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** The workers of [[https://notalwaysright.com/like-a-good-manager-stay-out-of-my-house/330573/ this salon]] quit en masse when they find out that the salon's owner, upset that another worker had called off for multiple days in a row, went to that worker's house, found a spare key and ''let herself in to shout at the worker''. The owner even wears it on her sleeve saying that she'd do exactly the same to any of the others. [[LaserGuidedKarma Then the police walk in, and the staff walk out.]]
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* TrashOfTheTitans: The retail store at the center of [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-epic-of-the-impossible-store/172885/ the infamous "Trash Room" story]]. Even before arriving at the Trash Room, the higher-ups with the store find the store a mess with unboxed merch all over the place, the floors caked with dirt and grime, and the backrooms a disaster area.
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** The retail store at the center of [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-epic-of-the-impossible-store/172885/ the infamous "Trash Room" story]]. Even before arriving at the Trash Room, the higher-ups with the store find the store a mess with unboxed merch all over the place, the floors caked with dirt and grime, and the backrooms a disasterarea.area.
** According to [[https://notalwaysright.com/taxing-everyones-olfactory-organs/324315/ this story]], "difficulties with break room cleanliness are endemic to the tax industry." To prove it, they relate the story of a workplace fridge that was paid for by a manager with his own money (thus making it his property) and is left in the office after he retires. With the owner no longer working there, the fridge falls into disrepair and food is left to rot in it from tax season to tax season. Due to a combination of the ownership question and [[NeverMyFault diffusion of responsibility]], the problem only gets worse until Corporate – tired of the smell – grabs the bull by the horns and rip out the fridge... which makes things FromBadToWorse as workers stuck their foods in unrefrigerated cabinets, making the smell worse, with some cabinets having to be removed because they looked like "something out of ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs''." ''That'' debacle ends when the former manager demands that Corporate get a new fridge... [[HereWeGoAgain which the workers abuse like they did the old one]].
** The retail store at the center of [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-epic-of-the-impossible-store/172885/ the infamous "Trash Room" story]]. Even before arriving at the Trash Room, the higher-ups with the store find the store a mess with unboxed merch all over the place, the floors caked with dirt and grime, and the backrooms a disaster
** According to [[https://notalwaysright.com/taxing-everyones-olfactory-organs/324315/ this story]], "difficulties with break room cleanliness are endemic to the tax industry." To prove it, they relate the story of a workplace fridge that was paid for by a manager with his own money (thus making it his property) and is left in the office after he retires. With the owner no longer working there, the fridge falls into disrepair and food is left to rot in it from tax season to tax season. Due to a combination of the ownership question and [[NeverMyFault diffusion of responsibility]], the problem only gets worse until Corporate – tired of the smell – grabs the bull by the horns and rip out the fridge... which makes things FromBadToWorse as workers stuck their foods in unrefrigerated cabinets, making the smell worse, with some cabinets having to be removed because they looked like "something out of ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs''." ''That'' debacle ends when the former manager demands that Corporate get a new fridge... [[HereWeGoAgain which the workers abuse like they did the old one]].
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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: [[http://notalwaysright.com/when-live-wires-get-their-wires-crossed Well, spiders in this case.]] It scares the guy so much he ScreamsLikeALittleGirl.
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** [[http://notalwaysright.com/when-live-wires-get-their-wires-crossed Well, spiders in this case.]] It scares the guy so much he ScreamsLikeALittleGirl.
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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/new-hire-baptism-of-fire/65134/ This new hire]] is cooking food when there's a small fire. It's swiftly put out, but the new hire is deathly afraid of fire, so she panics, dashes out of the building, gets in her car, and drives off. She would later be [[{{Pun}} fired]].
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* TemptingFate: The salespeople at [[https://notalwaysright.com/they-fired-themselves/105599/ this mall kiosk]] have been driving customers and workers at a nearby store up the wall with their rudeness and pushiness. The submitter – the store's manager – approaches mall management to complain about them, only for the manager to pooh-pooh the submitter's concerns and tell them not to bother him "unless they set your store on fire." A few weeks later, one of the kiosk workers starts a small fire in the store's men's room by tossing a lit cigarette into the wastebasket. [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty The kiosk's lease would be terminated.]]
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** Fom the days when not everyone knew the proper terminology for computers, [[https://notalwaysright.com/a-cursory-complaint/63879/ this poor worker]] has to deal with a computer problem and an irate customer at the same time, leading to the following exchange:
--->'''Submitter:''' "All right. Where is the cursor?"\\
'''User:''' ''*nearly crying*'' "He's on the other side of the window, and he won't stop yelling!"
--->'''Submitter:''' "All right. Where is the cursor?"\\
'''User:''' ''*nearly crying*'' "He's on the other side of the window, and he won't stop yelling!"
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* VengefulVendingMachine: [[http://notalwaysright.com/drives-you-round-the-vend Yep, they exist.]]
