I love how excited Dabney gets when trees get brought up. In another life, he could have been a tree lawyer.

Anne: "Remove the fence!" OP: **Removes the Fence** Anne: "Uh...when are you building a new fence? My dog might run away and is chewing my furniture!" Love it when people demand you do something that will affect them in the long run, inadvertently shooting themselves in the foot.

I’m suprised big boss wasn’t fired in story two. What’s even more funny is that he is trying to retaliate against OP, but to no avail.

Those types of wildlife management jobs are pretty essential but it’s neat that they got paid just doing nothing except organizing the office

Last story: Ronnie is literally the sort of boss that gets employers sued for violating worker protections. HR took one look at OP and went "the lawsuit isn't worth it."

The "Zero Overtime" story reminded me of something I used to say all the time: "You can annoy your direct manager all you want as long as THEIR higher ups are favorable to you."

Story2: OP misunderstood, they don't want to pay you overtime, but still expect you to do it. That's typical of a non-represented position, particularly a manager. it's "covered" by the "premium" salary managers are paid.

Story 1: Bubonic plague (Y. Pestis) is endemic in prairie dogs. So monitoring this dangerous pathogen in the animal reservoir seems a reasonable public health measure. OTOH, the mismanagement of OP’s position is par for the course for management types.

I operate under the assumption that most if not all management people from the top down are "bonus driven", meaning... the less money that is spent and the more that is made the bigger THEIR bonus is, which is fine in principle, but what it also means is that they will eagerly throw people under a bus, burn them at the stake and are short sighted on how doing so may have negative consequences later down the line, all to insure their bonus is maxed out for the immediate pay period.

Due Date story: Trying to force a pregnant lady that was near due date to work entirely on-site? That's no good. But really, I hope Ronnie got reprimanded for trying to pull that s**t

Overtime story: I love to see bosses lose more money after trying to cut costs they shouldn't be cutting.

“[...] she works with big cats[...] No, she does not miss her job” Yeah, that REALLY wasn't my question here. DOES SHE GET TO CUDDLE MASSIVE KITTENS?!?!

I'm a consultant. We build these contracts to take place for 3-5years, with baked-in salaries for half a dozen people. Then we complete the project in less than a year, but the contract requires we are paid out ALL salaries to my company for the remaining two years. So, we staff one person who clocks in for 8 hours per day for years whose entire job is just to forward calls in case someone has a question about an already finished project. This lady receives maybe one call per month and makes 6 figures because she's on the books for a dozen contracts. Chillest job ever.

"big blue" is not a consulting company, its literally IBM

I have been watching Casual Criminalist, which is mostly about serial killers. I am trying to picture any of them receiving a letter where they are scolded by some rando. lol

That guy was paid more than twice as much as most teachers for keeping a journal.

Also story 1: This is an illustration that when you're paid hourly, you're paid for your time, not your labor. I experienced this once for about two months when I was a temp in the mortgage industry before I was hired full time. We had almost no Work to do but the boss didn't want to let two of us go so he hid us off in a corner of the building and told us to just show up clock in amuse ourselves then clock out and leave

Story 5: The old lady fell victim to one of the classic RSLASH blunders: never cut down someone else's trees. Last story: Isn't it illegal to deny reasonable accommodations for medical conditions like pregnancy? Ronnie could've landed the school/office in heaps of trouble if that's the case.

“She wrote to a bunch of serial killers in prison to tell them how disappointed she is in them” That’s excellent 😂😂 disappointment is always so much worse than anger 😂

Always take advantage of your employers to the maximum possible extent.

rSlash "...she works with big cats" me: does she know Carol Baskin? 🤔

Yeah prairie dogs carry the plague™️ and it’s something that every Coloradan has told me since I moved here lol

Me eating Mac and cheese at 9am listening to Rslash

I have one of those gravy train jobs like in Story 1. It was an internship at a company who had thought of hiring a person instead of buying a software that would do the same job. The job was to do patent searches to check if their invention would not infringe on existing patents. In the time that I had worked there they only had 2 patents and both of those were already published meaning that the work had gone beyond the point where my work was needed. I worked there for 6 months and would have worked there for even more but I had ended up with an actual job with the salary x5 more than my internship stipend. I sent them the notice to quit and did end up receiving another month of salary after I had quit.

Fence Story: Y'know, maybe she shouldn't have immediately jumped to threatening legal action when talking to OP about the fence. Like, maybe just ask OP to adjust the fence without the threats

For that last story, aren't pregnant women considered a protected class or something? Like your employer is required to provide reasonable accommodations, and if they retaliate against you for being pregnant (eg they fire you) then they can get sued? Not a lawyer, but I do wonder if OP in that last story had a case or something.

