *plop* . You know that sound when you pull the cork out. The customer refused the bottle, because "the spirit of the wine is gone now!" (I sh*t you not, this actually is what he said) and demanded a new one. I apologized, grabbed the bottle, the bartender put it to the open wines, got a new one and off to round two. I opened the bottle - *plop* . Customer got a bit irate, his companion was clearly embarrassed and I tried to think about something to tell the bartender to get yet another bottle put to the open wines. On my way back to the bar, I walked past the boss, he often sat on a table doing some paperwork or chatting with regulars, he of course noticed and I told him about the *plop* and the "the spirit of the wine" - rant. A bit nervous, tbh, he was a huge guy with a booming voice and strict when it came to his beloved business - he demanded good work and great service, but he payed good for it, too. So, off we went to the table, boss with bottle number three in hand. The customer immediately started to rant about how bad of a waitress I was, couldn't even serve a bottle of wine correctly, etc blabla, REEEEEEEEEEEEEE. My boss listened, asked me for my corkscrew and opened the bottle. *Plop* . The customer was about to lose his crap and without letting him get into it, my boss just told them to leave. NOW. And don't come back. When they were gone, he took me aside and told me that yes, the customer IS king. But only as long as they behave accordingly. They are rare, but they do exist.

[@colewest7096]

Honestly your story reminds of something that doesn't exactly match but the feeling is there. I was at a restaurant with my friend just after the lunch rush. My waitress was friendly but tired because she'd been working the big tables for the past 4 hours and still had to stick around for another 2 hours apparently. By the time my friend and I were done with our meal we were her last table. Until a woman got seated next to us. I saw our waitress come out from the kitchen, see she had a new table and just crumble in depressed defeat. She walked towards her new table with the customer facing away from her, pause and then put on the customer service smile. I felt so bad for her but I was impressed she was able to hide her lack of energy so well. I complimented her on it when she came to our table and she was embarrassed that I saw her switch faces like that. I told her it's fine and that I totally understand the feeling of having to deal with "The Public" but she was super sweet the whole time and clearly beat for the day so I'm hoping she got to chill after we left.

[@ichmeiner4531]

@@colewest7096 99% of the customers were at least 'neutral-nice', some were extra nice, like you (my God, I loved having customers like you. The nicer you were, the bigger I made the pile of those little chocolates you get with your coffee after dinner). More and more people seem to forget that people who work in customer service are still people. Who might have just had a horrible day. Or week. Or simply got out of bed on the wrong side. Your small gesture of 'hey, I see you're stressed out, you're doing a great job, don't worry' probably made her day. At least.

[@colewest7096]

@@ichmeiner4531 Well I'm glad I'm not the only one you've come across at least. And yeah, my first two jobs were retail so I understand the desire to smack your head against an actual wall instead if the metaphorical one of particularly annoying customers. I hope you're right though that I made her at least a bit more happy. Too much negativity in the world these days, it's nice to help people smile and laugh instead.

[@mostar1219]

What's the point of ignoring strict instructions to not disturb a soldier's sleep

[@lamapq6295]

I don't know how americans are supposed to read military time but hearing R/slash reading 17:00 (wich is 5 pm) as 1700 is really funny to me 🤣

[@Frostfern94]

Yeah, same. I was expecting him to say 5 O'clock, but no.

[@treehugger0241]

I think in the military they do read it as 1700, so rSlash wasn't really wrong reading it like that.

[@SkyEcho751]

But, that's how Americans have read it for decades. In fact you are supposed to read it like "05 00(Oh five hundred)" and "14 00(Fourteen Hundred)". Ya 1700 is 5 PM, but for MST you are supposed to read it like that.

[@lamapq6295]

@@SkyEcho751 Good to know. As someone who grow up with military time beeing read 17:00 = seventeen or five, hearing a number you ussualy hear in history books just gave me a bit of whiplash

[@turnpike9680]

you would be surprised at how many of us go by the 24-hour clock. Beyond the military, it is also super common in the transportation industry.

