Absolutely disgraceful.

Sometimes you have to show a boss how stupid their request is by doing exactly what they say. In redditor u/SignSavings9270 's case, the request was so stupid, they actually got written up and literally charged with “malicious compliance” in a disciplinary hearing for doing as they were told. Let this be a lesson to everyone out there with an incompetent boss —if they tell you to do something ridiculous and counterproductive, make sure you get the request in writing.

Completely unfair

Incompetent managers are still at large

Taking down CEOs, one observation at a time

Maybe he should pay him more? Just a thought

Making money moves

Monday blues

Here we go again

Property managers , like the bureaucratic tendrils of any given organization, seemingly exist to slow down processes to the point of absurdity. When one redditor received a bill from their apartment manager for a whopping two cents, they did what any normal person would do and went to the manager's office to settle their minuscule debt in person. The manager, on the other hand, chose procedure over rationality and requested a check by mail from the former tenant. A check for two cents. Thus beg…

I do not envy anyone who has to fire others. Letting somebody down easy is a skill I simply don't have. Every time I've broken up with someone, I have done it clunkily and a bit insensitively, which is really not ideal for delivering bad news . You need to tell the other person what's happening directly, but not too directly. You need to be empathetic first and informative second. You need to make sure they cry after you fire them instead of when they're in the room with you. It's a tricky bala…

Monday blues

I don't know who needs to hear this, but your boss is not your friend. When your boss inquires about your health or wellbeing, it isn't because they care about you as a person. They only care about you as an asset of the company—a tool whose labor generates value for the ones at the top. Case in point, when u/SadLilBb13 texted their boss to let them know that they'd been stranded in blizzard after getting into a car accident, their boss initially asked if they were okay. If it had ended there,…

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These spreadsheets got me spread thin

The grind never stops