Just following orders, boss

Camping out with family in a caravan is a great way to bond and spend a little time in nature together, but you're bound to cross paths with an annoying neighbor at one point or another. In this case, OP was touring Europe with his family in a caravan, and they stopped at a camping site so that they could relax after hours of driving. OP and his wife began setting up camp and sent their kids off to find a playground. That's when their temporary neighbor began barking at them, demanding that the…

It's wild how much the introduction of remote work into most office jobs changed the world. These days, you'd be hard-pressed to find a company in NYC that doesn't implement some work-from-home element, with most jobs having a hybrid model. The 3-day in-person workweek is ubiquitous. I was still in college in 2020 and 2021 when remote work was at its highest, but I could see its positive impact through my online classes. Without going around campus all day, I could get so much more work done wh…

It's difficult to imagine something more insidious, unreasonable, and unhelpful than American health insurance services. If you're an American, I don't need to remind you. For those of you who live anywhere else, it is so much worse than what you're assuming. In my experience, my first response to any illness or injury is to ignore it. That's an incredibly dystopian sentiment, but it's the unfortunate reality of this country. With all that said, don't expect any dealings with an insurance compa…

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Hero behavior

Sometimes the only way to make a job less miserable is to turn it into a game for yourself, or to have a little bit of harmless fun with customers. That's exactly what one redditor did at their McDonald's job, and the customers loved them for it. Sounds like a win-win for both employee and patron, right? Well, that's not how management saw it. Instead of praising their employee for being such a big hit with customers, the boss demanded that the employee follow the official corporate script to a…

Who needs tastebuds anymore?

What did he expect?

Oh sure, he's a 'liason'

In the service industry, it's incredibly important to be polite and courteous to your “guests,” but occasionally, a chance presents itself that can't be ignored.

There's always that one retired Karen who has all the time in the world to go to the local Michaels every other day with a new stack of coupons. Every cashier knows their Karen very well and holds their breath whenever Karen is about to choose which checkout line to terrorize. u/Neat_Warthog2633 recently shared a short and sweet story about a local Karen who came in hot, making demands about stacking coupons and senior discounts. She even asked the manager over (shocking!), who maliciously comp…

She played herself

Malicious compliance at its best

Talk smack, get whacked

Following orders