Incompetent Manager Forces Unqualified Employee To Fix Machine, Breaks It More

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Eric Lund
Oct 28, 2021 4:00 PM EDT

Most of us have nightmares about having to do something and not knowing exactly how to do it, but having a boss shouting at us to make it happen. It happens in real life too, and sometimes it works out. Usually not, but sometimes. The working world drives us to absurd scenes, like this employee who wasn't being paid for being on time or these wild employee complaints that turned out to be legit.

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    Font - r) r/MaliciousCompliance · Posted by u/kebabkoter 16 hours ago 2 5 6 38 5 A machine at the grocery store i work in malfunctioned. My manager decided it was my problem. oc M The machine that takes in the bottles that have a deposit fee on them was broken. The machine couldn't scan the bottles, so the customers wouldn't get their money back. A customer told me about it, so i told my manager. He told me that i should take care of it because he was on break and the customers came to me. I tol
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    Font - to the work i was supposed to do. Customers kept on coming to me with the same problem, so i went back to the manager who literally told me: "you are at work, customers complain to you, it's your problem." I told my coworkers about it. They told me that i has happened before and that a mechanic was required to fix the problem. My manager got angry at me because i told him this. He told me that i needed to find a solution to the problem or i would get fired. I started thinking what i could
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    Font - Then, my stubborn side took over, so i decided to fix the problem my way. I took a broom, and punched a hole in the seal that keeps the bottles from falling down. Then, i put a big plastic bag on the other side of the machine for the bottles to fall into. My manager lost it and told me i need to fix it in a better way right now. So i put the plastic bag in his hands and told the 12 customers that were waiting for the machine to work to give their bottles to my manager, and he would take c
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    Font - AlphaMomma59 - 14h I used to work in an animal hospital. One day the roller towel in the bathroom broke. The veterinarian who owned the place told me to fix it. I was an 18 y.o girl. I didn't have the first knowledge on how to fix it ( this was back in the Stone Age before internet and YouTube.) Well, I attempted to fix it. I fixed it so well he had to buy a new one!
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    Font - Bigdavie - 9h We had a drawer on one of the tills that kept getting stuck, easy solution as it was just a screw that had came loose and needing tightened so it was flush again. For some reason I, a forklift driver, was tasked to fix it. Unfortunately there was no screwdriver in any of the numerous toolboxes scattered throughout the store but shouldn't be a problem as we sell screwdrivers. The manager refused to authorise the £1 needed to buy one and told me find something else to use. I s
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    Font - Pizzaman99 · 10h I'm confused. Why not just put an "out of order" sign on it? Vote Vote Reply Share kebabkoter OP - 6h Probably because Dutch people tend to be weird in situations where they can't do what they want. Sometimes they even just walk through doors they should NOT go through because they can't find a certain product. They then end up setting of the sprinklers and with the firefighters on their way.
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    Font - boogeyman419 · 16h S I have had a coworker do something like this a few months ago, absolutely brutal for the manager Vote Reply Share kebabkoter OP. 15h Are you in the Netherlands? Vote LJ Reply Share …. boogeyman419 · 15h e2 S 2 This can't be. Eric? Vote Reply Share kebabkoter OP. 15h e2 E Hahaha wow. This is cool
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