u/Wakemeup3000

Back in the good old days of dot matrix printing I use to have to run reports every morning for my boss. I had a list that I used to extract exactly what was needed and I'd request 40 one sheet reports which I highlighted and set on her desk. It took about 30 minutes each morning.

One of my coworkers, Morilynn was always trying to insert herself into everything so she decided that she needed to run those reports instead of me. My boss asked me to train her on how to do it so I set up a time to do so.

I didn't have anything written down so Morilynn had to take notes. I explained several times that it was easier to run the 40 one sheet reports instead of printing everything and then having to pick out only the 40 sheets needed. I asked if she wanted me to look over her notes but of course she declined that offer. I gave her a copy of the list I used daily and told her to put that with her notes.

I told the boss that the training was finished and she decided Morilynn would run reports from that point forward. I asked if I should sit with Morilynn the first day and was told no because Morilynn had already popped into her office letting her know this was a piece of cake and gave boss a copy of the notes she had taken to show how easy it was. I decided to come in a half hour later than usual since I didn't have to run reports.

I hadn't even gotten to my desk yet when Morilynn flagged me down. Apparently instead of requesting 40 one sheet reports she decided to run all and pick out the 40 she'd need. Run all generated a 3000 sheets of paper. Yup 3000 sheets of paper on a dot matrix printer. Everything anyone else in the department needed to print was in que behind that 3000 page report which took forever to print.

Morilynn tried to throw me under the bus about her poor training but since she had given the boss a copy of her notes that clearly stated how to run 40 one sheet reports along with the master list showing the specific inputs for each report boss wasn't having any of that. I didn't have to say a single word about anything because it was clear that Morilynn went rogue on reports.

Everyone in the department complained about having to wait for their print jobs to come up in que, Morilynn was hiding at her desk, and I was given the report job back. After that anytime Morilynn asked to learn something new she was given the opportunity but was overly supervised. It was glorious to watch.

As we've established Maureen was always one to think she was very important in the office. I never worked with her or had contact with her but management moved my work bff down to her team. The workload for that team involved a lot of retired people so phone calls were a little longer but overall pleasant people on the phone calling between Let's make a deal and The Price is right.

Friend notices that a lot of the files are marked to transfer the call to Maureen. There's are times where situations are difficult and you tell someone that you've built a relationship with to just call and ask for you next time. But these are dozens and dozens of files.

Friend get a call and says Maureen is really busy. Is there something I can help you with? Turns out its claim status. Anyone can take this call. In fact every single file marked that Maureen needs to take the calls are all routine things like claim status, did you get this bill yet, and how much do I owe on this bill. Nothing that requires Maureen.

So for the next 2 months friend takes transfer to Maureen off all the files she run across and suddenly Maureen is having to take just as many calls as everyone else because she's not getting all the easy transfers she is use to getting. She's upset and brings it up in a meeting about the quantity of calls she's taking (which is no more than anyone else on that team).

Friend pipes up with 'You know I was going to ask about something with incoming calls. I noticed a lot of files marked to transfer to Maureen but they are all routine calls so I just took off the comments.' Maureen is now upset that this happened without her input and this new team member is overstepping because 'There's a reason it was put there'.

Friend doesn't play that way so she suggests that everyone document why all calls should be transferred to a specific person and the team can decide at the end of the week if someone needs to offer that higher level or care or anyone can take the call. The team is onboard because transferring a call is time consuming since you have to wait until the other person gets on the line to complete the transfer.

The rest of the team joins in the removal of transfer to Maureen from the files and suddenly Maureen is just a regular team member taking the same amount of calls as everyone else. As a group they decide on a few people who do require a higher level of care but none of those are Maureen's calls. And actually most belong to my work bff because she knows her sh#t.

On the plus side Maureen did get a better yearly review because of her improved call quantity so it was a win/win all around.

editing to add: the process was changed from anyone adding transfers on any file they decided on to having it be a group decision. The Malicious compliance part was having everyone collect data and leaving it to the entire team to decide.

Years ago when I worked in an office setting I had a friend I would have lunch and breaks with. She was on the 2nd floor, I was on the 3rd so I'd go down the stairs, pop out a couple steps from her desk, and we'd walk together to the break/lunch room which was on the 2nd floor.

