Malicious Compliance

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/fragmonk3y on 2024-02-22 20:03:20.

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Just read the story on composite decking tie down fail that reminded me of this story from last year. I love boating and everything about. I love spending money on it, I love being in the water, towing people on tubes, and just chilling.

One day I was coming in to the dock to trailer my boat after a really successful fun filled day and as I am on the trailer about to get out and pull away I notice the guy on the ramp as well trying to trailer his boat.

Side Note: for those that don't know, there is a winch with a line that you attach to an eyelet on the front of your boat to wench it up to your trailer to a rubber stopper to hold it down when you drive. So when you hit a bump 5,000lb's of boat does not go launching anywhere. Most eylets are below the wench so when you wench it up it sits tight against the trailer.

So you have that in your head now, this guy kept backing his boat up and raming the eyelet into the winch stopper over and over again. I yell over to the guy that his eyelet is hitting the winch and that is why he can't get his boat on the trailer. He tells me to shut the F! up. "I got this" he says" I try again, and he tells me to pound sand. So after I start pulling away from the boat ramp and I hear him throttle up, then a load bang. I look over, the eyelet on the boat is gone and the boat now has a hole in the bow were the eyelet was and he is screaming up a storm.

I just look over, smile, finish up securing my boat and leave. Meanwhile this guy is facing a huge bill and a premature end to his boating season. All he had to do is listen to some stranger...

ETA: ya ya ya! wench it up!!!! not changing it thought cuz that is some good funny right there!

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/wsotw on 2024-02-22 10:07:28.

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A few years ago I pulled into a lumber yard parking lot on my way to pick up a super small item. As I was walking through the parking lot on the way to the store I saw this guy tying about three thousand dollars worth of composite decking into the top of his truck rack. Now, if you know anything about composite decking you know that it is expensive, heavy and SUPER slick (especially when multiple boards are together). This guy was using a rope to tie this down. Now, don't get me wrong....ropes are great and there are some awesome knots out there...and this guy could have used all of them...but rope simply wasn't going to cut it, no matter what fancy knots her knew. On my way in a politely told the guy "Hey, just so you know those are REALLY slippery when stacked. A rope isn't going to cut it. You REALLY need to get a couple of ratchet straps for that." "Don't worry, I got it," he replied in the most smug way he could muster. Okay, his issue...so I went to buy my thing. Well, since it was only one thing I was back in my truck in three minutes and it turns out I was behind this guy leaving the driveway. As the front of his truck dipped into the gutter three thousand dollars worth of expensive composite decking slides right off of the top of his truck, completely obliterates his hood and fans out across the boulevard. As I drove past I honked, smiled and waved. After all...he clearly wanted me to mind my own business....so I did.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Foxglove_185 on 2024-02-22 00:03:31.

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Note: This was done on mobile, so apologies for weird formatting. This happened a few weeks ago so conversations aren't exact. Intentionally vague for anonymity, and the one name I do use is changed

I recently got a job at the same company my mom works at, and I ended up serving malicious compliance during my first week there.

Context: I recently changed jobs from a barback at a coffee shop to a production role in a small but growing company. My mom has been there for over a year, and what we do exactly isn't relevant. I got the job because of my mom, because she recommended me, knowing I'm a good worker. I basically do odd jobs and cleaning, and support the other team members.

The basic structure for this place has my mom as my direct supervisor though technically my boss is the same as my mom's boss. He's not super important here, but there is also someone who's basically overseeing production along with packaging, let's call him Tom. Tom is kinda above mom I the hierarchy, but the company is also not super big on hierarchy. This story happened during my second shift at my new role.

Onto what happened. I had finished doing something, can't really remember what, and I was going to go to my mom to get another assignment. I then saw she was talking with Tom, so I waited, though I was in their peripherals so they would see I was there. I was planning on waiting until they had a break in their conversation to ask her what she wanted me to do next, but then my mom noticed me.

She then looked at me and asked, "Foxglove! What do you think you're doing just standing around?"

"I got done with [insert task here], and was waiting to ask you what else you wanted me to do. I didn't want to interrupt you."

"Well don't just stand around! How about 'hey supervisor person, I got done with [task]. Can you give me another task?' Go do [different task]."

She then went back to talking with Tom. I just want to say here that she's actually a pretty cool boss. Though this conversation may sound harsh, she was exaggerating for comedic effect, and she and Tom are chill, so he knew she was messing with me. But still, I saw a golden opportunity.

I went off to do my newly assigned task, and when I was done, I went straight up to my mom without hesitation. In the middle of her saying something, I interrupted;

"Hey supervisor person, I'm done with [task]. Can you give me another task?"

My mom looked at me, and she kinda looked annoyed, but then realized what she had said to me about 5 minutes earlier. She chuckled at little, and looked to Tom and motioned towards me, as if to say, 'do you see what I have to put up with?'

She then asked me to wait a minute for her to be done with Tom, at which point she would assign me a new task. I waited out of earshot and got my next task.

Maybe not as dramatic as other stories on here, as the only fallout was me being told to use discretion on if I should interrupt her or not, but she didn't even reprimand me, as I just did what she told me to. Even so, I'm still pretty happy with my own little malicious compliance.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Unfunded_Teacher on 2024-02-21 14:34:28.

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I'm a teacher. I taught a class of 18 kids back in 2017. The curriculum changed near the end of the school year and it was expected for the kids to visit the zoo. Admin told me that since their budget was created at the start of the year, they wouldn't pay for the entrance fees and that I would have to pay out-of-pocket for all 18 kids. They also requested that I take pictures for their school Facebook page.

I love my students, but I love my savings too, not as much as my students but still. I couldn't justify spending over €360 on a single, non-tangible thing. So, I took the kids down to local farmer Pete's farm. All Pete asked for was a 5 euro donation per person, and that too was voluntary. I put down a €50 note for old Pete and showed the kids exotic animals like cattle, sheep, goats and chickens.

A few weeks later, I was approached by admin, they asked me for the photos. I gladly emailed it to them, with a subject title of 'Petting Zoo Pictures'. I got an email back simply saying that my conduct was not exemplary. No reprimand, no written up warning, but no photos for admin too.

The kids enjoyed it though.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/obnoxious-anon on 2024-02-20 09:14:34.