[@CaveJohnson376]

i like how that dishwasher story actually has good ending, like bossactually understood what was the problem and apologized for everything. i hope OP got paid extra for that super busy day

[@viatheanimator]

2nd story: ...i feel like the best solution would be to buy more dishes

[@Josh_the_jester]

This is actually a vary common accurence, people have been passing off graveyard shifters since the dawn of time, for the most boomer of reasons like "everyone else gets up by 7, no one should sleep til noon"

[@sebastianlo5610]

I truly love your videos, Rslash. I probably know each story by heart

[@annikafarber2039]

story 2: that's the way to keep employees!!

[@lucasmidulla4224]

Hi Rslash. Thanks for doing this sub again, hopefully you can do it more

[@fishlady7930]

Honestly it's the only malicious compliance I ever get in working a pet store is people arguing how many fish or crickets are inthe bag. Most of the time it will be more then what is asked, but will always get that 1 person who thinks they are being cheated and slowly learn they get less when doing this. Yes it messes with inventory for the store and it's technically the stores sales in loss but rarely are those ever seen as even close to breaking even for the shipment. Had a Karen go into a whole tantrum over 100 small crickets and how we under cut her. I literally spent several long minutes with a pair of tongs counting out the 100 smallest crickets we had. Then she was mad seeing like there was like 20 more she could have gotten, and doubled down saying she should still get those for us wasting her time. Thank God the manager told her she can either buy those 20 or leave with the 100 she paid for. Of course got a lecture about carefully counting next time but was worth it.

[@hentaigustav92]

I'm sorry, as a European I find it immensely funny that every time 17:00 was read in the story he said seventeen hundred hours and not just 5pm

[@catkin567]

I'm a European and it didn't strike me as odd :/ Yeah we will write 17:00 and say 5oclock but I still read it as 17 hundred!

[@dmarsh2k9]

Story 1: I have been in this situation too. Told the hotel I was working nights and not to clean my room, got in at 5am and 8am comes around, 2 loud knocks on the door and the cleaner let themselves in, pretty much shouting "hello, house keeping". I mumbled back loudly "I'm in bed, I work nights, get out"

[@weirdheriawan]

I Believe watching one of the "Air Crash Investigation" Episodes. that the reason for the crash is the Pilot and Copilot slow response. And the cause of slow response in Sleep Deprivation. And since then a good air company, let alone Military air force, have a strict sleeping hour requirement for Pilot before flying.

[@vapaman3353]

For the pilot one, it is also good to get on their good side. When I was overseas i was an IT guy in the Army. I would go out of my way to make sure the Pilots had internet, phone service and cable in their rooms (before smart phones, flip phones was the thing). Whenever i needed to go to another base, they would make sure i had a flight and i was comfortable on that flight.

[@jimmyrossmeissl6644]

I’m glad OPs boss learns from him and now trusts him

[@DragonstoneWolfe]

The story about the manager being humbled reminds me of when I used to work produce at Sam's Club. We had a front end team lead (one tier above associate, one tier below manager) who absolutely trashed on us for just about anything we did or needed. Our produce team lead at the time had went on maternity leave, and guess who wanted to step up to the plate and 'whip us into shape'? Her. I'll cut a long story short, we used to dislike her, but she got humbled by rotten fruit/vegetables, learned how much heavy lifting we had to do and how high we had to stack things in our cooler, and relaxed a ton. It was actually saddening when she had to go back to the front end because she really connected with us by the time she left.

[@conneich]

As a grocery retail worker I have heard the line, "Well I don't want any of this, refund everything." on several $100+ orders and just thought, "That's annoying, but sure thing, this should eat up another 30 minutes of my shift so thanks!"

[@markedwards3647]

Many moons ago, my first job was as a staff nurse in a small coastal hospital in the Pacific Northwest. I lived about 20 miles down US 101, winding through century-old massive spruces. Many of our ER patients made the mistakes of inattention or speeding. Many lost their vehicles, their family members, or their lives as a result. Hospital owner considered himself something of a maverick, and always wore cowboy hats and boots, stomping around to express his dominance. One of his territory-marking behaviors was to demand that all of his nurses wear whites and nursing caps, instead of the conventional scrubs, and attend weekly midday meetings. So we did. Including the men. About 20% of the nurses were ex-corpsmen, and male. Some of us wore white low-heel shoes. (Owner went bankrupt a few months later- I had moved to a less psychotic hospital 50 miles north.) Since this bankruptcy added about 50 miles to transport distance from the south, many, many patients died en-route after the south hospital closed. Arrogant hospital administrators kill many, many patients every year.