Find you someone who loves you the way Dabney loves tree law

Story 1: heard this on another channel and the guy actually dedicated the ENTIRE VIDEO to this story and all of the comments’ stories about people ending up in the EXACT SAME situation!!! Apparently it’s more common than you think. 🤣🤣 This doesn’t even include a story that this YT’er covered a year or 2 ago where the same thing happened to a Redditor in middle management and he ended up mooching off of the company for a year to a year and a half or so? I don’t remember the timeline but that post had at least 10-15 updates as he updated the readers pretty regularly, and the video the other YT’er did was hilarious. So apparently this kind of thing isn’t too uncommon. Lmao 🤣🤣

For the fence story, I just thought she was going to lose some of her yard when it got moved, but to have that fence removed altogether is way more deserving toward that hateful woman. She can pay to get her own fence now. Screw her. :P

Kinda reminds me of my old job at the VERY beginning of the pandemic! I was an associate practitioner in the COVID testing labs set up by the NHS and when everyone was told to stay home, we may have had one or two hours of work per week as no one was testing initially... (after about 3 months though, it got busy), That being said, I said I was available to begin work in January but the lab didn't open until March, so I got paid 2 months salary to stay at home!

That first one....I would have written a book or something while "on-the-job" lol

Re. the story about the guy getting $250k for sitting at home writing a journal, "Big Blue" was the nickname for IBM.

When I was a kid, there was this mean ass dog that lived in the neighborhood. All the neighborhood kids knew to be weary around that yard. One day, we're all playing outside when someone realizes the door leading to the dogs backyard was wiiiide open. We all take off and my lil brother was around 5 or so, so his running speed was...lacking and well, someone had to slow that beast down 😶 he then acquired another dog bite scar to his collection cause it was not the first nor would it be the last 🤦‍♀️

My day can't start without my R/slash. 😊

It's the friend of the OP in story 1 writing to literal serial killers and chastising them for what they did that cracks me tf up. 😂😂

Hello Dabney!

I can't be the only one that started chanting TREE LAW TREE LAW TREE LAW!, right? ...right?!?!

My malicious compliance story recently: I am a sales person at an IT company. Recently, just close the largest single deal in the almost 40 years of the company's existance. Relevant as obviously I am one of the top achievers at the company. The company is enforcing return to office 3 of the 5 days a week. When I go to the office, I ensure only the urgent work is done (just to keep my customers happy) and then spend the day chatting with colleagues. Removing both them and myself from doing work. You want me in the office to improve productivity? Good luck with that.

morning everyone, time to rise and grind with r/slash in the background 🗣

Regarding the 18 months of doing nothing for Big Blue, ie. IBM: it was once calculated by an internal employee there that, due to all their overhead of meetings to confirm every aspect of every decision anyone ever thought they'd made, it would take at least 9 months to ship a product that was just an empty box. The fact that they got found out in a mere 18 months is, frankly, amazingly fast.

i love that these past few videos have been getting longer, thanks Dabney !!

1st story: Why did the OP's friend writing serial killers to them she's disappointed in them make me laugh so hard?? 🤣🤣

Oh man I would've ran a side business, write a book, get my resume updated by getting more skills and keeping my prospective jobs openings on LinkedIn if I had that sweet job.

The story where the guy wasn't getting any overtime and the other company didn't like that fact reminds me of what happened to my dad. During the 2008 recession when lots of people were losing their jobs My dad didn't lose his job but he wasn't getting paid anymore they basically said well tell you when you have more work to do. Well apparently he was working on a project and the company involved with the project told the owners of the company my dad worked for that if my dad didn't come back to work on that project they were going to take their business elsewhere. So my dad ended up being one of the only workers with basically full time employment again. Not always bad though apparently The owners realized that if some people got degrees that could be beneficial to them so they were actually paying for people to go to college. When the owners decided to get out of that chunk of their business My dad went to work for the other company with a substantial pay raise of course.

I think in your comment about managers in the support story that you forgot that OP and their boss were managers with their boss sounding more like the VP of that sector if the company

Need more tree law stories

you're legally allowed to cut off any branches that cross your property line so long as you stay exactly on your property

Razzy can get through BAMBOO? That's one tough doggo! I mean, they used to use bamboo for armor!💙

Imagine spending many laborious hours learning a new skill just to find out that you don't like that skill? Well, at least they got paid for it.

I listened to this last night, and I happened to be watching worst roommate ever just now, where a soldier was poisoned but the initial cause of death was thought to be plague from a prairie dog. Season 2 episode 3. Made me wonder if these things are perhaps related. Depending on timing of each case, of course.