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My main has my photo and all so here we are in a new account.

This happened over 3 years ago and while telling it to my friend she laughingly said “such a malicious compliance” so decided to share here.

When I first started to my very first corporate job, there was a kitchen, full of utensils, and fridge and oven and stove… and a dishwasher. a full fledged kitchen for employees to make tea, coffee, heat their meals, even cook. They said I can bring my own glasses and put them there or use the company’s. Also, there was a woman who was working in the kitchen. Let’s call her Nilly since she puts rules willy nilly like a bully.

Second day of my job dear Nilly told me “let me remind you that no one should leave their dirty dishes in the sink.” I was surprised by the claim. Since I am new and don’t know a single shit, I thought this might be her way of bullying or it might be actually true. So smiled and asked if this means I have to wash my own glasses. She said “yes, don’t make me repeat it twice honey”

Let me remind you, there’s a dishwasher. If she isn’t cleaning the dishes, her only remaining job is vacuum the office once a week and bring tea/coffee to chiefs, to meetings and to managers.

So I decided to gather information and wait on it.

Apparently Nilly has been working in the company for 20 years and knows CEO. She knows how he drinks his tea, how he drinks his coffee, when he drinks them, what he eats with his coffee and tea… She knows all of them. If I know one thing, that is never fight a fight with the person who knows how your boss likes his coffee, especially if you’re replaceable. So fight was not an option. Cool.

I also learnt that once a week CEO brings a bag of fruits to the kitchen to share in the company. Apparently he has a fruit garden and goes there for weekends. And she would take fruits to her house at the end of the day. Old employees knew that. They would take one or two in the day, that’s how I learned this. She said to me I can get one from but it is hers. so I refused the first time offer, thinking she BOUGHT it, then learned that it was brought by CEO. (I think she implied that CEO brought it to her and she was generous enough to share it with us peasants, but this is my interpretation of her statement)

One thing about me, I look young and naive. I look dumb. As if there is some missing component in my brain.

Que malicious compliance. From my desk I could partially see the kitchen if I turn around. So on the day of fruit delivery I was constantly checking the kitchen. When CEO came in, I count to 30 and went in as well. To wash my glasses of course. I went in and said hi to everyone. This was my first time seeing CEO so he said you must be new, kindly and respectfully informed who I am and he told me who he was, I said sir I’ve checked the company before entering and knew him, which he liked. After I turned to wash my dishes. He asked me what I was doing and I said “oh I was informed that all the staff wash their own dishes”. At the same time our Nilly said I must’ve mistaken that while laughing and taking the sponge and glasses out of my hand. I said but you as if shocked and cut myself as if realization hit me then smiled like she is my best friend.

Of course I didn’t stop there I looked at the fruits, CEO told me to take some fruits, added that he brought them to the company so all the staff could enjoy. I haven’t said anything but from my expression, CEO asked what was wrong. I told nothing and told “I always thought they were Nilly’s since…” then I just smiled and asked if I can take a plate of them. With a huge plate of fruit accompanied by a huge smile, I went to my desk shared them with my team. I don’t even like fruits.

Couple hours later, I went to kitchen and our dear Nilly told me I had misunderstood things and washing dishes was her job and I shouldn’t mistake again. And added fruits were for everyone to share and I should’ve taken more if I wanted. I stupidly said oh I didn’t know and how sorry I am to cause her trouble with a sorry smile.

Guess who never had to wash dishes and had fruits to eat everyday? If your answer is Cleopatra, probably yes, but also me. Nilly would also bring tea and coffee to me from time to time, if someone she served did not want to drink. I would thank her with a huge smile and take it. Apparently she does this to all the employees she likes.

(I called them fruits instead of specifying what were they because CEO would bring, apples, oranges, tangerines, pears even sweet cherries. I don’t remember what was the specific fruit that day)

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Brewthirty17 on 2024-02-20 06:29:03.

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About 14 years ago I went to work for a major petroleum company in Indianapolis, Over my 4 years there I applied myself and gained enough knowledge to be more knowledgeable than the most senior guy. Well, one day stuff hit the fan and we were looking at a potentially major spill because the packing in a pump had failed. Nobody was doing anything and I'm a take-charge kind of guy, so I started barking orders, Now you have to understand this would have been an EPA nightmare so there was no time for niceties. The other employees went and complained and I was called into the manager's office and was told about the complaints that I just barked orders and didn't ask nicely. He told me that I did the right thing and that next time if it wasn't going to be a major issue to give them enough rope to hang themselves...Bet! So the next time I saw that they had the valves set up in such a way that 2 soap tanks (for making asphalt emulsion) would overflow and while not an EPA big deal it would bring scrutiny from the Health, Environmental, Safety, and Security decision of our company. I mentioned to them that they might want to check the valve lineup because something didn't look right. Well, they told me to mind my own business, as it was time for me to go home I called the manager from my car and said you should probably start heading to the terminal because two tanks are about to overrun, I tried to tell them but they told me to mind my own business. I didn't get halfway home before a neighbor to the facility came knocking on the door saying liquid was overflowing two tanks. As the only first responder not involved in the incident, I had to return to the facility and supervise clean up until the big guns from corporate came in about 3 hours later. All 3 were put on probation and then eventually fired for more screw-ups. The beauty of this was after that incident they were told to follow what I said explicitly, and never again complain that someone doesn't say please and thank you in a crisis. They all hated me until the day they left, why? Because I was the only person to take charge when no one else would.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/TenebrousSunshine on 2024-02-19 22:58:07.

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Some background: my husband is pretty handy. Prior to Covid, he had done several flip houses as a “fun” side gig (it’s what he loves to do), and he became very familiar with a ton of city codes.

During Covid, seems everyone was suddenly buying houses to flip out of boredom and prices sky rocketed, so he put that on hold. So then he started doing household repairs and upgrades, building fences, etc. around the neighborhood as well. To get a better understanding of the neighborhood HOA bylaws and whatnot, he joined the HOA Architectural Committee. Through that he learned all there was to know about what was allowed and what was not, how the process worked, how to work around things, etc.

Long story short, my husband was VERY knowledgeable in what to do and not do, and various processes with the neighborhood AND the city.