[@ThatHomelessScrubbalo]

Actually... I worked as a dish washer for a seafood restaurant. I was the ONLY one washing dishes. My boss thought i was just slacking off until he came in on a busy Sunday lunch. I was knee deep in dishes, and he had to step up to help. After that shift, he told me he understood how terrible my job was, stopped bugging me at work, and actually gave me a quarter raise. So, yeah i believe this story... Bosses have NO IDEA about dish pit...

[@Aedi_H._Dee]

I heard that office story before from a different KZbinr and started wondering if I experienced a glitch in the matrix when RSlash started reading the President as a man,, and then I read the story on the screen and she *is* a woman AFSFSFA Dabney, what happened? 😂

[@jessicaann-marie2365]

Was looking for a comment on this! I noticed in a different video that he disregarded the gender neutral pronouns as well. He reads them in advance so not sure why the changes were made...

[@Aedi_H._Dee]

@@jessicaann-marie2365 Could ya point me to this vid? I don’t think I caught this. I usually just let Reddit videos play in the background , and RSlash tends to have the more unique stories amongst the people I watch.

[@chasekruse7047]

"Im paid by the hour not the job" was always my go to line when one of the logistics people were apologizing for parts getting lost (it was managements fault not theirs) which caused me to have several hour long delays, usually about once or twice a week

[@jayive34]

In the last story: Props to OP's sister for taking the L gracefully.

[@Wendy_O._Koopa]

Back when I was a security guard, not one single family member of mine was able to grasp the concept of "Night Shifts." It seems pretty self explanatory, but those bitches/bastards would wake me up for everything. "Oh, you got a letter in the mail. It's not priority or anything, but if you don't know about this jury summons scheduled a week or three from now _at this exact second_ -when- _if_ you get selected, you could be late or something?" actually, that's too far even for paraphrasing, I never did get an explanation for why mail insisted that they wake me up. Then there was the time when my shift ended 2 hours before college started, so minus the 45 minutes of driving from work and to college, I could probably get _one_ good hour of sleep, _probably._ Then when I got home "Kammy" always wanted me to do something, like "It's your turn to put all the trash out, even though Iggy and Lemmy aren't working." and I'd have to _remind_ her that I only had one hour of sleep ahead of me... if I was lucky. Chore X could wait until after school, well after my _real_ sleep after school, and before the cycle starts again. BTW: Real story, real people, names replaced with Bowser's family members so I don't doxx myself.

[@davido.1233]

The third story reminds me of the time I worked in a restaurant as a work-placement for School. Part of my job at that restaurant was clearing tables of dishes and bringing them to the back for the dishwashers, scraping food off, and organizing stuff correctly so that the dishwashers can clean them properly. I also had to dump all remaining drinks in a sink, clean the tables after the guests have left, and bring people to their tables as a host/busser combo. Long story short, when hearing that story, I got flashbacks to the busiest time that I worked there, which was Mother's day, and I actually did snap at the servers when they all asked me to do something for them, as soon as I came out of the back room, without even knowing the others had asked me to do something already, I told them that I was asked to do stuff already and I needed to do one at a time, but couldn't be saddled with three or four things at once. That was one of only two times I yelled at my coworkers and I instantly regretted doing so, and I apologized and did their tasks. They were considerate about it though.

[@mleshoestar777]

I'm choosing to believe the coffee shop dish washer story 😊

[@Blondybeastfit]

Hey R/Slash, you know 17:00 is 5pm right? Hahahah I was like what the … is seventeen hundred hours???? We either say 17 hours or 5pm in french haha! 17 is when you dont start over at noon (12), so you keep couting like 13h is 1pm, the list goes on.

[@takeovermars]

I used to be a crew member on helicopters. If you didn't have 12 hours of uninterrupted rest you aren't allowed to fly and the whole crew is needed. It's a lot stricter than that as well. Some energy drinks were forbidden go be consumed within 24 hours of flying and even more rules like that.