One day Maureen decided that the reason I was on the 2nd floor was to give her dirty looks under the guise of picking up my friend for breaks and lunch. After all I could just go directly to the break/lunch room and wait there for my friend. For the record I'd never worked with Maureen, didn't know a thing about Maureen, and didn't care a single bit about Maureen.

Maureen escalates this to the management who decided that only team members on that team should be in team areas. Memo emailed and its brought up on the team huddles. Huge deal about something that should have been nothing.

Cool. Game on. Me and the partners in crime decided we are going to press this issue to the point of disruption. The stairs all exit into team areas so any time someone pops out the door a comment is made 'Hey you can't be here. You aren't a member of this team.' Someone walking by who stops to talk with a friend? 'Sorry but you aren't a team member. You can't be here.'

We are relentless. It doesn't matter who it is. Everyone gets called out for non compliance. People are stopping before entering team areas and calling out to their smoking, lunch, break buddies to come and join them. Its a bit of a problem since customer service calls are being taken by the teams. Everyone is waiting for elevators in the common hallway to go anywhere in the building.

This all lasted exactly 3 days until the managers decided it was dumb and wasting everyone's time. I didn't expect them to back down as quickly as they did but yes total waste of everyone's time. Memo retracted and anyone could now walk anywhere.

But being extremely petty people my friend and I rerouted our walk to and from the break/lunch room to walk directly by Maureen's desk from that point forward. Always stopped talking right as we got to her desk and faced forward only to resume talking once we passed.

I take a walk at a local park almost every day. Yesterday I was there a little early and as I was leaving my car I noticed a car pull into the lot and a man with 2 little dogs hop out. He has a couple of bright green poop bags in his hand. Cool he picks up after this dogs.

Well yes he does but since I walk in the park all the time I know that someone with bright green poop bags picks up after their dog and throws the bags into the grass at the end of the walking loop. Trash can is about 12 ft away but nope throws it into the grass instead. I pick them up to dispose of when I have time.

So now I have a petty side quest on my walk. I reached into my car, pulled out a grocery bag, walked the straight to the end of the loop, put all the filled bright green bags into the grocery bag, walked to his car and put all the bags on the hood of his car. Then I threw out the grocery bag and took my walk hitting the end of the loop right after his dogs had pooped and he was looking around to see if anyone was there to watch him throw the bags into the grass.

I stopped and fiddled with my phone for a while. He must have thought I wasn't paying attention because he tossed them into the grass. As he was walking away I said 'So gross. Let me get that for you and throw it into the trash can that's 12 ft away. So gross and lazy.'

He scurried away pretty quickly. By the time I got back to the parking lot his car was gone and all the filled bags that had been on his hood were in the trash can where I had thrown my grocery bag. Revenge? Maybe. Petty? Oh yes it was.

I posted this a while back but it was removed because the fall out from the malicious compliance hasn't happened yet. It did today so I'll share again.

I love my supervisor but her assistant can be a little much. The work I do is date and time stamped on issues so all comments has my name the date and the time. Great system for tracking things.

I had made a phone call for information and updated the comments with what I was told. The assistant was going to send out a letter concerning the issue and didn't see the documentation on a call I made. When I pointed out exactly where it was documented she decided to double down and make an issue out of it not being in the correct format since it was so easy for her to overlook.

Ok. I'll make sure that doesn't happen again. So now I type out the entire notes needed on a word doc and just cut and paste it line by line and word for word of what was said. And since I want to be clear each sentence is an entry. Then I type continued cut/paste the next line.

Now instead of something easily seen on 1 screen she needs to scroll up and down to get all the information she needs. Its been time consuming for her and she's not happy about any of this.

Editing to add the compliance fall out: I had my quarterly touch base with my supervisor yesterday where we went over a couple issues. One of the issues was that her assistant felt I needed to be a little less wordy in my documentation.

I expressed my confusion over this and pulled up the back and forth email where assistant wasn't able to locate something that was clearly documented. It included the screen shots of where my notes were located and the time and date added so there was no doubt that the notes were there and overlooked.