Our next door neighbor decided they were going to start landscaping their backyard, and they I guess planned to make theirs as similar to our backyard as possible. Problem was, despite being next door neighbors, our land was quite different. For one thing, behind our house was a bunch of brush and pine trees maybe 3-4’ from the lake that’s at the back of the house. We didn’t have to do a whole lot to clear the area, but the brush on their property was about 1/3 of their yard (I’d say 10’ from the water?). Also, the way the houses on our street are, the land naturally made like a valley, where the house to our right is at the “top”, we’re in the middle, and the next two houses are at the bottom before it very quickly rises again.

First thing the neighbors did was cut down all the trees in their backyard. They were not small trees either, but 4 story tall trees or more. Husband and neighbor were talking about the backyard plans when my husband casually mentioned he was surprised the city gave him permission to cut down so many trees (in our city, you had to have an arborist give permission to cut down any trees that were X ft tall. Neighbor first said it wasn’t the city’s business what he did with his backyard, then told my husband to mind his own business. Ok. Fair enough.

Then they started putting up the retaining wall to bring it up to level with our property, which would have been about 7-8’ tall. Basically they were just stacking a bunch of cinderblocks. My husband uneasily asked if their landscapers had ever done a retaining wall like that, and if the city approved it. City says that if a retaining wall is over 5’ tall you need a structural engineer to come out. Neighbor said again it wasn’t any of the city’s business what he did to his yard, and for my husband to mind his own business.

While they’re filling up the backyard to bring theirs level to ours, the landscapers are dumping all the dirt, gravel, and sand in the street, blocking a little over half the road. Several of the neighbors who had trucks would just hop the curb, but other neighbors with smaller cars were mad. Before my husband could ask if they could put the dirt and stuff in their driveway instead of the road (like everyone else), neighbor went off on my husband to fuck right off.

Well ok then. My husband let them continue working, and didn’t say a word as they started constructing a 10’ tall fence (which was against HOA regulations, fences couldn’t be taller than 6’).

Between them starting construction 6 days a week before 7am and them blocking the road, I guess someone had had enough. Next thing I know city officials are out there putting a big-ass sign in the yard saying all construction was to be halted until further notice. It wasn’t us, but my husband found out through the architectural committee that someone had complained about the noise and the road blockage to the HOA, who came out to investigate, saw everything they had done, and then reported them to the city. They got a hefty fine for every tree stump the city official found. The structural engineer said their retaining wall was not sound and had to be redone, and it had to have regular inspections during its build.

The HOA also told them that not only did they have to take down their 10’ tall fence, but as they did not get prior approval and because it was not an “approved design” the HOA also hit them with a hefty fine.

Initially Neighbor came after us for tattling but we told them it wasn’t us, as nothing they did affected us in any way (our kids are early risers, so even starting before 7 didn’t bother us). My husband then said he tried to warn them this would happen but Neighbor told him to fuck off and mind his own business and he did.

Landscaping had started on Black Friday, was shut down for 3 weeks while I guess they got things sorted out with the city and HOA. Their backyard is still not finished.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/eaglefeather148 on 2024-02-18 11:10:18.

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This isn't my story but a coworker I have.

I work in an airport resteraunt. You can imagine we get a lot of stuck up and bitchy people who don't see us as humans. We work our asses off to provide the best service we can under the circumstances (Working in an airport setting with unpredictable passenger numbers). For context, our resteraunt is split into 2 seperate Café's. Mine is the one before TSA, the one relevant to this story happened past TSA. Meaning this was a passenger that either went through TSA or came off a plane from the departure lounge.

The kitchen staff hand-prepare trays of vegetables with a portion of hummus. One of those vegetables is sliced cucumbers. Today my assistant manager(who runs the kitchen past security) came up to me and told me I needed to check the trays I had for sale because they found mold on the cucumbers in their trays even when they hadn't reached to expiration we have for prepared fresh foods, such as the tray in question. I subsequently pulled my trays because they did, in fact, have mold on them. Enter Act II of this story. He came to me about 30 mins later to tell me this part.

Back in Post security(past TSA), a lady had bought a vegetable tray. being the good Assistant Manager he is, he went over to make sure that it was a fresh tray. She didn't let him even get more than one word out before telling him "Go away, leave me alone". Now he isn't a mean person at all. In fact he makes the most conversation with all the customers more that the rest of our staff, including me. He took one look at the tray she purchased, it was moldy. He made a couple more attempts to try and tell her that her food had mold on it so she could get a fresh one, to no avail. He's now at a loss and just lets whatever happens, happen.

She ate the WHOLE... DAMN... THING!!... Cucumbers and all, with 0 complaints. Just goes to show, when an employee comes up to you, hear out the employee just in case they have something important to tell you. Such as "Ma'am, you are about to consume mold. How about you go choose another tray free of charge?"

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/DefaultAnthony on 2024-02-18 05:01:50.

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About 6 months ago I got a referral from my Dr. to a medical clinic to check on a minor thing that he was not worried about but was bothering me. He wrote out the referral but couldn't refer me anywhere specific. I did some research online and found a clinic near my house. I followed their process to book an appointment and sent a picture of the referral using their online form. It took 5 months for them to find any availability but I finally got an appointment. But after 6 months I couldn't find the referral form anywhere. Knowing that if I started from scratch it would take another 6 months to get an appointment I decided to chance it.

Somewhat predictably as soon as I got to the office they asked for the referral form, I asked them if they had the copy I sent in with appointment request. They did, but this was not sufficient because it was an electronic copy. And I quote "Appointments can only be held if we have the original referral or the doctors office faxes it to us." I stared at the receptionist for a moment or two dumbfounded by such a stupid policy. Then I asked for 10 minutes to work this out. I hustled out to my car and called my Dr.'s office. I got the receptionist and explained the situation. Then I grabbed a copy of the picture I had taken of my referral form (the same one that they already had) and emailed it to her, she confirmed she would fax it to the clinic right away.

I went back into the clinic and could barely suppress my smirk. I told the receptionist that there should be a fax from my Dr.'s office. As soon as she received it she compared it the picture she already had. "But this is the same picture that we already have." "Yes but it was faxed from my Dr.'s office like you requested." Slow Pikachu face for her, big smirk for me. She called over the "supervisor" who cracked up and said OK.

