Think about it. They're always shitting on carnists, but you've never seen one criticize busnists, trainnists, or even bikenists, now have you?

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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/NoodlesTheCat4077 on 2024-10-25 20:30:53+00:00.

I (54M) 5'10 and about 290 lbs. So I am kind of fat and put on a lot of weight recently. I work in a production facility in the Mountain West in a very small town. About 300 employees.

This facility is of course a 'like family' atmosphere which is fine whatever. They feed us a couple times a month. The food is a mix of catering from large local restaurants, chain restaurants or home-cooked meals. The food is really pretty good 9 out of 10 times, no complaints there.

So last night they catered Buffy Wild Wingers Stop for dinner, this is a new addition to the lineup. I am greeted by a couple of higher ups and HR types. I am a little distracted because I really don't know or like these guys too much, it's not the regular management crew I am used to doing the food. And I have had a few one-off experiences with a couple of them that didn't really go too well. But everything is friendly and cordial while I load up my plate with like 20 boneless wings and a bunch of other stuff that was there. I am hungry. There were like 6 kinds of wings in warmers on the bar in the breakroom.

So I eat them, exchange more pleasantries and get up to leave. I am looking around the breakroom, because it is 'the other' breakroom that I don't frequent. There is a sign at the beginning of the line that says 'please take only 6 pieces of chicken for your meal'.

TL;DR Didn't see the sign we could only have 6 chicken wings, took 20

EDIT: Didn't know the phrase 'kind of' was going to set some people off. Yes I am fat.

As described below, they were 'chicken nuggets'. Didn't even cover the bottom of the large paper plate. I wasn't trying to be a glutton.

It wasn't an 'office party'. It was a meal provided to production workers at 1:00 am in the middle of nowhere. You can go outside at night and not see the lights from the nearest town.

TIFU is supposed to be I didn't see the sign, not that I am a gluttonous asshole with no respect. Guess I shouldn't have mentioned that I was fat.

This is my cat's cousin. (My brothers cat) Lol

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Unlikely_Ad2116 on 2024-10-25 21:52:29+00:00.

This story is called "The Unpromotables".

Important backstory: In the USA, Government jobs are under the Civil Service System. This is supposed to ensure that Government jobs are given out "based on what you know, not who you know." For example, to get a job as an entry-level accountant, one would need to meet the minimum qualification of a Bachelor of Science in Accounting. Periodically, a test would be given for that position. The people who score highest on the test are first in line for jobs. This uses "The Rule of Three." The job is supposed to go to one of the three highest scoring candidates who agree to accept the job if offered. Promotion examinations are held the same way.

Needless to say, managers and politicians HATE this.

There was a group of employees at my State agency who took every promotion exam we were qualified for. And generally got top scores on all of them. We all had excellent work records, and even awards for productivity, innovation, and "going the extra mile." None of us had any black marks in our personnel files other than maybe a "counseling memo." That is basically a slap on the wrist, less than a formal writeup- "Boss told employee not to do X ever again."

However, we had problems like use of offensive language. We said inappropriate things like "Why are we doing this this way? This is awkward and inefficient! We can streamline this process!" Bosses don't like this kind of language.

We also brought offensive materials into the workplace. Such as "Look at this. It says right here in Chapter X, Section Y of Z State Law we're doing this wrong!" Bosses don't like this either.

So now we have a group of highly qualified, motivated employees sitting on top of the promotion lists. The people the bosses wanted to promote were lower on the lists. But if three of us applied, were interviewed and said "Yes" then the job legally had to be given to one of us. We got to know each other because the lists were available to employees. We started with calling each other- "Did you apply for X promotion?" We sort of became a support group. We'd even meet for lunch or drinks after work sometimes, and called ourselves "The Unpromotables."

Then we realized something. Why are we only applying for jobs we want? This is where the Malicious Compliance comes in. The bunch of us started applying for every promotion we were on the list for. No matter how bad the job, how mean the boss, how toxic the office, no matter what the duties- we all applied. And when asked if we'd accept the job if offered, we all said yes.

We heard through the grapevine that this was driving management insane. Their teacher's pets and brown nosers wanted promotions. But we were blocking them. Whenever management tried something shady, they quickly found out that all of us knew our rights under State Civil Service Law backwards and forwards. It was both funny and frustrating to see management leave a position unfilled rather than give it to any of us. This was also not popular with the employees in those offices, who now had to pick up the slack from the vacant position (which was above their pay grade) as well as their own, with no increase in pay.

I was actually offered a promotion once, and the hiring manager had started onboarding me- but the big boss over both offices shot it down, because they didn't want to lose me from my old position. That boss blocked my promotions for over a decade.

Sorry this doesn't have a happy ending. That was still the status quo when I took early retirement the second I turned 55. Was planning on working longer, but 30+ years of a steady diet of toxic crap was drastically affecting my physical and mental health.

Permission to read on YouTube, permission to edit for grammar and spelling.

EDIT: Thanks to everybody who responded. Hearing that this happens to other people really gave my self-esteem a boost, and will help with my healing journey.

Dang, really s***s to be so accultured to have negative opinions of mental health care that I hesitated to type "healing journey."

The best part is that fully half of these are addressed to my mom…

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The original was posted on /r/goodanimemes by /u/Con___artist on 2024-10-26 00:08:46+00:00.

Other sources:

• VOA.
• Middle East Monitor.

IDF announcement:

• Video.
• Official Telegram post.

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The original was posted on /r/upliftingnews by /u/Beratungsmarketing on 2024-10-25 20:57:42+00:00.

Let’s discuss tasks, contestants and the show in general.

Spoilers ahead.

summer-fall 2024 theme is posts, poles, tubes exclusively

~~It isn't letting me upload the rest.~~ Able to upload a few more but am still being limited. Lemmy.ml is tired of my bullshit.

Can a PhD (Or a doctorate or an MD) choose to use a gendered title instead of Dr? For example, suppose an AFAB PhD comes out as a trans man. Is he allowed to use Mister to affirm his gender? Or is he stuck in the gender neutral Doctor zone forever? Does he have to get knighted by the British monarchy in order to get a masculine title?