I said that since assistant didn't offer any suggestions I took it upon myself to problem solve and provide documentation as clearly as possible. My supervisor checked off the issue as closed while saying that the assistant was getting exactly what she asked for. One sentence per entry couldn't be any easier to follow.

One of my fellow team members is pretty good friends with the assistant so I'm sure I'll get the scoop on how she faired in her quarterly touch base.

Its summer camp and several times a week they pile the kids onto a bus to go swimming at a local pool. To be able to swim in the main pool the kids have to take a swimming test. If they pass they get to use the main pool plus the splash pad and the shallow pool area. If they don't then they are restricted to the splash pad and shallow pool only.

The kids all take the test and a couple of them don't pass so they are restricted. Everyone else is bouncing between all 3 of the areas so for the most part everyone is playing together on and off the entire time.

But of course entitled mom who's kid didn't pass the test starts letting all the parents at drop off know that they should tell their children not to go in the main pool since her precious didn't pass the test. Its making their child feel sad that they can't be with their friends in the main pool. Chef's kiss to the parent who replied, 'Or you could teach him how to swim because you had the same complaint last year.'

Beautiful morning so I was sitting on my back deck reading the paper and sipping coffee when I noticed a dog in my yard. I live by a park and there have been many times in the past where dogs end up in the yard because they are off leash, wander a bit, and then leave to go find with people.

So I didn't really pay much attention to this although I did note that the dog was way off to the side of the yard. Went back to my paper and figured the dog would leave when his/her people arrived. 5 minutes later I hear whistling coming from my neighbor's yard along with someone shouting Max come. This went on for a few minutes. Note my neighbor has 2 dogs but this wasn't one of them.

At some point there's a man in my backyard who yells up 'Where did my dog go?' I answered that I didn't know. He had been in the side of the yard but I didn't pay attention to where he went. 'So you just didn't care a dog wandering around your yard? You didn't think he might be lost?'

This is where I might have been the asshole. I said, 'So I'm suppose to care about a wandering dog but you, the owner of the dog, are ok with him taking off without a leash and being gone for 5 minutes before even calling him back? No I don't care.' I went back to reading my paper.

Owner asked if I was going to help look. I didn't respond. I felt bad for the dog but if you are visiting a friend you need to leash your dog since he doesn't know where he is or how to get back to your friend's house.

I had a set of outdoor tables that were very sturdy but sun bleached. I decided to replace them this year and instead of hauling the old ones off to the dump I put them for free on FB marketplace.

I took lots of pictures showing the exact condition of each table and detailed descriptions about their condition so its not like I was trying to pass them off as new. They were all still very sturdy. And the price of each was free.

I got the usual scammer replies offering me a lot of money using a cash app and having a 3rd party pick them up. Those never bother me because they are expected. The ones that bothered me were:

Can you get some spray paint the revive them before I pick them up? They look terrible and I won't have the time to spray paint them myself.

I need these for a program I run. I'll give you my address and you can deliver them.

These are very sun bleached. Do you have some that aren't?

You need to hold there for me while I make arrangements to have someone pick them up. I'll get back to you in a week or so unless you want to deliver them to me.

I'd love to take these. Give me $20 toward my time and gas and I'll pick them up.

A lady came and got them to use in her farmstand so they went to a good home instead of the dump.

Did I mention they were free?

I'm in community pages for 2 different towns on FB. The constant complaint on both are people speeding. They will go as far as posting the make and color of a vehicle along with the time and streets to shame someone for speeding. I get you are upset but nobody is going to see that post and change their behavior.

One of the towns decided to get speed cameras which they installed on 3 streets. There's been signage up for months way ahead of the cameras so you have ample time to slow down if you are going too fast. The first month they turned them on they issued warnings. After 30 days they start sending tickets.

And here's where the fun starts. The same people who posted about others speeding are now posting about their tickets when 'I wasn't really going fast' trying to get sympathy. All of the roads in question are 45 mph and you aren't ticketed until you get clocked at 56 mph so there's already a buffer built into this.