I got in to my appointment and it turns out my doctor was right, it was nothing. But I do have my pride at outsmarting their stupid system.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/DaikonAmbitious562 on 2024-02-18 04:44:11.

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I have a master's degree but I only attended college for a grand total of 3 years instead of the 5 years typically required for a master's.

How is this possible, you ask? I simply completed an associate's degree and then enrolled in a master's program (from the same college) where the only requirement was to have any undergraduate degree in a relevant field.

The college has changed their admissions standards now and they have explicitly stated that a bachelor's degree is required, but that was after I was accepted into the program.

That college has lost out on over $60,000 in tuition, and a bank has lost out on a lot of interest, all because of a technicality.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Blazinter on 2024-02-17 14:07:59.

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Once upon a time, I had a coordinator/micro-mangle-ger who's full list of morally reprobable acts I should not list as you're here for a MC post and not a bible.

There was a time where shortly before my alarm to head to a morning shift, I had a very abrupt and awful feeling in my stomach that prompted me to an unpleasant end of digestion. After I knew it would take longer than usual, I messaged the team's Whatsapp group to communicate that I'd be just a smidge late. This normally would be the end of it as we almost never mind slight delays, specially ~~as coordinator committed them almost every day on purpose~~ if we politely warned ~~(unlike her)~~ beforehand. But that time coordinator felt like being herself and ask for details.

Me: Suffering some sort of sudden indigestion.

Coord: You need to bring a doctor's note

Me: I'm sure I'll be fine after this and just be 10min late

Coord: You need to bring a doctor's note and then come after that

Without wanting to bother further to say how counterintuitive that is, I just comply. I go to the doc, explain the situation, and instead of giving me a note which she can't under these specific circumstances; she gave me a full day of medical leave, as I expected.

I communicate the course of events in the WhatsApp group, coordinator is angery but ought to go bite rocks, and that was that. After this experience, always that I suffered a similar instance, I just headed to the doctor right away. Was argued that as I work security and almost never can leave my spots, sudden diarrhea and risk of waiting for someone else to cover the spot while I go was too inconvenient and risky for everyone involved.

However, twas the prequel of the malicious compliance that led me to write this post.

Years passed, law finally did (part of) it's thing and ex-coordinator is washing dishes in boomfrick - nowhere. The job and workplace's positivity and efficiency peaked (who would have thought) as much as unrelated happenstances allowed, so while I almost never suffered those poorly timed Krakatoas, I did not longer felt like doing the medical exploit and just go to work finely.

One of such times occurred, I go to the toilet, warn my coworkers of my likely slight delay. This time, it was our actual real direct boss who decided to butt in. Another very vain mangle-ger even if her sabotage power levels were much lower.

Boss: Why so?

Me: Some sort of indigestion

Boss: If you feel fine to go after this then wouldn't you be able to have held until you arrived punctual at work?

Me: I thought it was better to get it out of the way first instead of potentially soiling myself on the way, or even wasting more work time by having to take longer feeling worse after having held unnecessarily longer. Also this is very abrupt. Do you know how health works?

Boss: If someone can have punctuality, should have it, period.

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Once I arrive to the workplace she was waiting for me to chew me out (even despite I actually managed to arrive in time). To which I only find myself able to respond with "is this really how you want it? How you find it most optimal for everyone involved?" And she actually doubled down by taking her phone, and sending me an email to leave it in written on the spot. I extremely doubt it is legal to enforce this, and I'm certain I could just repeat the exploit, but ~~spite~~ professionalism and love made me feel like being supportive.

I didn't suffer any bad instance again, but I would regulate myself to make it the middle of my shifts the time to execute the regular ends of my digestion. And who knows if those are going bad or not, so, I may or may not take extra time. Just in case.

Coincidentally there may have been a promo on Taco Bell or something because somehow the rest of my team also started to take longer and more frequent times at their bathroom doings. Glad to have remembered to tell them it is fine as written by our boss.

No aftermath beyond some co-workers feeling more relieved and chill at their shifts than usual thanks to having more than just 15min of rest per shift (we weren't sabotaging our own selves, coordinated well to not inconvenience anyone) and a sighting of our boss literally grinding her teeth after she learnt what she provoked. She didn't revoke anything thus far. I suspect because that'd mean admitting a wrong and by experience I can assure you that one requires a judge and lawyers for her to ever do that about anything.

PS: Boss actually makes an Euro while I make a cent.

PPS: Sorry for any typos and bad formatting. I suffer dysgraphia and I'm typing this from my phone. May or may not be while sitting on a toilet.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Superb_Raccoon on 2024-02-17 04:58:02.

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Near my former place of work was an excellent seafood place named Shelly's.

Far better then you would expect from the average strip mall outside they made amazingly good food, the pasta jambalaya, Shrimp Louie and Lobster Roll were particularly good. And lunch was reasonably cheap, usually $15 with tip if you stayed on the lunch menu. Unlimited Bread rolls ensured you would not go hungry, and they were damn good too.

One of the waitresses tho... well, she could be little trying. Must have been over 70, a former smoker, and she took 2 to 3 breaths to ask you "What.. you do you... want to drink?".

And a little hard of hearing, a challenge for my soft spoken Australian expat Cow-orker.

But she was a fixture. So you bit your tongue and you knew the chef would lay a little extra on your plate, and sometimes free dessert (Boston creme pie, house made).

Except the Karen's. Who complained and snigger behind her back. And went to the Manger, also an owner, to ask to be reseated. "Of course, let me show you to the patio!"

Well, Jimmy and I exchanged a look, because we know the patio is only open for dinner.

15 minutes later they stomped back in to complain that no one came to take their order, and they had to head back to the office, and what was he going to do about it?

"Most people take the hint, lady."

Speechless, they sputtered and left.

Meanwhile, our waitress wandered by with free pie and the check. "Anything else... boys?"

"We're good, Shelly', thanks for the pie!"

"You boys be... good. See you... next week." And then she wandered off, still working in the restaurant she started 60+ years ago, nowmrun by her son, the Manager. (At the time of the incident)

P.S. Just before Covid, Shelly passed away from emphysema related problems, 89, working in her restaurant she opened with her husband at age 19, and worked there for 70 years. Her Son took over as Manager, but she still showed up to work every day, working the lunch hour, sometimes early dinner if she felt good.

