Employee Gets Burned by New Manager, Crafts Uniquely Confusing Schedule

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Eric Lund
Nov 17, 2019 12:00 AM EST

Some acts of defiance are more trivial than others. This employee's power tripping manager decided to revoke his vacation, so he quit and before he left decided to give him a real confusing send off. Sometimes small revenge is all you need, like this guy who battled his work tie policy by buying the ugliest ties possible.

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    Text - r/MaliciousCompliance Posted by u/Skonisk 22 hours ago Want me to create the employee schedule when I know I'm getting fired? You got it! |ос м This was about 20 years ago. I was working as an hourly manager at a popular american fast food place (franchise, not corporate). I had been there several years and had accrued some vacation time. I requested a week off (months in advance) to go on a hunting trip a few states away with my dad (who taught me to shoot and hunt). the vacation time wa
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    Text - A week before I was due to go on vacation, the head office decided to replace my general manager with one from a different store they owned. The new general manager decided he had to assert his dominance by rejecting my vacation time and stated that he didn't have enough managers available to cover the shifts. I argued that the trip was already booked but he wasn't hearing any of it. I liked my job and didn't want to leave but there was no way I was going to miss this trip. I tried everyt
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    Text - I liked my coworkers and didn't want to screw anyone over by having shifts that needed covered so I got them all covered a few days before I left. The general manager wouldn't approve them working for me and still said I had to work. I was working the day before the trip (friday) and he knew I was leaving the next day no matter what. Part of my job was to schedule the crews shifts. It typically needed to be done by sunday for the following week, but on this day he said I had to have it do
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    Text - one additional thing to note, this was about 15 years after the most popular girls name was Ashley and the most popular boys name was Michael. that means we had 8 Ashleys and 6 Michaels working there. It was normally trouble to keep from having more than 2 of them there at the same time because of labor laws. That saturday, from 11am-2pm (lunch rush) on the general managers shift, Every Single One of them was scheduled at the same time. I can only imagine the chaos when he wanted one of t
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    Text - When I picked up my last check, another shift manager confirmed that it was as glorious as i had imagined. Edit: labor laws had nothing to do with 'making me' schedule them together. It restricts their availability due to school and what time they cant work before or after so its hard to schedule them all at different times.
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