r/Maliciouscompliance I Got Revenge Against a Cruel Bully

as a dutchman, what were you trying to do with that pronounciation of that dutch sentence in story 1? summon a demon?

Hearing a non-Dutch speaker try to speak Dutch is always a treat

Story 1: Dabney does his best to speak Dutch

Work story: NO that is not the lesson. You’ll get busy work regardless of if you’re actually “done” or not. Your higher ups will just see your job as less important than the busy work they need done (that they could do themself instead of wandering around checking on employees). The lesson is ALWAYS LOOK BUSY. Always have extra papers on your desk you can move around/pretend to read. Pretend you’re doing something that takes brain power on your computer even if you’re just playing minesweeper. They’ll think “wow what a diligent worker” or “they already look buried with work”.

I loved the story with the little girls so much. Can confirm that in martial arts and self defense rule #1 is avoid or leave a situation and only defend yourself as a last resort. I'm a black belt in Tae Kwon Do and when we graduate we're warned that our training is classified as a weapon and using it on an unarmed opponent, even if rhey attack us, is considered aggravated assault in many countries.

For story 1: does anyone notice that the story doesn't appear instantly? For a moment, I thought rslash was taking about his wife and was super confused as the details didn't match. It appears 0:26

I've been a Christian pastor for over 30 years now. 20 of those years were in parish ministry. The desk in my study was always clear. My computer screen was always turned away from the door or a window, not because I was doing anything wrong, but often was working on things that needed to be kept in confidence. An example: would you want my administrative assistant (who is the church gossip) walking in and seeing a folder with your and your spouse's names on it while you are having marital problems leading toward divorce? Yeah...I don't think so.

2nd story: At a previous job I had, I got in a long period where I had very little to do. I could get all my daily work done in like one hour, tops. And I spent the remaining 7 hours doing nothing. I told my bosses, and they told me to "find something to do". But there was nothing to do. I worked through a recruiting agency, so I don't understand why they didn't cancel my contract. My colleague could easily do both of our jobs by himself. So I just sat by my desk doing nothing. Then my boss told me that other workers were complaining that I wasn't working. I told him, once again, I have nothing to do. And I was once again told to "find something to do". So I just mastered the art of looking busy. I sat by my computer 7 hours a day, just fiddling with a pen in one hand and reading various things or moving files around. Often with an earbud in one ear so I could listen to an audiobook. Then i started writing on my own book during work hours. Nobody said anything because I looked busy. My bosses just went "See, we told you that you could find some work." I don't even want to know how much money they paid the recruiting agency for me to just wear out one of their chairs and spending my days writing on a book on a company laptop.

A lot of people saying story 1 is a little dubious, and it could be true, but when I visited the Netherlands myself this summer (was visiting family in India and the connecting flight back would’ve changed in the Netherlands so I decided to stay for a week and be a tourist) it seemed that most people very much were just that kind and ready to jump in to support a stranger. I do not speak a lick of Dutch but as I went around the country to major cities and small towns, without me needing to ask a stranger would frequently jump in to read train station signs, explain menus, translate blurbs at museums, try and teach me the names of animals at the zoo, and so on. It was like I was perpetually in a close knit small town even when I was in the busier cities, It was amazing. People just have joy being nice or something, very different from the US.

Bullies love playing victim when they get backed down. Thankfully there were plenty of witnesses to explain what really happened. It’s a foreign concept to me that a mother would try to protect her bully child. If my mother saw one of us girls bullying another child she would have set us straight in front of the other kid, make us apologize to the victim, apologized to the other parent n possibly whooped us depending on the severity of what took place.