[@dianagraham5945]

My old job had the dishwasher wash the dishes before putting them in the washer. I've dishwasher before, fill tray and run through, takes a few minutes while you fill other trays. Stop hand washing. The tray should come straight out and then be placed near servers. Place must be set up very badly!

[@joaco545]

Yay! I catched this right after release! Keep up your good work rSlash (Also please bring back tales from tech support)

[@lillimay98]

I legit gasped in horror when the owner poured coffee on the clean cutlery. As someone who has worked in hospitality for 5 years and has washed dishes in cafes, chain resturants and bistros I know cutlery is both the most important thing you'll clean and the bain of every person who has had to do so. If my boss poured coffee on my freshly cleaned cutlery on the kind of busy day that OP described then at best my boss would need to reclean that cutlery themself because I would need at least 20 minutes to recompose myself so I don't go off on someone. At worst I do go off on them and storm out, massive props to OP for keeping their cool

[@michaelrobertson4896]

I’m not in the military but I can totally understand why they would want their pilots to be we rested. Think about it, if the pilot is sleep deprived and falls asleep in mid flight and crashes then that’s a very expensive mess that’ll be created. Not only do they loose a pilot/ soldiers that might have been transported on said aircraft but also they’ll loose a very expensive piece of equipment. Like I said I’m not in the military but I imagine that them planes and helicopters cost quite a bit of money. Not to mention the fuel, and possible equipment that might be onboard, and add in the cost in human lives and your looking at a very costly mistake. So it makes total sense that it’s a massively bad idea to disturb the pilots.

[@johnme7049]

In the late 70s I was stationed in Diego Garcia, just off the equator in the Indian Ocean, IT'S HOT! we worked the night shift and had small 4 bunk modular units with AIR CONDITIONING because we slept during the day. Normal bunking was a open, screened in pavilion like you might have seen in a Viet Nam era war movie. Sometimes someone would get assigned to one of the AC units for a time even though they weren't working night shift. They would be told but would often insist on coming into the unit on their lunch break to cool off and chill with friends waking us up, not caring that we were sleeping. "This is MY room too and I'm on my lunch" After this happened a couple of times and them just being a jerk I decided to just lit THEM enjoy the same treatment. When ever someone would get one of these JERKS move in, WE would arrange a poker game over OUR lunch, (between midnight to 2 AM. We'd come in, turn on ALL the lights, get loud and have fun! Hey, this is OUR ROOM TOO! We can come in during our lunch if we want! Next time will be a 'BLANKET' party instead of poker. (That's where you wrap a blanket around someone sleeping and EVERYONE beats the crap out of them) There was NEVER a second occurrence.

[@BlackFox999]

Good morning, remember to drink water and do something nice for yourself!

[@MadameMeowth]

Story 2: Did they slow clap as you walked through the store like a Hero?

[@jallen8425]

Good stuff, malicious compliance is my favorite for sure

[@vaponilluxeon]

The dishwasher story was very nice. If it's really true, then that's little hope for humanity restored. I hope it's true xD

[@robertgreen6433]

Story 1 : Lack of rest for flight crews is very necessary . Lack of rest has caused many a commercial airline disaster

[@jimmykrochmalska3501]

17:00 is apparently 1,700 hours now

[@thehowlinggamer5784]

That last story... I would have made a bigger show of it and go, '1 fish. Ah ah ah! 2 fish! Ah ah ah!' Like the count on sesame street.

[@isoto8864]

So I use to work in the airline industry and crew rest time was taken very seriously. If their rest was interrupted then their rest timer was reset back to zero. If you are ever flying and have a flight canceled or delayed for seemingly no reason, it is probably because the flight crew had their rest disturbed and they are now unable to fly out until much later. Long and short of it, just leave the flight crews to do their own thing.

[@dragonetafireball]

I think I’ve heard that fish story from the cashier’s perspective

[@QuiteSpiffing]

Proper sleep for pilots before a flight is paramount. There have been major flight accidents with fatalities because pilots didn't get enough sleep.

