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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/DeathBerryRen on 2025-10-03 00:53:37+00:00.
I'll try to keep it short and sweet. No promises.
Obligatory long time lurker, first time poster.
At my current job (warehouse, no public interaction) we all have pallet jacks. Not personal ones, but each of us has "our own" pallet jack that we use on a day to day basis. For over a year and a half, "my" pallet jack has had a sticker with my nickname on it. Between my 3 other coworkers and myself we have an understanding and everyone uses the one that's "theirs". That being said, this has never been a problem and neither has the sticker on my pallet jack...... Until we hired a maintenance guy. We'll call him Dickhead or DH for short because that's what he is.
DH decided that stickers on pallet jacks or any of the heavy equipment (those had decepticon/autobot emblems that a previous employee put on) were tacky and unprofessional. DH then started to remove the stickers on the equipment any chance he got. One day I came in and the sticker with my nickname was ripped off my pallet jack. Ok, np. Just put another one on. DH ripped that one off too one day when I was away from my area. Same deal, new sticker.
A few days after my supervisor calls me into the office and goes off on me about how maintenance has complete discretion over the equipment and how it looks and that if DH takes off a sticker, it needed to stay off. As a consequence for putting another sticker on the jack, I needed to remove it and any other stickers on there. You got it boss.
So I removed them. Every. Single. One. Warning labels? Gone. Weight limits? Gone. Brand name? Gone. Then I convinced my co-workers to do the same. "Boss said no stickers on the equipment anymore."
My boss hasn't spoken to me in a week and I can live with that. Lol.