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Gabija Palšytė

Employee Goes On Vacation And Doesn’t Take The Company Phone As Told, It Costs The Company $6K

In many workplaces, the people in power make decisions that mostly exist to satisfy their ego, to the detriment of everyone else. Generally, there is very little anyone can do but grit their teeth and just survive through it. But sometimes an employee might see a perfect opportunity to comply with the new rule in a hilariously hostile way.

A worker shared a hilarious (and expensive) bit of malicious compliance when they were instructed to not take their company phone anywhere. We got in touch with the worker in the story to learn more.

Some workplace rules don’t actually make any sense

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