[@andreapurple417]

I work in a pet store and yes, I too, will gladly count out your fish and make sure you get the exact amount you asked for. (We always give extra) I have done this before to a person asking for crickets. They insisted there wasn't enough. So yeah I put like 5 crickets back. Thank you Karen, you were right, there wasn't 40 crickets like you asked for, there was 45.

[@mostlyfunctional]

Sixteen hundrends hour is my new favorite hour. I think you can just say at sixteen.

[@adamb89]

15:07 She didn't waste the employee's time. He got PAID to do that. She only wasted her own time.

[@BeeWhistler]

On that "should have given me an office" story... I thought she might have been talking about IT. Sounds like she was. My husband happened to fall in on the beginnings of it, back when offices started having a computer department, and more older employees either just didn't get the whole concept or didn't appreciate working for or with a 25-year-old who looked 18. He looked kinda similar to Dave on News Radio, back at the start of the show, only younger and with glasses. This technology could make their lives easier and better, and younger people (at the time) knew how to use it, and the older folks ended up being the crybabies about it. I get it, spreadsheets and the like were no fun then and probably aren't much better now, but there was no fighting it, as we've all learned.

[@wendyjones3586]

Actually Health laws do require dishes that are used by that public must go through the dish washer to sterilize them... Anyone who has a health and safety certificate knows this. They can get smacked with a health violation if caught not doing this ..

[@jendubay3782]

Bzzz depends on the state. Sometimes you just need a three compartment sink, one soapy, one clear, one sanitizer.

[@wendyjones3586]

@@jendubay3782 cool

[@NEPAAlchey]

Similar but let life threatening. In hotels, if you tell the housekeeping that a room is checking out late they often knock anyways to be pushy and get their rooms clean faster. They don't care who they inconvenience.

[@SpaceAuddity93]

Was at a Petsmart once and the cashier who was ringing me up welcomed someone else coming through the door. Another employee didn't hear her, so they told her to welcome everyone who came in. She looked at me, and then a big group of people walked in, and she said, "Welcome in welcome in welcome in welcome in welcome in welcome in" to each person in the group and looked pointedly at the other employee. It kinda made my day.

[@FlanylShirtman]

The betting house story. I think there is something missing here. It really doesn't feel like malicious compliance, more like someone just being petty. A rule against mobile phones can be forgiven when in this kind of situation, since the rule is likely against personal use. Seriously, it's a use your common sense kind of thing. Someone needs to be told, and you have no other way to do it. If this has happened before, and someone did make that call, and was punished for it, then this would be malicious compliance. But all we got in this reading was there's a rule against it, so I'm not going to do it. That's just lazy and stupid because the company is going to lose money. If your boss is going to pissy over someone telling him of a problem this way, then the fallout is on him. If this was because you were only following a ridiculous rule because you didn't want to work on what you knew would be a busy day, then it's on you.

[@Ragehunger]

I feel like more often than not, workplace bullying boils down to co-workers or superiors being jealous of someone's expertise and the good reputation it gives them, while they themselves are miserable and living only by the principle that you have to push others down in order to succeed in life. There's really no other good explanation why they would behave like that towards someone who haven't even provoked them, let alone interacted with them at all.

[@cammando2363]

I LOVE how upper management expects a hourly person to work faster. I’m paid by the hour. Not productivity.

[@gribly]

Toilet scrubbing duty? Dabney, you haven’t even begun to comprehend how the military works. First off, the proper way to clean a floor when you’re NOT being punished is to sweep and mop, then move all furniture to one side of the room and buff and polish. Then move all the furniture to the other side of the room, and buff and polish. Then move it all where it goes, and buff and polish. The proper way to shovel snow is to go outside when it starts snowing, and start shoveling all walkways and entrances until it stops snowing. There’s no point in waiting a bit for it to build up, you must act like the snow is corrosive to concrete. So when you are actually in trouble and getting punished, the creative ways to punish someone have pretty much nothing to do with cleaning toilets. That was a welcome job. You ever went somewhere and wondered who would have possibly spent the time to hand paint every single tiny piece of crushed rock in a walkway white? You ever seen piles of leaves in a park, sorted by color with all the leaves facing the same direction?

