Worker gets one over on vindictive HR by following workplace guidelines

Brad Dickson • Managing Editor

Mar 12, 2023 9:00 AM EDT

It's no secret that the human resource department isn't as benevolent or employee-focused as we might have once been led to believe. At the end of the day, that seems pretty obvious, and we find it hard to believe that the wool could ever be pulled over our eyes. After all, it's in the name. It's an entire department of the company that exists solely to manage and mitigate one of its most costly resources… humans—aka you.

Still, HR managers manage to either be the sweetest, most hospitable people on the planet or conniving, manipulative, gaslighting, power-tripping sociopaths. There is no in-between. Each and every HR manager falls into one of these categories, and I know that as you're reading this, you can picture each one in your mind.

The HR manager in this story is one of the latter; she was mean and vindictive to her core and had it out for this worker, Redditor u/phoenix103082. The worker shared their experience and the way that they managed to get one up on her simply by sticking to the rules.

Keep reading for this glorious tale of workplace malicious compliance. For more, check out this HR department that tried to tell a worker to work on the weekend if they had time to do other contract work.