1st story: lmfao my previous position was basically being part of the furniture. and yes it was a government job lol. during that time i enrolled in Mandarin Class, tried to learn digital art, read books, tried to learn morse code but quit 2h later cuz of my adhd and brought my gaming laptop to work. i eventually transferred to another government sector that doesn't drive my adhd brain to insanity lol

Something similar happened to me, only not job-related. When we still had Cable TV we were only paying for 1 group of channels. Then a special promotion occurred and we got a 2nd group of channels. We didn't know about the deal and still had the channels for years until we changed something I don't recall. So without the 2nd bundle, we called our provider to ask what happened. That's when we discovered they had been giving us a free bundle for years and didn't notice.

12:13 -- Ooooh! He did a Picard Maneuver! He did say "on screen" a lot so that counts right? And if his second-in-command happened to see it and took action, would that count as his Number One making it so?

Last story, Ronnie is not a doctor. HR needs to let her know that before OP drowns that place in legal action.

I actually have a sweet government-ish job related to the certification of PDO and PGI wine and grapes. On paper I work 8 hours a day minimum wage, but in reality I work 2 month of the year in total hours. We have a busy season around September and we have a wine tasting every month or two, but my office hours with the public are 9am-1pm and I'm alone in my office, my boss is busy and has given me freedom to basically do whatever, because when it comes to it, I do my job extremely well. So I have another job in the afternoon, which sometimes pays me triple my minimum wage (private ESL teacher) and it's awesome. My position is actually necessary for the industry, but very uneventful the majority of the year. We do some projects here and there, but it's the best gig. I also get the best regional wines for free.

Rslash: I’d love to see that guys journal entries. Day 416: - Markiplier AD: I am desperately begging -

Do to the concept of adverse possession the new home owner did need to do something if she wanted to keep ownership of the land that the fence was on and not lose the land sometime in the future. From my amateur knowledge of property law I would think that drafting up an easement to allow the fence to stay for a duration of time would be enough.

For the fence: tell her that if it is on her property, it is her problem, and hers to take down.

Zero Overtime - It's not simply that Upper Management thinks the grunts are expendable, it's that they think we're replaceable, that there's a thousand like us just waiting to step in when they break us.

Yes, plague is still common in the American South West. In New Mexico alone, the average is 11 cases per year.

I had a no OT allowed job once too... I was given the same "orders" to cut all OT on Friday! Well for several weeks my time on the clock for Friday was 2-3 hours instead of 8. So, then i was to cut my OT on Thursdays and just immediately leave at the end of my shift on Friday. The first Friday of this new rule... No one shows up all day for my department, so i have to do my job while also answer customers questions as well as i was the only one forklift certified in the store... I still ended the week with 3 hours of OT! Management just gave up and tole me to try to keep OT to under 3 hours 🤣

10:31 I had to do the same thing at a (just over) minimum wage supermarket job. One week I did 33 (of 39, not in US nothing to do with denying benefits) hours in 3 days including a 13 hour day when someone called in sick and we were nearing the end of the tax year so no overtime for anyone, just short shifts if you’ve gone over your time. I tried to explain to the manager on duty of the Friday that I needed to leave early both that day and Saturday, he ignored me and sent me home half an hour early on the Friday and told me it was ‘fine’. He was less happy coming to me on Saturday morning about half 9 when he told me I had to leave at 10, and I would get the half hour of overtime whilst I covered for my replacement coming in.

my best work malicious compliance story: I was a graphic coordinator for a larger newspaper in Georgia. The year I started, the Super Bowl was in Atlanta and we were close enough that the newspaper could print a Special Edition for that Sunday. One major car dealership bought a full page color ad for the event. When the ad came to my desk to check for both graphic and mechanical error to print, the words SUPER BOWL were glaring across the top of the page with the Super Bowl logo on it. I brought this to the attention of the designer who said it's what the ad rep and client wanted. I went to the ad rep and explained SUPER BOWL and the logo were copyright infringement and being so close to Atlanta, it was going to be noticed by the NFL. This ad rep didn't like me in the first place because he knew I knew he was full of BS most of the time and called him out a lot on it. He finally said "I'm who brings money into here, just do your F------- job." I decided no, and went to the director of advertising.who literally said to me "you're about as important as a fry cook at McDonald's. Just do your job and run what the client wants." I said fine, but I WANT IT IN WRITING that this ad is running against advisement. I wrote the letter, got both the ad rep and director to sign and gave each a copy. I also sent a copy to HR who just ignored it as me causing issues. The aftermath" the NFL DID see the ad and sued the newspaper AND the dealership. When HR called a meeting about it, the ad rep AND director started throwing me under the bus saying as coordinator I should have known, I should have warned them and HR said they received nothing saying from anyone about it. That's when I produced copies of the signed letter to everyone there, including the owner and publisher of the paper. And I said, if you want to see the original, I will provide it. If I'm fired over this, I'll provide it to my attorney. The owner, who transifered me there from another newspaper he owned in the Midwest, said "no, that's ok. I think I've seen what I need. You're excused." It was my lunch hour then so I took it. When I returned, the ad rep was cleaning his desk and the name of the director was being removed from the wall next to his door. I heard the newspaper settled with the dealership and the NFL for a total amount somewhere in the six figure range. All for a $3500 ad I said was wrong.

