Its not even real. I see people engage with fake posts here, and fake Ai channels on YouTube. Its like some people cant see what is fake, or they are bots designed to upvote fake things.
I had a corporate job where I never interacted with customers and I was salaried and my boss would still keep Teams up on his computer all the time and come and check in on my cubicle if I wasn’t showing available on Teams exactly at 7:30 in the morning. I got lectured once for showing up at 7:35. Not late to any meetings, not late on “deliverables”, etc. Just not “professional” enough for him. I have no doubt believing this post.
I know there are people like that but this is literally just a screen shot of someone getting an email from an unknown sender. And nobody would put 3 minutes difference in a mail like that. Its for effect. :)
But I know there are people like that, they exist. Its just that this specific post is very likely fake because it gets reactions and thats fun.
Then it’s fake in a way that The Old Man and the Sea is fake in that it’s a story that reflects on what it’s like to be human
Yeah, well, to be a worker under a horrible boss at least.
Corporate job haver here! This is real!
You mean ragebait?
I’ve read some talesfromthejob, amd had some personal experience with shitty management, it wouldn’t surprise me if it was real.
This is easy don’t clock out until next day, then complain the next day why everyone clocked out far too early.
(…) we need to make sure we’re being fair to the rest of the team (…)
Let everyone go early then, fucker
At my company, at the first position I held, I was an FTE at a help desk. Management thought it was a good idea to mix it up and put people in change of units that were outside the expertise of those holding positions. Some shitty lady from finance, with an MBA, became our boss. She had this sort of mentality about time.
Previously, I’d stay until the job was done and not think anything of the time I was losing. I liked my job and helping people. She decided one day, when I left about 15-minutes to make a doctor appointment across town, that I had done something wrong and needed to work my entire 7.5-hour shift. She wanted us to note everything we did and document it for her review.
She fucked up. To comply, I wrote a program to track when I locked and unlocked my computer and log it with date time and show the running total of the time worked per day. I stopped staying late. I stopped returning from lunch early if I knew we were busy. People stood at the counter waiting while I finished incidental things at the end of my shift to prevent any late departures. I made sure to never leave early, but I never stayed late or took walkups near my 7.5-hour day.
Malicious compliance is my favorite kind of compliance!
Did it have the desired effect of changing the policy or torpedoing the department hard enough she was replaced?
The latter. She was loathed by almost everyone. We had a new FTE position open and a student hire (higher ed) applied and got offered the position. He was a fuckin’ rock star at this shit. Real personable and great at tech troubleshooting.
He had a 1-on-1 with his Team Lead, who was cut from the same cloth as the interim director, and asked him how he felt things were going in the department. He laid out thoughtful points of ways things could change to improve morale, didn’t even mention the interim director or blame anyone for specifics. She didn’t like this new hire telling her how things could be better and he got fired by the interim director. Since he was a new hire, he was on probation.
It was fucked. Dude had been a student worker longer than the interim had worked in her previous finance position! She probably would have fired me had I been on probation as well!
- unionize
- direct action
totally balanced reaction
I guess this is a bit different to someone constantly being 10 minutes late and leaving 5 minutes early, because that sort of thing can get annoying.
Story time: I once had an employer who had me defend myself personally because he saw my Skype go online a few minutes after the official start of work. That same boss was known to sleep half of the day in his own office.
A few months later I was fired and sued their asses. I got a nice compensation out of the settlement.
Fake af
I’ve seen this. Knew a guy who couldn’t keep a community manager on staff while at the same time making them clock out when they went to the washroom. Literally paid them by the minute and all of those minutes had to be “work.”
That’s craaazy!
OMFG - quit now. Like today. Fuck these people.
And the worst part is if you stayed 3 minutes too long they would chew you out like you just stole the crown jewels. It’s not about accuracy or doing your job, it’s about control of your life down to the minute. They would do down to the second if they could.
Hey Sharon I noticed you clocked out a few zeptoseconds before the end of your workday. Let’s try to be a little more accurate, hey?
Holy shit, i would be so fucking lazy and difficult for the next week probably 2 if someone sent me an email like this.
My pettiness knows no bounds when it comes to power hungry twats like this one.
I would 100% look in the employee handbook and see exactly what time would be considered late for a disciplinary notice and start coming in at that time exactly. My last job it was 11 minutes after scheduled start time. And I would always tell people that whenever they’d say “you’re late”
Thats awesome. Malicious compliance.
I used to really dread working for shitty bosses, but the older i get the more i enjoy fucking them. They are like spoiled children, conpletely incapable of dealing with an employee that pushes back.
I like to imagine i’ve inspried other employees to also mess with their shitty bosses. one can dream…
Funnily enough, if you actually follow “work to the job, not the clock” you get more work done, and you generally go home early.
You’re also less likely to quit, and more likely to develop and share good practice.
Just go for a 3 minute wee wee before leaving
Sharon is the new Karen
