In this Karma Stories episode, Rob reads two intense Am I the Butthole updates. In the first, a woman in Kenya refuses to give her younger brother half her inherited land after he sold his own share to fund a business that failed; despite pressure from their mother and relatives, she and her older brother decide to keep their titled land, not let the brother build on it, and instead provide a monthly allowance to their mother and brother. In the second, a mother pulls her 13-year-old daughter from a sleepover after being disturbed by a friend’s stepdad’s behavior, then shares factual concerns with other parents; a group chat spreads the information, the other mom cuts contact, and the girls remain friends but the situation strains the friendship.

00:00 Welcome to Karma Stories

00:26 Story 1

04:17 Story 1 Update

10:04 Story 2

15:36 Story 2 Update

This episode features multiple “Tales from the Front Desk” stories where hotel staff confront entitled, careless, or aggressive guests. A newlywed couple tries to check in without ID or a credit card and only gets a room when a high-tier guest agrees to cover incidentals, then room damage is discovered. A hostile guest repeatedly rings and throws a desk bell, gets put on a do-not-rent list, and is ultimately removed in handcuffs after escalating with police. Another story involves a sister-property GM trying to bully staff into granting an employee rate outside proper channels, and a separate mix-up where a couple insists they called the hotel but has arrived at the wrong location. The episode ends with a snowstorm incident where guests demand staff shovel their personal cars despite clear hotel policies.

00:00 Welcome to Karma Stories00:27 Story 104:51 Story 208:39 Story 313:03 Story 416:29 Story 5

Today’s episode delivers a rapid-fire set of malicious compliance wins: a night-shift guard gets hit with a ridiculous “electricity theft” accusation and flips it back on management, a food-box pickup line-cutter gets shut down by the number system, a teacher “fixes” a grading complaint in the most painful way possible, a warehouse prank quest ends with an unexpected twist, a radio email contest gets automated into chaos, and a boxcar photo rule leads to a compliance submission nobody will forget.

00:00 Welcome and Setup

00:30 Accused of Stealing Power

04:14 Comment Reactions and Host Take

05:59 Food Box Line Numbers

08:47 Teacher Grade Fix Backfires

11:19 The Impossible Plint Ladder

13:40 Email Contest Automation

16:36 Boxcar Photo Compliance

18:40 Wrap Up and Goodbye

Rob from Karma Stories narrates a collection of “I Don’t Work Here” tales: a man shovels out neighbors after a snowstorm and a pushy woman assumes he’s with the HOA and demands her walkway; a shopper’s wife is mistaken for a Walmart employee and insulted; a museum visitor gets asked three times in two hours if they work there; a POS repair tech is pressured to check out a customer on a register being disassembled and a manager confirms they don’t work there; two friends buying mannequins during a Kmart closing sale are mistaken for staff while dressing them; a grocery shopper helps someone find strawberries after being mistaken for an employee; a Berlin art gallery visitor is mistaken for a guide; a dog park regular is assumed to be a trainer and ends up hearing an emotional end-of-life dilemma; and an understaffed appliance store mix-up ends wholesomely when a couple helps another customer.

00:00 Welcome and Setup

00:24 Snow Shoveling Mixup

04:29 Walmart Mistaken Employee

06:38 Museum Authority Vibes

08:55 Register Repair Standoff

11:55 Headless Mannequin Kids

15:33 Wholesome Strawberry Help

16:54 Berlin Art Guide Confusion

18:25 Dog Park Heart to Heart

21:14 Gaming Store Helpful Couple

24:27 Wrap Up and Farewell

In this episode, a 26-year-old woman who is nearly 12 weeks pregnant discovers an explicit Snapchat sent to her husband while he sits nearby, revealing a “best friend” contact and sparking fears of infidelity. After seeking advice and support, she investigates with her sister, consults her uncle (a divorce lawyer), and calmly confronts her husband. He initially lies and blames her pregnancy, but eventually admits to an ongoing affair that began around the time they met through his friend. She plans a divorce, prioritizes protecting her health with STI testing, intends to keep the baby, and focuses on securing her home and child support, leaning on strong family support as she prepares for court.

Enjoy 2 HOURS of Malicious Compliance!

This is a compilation of previous episodes all in a 2 hour package for you to play while working, driving or doing things around the house!

In this episode of Karma Stories, Rob reads a new batch of posts from the Entitled Parents subreddit, featuring multiple situations where overbearing or boundary-crossing parents create public drama and put others in uncomfortable positions. Across the stories and comment highlights, the common thread is adults demanding special treatment, refusing accountability, and escalating conflicts in ways that impact kids, partners, and strangers alike, with a focus on how important boundaries and consequences are when dealing with entitled behavior.

Rob shares malicious compliance stories: an overworked employee is pushed into an impossible deadline, stays late to deliver, then uses coaching and boundary setting to force realistic timelines in front of the team and regain control of workload. A UK worker has a small parking expense denied, so they follow travel policy to claim first class, hotel stays, meals, and taxis that cost far more. In a busy deli, an employee is yelled at for looking at a phone, so they take the full uninterrupted break they are owed during the rush. Finally, an IT developer forced to wear a tie complies with a ridiculous one, then takes a confidential side task that is far easier than managers expect.

Today I’m doing something different and reading from a series of family history letters my grandparents wrote in the mid 1990s after I asked what life was like growing up in the 1920s to 1940s and how the world changed. In Installment One, my grandfather recalls early cars, operator run telephones, and gathering around the radio, along with big family Sundays and how WWII forced young men and women to grow up fast. Installment Two shifts to romance as my grandmother tells how she met my grandfather at a Toronto house dance on the eve of her 16th birthday, then they describe how each joined the services during the war. I also read part of Installment Three with vivid childhood summers at a Lake Simcoe cottage, lake adventures, farm work, and roaming freedom.

In this episode of Karma Stories, Rob shares three malicious compliance tales: a manufacturer helps a customer with an urgent order using available stock, only to be publicly criticized, so the company switches to strict “to-the-contract” deliveries, making the customer wait the full 12-week lead time and costing them major downtime. Next, a veteran trucker warns another driver that his hazmat placards are displayed incorrectly, gets brushed off, and later sees him hit with a costly DOT out-of-service ticket. Finally, an aerospace engineer describes how a defense contract required sharing legacy aircraft analysis data with a competitor, leading to escalating demands for more usable formats, until it’s revealed the real key is proprietary source code the company owns, helping them secure the lucrative work.

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