If I got paid to do nothing, I'd code my own personal projects all day just to look like I'm doing something important

Sounds like the big manager was trying to get himself a bigger end of year bonus for himself by reducing budget expenditure from overtimes, but since sometimes managers are only hired to deal with a team/ people and dont know how the actual buisness works he didnt realize what probelms he was causing. And since he is a manager he probably wouldnt even listen to asvice

The first story was literally at the George Costanza level of nuts.

The first story is kind of frustrating. This kind of thing happens all the time and it’s a big factor in government spending. It’s the reason why defence contracts are so big, so much waste because of negligence. Yea this is not OP’s friends fault but they obviously could have said something before just wasting a year of time with an office full of people

The first story has me howling 😂😂😂😂😂 the things they did for boredom 😂😂😂😂😂😂

The zero overtime story was giving me flashbacks of when I worked in customer service. NEVER AGAIN!

Ah yes, my daily R/slash after doing an all nighter, how nice

22 inches of yard means a lot more in the UK than... America or Australia. If our neighbour moved the back fence 22 inches closer into our property, we wouldn't be able to open our back door anymore.

Too bad that the employees of the first job didn't have a board game hobby. Would have made it the perfect job

"Paid for nothing" was crazy, I just wish the girl never saw her boss.

Ah yes don’t talk and be nice to your neighbours, throw the book at them and then suffer the consequences.

I wanna hear the boredom christmas jingles....

So "Ronnie" just wants to continue forcing a VERY pregnant woman to work on an on-job site? That's a form of abuse of power, on top of an illegal act! If a pregnant woman is pushed to the point of being forced into labor, a miscarriage or even harm to both the mom and the baby, then it's a SERIOUS problem! Not only would the person who forced the pregnant to keep working get into serious legal trouble, but so would the company that OP works at. And I wouldn't be surprised if OP filed a lawsuit against Ronnie for endangering the health and safety of both herself and her unborn baby!

Story 1: This is peak George Costanza right here.

1st: Average government job moment, wouldn't be surprised if it was used for shady politician's less than legal stuff

Actually, good management is not expendable.

Last story was almost a lawsuit

MC with a hint of Tree Law! How exciting ^-^ I miss the Tree Law and real estate stories, but I get that AITA and MC stuff does better for the algorithm. Thanks for another great episode, Dab!

Oh that tree story really pissed me off bc recently my uncle said he knew a great Gardener for my garden and my mum just let the guy into my house while I was at work. He was only meant to cut the grass but when my mum got there he was cutting down my expensive trees! 😡 I was so angry, he's so lucky it wasn't me that caught him there. I'm so furious at both of them bc apparently he couldn't speak English so obviously he would need to be observed if that were the case. Edit Oh not to mention, you wanna know why he did that? Because my neighbour apparently told him to. Like wtf, what kind of person takes instructions from a neighbour? He said he thought she owned both houses. Oof it's got me all riled up again, I'm so frickin pissed at her.

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16:58 "this killed the tree" r/slas; -gleefully- "Uh-oh! UH-OH!" Me: -gleefully- "TrEeLaW!!!" :D

The management is dispensable thing won't work here dude, op was the manager

We'll spare no expense to save a dollar!!!

Boss gives you trouble. Well I guess I'll just call your boss

Just hit 30 guys!!! Wish me luck with it

Was not expecting a Tree Law story. 🙂

George costanza would be proud

Is there a special reason that people on Reddit and other social media say “anyways” instead of “anyway”?

I'm sure I've heard the first story from Rslash already, but like a week or so ago

Hey rslash can you do some more r/let’s not meet videos please

Bring back Tales from tech support, please.

Sadly I heard these stories last week from Darkfluff

Love the daily uploads, I watch them every morning! However, I hope that you enjoy doing it too. I feel like most people need a weekend off to have a break. Doing it daily can get tedious.

Long lunch story: it's shit like that why some states have overtime accrue at both over 40 hours a week AND over 8 hours a day.

SO many good stories today... thanks rslash! Big mood booster today

Hurry up and wait at its finest

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