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A rowdy crew can be brought under control by strictly enforcing the rules, but there should always be opportunities for flexibility and exceptions. This manager should have thought about making an exception rather than punishing their employee for being only 22 seconds late. Although it may seem crazy and far-fetched, there are managers that treat their employees in this manner (a good portion of them too.)
The travel to the workplace for this individual was completely unpredictable due to some problematic railroad tracks. This ambiguity, coupled with a ruthlessly strict tardiness policy, made it inevitable that something would blow up at some point. Reddit user u/ChiefSteward, an employee, sent this thread to the r/maliciouscompliance forum in which he describes how they dealt with this issue with delectable malicious compliance. Continue reading for screenshots of the entire story and reader comments.
1. OP’s office worked in a strict way that you had to call in before coming and if you don’t several time,s you would get fired
2. OP comes from a place to the office where he has to cross train tracks which are unprediatbale. Sometimes you have to take another route with bumpy roads which takes longer to reach
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3. One day OP got stuck in the tracks and hurriedly reached the office where the biometric attendance showed him late, the team manager said he would handle this
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4. OP got worried and went to the attendance office and they told him he was 22 minutes late therefore the penalty. Despite his protest, no one listened to him
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5. OP maliciously used their order in the following way
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6. When the office got to know about this, they tried to put OP down but failed badly
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7. The funny part is that OP continued doing this
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8. 22 seconds? I still can’t believe
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9. How can people be so mean?
10. Now you know that there’s another malicious glorious category
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11. Very much fun
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12. Every organization should care for their employees so that they work better rather than getting job dissatisfaction or using malice
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