Wife and I celebrated many events there over the years, including her telling me she was pregnant after 3 years of trying and a miscarriage. SHelly was there for more than a few lunches and dinners.

My mate from Australia chipped in buy her flowers for the funeral when I told him.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/jorg17h on 2024-02-16 17:38:30.

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I work in the back office of a rather large hair salon owned by my family. I manage the stock, handle economic matters like bills, handle data entry for our customer base, solve potential hardware issues, and update our website and social media accounts. You could call me the accountant, IT support, and warehouse manager of the company.

I am diagnosed with AvPD (Avoidant Personality Disorder), and just being outside of my home equals constant agony. Hence, my family took me in to help in the store. Since my workload is fixed to a specific amount, and since I am somewhat overqualified for the job (I have studied statistics, actuarial-financial mathematics, and software development), I finish my daily duties within 1-2 hours of arriving. My only other responsibility is to close the shop (confirm that the money in the cash register is correct and lock everything, simple routine stuff). Also, I should note that I manage the economics of the whole family and have saved us about a minimum of 83,000 euros in the last 3 years, which is undisputed (I am being paid 10,000 euros a year, just as a reference).

Now, here's where the problem starts: my sister, who also works at the salon, is extremely obsessed with me being there for the full 8 hours of my shift. I understand that, but I basically end up staring at the wall and doing nothing for the remaining 6 hours of my shift. She is aware of my condition, but I can only deduce that she has dismissed it as "more than average shyness". All the while, I watch my life pass me by (now in my mid-30s, never even been in a relationship). I find myself in a situation where I feel like what I have tried to do for my family is going unappreciated, and the understanding that I ask for (going home for a couple of hours to relax from the stress before I need to come back and close shop) is considered disorderly conduct.

I am really grateful to my family for taking me in when I have no prospect of being employed by anyone else, but I struggle with thoughts of suicide and feeling like a burden because at the moment, my perceived contribution is what matters to me, not my objective one, and it's not something I can control.

So here is the solution I came up with, if you can call it that: I'll just remodel the office area in a way that allows me to do nothing, for example, watch Netflix while being there. This way, I will be a bit more able to cope with having to be out of my safe space for so long. Now they will be able to enjoy me working super slow and watching Netflix for 8 hours a day, using the office electricity and air conditioning.

I understand this was mostly a venting post. You can feel free to tell me why I am completely unreasonable below!

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Unthanked_Bus_Driver on 2024-02-16 12:16:54.

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I'm a bus driver. I pick up and drop passengers at bus stops. Passengers have to press a 'stop' button if they want the bus to stop at the next stop. Pressing the stop button flicks on a huge banner on the front of the bus, along with making a loud buzz. There are multiple stop buttons on the bus.

The condition of buses are quite bad here, some of the stop buttons are faulty. It's usually no big deal as passengers can see if the banner is flicked on, and if it's not, the passenger can just press another button or verbally tell me to stop.

However, it just doesn't register with some passengers that there is a huge, visible and audible banner. Unfortunately, these same passengers tend to lose their minds easily.

It was 9:30pm and I was driving between two large suburbs, let's call them Sunnydale and Riverdale, a passenger must have pressed the stop button but it didn't register on the banner. As I drove past the stop he yelled, "OI YA F*CKING DOG SPAZ C*NT, YA MISSED ME STOP D*CKHEAD".

I apologised and tried to explain to him that the button must have been faulty and that I would drop him at the next stop. I told him that I could not drop him off on the side of the road because I would get in trouble from the bus company as they have GPS tracking whenever I open the bus door.

The passenger just yelled, "STOP TALKING SHIT AND OPEN THE DOOR YA BLACK C*NT".

I stopped at the next stop, about 500 meters ahead, but the passenger yelled, "JUST GO TO RIVERVDALE MATE I AIN'T WALKING"

Now, what the passenger didn't know was that since Sunnyvale was a bigger town, the last bus from Sunnyvale to Riverdale was later than the last bus from Riverdale to Sunnyvale. He would be stranded at Riverdale, 4km away from his stop.

So I kept driving to Riverdale, as the passenger requested.

I dropped him and the other passengers off and closed the door. I could see him checking the posted timetable on the bus stop. I put my bus into gear and pulled out. I heard him exclaim, "HEY WAIT!' as I did so.

Unfortunately, I could not have dropped him back to his stop even if I wanted to. I have a strict schedule and change route numbers after each trip. My schedule now was to fill up the bus with diesel and head back to the depot

I filled up my bus and headed back to the bus depot. As I drove back, I saw the passenger walking on the side of the road. From 500 meters to 4km.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/JustMe4729 on 2024-02-16 01:08:52.

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Let me begin by saying I don't condone this behavior at all, but at the same time, part of me is pretty proud.

My son (7) was messing around in class and didn't follow the instructions when the teacher said to put everything except a particular packet in their folder. So the teacher corrected him, asking him again to put everything except his packet in his folder. He complied this time. The teacher led them through some steps in the packet. On the second page, she noticed he wasn't doing the work. She asked him why he wasn't doing it and he replied that he didn't have a pencil- she had told him to put everything in his folder.

Edit to add- okay, a big part of me is proud and this is totally something I would do. I just didn't want people saying I was letting my son be naughty in school. 😊

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Roguefrenzy on 2024-02-15 16:22:45.

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I work for landscaping department at a university. Right now my shift is 5-1:30 in case there’s snow. It has rained for the first 5 hours of my shift. Usually a rain day gets called because we can’t do any work, however, we got a new boss and one of the supervisors believes he should be number two, and “works” 7-3:30 pawning most of the actual work on those of us who work 5-1:30. He decided no rain day so we have been driving around wasting fuel just to look busy. Easy money but annoying. I got a text about not going back to the shop (I had to use the restroom and was there maybe 5 minutes) and to make sure I stay busy.

Yup, no problem. I will waste more fuel and drive 3mph on sidewalks picking litter every 20 minutes now that the rain stopped.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/ShelLuser42 on 2024-02-15 09:45:29.

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Hi gang!