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** [[http://notalwaysright.com/drives-you-round-the-vend Yep, they exist.]]]]
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/amazing-what-a-little-cognitive-recalibration-can-do/328825/ These vending machines]] likewise can't do math properly, promoting one over-taxed employee to ''headbutt'' one.
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/drives-you-round-the-vend Yep, they exist.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/amazing-what-a-little-cognitive-recalibration-can-do/328825/ These vending machines]] likewise can't do math properly, promoting one over-taxed employee to ''headbutt'' one.
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* WorkingThroughTheCold: [[https://notalwaysright.com/pink-eye-or-the-pink-slip/ This submitter]] is told to show up to work or be fired, notwithstanding the fact that they're suffering from pinkeye. The manager that forced them would later be forced to sanitize everything the submitter touched as punishment.
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* UnfortunateName: A variation with [[https://notalwaysright.com/dont-mind-us-just-giggling-into-our-t/319051/ "Ms. T"]]. It's not so much that her name is unfortunate, it's that under the company's email naming conventions, her email handle would fall under this, so (after a bit of persuasion), she agrees to go by the handle "[=tfarr@[company].com=]".
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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: The horrid manager in [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-epic-of-the-impossible-store/172885/ this story]] has convinced her employees that corporate denied them their bonuses and she was fighting to get them back, when in reality it was the other way around - the manager stole the bonuses and corporate was investigating her. She even got them to quit on the acting managers coming in to try and salvage the train wreck the store had become under her leadership.
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** The horrid manager in [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-epic-of-the-impossible-store/172885/ this story]] has convinced her employees that corporate denied them their bonuses and she was fighting to get them back, when in reality it was the other way around - the manager stole the bonuses and corporate was investigating her. She even got them to quit on the acting managers coming in to try and salvage the train wreck the store had become under herleadership.leadership.
** In [[https://notalwaysright.com/not-exactly-your-average-joe/321491/ this story]], the submitter replaces an IT temp named "Joe," whom everyone seems to miss. However, over the course of working there, the submitter finds that Joe was stealing computers by falsely telling the office that they were beyond repair, and that he'd been using one "broken" computer as his personal PornStash. And from then on, they find even ''more'' skeletons in Joe's closet, to the point where ''the FBI'' confiscates his computer as evidence and Joe receives a five-year prison sentence.
** The horrid manager in [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-epic-of-the-impossible-store/172885/ this story]] has convinced her employees that corporate denied them their bonuses and she was fighting to get them back, when in reality it was the other way around - the manager stole the bonuses and corporate was investigating her. She even got them to quit on the acting managers coming in to try and salvage the train wreck the store had become under her
** In [[https://notalwaysright.com/not-exactly-your-average-joe/321491/ this story]], the submitter replaces an IT temp named "Joe," whom everyone seems to miss. However, over the course of working there, the submitter finds that Joe was stealing computers by falsely telling the office that they were beyond repair, and that he'd been using one "broken" computer as his personal PornStash. And from then on, they find even ''more'' skeletons in Joe's closet, to the point where ''the FBI'' confiscates his computer as evidence and Joe receives a five-year prison sentence.
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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/taxing-faxing-malicious-compliance-edition/322134/ This railway company]] expects its workers to ''fax'' in their timesheets – in ''2014''!
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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/taxing-faxing-malicious-compliance-edition/322134/ This railway company]] expects its workers to ''fax'' in their timesheets – in ''2014''!''2014''! (The submitter suspects this is so that the agency can hold on to the wages of anyone who doesn't fax - i.e. everybody - for an additional week, something that's backed up when they ''do'' fax their timesheet and it emerges that it's been so long since anybody actually sent in a fax that the agency just stopped checking.)
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* {{Technophobia}}: [[https://notalwaysright.com/theyre-using-microsoft-2000-bc/313948/ This boss of an office]] takes it to an extreme: His office has absolutely ''no'' electronics in it (because, according to an employee, the boss "doesn't trust computers or the internet"), and every employee is required to do everything by hand with pencil and paper nor are they allowed to bring their cellphones into the office. The story takes place in ''2012''. Unsurprisingly, [[HighTurnoverRate new hires (the submitter included) seldom last more than a day]].
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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/theyre-using-microsoft-2000-bc/313948/ This boss of an office]] takes it to an extreme: His office has absolutely ''no'' electronics in it (because, according to an employee, the boss "doesn't trust computers or the internet"), and every employee is required to do everything by hand with pencil and paper nor are they allowed to bring their cellphones into the office. The story takes place in ''2012''. Unsurprisingly, [[HighTurnoverRate new hires (the submitter included) seldom last more than aday]].day]].
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/taxing-faxing-malicious-compliance-edition/322134/ This railway company]] expects its workers to ''fax'' in their timesheets – in ''2014''!
