[We put it] right between two of the bases in the baseball field’: Engineer told to blindly obey boss’s orders, obliges, obstructing client’s baseball infield

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There are those managers out there who think that they know everything, refusing to listen to anything their workers tell them to advise the decision-making process and blindly following the corporate narrative or their own uninformed decisions to their downfall and folly. Workers placed in these situations might try to fix the mistakes of their…

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‘I tipped her $21 on a $21 order’: 30+ Customers who got exactly what they asked for when restaurant workers served up ‘delicious compliance’

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‘Ask and you shall receive’. These are certainly words to live by– but when we’re talking about making modifications on a restaurant order, this phrase is more of a solemn warning. Jaded servers have learned the menu back-to-front and are used to customers coming in and changing a few things up, but at a certain…

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‘You are not allowed to clock out’: Micromanaging boss chews out employee for clocking out early, employee maliciously complies and gets extra pay

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Micromanagers need to be careful about what they wish for. In theory, they tend to demand things from their employees that are conducive to productivity. However, most of the time, it’s really about asserting authority for no good reason other than some good old-fashioned ego-stroking.    This manager chewed out an employee for allegedly not…

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‘I tipped her $21 on a $21 order’: 30+ Customers who got exactly what they asked for when restaurant workers served up ‘delicious compliance’

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‘Ask and you shall receive’. These are certainly words to live by– but when we’re talking about making modifications on a restaurant order, this phrase is more of a solemn warning. Jaded servers have learned the menu back-to-front and are used to customers coming in and changing a few things up, but at a certain…

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‘Surgeon smiled and told me not to worry’: Surgeon grants patient 18 months’ worth of business-class flights, amounting to $20,000 in company expenses

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If you comply with company rules, then you’re all set and good to go, right? Well, not always. Sometimes your circumstances change, and what I mean by that is there can be a metamorphosis, a transformation, from old, to new, to ugly. In even simpler terms, new authority sucks. One person got a set of…

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Update: ‘[My] friend wants use me as her backup ATM’: Traveller tells friend she’s only bringing $300 on Caribbean vacation, friend takes internet’s advice to avoid paying extra

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While planning a vacation for two, this woman had no idea her friend would suddenly expect her to foot the bill. That’s not how travelling with friends works — everyone has to pay their own share, unless you plan on a different way to split the costs that everyone can agree on. Even many couples…

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Update: ‘[My] friend wants use me as her backup ATM’: Traveller tells friend she’s only bringing $300 on Caribbean vacation, friend takes internet’s advice to avoid paying extra

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While planning a vacation for two, this woman had no idea her friend would suddenly expect her to foot the bill. That’s not how travelling with friends works — everyone has to pay their own share, unless you plan on a different way to split the costs that everyone can agree on. Even many couples…

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‘Surgeon smiled and told me not to worry’: Surgeon grants patient 18 months’ worth of business-class flights, amounting to $20,000 in company expenses

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If you comply with company rules, then you’re all set and good to go, right? Well, not always. Sometimes your circumstances change, and what I mean by that is there can be a metamorphosis, a transformation, from old, to new, to ugly. In even simpler terms, new authority sucks. One person got a set of…

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‘The pizza was like 3 inches tall’: Customer rudely insists on a pizza with everything on it, experiences immediate regret

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Whenever you write the phrase “The customer is always right” online, there’s always someone showing up to show you up in the comments, confidently proclaiming that this utterance is actually a shortened version of the original phrase, “The customer is always right in matters of taste.”  Attributions for either version normally go to one of…

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