Backstory

This happened quite a few years ago. I was the systems administrator for a small start-up media design company. We had approx. 14 people on staff and it was a very relaxed atmosphere. Just for context a little thing about me: I am a bit of a geek / nerd and "the computer" also takes a bit part of my personal life; it fuels some of my biggest hobbies. Not just gaming, but I also enjoy messing with (digital) audio, 3D graphics, and as can be seen by this post I also enjoy online communities.

Most importantly I really enjoyed my work, and thus noteworthy: it wouldn't be the first time when I took some work home with me. That is... I had remote access to our small network so when something needed to be done I could often do so from home.

And before we continue I'd also like to emphasize that I truly believe in the good intentions of the bosses, they were really just trying to look after us best as they could. Our main "Karl" otoh...

The big project / RSI "training"

The company was run by 2 bosses but as work piled up for them (= assumption on my part) they started to rely on an office manager. And this dude would sometimes seriously overstate his own importance.

At the time of the story the company had closed a deal with none other than the city council to set up a digital "meet and greet" with the council members. This sounds horribly trivial right now because online chatting facilities are pretty common these days, but back then it was all still quite new. Because I spent a large chunk of my (private) time online (on IRC back then) it didn't take long for the bosses to decide that I should fully handle the technical details of the whole thing and of course closely work together with our designers (the whole interaction would take place on a custom build website with chat interface, and as said: an IRC server as backend).

In other words: visitors would use a website to chat using said website, but the whole thing basically ran on an IRC server. Normal users couldn't access that server directly, but obviously I could. I still remember to this very day because I got official permission to use IRC at work, so obviously I kept some of my favorite public chats around as well ;) IRSSI (= linux based IRC client) was awesome like that, because it could easily connect to multiple servers at the same time.

But I digress.

The incident

Because the bosses wanted everything to be perfect they decided to hire an "ergonomic specialist" who would advice all of us staff members on how to prevent RSI. In case you're not aware this stands for Repetitive Strain Injury which is basically a muscle issue caused by, usually, repetitive motion (and a whole plethora of other things, see its WikiPedia article right here).

We all followed along and all of us got some new equipment to use our computers "more safer". Cushion pads in front of the keyboard, different chairs with arm legs, a mandatory stress ball and some other things.

Now, despite the fact that I was very skeptical about the whole thing I still decided to keep an open mind about it and try things out to see where it would lead. I mean... couldn't hurt, right?

Well, wrong. After 2 days I started to notice problems at home. My hands began to hurt, I started getting issues with typing and me and some online friends got creamed at a Quake tournament, which for a large part (but not all of it) was because of me. No, I wasn't some awesome star Quake player, never have been, but I could still hold my grounds. But that evening I totally sucked, it was bad. Really bad.

Of course I had a good hunch what was causing all this so the next day at work I dumped all those RSI gizmo's into a closet and went back to the way things were. One of the bosses did briefly ask me about it but I explained that it just wasn't working out for me and that I was actually starting to get issues.

He fully understood. But for some dumb reason the office manager didn't.

You HAVE to use those tools, otherwise you're wasting company money!!

As I suspected things got a lot better for me, but later that afternoon the officer manager noticed what was going on and he threw a fit. What in the world was I thinking? Did I have any idea how much money the company had spent on all those improvements?

And never mind about me... what if other people needed to use my computer? Then they needed those aids to be there, to which I commented that as far as I was aware no one was allowed behind my PC because my network security clearance was practically the same as the bosses. Because of my support role I had full access to everything, if I wanted to I could easily pull up all our financial records for example. Something that actually happened at one time when an external accountant made a visit and needed some of our data, my boss asked me to help them out and thus cleared me do all of that (I still remember because it made me very uncomfortable, despite barely getting to see anything).

Anyway, the manager didn't like that comment ;)

First I figured that I would just leave those RSI gizmos lying at the side of my desk but nooo, he insisted that I just didn't understand what was good for me and that I had to use those tools.

So, I complied. Though very carefully.

That day my speed at getting work done for the big project plummeted, big time. For obvious reasons I was also no longer doing anything from home anymore. In fact: I had excused myself on IRC and said that I would be taking a break because of the way things went and would severely limit my overal PC time at home as well.

Books (fantasy novels, Dragonlance FTW!) and TV can also be fun ;)

But as I had expected my complaints became worse.

Houston, we have a (major) problem...

After having spent a whole weekend with barely any private PC interaction things got from bad to worse that next Monday at work, even typing became a chore for me. Me... who can type blindly with two hands ("four fingers") at a very decent speed, and without having followed any typing courses.

So I took the afternoon off and went to visit my local doctor.

His first comment when I described by problems and my theory as to what was causing all of it? => "Yeah, you're not the first one with such issues. There seem to be quite a few companies active right now who claim to help prevent RSI, but in fact they're merely fueling a sales model". When I didn't fully understand what he was talking about he told me that in his opinion that "ergonomic expert" was only in it for the money to sell his merchandise.

According to my doctor the guy should at the very least have realized that if I was already using computers so intensively, both at work and at home, that I was probably already aware of the importance to rest your arms. Instead of dismissing all that he should have given that some extra thought and anticipate for it.

So the doctor wrote me a prescription... First an ointment to help relax my wrists and arm muscles. Then a mandatory 2 week break from work to help recover from ... "having developed mild yet disturbing symptoms of RSI due to unprofessional conduct".

The big project was next week ... and we weren't even near "ready".

I honestly felt bad for my boss the next day when I told him what had happened while handing him my doctors note :( He was NOT happy, he was fuming! No, not directed at me: I had his full support and sympathy but he still turned red and stomped off to the office managers desk, with me following him.

Of course the office manager denied everything, I had simply "misunderstood" him; no way would he demand something as "dangerous" as that.

This is when I learned 2 things....

1. Always document things to cover your butt. Something I obviously hadn't done.

2. Working in small(er) companies rules!

See, while the bosses had their own office the rest of us sat at tables in a large room, spread over 2 areas. So the moment the office manager started denying things some of my coworkers immediately stepped up: "Oh, does that mean I can finally throw this thing in the trash then without getting fired?" my colleague and former friend sneered. (former: contact simply watered down over time).

The boss turns to me.... "Shell, why don't you go home and rest? No need to get involved with the upcoming drama", to which I nodded and thanked him. But I also told him that I would be contacting them later that week to try and help sort things out. I wasn't sure, but still saw a possible way out of the upcoming doom scenario.

