Some managers thrive on micromanaging the smallest details, truly making a mountain out of a molehill.

When one manager berated their employee for adjusting the store computer’s cursor speed, it became the spark for a slow-burning act of rebellion.

Read on for the full story!

Want to create a problem from something meaningless? Have fun with minimum cursor speed!

I (24F) work as a cashier until the end of December to cover the needs of a certain store during Christmas sales.

That said, I’m not that worried about keeping the job or having the best relationship with people who are inconvenient.

Their manager has had it out for them since the moment they started.

Our manager seems to have been targeting me (and another specific coworker) since I joined a few months ago.

She’s accused me of being the reason for discrepancies in money for change or saying I broke electronic items I haven’t touched.

Most of the time, I’ve left her talking to herself or ignored the situation. However, we’ve had a few “fights” when limits were crossed.

The manager seems to find problems with even the smallest things.

In the last of those “fights,” she created a problem over me changing the configuration of the computer I use the entire day.

I set the cursor speed to be faster for more agility and comfort, which takes around five seconds to change back to their “default.”

But this was an absolute dealbreaker for the manager.

She called me in to talk and said I’ve been creating issues with the team by changing it.

She claimed that others who use the computer (for an hour during my lunch break) don’t like such a fast DPI on their cursor, which has led to “complaints.”

Which sent this employee into a rage.

I admit I had no patience for that.

I called her childish and sarcastically demonstrated how quickly and easily you could change the settings.

As I turned my back, she said, “Well, then change it to be slow again anytime you leave!”

So the employee made sure to do just that.

That activated the MC inside me.

Anytime I go for lunch, breaks, or leave my shift, I make sure to pop the sensitivity to the lowest possible setting, both on the mouse itself and in Windows.

Now they’re enjoying watching their manager struggle even more!

Now, I get to see her painfully slowly changing it back to normal while a client is ready to pay for their items.

She hasn’t talked to me about it since then, but I can feel the hateful glances she gives me when dealing with it!

The cursor dragged and so did their manager’s patience!

What did Reddit have to say about this?

This commenter suggests even more cursor-based pranks the employee could play.

This user would love to be a fly on the wall.

If cursor speed was such a dealbreaker, imagine the manager trying to figure out where to click.

Sometimes non-tech-savvy people are too easy to mess with.

The manager might have won the cursor battle, but the cashier had the last laugh.

With a little tech know-how, you can always be two steps ahead.

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