r/Maliciouscompliance Try to Scam Me? I'll Scam You Harder!

"Your roof is completely shoot to hell, so we won't pay out for the fire damage inside" REMEMBER, Insurance companies are NOT about paying you money when you have an accident, they are about keeping the money as long as possible. Some people will do everything possible to reduce the money you need to pay.

9:06 I learned VERY MUCH the hard way that going above and beyond in your job role doesn’t make the company appreciate you more, it just makes them expect more from you. And when the heaps of pressure ultimately takes a toll, you’ll get absolutely no sympathy. Old job, I really wanted a promotion so I busted my ass every single day, and it just led to the managers being harder on me. It ended with me having a crying meltdown in the supply closet and then when I FINALLY interviewed for the promotion I wanted, one of the assistant managers discouraged my boss from giving it to me claiming I “didn’t work well under pressure”. Mind you, this is a nationwide franchise and the location I worked at was the largest and busiest in the USA. Meanwhile most of my co-workers greeted their job with the enthusiasm of a celery stick and stood around in clumps gossiping, including the assistant manager who screwed me over. I ended up leaving the company when my friend took over the business she worked for, I’m manager there now. I do miss my old job sometimes, but they lost a lot of my respect during that ordeal.

Free hand at the side? I'm not in the military, but take a drug test every month and I don't have a "free hand." One holds the cup, the other AIMS THE STREAM. My malicious compliance would have looked much different...

How the hell would the last OP know it was an emergency if they don’t even have access to their phone? What, did the manager expect OP to be psychic and predict that they’d receive emergency phone calls?

One thing you learn working in retail: managers don’t know what goes on in the departments and don’t understand that a 15min task can EASILY take 2hrs when you’re trained on the tills.

Welcome to *Company Name*, we have a few ground rules to get out of the way. 1:Don't mess with the IT guy. 2:We lift each other up. 3:Don't mess with the IT guy. 4:If you're off the clock, you have the right to ignore work related messages. 5: Don't mess with the IT guy. "Excuse me, why is every other rule not to mess with the IT guy?" 6: Don't ask why you don't mess with the IT guy.

As a veteran who had to conduct the urinalysis, I just made sure nothing funny was happening and let the guy do his business.

Story 4: So…what was the plan there? OP was an overachiever with the exception for one day, and yet apparently that was enough to send him into a poorly-planned out seminar. Probably so out-of-touch they thought this would encourage OP to get back to the 50s range of responses

Short answer: no company phone, no answer. A long time ago, I worked as a janitor for a major trauma hospital in our local area. This was before cell phones. Some of us carried pagers. When I went into parish ministry years later (and three university degrees later), I had an expense account. So, my personal cell phone was written off on my taxes as a business expense.

13:34 charge your boss for the time off the clock talking to him about his work related issue. If he balks, say that he has to take it up with the manager about it.