Aftermath

As much as I wanted to ignore the whole thing and just do my own thing I decided to stick with "no PC time at home" for the next 3 days just in case. Thursday evening I hopped back online for a short hour and did some asking around. First I called my colleague / friend from work to ask him about the status of the project; in specific if the designers managed to finish the website.

Then I reached out to a dear online friend of mine who also happened to be an UnderNet IRC operator and I asked him if there would be a possibility to link our website frontend directly to his server using a dedicated port ("connection") for security purposes.

See, the only reason we purchased a commercial IRC server was to comply with certain regu...

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Plaidlock on 2024-02-15 05:01:46.

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So this happened a good like 7-8 years ago. I used to work on a help desk. We had recent switch a major software to a new one. They didn't want to train us on that system so they paid for a third party deak to deal with those calls.

When you called it was phone tree that basically said to press 1 for the new software or press 2 for any other issues. If you pressed 2 and had an issues for line one we HAD to transfer you. We had no training, access and the contract stipulated it as well. So no way to help you in any way. things are different now but that was the deal at that point.

So this user calls us, I get her information and proceeds to immediately tell me that she is having an issue with this system. I try to interrupt her polite and she cuts me off and proceeds to yell into the phone " HOW DARE YOU! YOU DO NOT INTERRUPT ME THAT IS RUDE AND YOU WILL LET ME FINISH!

I said nothing and let her talk. She proceeds to talk for a full 5 minutes (I timed here) giving me the full run down of her issues in excruciating detail. She finally finished. I let there be a pause where she goes "hello?" Both to annoy her a bit and to make sure she is actually done.

I put on my AAA+++ customer service voice and ask if she is done as I didn't want to interrupt her again. I then explained sweetly and politely "I'm sorry I was trying not to waste your time early when I tried to interrupt. This is the wrong line for this system, and I was trying to get you to the correct line so they can help you. I need to transfer you." Just oozing all the "I was just trying to help you" I could.

There was no sound coming from the phone but I could feel the red hot rage and embarrassment coming through the phone as I transferred her to the correct line.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/catsahoy19 on 2024-02-14 23:18:29.

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I'm returning from time off due to surgery. A doctors note says I can sit so my boss said to take one to register and use it as needed. I've been back and forth all day doing other light things with 0 problem. A fellow manager came in (older, kinda has an attitude) and yelled at me on front of our team member on the floor because I was putting a couple skeins of yarn away. Yarn that weighs a total of a pound for the package . She doesn't want to work more hours for me which I get but I'm not incapable. So for the rest of the day I've been sitting in my chair at register standing only to help customers. She came up and got mad that I was sitting so I just looked innocent and said "you told me to sit so I am. You can take it up with our boss then" and she stormed off

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/hailstorm493 on 2024-02-14 21:38:40.

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I (30F) was reminded of this little MC in another sub, and was so happy I finally had something to share here instead of just reading everyone else’s, but don’t come for me if this sub is the wrong place for this post.

About 10 years ago in college, I met up with some friends towards the end of my night and was a bit inebriated. I had a reputation among my friends that no matter how drunk I was, I was always good at math—it was my minor after all. We ended up hitting up a diner for some food, and when the time came we got split checks.

Drunk me grabs my card from my wallet and was waiting for the wait staff to come collect payment, and someone I considered a friend at the time refused to let me pay my bill. She claimed I was too drunk and wouldn’t be able to do the math for the tip, so she would just pay it. After going back and forth with her for a few minutes and getting increasingly offended and annoyed with her, she takes my check and puts my card down on the table in front of me. When the waiter comes, she tells them that she is paying for the two checks in her hand.

Fast forward to a couple weeks later and she tells me that I owed her $15. I asked for what and she said my food at the diner plus the tip and surcharge for having a party larger than 8. I let her know I tried paying my bill that night a few times and she wouldn’t let me, but more importantly I never asked her to pay for me or say I would pay her back. She wasn’t happy she was out $15, but she said she was paying for it.

Edit: I am also a girl, and the other girl and I are both straight. A lot of people are saying it was her flirting or trying to ask me out, and even if it was I was not interested

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/HollowWind on 2024-02-14 04:21:09.

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I received my neighbor's mail a while ago, so I thought I would be nice and directly give it to her. She thanked me, but said I should take it to the post master to re-deliver. Today her package ended up in my mailbox. So I took it to the post office near work, which is a few towns over. Not something huge, but going to the furthest one away within reason felt very petty.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/undocumentedMexic0n on 2024-02-13 17:06:27.

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I'm an undocument Mexican immigrant. I moved to the US 3 months ago and have been working at a hand carwash since.

The carwash I work at is staffed with fellow illegals. We all lack ID and most of us have limited English. These factors interfere with our integration into American society.

Our boss is very cheap. He will clock us off when it's quiet and clock us on when it's busy. Sometimes we'll work 25 minutes, then wait 15 minutes unpaid in the staff room. We still have to stay on-site the whole day though.

I guess that is to be expected at a business like a carwash which has very thin margins.

What did we start to do? We simply started to work slowly and perfectly when it's quiet. We'll work at half speed. We'll wipe down all the windows and tyres, even if they are clean. We'll wash the underbody and engine bay. We'll wash the brakepads. We'll wash the door jambs with a sponge. We'll clay treat all the cars. We'll apply armor all on all surfaces, even non-visible ones like the engine bay. We'll even vacuum the spare tire bay.

All in all, we'll work very thoroughly when it's quiet.

Beforehand -- I would have to stay at the carwash from 8 to 4 and would only usually be clocked on for 3.5 hours. Since we've all started to 'adaptively work'. We can net about 6 hours easily.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/FuccWork on 2024-02-13 14:28:00.

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I live in a 4 season state and work in manufacturing.

So this story begins when I got this job a couple years ago. I felt bored at my old job as a machine operator and wanted a challenge so I took a job as a programmer for industrial manufacturing machine at a prototype shop. I had a bit of experience doing fabrication and prototypes but no experience programming. This company promised me training, self management, and the ability to work remotely when needed. I've been trained and have some good experience under my belt but still a lot to learn.

