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Hey, hey, Waffle gang, I do hope you are well. My name is Mark and today we're checking out some more Reddit stories.

And if you do love a Reddit story, why not consider him, hit their like, subscribe, maybe that notification bell too.

Let's crack straight on with today's first story.

Now today's first story I fancied, it's Friday of course something a little bit spicy,

a little bit cheeky and it's from the malicious compliance subreddit from Rights for Doe 42 who says

no one can fire my boss so she does it herself. This isn't my story but I was able to witness

it in all its glory because I used to work for one of the people involved.

Years ago, I used to work at a state government agency where my boss was a political appointee.

Her mum was a big wig in our governor's party who wrangled a political appointment for her daughter,

which meant she had some clout behind her.

Let's call her Shannon. Shannon was not good at her job at all. She was frequently out the office for

meetings, e.g. two hour lunches, coffee with friends, a bit of shopping. She was also a bully and a

tyrant. She bullied her staff and would hold the threat of firing over everyone's

heads to get them to do what she wanted. She wasn't a micromanager because she was never around

enough to actually micromanage anything. And she was widely disliked throughout the entire building.

This was a large agency, so to have a building where almost everyone disliked you took a lot of work.

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