[@scruffylookingNerfherder5742]

Worker: 20 little fishies, 21 little fishies, 22 little fishies.... Customer: you're taking too long! worker: I'm sorry, you just made me lose count! 1 little fishie, 2 little fishies, 3 little fishies.... Customer: should have got a f$%king cat instead....

[@rebekahbell4298]

Fish story: I learned to never second guess pet store employees counting food. I got crickets the other day and got at least 50% more for free from non exact counting

[@VARIABLENEWSNETWORK]

COB Speicher was my favorite FOB! I saw Candlebox preform there.

[@alexmuse3565]

Good morning everyone, hope you're having a wonderful day :)

[@WillRennar]

Rslash: "I take that to mean that, if you mess with a sleeping pilot, you're on toilet-scrubbing duty?" *_If you're lucky._*

[@DulceReposa]

Rslash’s reaction to the dishwashing story is exactly why I lost faith in humanity. Sure, there’s people out there who are so far up their own butt that they don’t see anything wrong. But when people actually make an effort to change, it’s all of a sudden and a lie and goes unnoticed because humanity only sees the bad in people. Because there’s too much like that in this world and that’s what makes it’s so rare. Someone doing something bad is far more noticeable than someone doing something good. It’s just how the world works now a days and it’s just sad… And if it somehow IS fake. Then this comment is absolutely pointless

[@AriesRaenidaez]

I think RSlash was making a joke, man. It doesn't go that deep.

[@DulceReposa]

@@AriesRaenidaez well Rslash has a reputation of having some backwards opinions and that’s why I don’t watch a lot of his r/AITA. So it didn’t seem like he was joking.

[@ReptillianStrike]

I've never worked in restaurant, and I also know the bane of cutlery. I've lived without a dishwasher for my entire life, and I fucking LOATHE washing dishes. The fucking scrubby gets stuck on the end of the fork/knife, so you can only scrub in one direction, then readjust the scrubby after it slides off the end. Not to mention the amount of cutlery that has to be washed compared to regular plates/bowls. And the fact they they're so tiny. You would think it would make it easier to wash, but it really doesn't.

[@morgandouglas6014]

17:00 is 5pm military time, not 1,700 hours.

[@strudel_reviews]

W for the president for having Op's back

[@splitinsanity1139]

Just in case you didn't know seventeen hundred hours is army speak for for 5pm, so 0600 hours is 6am and fourteen hundred hours is 2pm and so on.

[@josephhurst4902]

8:50, FINALLY a boss able to pull his head from his a**.

[@draculaura1600th]

The company makes a dollar, I make a dime. So I'll count 70 fish, On company time.

[@Silverserri]

"They avoided us like the plague" Me, looking around at all of this: "Um, I can no longer call this statement accurately representing people who AVOID contact."

[@silentthief18]

You do NOT mess with aircrew's Crew Rest. That's a good way to end up court martialed, fired, and cost millions of dollars of failed missions.

[@tartsonawire]

The dishwasher story triggers memories from my stint at Pizza Hut. As a delivery driver, dishes were part of my job, and there were lots of nights when I got stuck there 2-4 hours after my scheduled time, washing dishes, because no one else would do it, or they'd have to some lame excuse to leave. One night, I was the only driver, and I was there until 3am, while the manager literally stood there and watched me. Dishes were stacked EVERYWHERE. At least half a dozen 30 gallon trash cans over flowing.

[@cherokeeirishman9612]

Dude…. Royal Norwegian AirForce That’s a tongue twister. It’s so funny that ppl are down on the USAF for not having the same basic training as the combat ready branches. Ppl call it summer camp, yet when they actually have “mission critical” responsibilities/jobs they get the respect they deserve. I was Pararescue (PJ) and when I tell (especially) Marines what I did in the military they say things like “didn’t want a real MOS” “what couldn’t hack it in the REAL military?” Blah blah blah. They tend to shut up when I tell them we rescued 87 Marines who were lost/wounded/out numbered/in trouble they get over it…but just like a close family we can rip on each other but others can’t. We will jump up and defend each other against others who never served but God help those who try us