Some supervisors don’t understand how demanding jobs are.

This lot associate was tasked with another project in addition to his other duties of rounding up carts and helping customers in the parking lot.

He did the project, but left the parking lot in chaos.

Read the full story below for more details.

ASM gives me more work and it backfires spectacularly

I work at Home Depot as a lot associate. My main job duties involve collecting carts from the lot and being on call to help customers load heavy items into their vehicles.

Since I’m typically the only lot person scheduled during my shift, this means I’m running back and forth trying to help customers and get carts. It really is a job that needs two people (one on each end of the store), but it’s just me.

Now I can usually handle this, but when I’m assigned other projects on top of that, it’s too much.

On one such day, the head cashier (supervisor), who we’ll call Karen (usually a nice lady, but has Karen tendencies as you will see) told me that Kyle (ASM) had such a project for me.

He wanted me to clean out an area at the side of the store and move a bunch of carts there. This was going to take at least a couple of hours because the area was such a mess.

And since this was during the summer when the store was busier than usual, I would be constantly interrupted with loading calls and trying to maintain the lot.

This employee did exactly what he was asked, but left everything else in disarray.

This is where the malicious compliance comes in.

Kyle wanted me to focus on cleaning that area, which I did. It ended up taking 5 hours (bear in mind that I also answered several loading calls during that time).

The problem? I didn’t spend any of that time collecting carts so after those 5 hours, the lot was a huge mess of carts scattered about.

Karen was not happy about it (as she gets really picky about the lot being free of carts).

But I looked her dead in the eye and told her that I was just doing what she and Kyle told me to do.

I then went for lunch while associates from other departments had to round up all the carts. After that, Kyle never asked me to take on other projects.

I bet they started to understand how hard your work really is.

Let’s read the comments from other readers.

This one finds the story relatable.

Here’s some sage advice.

Another reader chimes in.

This person asks some valid questions.

And here’s a good suggestion.

Extra work without extra pay? No, thanks.

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