Karma Stories

A boss refuses a simple $20 expense and ends up paying six times more. A micromanaging project manager demands a breakdown of every minute, only to watch the client’s bill nearly double. Elsewhere, ridiculous sick-day rules, questionable café charges, pointless dress codes, and overly specific instructions give employees the perfect opportunity for malicious compliance. This rapid-fire collection features 11 short Reddit stories where people follow the rules exactly as written, and the people who created them quickly realize they should have been much more careful.
Submit your stories to: storysubmissions@karmastoriespodcast.com

Seventeen rude strangers, judgmental relatives, relentless bullies and painfully nosy people are about to discover what happens when they push the wrong person too far. In this hour-long collection from r/TraumatizeThemBack, harmless questions turn painfully awkward, attempted humiliation backfires spectacularly and some perfectly timed responses leave everyone in the room speechless. These Reddit stories prove that before commenting on somebody’s body, family, disability or personal life, it might be wise to stop and mind your own business.

Submit your stories! : storysubmissions@karmastoriespodcast.com

A father issues an ultimatum he never expects his own child to accept, a workplace suspension turns into an unexpectedly perfect vacation, and two lazy group-project partners discover that pretending to contribute only works until the questions begin. Today’s collection of malicious compliance stories is packed with terrible management decisions, petty revenge, stubborn authority figures, and people who follow ridiculous instructions far more literally than anyone intended. Sit back and enjoy another satisfying episode of Karma Stories, featuring stories from Reddit’s Malicious Compliance community.

A regional sales manager claims he has found a faster and more efficient way to handle valuable product samples, but a suspicious inventory report and one unexpected social media post suggest something is seriously wrong. What begins as a routine workplace reconciliation quickly uncovers missing merchandise, questionable write-offs, an unauthorized storage operation, and a corporate mess that reaches far beyond one rogue employee. This follow-up Reddit workplace story is packed with bad management, inventory chaos, costly shortcuts, and nearly $40,000 in consequences.
Submit your own stories! storysubmissions@karmastoriespodcast.com

A new Finance Manager thinks he has found an easy way to slash unnecessary business travel costs, even after the employees responsible for a major trade show warn him that the schedule leaves no room for delays. When ordinary bad weather hits their dangerously tight connection, the company is forced into expensive emergency flights, premium setup labor, rushed vendor work, and an embarrassing opening in front of important retail buyers. This malicious compliance and bad boss story shows what happens when management ignores experienced employees, treats operational safeguards as wasted money, and risks an entire trade show to make one spreadsheet look better.
Submit your stories to: storysubmissions@karmastoriespodcast.com