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‘One minute more and would have been time theft, right?': Employee hangs up a work call in the middle of his own sentence to teach petty manager a lesson

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  • It's 2024, if you have an entitled manager, quit. We're not standing for this sort of behavior from people in leadership roles anymore. Ten minutes late to a job that has nothing to do with saving lives should not entitle any sort of reprimand. If you're a manager who thinks it does, then YOU are the problem. 

    Reddit user mikemojc recently commented on a Reddit thread sharing his experience while working at a call center. These phone bank kinds of jobs have a nefarious reputation, so it's no surprise that he had a Karen manager. He did his job well and was never late except once when there was an automobile accident on his route to work. He was not even 10 minutes late, but he still received a reprimand. So, to keep things fair, he made sure that he was working his specific hours and only his specific hours. That means if he was in the middle of something important at work, but then the clock struck 5, he was done. He was so done, that he even cut himself off mid-sentence while on a work call. When his Karen manager asked him what happened, he played dumb and added that he didn't want to break her strict rule about “time theft.” Read the entire satisfying malicious compliance below! 

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    "Give them the same energy they demand of you. Only equitable is fair."
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    mikemojc 18 hr. ago I worked for a call center years ago. Kind of hard as some call centers can be. Had been there 9-10 months, was late one day (1st time) due to a traffic accident along my route. I logged in at 8:08, my hours were 8-5, 1 hour scheduled unpaid lunch. Supervisor, brought me in later that morning, asked me what happened. I told her, she said to consider this a verbal warning, don't let it happen again or there'd be a written reprimand.... and I quote, "..even a few minutes late i
    Via mikemojc
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    TWO days later I get a call from a Judge at 4:57, printer install. Usually a 7 minute call. We start the process. I hung up the call (while I was midsentance) at 5:02. Got called into that supervisors office by 8:15 the next day asking what happened. "Gee, I dunno. I was working with Judge Blackrobes on his printer and suddenly he wasnt there..." The phones queues shut down at 5:00 so there's no way he could have called back, but apparently he
    Via mikemojc
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    emailed the supervisor first thing the next day with nothing happy to say. Supervisor told me to call him back and finish the install. On my way out of her office I piped up," Good thing the call ended when it did, huh? One minute more and would have been time theft, right?" Give them the same energy they demand of you. Only equitable is fair.
    Via mikemojc
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    • 3amGreenCoffee · 16 hr. ago I hung up the call (while I was midsentance) at 5:02. Ha ha I've done this for years. If you hang up on someone while they're talking, they get mad. But nobody expects you to hang up on yourself. If the line suddenly goes dead while you're talking, they assume there was a problem with the phone and not that you were trying to get rid of them.
    Via 3amGreenCoffee
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    . mikemojc 15 hr. ago I see that you, too, are a person of education and culture. :) 39 Reply Share polishknightusa · 14 hr. ago Google "Italian strike" 13 Reply Share • • •
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    maggiereddituser 12 hr. ago . When I worked customer service many, many years ago, the more senior reps would advise us to rub a paper towel or kleenex against the phone speaker while talking, THEN hang up mid-sentence. Apparently, it sounds like static and makes the whole "problem with the phone/connection" more believable. LOL
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    Eye Rolling Now . 9 hr. ago An attorney taught me that trick 28 years ago. Amazing it still works and so few people get it. 5 Reply Share Cosmicshimmer 4 hr. ago Did this all the time. Gotta love that plausible deniability. 1 Reply Share
    Via EyeRollingNow
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    WhipQream 16 hr. ago. . Your supervisor sounds like an insufferable person 53 Reply Share ... mikemojc 15 hr. ago Oh, she absolutely was. 11 Reply Share • • •
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    • WhipQream 13 hr. ago Sometimes I wonder if the majority are not self-aware until someone calls them out on it vs very self-aware and they just don't care. 8 Reply Share Technical_Annual_563 13 hr. ago Did she at least take a hint from your education session with the Judge's call? 6 Reply Share
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    mikemojc 12 hr. ago Lol, whenever she realized that I got one over on her, she'd get quietly beligerant. Like, trying to bully me, but not be loud about it because then I would tell people the story of whatever my most recent malicious compliance was. She somehow managed to stick around for 4-5 years before 'retiring' to Florida. I believe her 'retirement' was preceded by a 2-3 month stint in rehab to get off liqueur and pain killers...
    Via mikemojc
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    Christen0526 · 15 hr. ago way to go. Seriously, that's , treating you like that 5 Reply Share ... cropheadHarris . 14 hr. ago I've heard that working call centers is like doing time in purgatory. 5 Reply Share
    Via Christen0526
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    Mean-Copy 12 hr. ago Haha that was a good pay back. It's a two way street. 43 ↓ Reply Share ... TechnicalGeologist99 OP 19 hr. ago Yeah salaried. But as you say, they're asking for hourly. That's what they'll get 62 Reply Share
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    NorthernMamma · 14 hr. ago • Yep. You said it. When I started no long being treated like an adult recently, I stopped giving extra. Hard stop the minute I am off. Zero favors anymore. See a problem coming down the pipe - tell no one and let it run them all over. Act both your wage and the way you are treated. Im thinking of calling it "act your rage". lol. 7 Reply Share . . .
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