'This looks like a personal print job': Boss makes employees pay to use printer for personal use, employee catches boss breaking the rules

There's nothing more satisfying than proving to everyone in the office that your manager's pointless rules are... well, pointless. We all know that there are a number of "office policies" that apply here. Some of these include what time you come into the office, what time you leave, always needing to be at your desk, the endless remote/in-person work debate, etc. The degree to which these policies are pointless obviously varies from office to office and from profession to profession, but generally speaking, many of these policies are simply socially constructed disciplinary rules that have little to do with one's actual responsibilities.

 

This thread was posted to Reddit's r/pettyrevenge, but it could also easily serve as a perfect malicious compliance story as well. In this office, OP's boss frequently enforced a nonsense rule that if you ever needed to use the printer for personal reasons, you would have to pay to do so. Once, OP had to print their resume for an in-company interview. When their manager saw what they were printing, she disagreed that it was job-related and made the employee pay up. She claimed that this money would all be going to the Christmas party fund. That will be important later.

 

Not long after, OP discovered hundreds of pages in the printer announcing a sweet 16 party for their boss's daughter. Clearly, this was not work-related, and OP had a suspicious feeling that their manager was not abiding by the same rules. Keep scrolling below to see just how they managed to get some well-earned petty revenge on their boss. When you're finished, take a look at this post about the top 10 choosing beggars of the week!

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