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/theyre-using-microsoft-2000-bc/313948/ This boss of an office]] takes it to an extreme: His office has absolutely ''no'' electronics in it (because, according to an employee, the boss "doesn't trust computers or the internet"), and every employee is required to do everything by hand with pencil and paper nor are they allowed to bring their cellphones into the office. The story takes place in ''2012''. Unsurprisingly, [[HighTurnoverRate new hires (the submitter included) seldom last more than a
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/taxing-faxing-malicious-compliance-edition/322134/ This railway company]] expects its workers to ''fax'' in their timesheets – in ''2014''!
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'''Mixologist:''' ''<groaning and doing a '[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Picard]]-worthy {{facepalm}}'>'' "Butterfly pea! P-E-A! Not P-E-E!"
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'''Mixologist:''' ''<groaning and doing ''<doing a '[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Picard]]-worthy {{facepalm}}'>'' "Butterfly pea! P-E-A! Not P-E-E!"
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'''Mixologist:''' ''<groaning and doing a '[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Picard]]-worthy {{facepalm}}'>'' "Butterfly pea! P-E-A! Not P-E-E!"
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'''Mixologist:''' ''<groaning and doing a '[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Picard]]-worthy {{facepalm}}'>'' "Butterfly pea! P-E-A! Not P-E-E!"
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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/takes-a-lot-of-bians-to-just-ask-someone-that/325386/ This co-worker]] is convinced that "lesbian" is French for "the bians," and lesbians are called "bians."
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** "[[https://notalwaysright.com/an-unfortunate-turn-of-phrase-left-her-hanging-by-a-thread/325383/ We're going to hang the blacks.]]" (To the coworker's credit, she realized what she said immediately, and to the customers' credit, they recognized it was an innocent mistake just as fast.)
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*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/cant-think-outside-the-box This submitter]] splits two dozen donuts between three boxes, to which the cashier tries to charge them for three dozen - apparently a "dozen" is simply however many donuts happen to be in a box, rather than a concrete number.
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*** [[http://notalwaysright.com/cant-think-outside-the-box This submitter]] splits two dozen donuts between three boxes, to which the cashier tries to charge them for three dozen dozen, and the manager backs them up - apparently a "dozen" to these people is simply however many donuts happen to be in a box, rather than a concrete number.
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* TastesLikePurple: [[https://notalwaysright.com/purple-slushie-eater/64384/ Quoted verbatim]] as an employee tries a slushee that ends up being a mix of cherry and blue raspberry.
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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-only-mystery-is-how-shes-kept-the-job-for-so-long/263430/ This submitter refuses service to an extremely rude and impatient woman]] who turned out to be a mystery shopper that the submitter's manager knew about but didn't actually inform them about until after the incident. The regional manager, known to be a hothead, arrives and takes the submitter to the back office to hear the story. The submitter, believing their job to be on the line, explains what happened and the regional manager drops this gem:
--->'''Regional Manager:''' I’m finally glad that someone else has the balls to stand up to my wife.
--->'''Regional Manager:''' I’m finally glad that someone else has the balls to stand up to my wife.
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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/burn-me-and-ill-gladly-burn-you-back/264464/ This story]] is about a guy working for a mortgage provider, who was intially just working the shredder (something that hadn't been made clear to him when he applied), before applying for a more interesting job with the same company processing applications. When the mortgage crunch hits, many workers get retrained as debt collectors, but his role is a protected one. And then he gets told that his "secondment" to his current role is almost over, at which point he will be retrained as a debt collector. When he questions this, he gets told that there's obviously been a miscommunication, but actually two positions were available; he got the secondment, and the permenant position went to someone else -- someone who spends more time working with another team than actually doing the job. Further questions are basically met with a shrug. So he writes a resignation letter that details all his issues with the company since he was first put on shredder duty, sends it to his boss, and also distributes it around the building.
--->'''Manager''': “Uhhh, [My Name], I get that you’re upset, and I honestly don’t blame you, but are you sure you want to burn your bridges like this?”\\
'''Me''': “[Manager], I don’t want you to take this personally, but h*** yes, I do.”
--->'''Manager''': “Uhhh, [My Name], I get that you’re upset, and I honestly don’t blame you, but are you sure you want to burn your bridges like this?”\\
'''Me''': “[Manager], I don’t want you to take this personally, but h*** yes, I do.”
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* WordSaladHumor: Whenever [[https://notalwaysright.com/better-than-a-sharp-thwap-to-the-head/318195/ this lady]] is faced with a service worker going into autopilot, she says something completely nonsensical in order to reset their brain. When she mistakenly tries to use an expired coupon, she has to say "For high tea, I like to grab the bean berries off of my turkey bushes before the surfboards see them" to get the cashier out of the resulting "Sorry, ma'am, this coupon is expired" loop.
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* TheUnintelligible: Encountered in [[https://notalwaysright.com/then-who-was-phone/288322/ this inexplicable phone call]]. One commenter speculates that the call was redirected to an after-hours call center and garbled by a failing connection.
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