'He never asked me to do dishes again': Farmworker floods his boss's kitchen with soap bubbles to get out of house chores that are not in his job description

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Jul 19, 2023 10:00 AM EDT

When you're good at your job, your boss will inevitably ask you to do MORE tasks outside of your job description. Naturally, that never comes with a raise or recognition of any kind, so most employees wrinkle their nose at the prospects of overachieving. In this case, a hardworking manual labor worker was asked to do menial tasks that were so far out of his job description, that he decided to take action to ensure that he would never be asked again. Malicious compliance can go a long way when it comes to job security.

OP was a hay baler and a farm hand that worked closely with the owner of a ranch. After months of hard work hauling hay and taking care of the property, OP had proved himself to be a loyal employee and a hard worker. Of course that backfired when his boss started to rely on him to take care of more and more chores around the farm. Eventually, the boss had grown so trusting, that he'd take off on vacation without notice and leave behind a huge list of tasks for OP to take care of in his absence. One day, OP was asked to become the boss's personal maid and that was the final straw. 

Scroll for the full story on how this farmworker proved to his boss that he was not a personal assistant, a maid, or anyone's house boy by completely destroying the house with the help of the dishwasher. Next, check out this story of a man who got revenge on his ex wife by loading the last of her belongings into her broken down car before having it towed off of his property– at her expense. 

He decided that prove that he was a terrible personal assistant 

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    Font - Posted by u/militaryvehicled ude 2 days ago S So you want me to do the dishes? S OC
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    Font - When I was in my 20s, I worked with a man hauling hay. Tough job, hot, dirty, sweaty (nothing like the pics you see of these dudes throwing hay with no shirts on etc).
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    Font - Anyway, I would usually meet him at his house before daylight, hook up the truck and trailer and then go to work.
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    Font - Anyway, my boss was prone to decide to take the day off and go fishing etc without giving me a heads up, so those days, I would go in the house and there would be a list of things needing done; (ie: grease the baler,
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    Plant - service the truck, pick up parts etc.). It was irritating because if it was that type of day, I wouldn't have had to be up at 0300 to get to
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    Font - his house to meet him, and I wouldn't be able to go to any parts stores etc because they didn't open until 0800 or later.
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    Font - One particular morning I get to his house.... no boss. I go in and find the list and it simply says "Do the dishes".
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    Mammal - I look at the sink and apparently he had left his dishes for about a week in there and it was NASTY.
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    Font - So I loaded the dishwasher, added the liquid dishwashing soap (for washing by hand. Think Dawn) and left.
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    Font - To say he was surprised when he got home is an understatement, but he never asked me to do dishes again....
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    Font - edit for clarity regarding pay Clarity about pay: "When we "hayed", I got paid $2.50 a bale delivered. (I used my truck, his trailer). A 12 hour day could equal several hundred bucks.
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    Font - On "shop" days, I was paid by the hour for actual hours worked. If my only job was to wash dishes, at most, I'd get an hours pay, which didn't pay for my gas, drive time and actual time at his house. So...
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    Font - Prize Evidence_529 2 days ago When I first moved into my own place I didn't have any dish detergent. So the dawn soap is what I used. Came down 20 mins later to my cousin yelling and the kitchen covered in bubbles
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    Font - zorggalacticus 2 days ago +2. I did this as a kid, but I used dawn as laundry detergent. Mom: all this mess came from the washer?
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    Font - Me: well it didn't come from the dryer! I should not have said that. Should not have said that!
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    Rectangle - GrumpyCatStevens +2. 2 days ago Narrator: It was the last thing he remembered from that day.
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    Font - Prize_Evidence_529 2 days ago Love the witty comeback, I would absolutely hate it if my kid said it to me though
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    Rectangle - LibraryMouse4321 2 days ago +2. Did it Dawn on him that he shouldn't have done that?
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    Font - theeternalhobbyist. 2 days ago After loading the dishwasher, OP should have Palmed some olives on their way out.
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    Font - Prize_Evidence_529 2 days ago Haha I know no damage done so I look at it as a funny life lesson now haha. Plus my floors were really clean after cleaning it all up haha
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    Font - PyroNine9. 1 day ago If you use 50% dish soap and 50% baking soda it doesn't foam the kitchen. Handy if you're out of dishwasher soap.
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