'I'm still gloating over my [win] over corporate Karen': Worker maliciously complies with boss's request to park bike in designated spot, results in six hours of OT

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Aug 31, 2024 8:00 AM EDT

It's always frustrating when someone from corporate swoops down out of nowhere to boss you around. 

Here, we have a part-time worker at a delivery company who was lectured by an obnoxious Karen from corporate that he had to park his bike in their "correct" spot. Even the worker's immediate supervisor suggested that he ignore the Karen's mandate in certain situations as she likely would not notice, but this worker wanted to prove to the Karen why her unnecessary enforcing of this rule could backfire. So, he enacted some well-deserved malicious compliance and ended up having to put in six hours of overtime pay as a result. This, of course, caused the Karen to notice, and she ended up walking back on her ridiculous demands. That's what you get for speaking out of turn, lady!

Keep scrolling below for the full story. For more, check out this post about a guy's revenge on a lunch-thieving coworker.

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    "Your bike has to be parked correctly in the garage, and if you need to take out other bikes to park yours, you have to park them back correctly too." Ok.
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    Until recently, I used to work part-time for a delivery company that uses half pedal- powered, half battery-powered 6-wheeled "bikes" that work like little semi trucks (not Hermes, I purposefully chose a picture that didn't show my actual company name).
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    So after every shift we have to park the bikes in the garage. Technically there are designated spots in the garage. for each individual bike. But since people don't finish their shifts and come back in the exact time sequence that the bikes have to be parked in, in
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    practice nobody actually parks the bikes in their "correct" spot. The first person back just parks at the back even if their bike is supposed to be parked further up front, and the next person to return parks in front of the first parked bike, and so on.
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    The shift managers know about it and are cool with it. They work in the garage so they understand. But new Karen from corporate who just joined a couple days ago did not. She came in suddenly at the end of one day to "check things out" and found that my bike was
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    parked at the very front. I had finished last that day because I had a super long shift. But Karen called me immediately and chewed me out on the phone and essentially told me in no pleasant terms the title of the post.
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    I called my shift manager right after and informed him. He said something like, "well, technically she is right. so we can't oppose her directly. I suggest you just ignore her. I doubt she will be back to check."
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    Well, my petty a■ did not want to let Karen have this win over me. So I did exactly what she told me to do. I waited a couple more days until I got another mega shift. I arrived early to claim the bike that was technically designated to be parked at
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    the very back. You can already see where this is going. After finishing my route, I specifically drove back slowly to make sure I would be the last one back.
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    Once back, I took out every single bike in the garage by myself. Then I parked my
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    bike and took my sweet time making sure it was parked perfectly centrally in between the lines as well, not just lengthwise. You can see how that would take a long time since the bikes work like semi trucks in movement mechanism. So it
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    took me da near 10 mins to take care of one bike. I had only 59 more to go. I meticulously parked every single bike at their correct spots until the of the night that day. My shift manager caught on to my
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    plan soon and chose to turn a blind eye since I was technically following orders. from higher ups.
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    I booked 6 hours of overtime that day before I clocked out and was scheduled for a whole lot of payment. Next morning
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    accounts suddenly call me to ask if I had forgotten to clock out and come back later to do it because it showed that I clocked out ~6 hours later than everyone else. I told them exactly what happened and suggested
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    that they watch the security camera feed inside the garage to make sure that I was actually working the entire time. They eventually folded and told me to not do it again. I politely declined and said that I will do the same thing again
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    next day because those were my orders. They said, "our managerial team will contact you with updated instructions soon. Follow those instructions." I said okay. I received a slack message
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    from Karen later that day before starting my shift. saying I should follow my shift manager's directions to park my bike from now.
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    So I did the exact same thing again that day because shift manager did say that technically the
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    bikes were supposed to be parked in their designated. spots. Had the same conversation next morning with accounts and received another Slack message from
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    Karen saying I should park my bike according to what made sense realistically. I'm still gloating over my W over corporate Karen to this day.
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    Alpharius20. 2 days ago Management is fine with making your life ¨, up until they have to pay you overtime.
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    TechnOght +3.2 days ago "Makes sense realistically? You mean do what we were doing before you started making up new rules? So ignore what you've said previously? Yeah, I can do that."
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    Guilty_Objective4602 2 days ago +2. 12 hours of overtime well- earned!
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