The best whine? I'VE LIVED IN THIS TOWN FOR 30 YEARS PAYING TAXES. I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO PAY THIS TICKET. I WAS RUSHING TO THE POST OFFICE BEFORE IT CLOSED SO THAT'S WHY I WAS GOING 60. ITS A MONEY GRAB. Yes in all caps as they told their neighbors and friends that they were breaking the law and endangering others because of their poor time management.

Now I'm addicted to these posts and since there is at least one daily I'm able to get my speed camera ticket complaint fix.

Its the 4th of July weekend in the USA which means there will be a lot of fireworks being set off. It happens every single year so not like nobody knows this will happen.

Neighbor posts on a FB forum asking that she be notified in advance if anyone plans to set off fireworks in the neighborhood because she has a nervous dog and will need to medicate him. Someone mentions that they also have a nervous dog and just plan on give the medication all weekend because its unreasonable to ask people to call ahead of time. After all its the 4th of July.

Entitled neighbor goes nuts over this suggestion. Other people take the side of medicate your dog ahead of time so she starts responding to every single person who disagrees with her. More unhinged as the conversation goes on. The page admin shut down the ability to post on that thread so entitled neighbor started a new conversation.

Editing to add: I think home fireworks are annoying but since nobody put me in charge of the world I just mind my own business.

Years ago I worked in an office with a lot of younger men who were just rotating through the field office as a way of ticking off that resume item to get a promotion to the main office. Some of them were good but most were just not worth the time of day.

That level of management decided to have a weekly meeting and although I was not at the same level I was a key contact to several customers so they mandated my attendance. First meeting rolls around and they decide that everyone will rotate taking meeting notes. I volunteer to go first just to get it out of the way.

This was a could have been an email meeting as they droned on and on patting themselves on the back for everyone else's accomplishments. Meeting ends, I type you the notes, email them out to all people on the meeting distribution list, and call it a day.

The next week the meeting rolls around and since I really didn't have anything to do with it but had to attend I brought along some paperwork that I needed to review for my team. I spent the entire time reading and making notes. I answered a couple questions about customers but didn't pay attention until they asked me something. Meeting ends and I go back to work.

About a hour later one of the managers calls asking when he'll receive the meeting notes. 'Sorry but I wasn't the note taker for the meeting. I did it last week. Who was the next person in the rotation?' The answer was nobody took notes. They saw the only woman in the room with a pen in hand and decided that I was taking notes. Didn't ask just assumed.

We were informed today that 20% of our yearly review will be on our understand of AI and usage of AI at work. No information on how that will be measured. But hey if you want to play the game let me show you how its done.

There are a bunch of pre recorded meetings on AI so I'll put one on and let it play in the background every week or so. They already complain about how AI emails always look AI. I've always taken the time to type out my internal emails but no longer. Every single one will be AI generated. I'll no longer take the time to put together job aids with screen prints. Nope AI can do a summary and my sup can ask for additions and changes if needed.

Do I think any of this will add value to the company for the work I do? Nope but hey I'm down to clown.

What stupid goals are you being given for 2026?

Medical stuff doesn't always go 100% as planned. But when you do miss it please don't go fishing around for that vein. Just pull out and start over. I'd rather have 2 little needles pricks than a lot of pain and a huge bruise because you missed on the first try and decided to go fishing around while that needle is still in my arm.

This happened years ago. I was out to breakfast with a friend and she decided to have some jam/jelly on her toast. The restaurant had those little tubs of different flavors of jelly/jam on the table so friend reaches over and opens one. She looks at it, decides its not the flavor she wants, reaches over again, opens another one and does the same thing.

She starts to reach for a 3rd one and I said 'Hey you know the flavor is shown on the top of those right? You don't have to open it to see what the flavor is. You just look at the top and its there.' She puts down the one in her hand and goes through the jelly until she finds the strawberry. I mentioned that it was wasteful and she replied that it wasn't her problem

We finish breakfast and she wants to take home the leftovers including the toast I didn't eat. The waitress brings over a to go container and I tell my friend that if she wants to use the restroom I'll pack everything up. She leaves and I took the jelly from both of those open containers and spread it on my toast before packing it up. Not sure how a grape jelly mixed with orange marmalade tastes but that's what she got from the leftovers.