No one else at the company does what I do, therefore no one knows the amount of computer work there is. From designing parts or fixtures, quoting, picking tools, designing the process, programming, research and development, etc. "We wear a lot of hats" so my job is a little bit of everything. Technically, i work in the back "warehouse" under two supervisors, my direct supervisor and the his supervisor/Co-CEO. Since I'm back there part time and in my office on the computer part time, I have two supervisors, i guess. It's kind of a weird dynamic and hard to explain but just know, its poorly managed (micro managed) and my supervisor and I hate it.

Fast forward to a couple weeks ago. There was a snow storm and the office had a half day. I live about an hour north from the office and usually get more snow than they do. I decided to work remotely for the day rest of the day instead of going into the office. I got a lot of work done and I was proud of my accomplishments for the day. I brief my supervisor on what i did for the day and he said great work.

The next few days, my supervisor is trying to implement a "progress tracker" since we have no way of tracking projects other than me saying how far i got. Just a simple spreadsheet, no problem, i get it. We are a small company and the CEO is a busy guy, he doesnt always know the status, and since we all wear many hats, the rest of the team should know the status also.

A few days ago, I had to rush home for an emergency, something was going on at my house, not that important to the story. I mentioned to my supervisor that I will be working remotely the rest of the day. He said something along the lines of "Well, some people didnt like that you worked remote last time. Your job isnt really a remote job" I was a little taken back, since its probably 75% computer work and I've been slow in the shop while waiting on tools to ship. I defended myself "It's not like I don't do anything, theres still plenty to do. The office was closed and everyone else in the back got a snow day while I worked remotely, and someone got mad at that?!" He agreed with me, it's silly and we both know. I ended up rushing home, getting there late because I was talking about what i should do the rest of the day and how to fill out the tracker spreadsheet so I can prove to the Micromanaging CEO that I work. I told him "Ive never had to prove to anyone that I am working before" I went home and ended up taking the rest of thr day off anyway to deal with the issues at home and not make anyone upset or question if i worked or not.

So Yesterday, I got at email that we are "Closed tomorrow due to weather, work remote if possible" I asked my supervisor, what do i do? he said well do this or that blah blah... i said "No, i mean, 'my jobs not really remote' and everyone else that isnt capable of remote work get the day off. You expect me to work tomorrow?" ... he gave me a look as if to say "really?" I spoke to some other coworkers and they aren't working, why am I the only one working?! Well guess what, I turned my alarm off, Im not logging on to my computer and I might monitor emails incase something important pops up. My supervisor jokingly said "Take a machine home with you to work remote" implying, i cant work remotely since I need to run machines. Ha, very funny.

tldr/ Ceo wants me to work remote when the office is closed but not my other time since my "job isnt remote" even though it is.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Setthegodofchaos on 2024-02-13 00:42:04.

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Previous post:

So, ever since I got promoted to prep cook / grab and go position after my dishwashing misadventures a lot has gone on since my last post.

After my malicious compliance in the dish pit, it continued on in the grab and go department, where I was situated in. It went something like this...I'd walk in to work, fresh as a daisy, completely unsuspecting of anything wrong, and suddenly I'd get blamed for the mundaindest of things! (Side note, I worked with a partner who, for privacy reasons, we'll call her Abby. Abby is someone who helps me with the grab and go, and likewise, if I'm in a pickle, she'll help me. We help each other. Ok. Nuff said)

My boss would blame me for putting (insert food item) in the fridge, and not using it, and letting it go to waste. And I'd tell her it wasn't me it was Abby. And she then said, "well, it's your area." Alrighty, that can be arranged!

Cue sometime in December, Abby left the grab and go department, (this detail will be important later!) Leaving me to do grab and go by myself! (She did chip in when I needed it. But there's only so much she could do when we're slammed.

Meanwhile, I made sure to keep my area tidy, and put everything in its spot, so nobody could blame me for unnecessary bullshit. I kept this up every day (except the days I was off and weekends, duh!)

Nobody complained. Not even a single soul. If you follow my posts, you know my boss is narcissistic. This is important because she was no longer abusing me mentally anymore. Which was strange, but I ignored it. As long as I actually got to enjoy my job, I could give less of of a fck.

Which leads me to today. I woke up, got a text six hours ago explaining that boss won't be in till 6. Long story shorter-er, apparently she isn't coming in because she got in trouble due to the high turnover rate (which has been going on for ** years**) and other details. (I didn't ask or pry, as I feel it wasn't my business to ask. So many people were hired, and barely lasted a month before leaving. I lost count after 5 people.

A new boss arrived and she seems so much better than the previous one. Fingers crossed anyway.

So, that's the end of my narcissistic boss. Finally! After years of dealing with her, I can breathe easy. And unlearn some bad habits that I was taught. (And let's pray we actually keep people!)

The end! Thanks for reading!

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/ShallowHal99 on 2024-02-12 21:57:16.

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I used to work for a small company which was acquired by a group of investors did not do a good job of hiding that they are planning to replace everyone with low-skill contractors and sell the company. For all of 2023 they've been pushing us non-stop to update our procedure documentation.

Our senior-senior manager announced in FY23 that there will be a monthly quota for procedure documentation. When there was pushback his response was that it doesn't always have to be complicated procedures or a perfect procedure (he was always spouting something about not letting perfection get in the way of progress), etc.

I was already thinking about leaving to finish my degree, so I immediately began the application process. But in the meantime, for most of 2023. I met my quota by documenting the most unnecessary procedures. But I gave them corporate descriptions so it's not immediately obvious.

Some of my favorites:

• How to turn on my computer (Accessing information technology resources)
• How to log on to my computer (Utilizing security practices for informational technology resources)
• How I delete and move files out of Google Drive (allocating digital assets for collaborative processes)
• How to block your outlook calendar (Automating availability information across teams)
• How to request new office supplies from Staples (Physical asset procurement)

Since our team will be let go early in any acquisition pretty early in the process most of the lower level managers left or were checked out as they job search. My manager had been so distracted that they never reviewed any of my procedures, I asked for feedback on a few real procedures to make it seem like I was doing what they asked, and basically they simply checked off that I've been meeting my quota.

I left the job in December and have started school this Spring, but I just heard from an ex-colleague who is still with the company they JUST discovered my procedures. He just texted me and said the senior-senior manager is furious because other people were basically doing the same thing, and now most of our team has left and they barely have anything documented.