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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/TheBigCahoona43 on 2024-05-14 06:07:18+00:00.

So, there I was, working at a mid-sized IT firm as a software developer. My team had always been pretty laid-back, focusing on results rather than the exact hours we were glued to our desks. Our projects were delivered on time, our clients were happy, and our team morale was high. That is, until we got a new project manager, let's call him Dave.

Dave was fresh from a highly regimented corporate background and had ideas about “proper workplace management,” which basically meant micromanaging everything. He'd schedule unnecessary daily status meetings, demanded we fill out hourly work logs, and insisted that everyone strictly adhere to 9-to-5 office hours with minimal breaks.

One day, during one of his infamous "efficiency crackdowns", he sent out an email with a new policy that all coding must be done strictly within office hours to "ensure collaboration and supervision". This was ridiculous because creative work like coding often requires flexible hours for maximum productivity. But Dave was adamant, and he ended his email with, "If you think you can find a loophole, think again. Follow the rules, or we'll find someone who will."

Challenge accepted, Dave.

I decided to comply—meticulously. I coded strictly between 9:00 AM and 5:00 PM, not a minute earlier, not a second later. If I encountered a bug or was in the middle of a complex piece of code? Too bad. 5 PM means the end, no matter what. My teammates, fed up with being treated like schoolchildren, followed my lead.

The results were predictable. Projects that usually took a couple of weeks started dragging on. Tasks that we could have completed in days with a bit of overtime took much longer because we couldn't capitalize on the bursts of late-afternoon productivity we were used to. Our workflow was severely disrupted, and the quality of our work started to deteriorate.

Dave noticed, of course. He had to answer to upper management for the "sudden drop in productivity and lack of commitment", which he knew was a result of our dissatisfaction with his new policy. When upper management called for an impromptu Zoom meeting with the entire at 4:30 PM to address the ongoing project delays, the entire team logged in to explain our situation.

In the meeting, Dave spent half an hour shifting blame and berating individual team members. He didn't even mention the 9-5 policy that had led to the whole situation. As the clock ticked towards 5:00 PM, the tension in the virtual room was palpable, and our team hatched a plan over text.

Right on cue, as the clock struck 5:00 PM, one of the employees spoke up, "In compliance with Dave’s 9-to-5 rule, we must log off now." Without missing a beat, every team member clicked "Leave Meeting," leaving a stunned Dave to face the executives alone.

This abrupt mass exit highlighted the impracticality of Dave’s rigid policy, making it clear to the executives that change was necessary. The incident, quickly dubbed as the "5:00 Zoom Exodus," led to another meeting, where Dave was publicly admonished and instructed to abolish his strict rules in favor of more flexibility.

And as for me and my team? We made sure to celebrate our little victory with a well-deserved happy hour... after 5 PM, of course.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/The_double_T on 2024-05-14 00:47:57+00:00.

Germany was my first duty station when I was in the Army. After FTXs (field training exercises) the platoon would get together for a platoon dinner at the local Hofbrau. Since it was always the start of a 4 day we would all get hammered at the platoon dinner. Well PSG (platoon sergeant) eventually said we could only have two beers with dinner. So we started ordering the one liter steins. Then PSG said we could only order 1 stein with dinner. So we started showing up to the hofbrau early to have beers before dinner, and still ordered the steins and then have one with dinner. Usually by the end of the night all of us were at least 4 steins in and absolutely obliterated but still only had one stein or two beers with dinner. Good times, good people.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/mirandabrokedown on 2024-05-13 15:50:21+00:00.

About a decade ago, I worked at a well known bookstore as a seller of books. For anyone not aware, there were sections/duties that people were assigned to during shifts and it changed frequently. It wasn’t uncommon for shifts or duties to be swapped (relevant later in the story).

There had been a recent change in management, and a fresh employee (let’s call her Lexa) received a promotion to be an assistant manager despite having limited experience and quite the undeserved chip on her shoulder. (Pretty sure she got the job because of her friendship with the departing AM whose position opened up.) She was very much a delegator who spent a lot of time hanging out in the back office.

I knew Lexa wasn’t liked by a few of the veteran employees for the seemingly undeserved promotion. I was a part-timer going to school, so I wasn’t invested in moving up or challenging the store leadership. Didn’t make much of a difference to me. She and I got along just fine overall and usually exchanged pleasantries with bits of conversation.

Until one day.

I showed up to work, clocked in, and saw my department was Kids. I hated working in Kids as it was a Saturday (super packed), and the person who I relieved was terrible at cleaning up whatever section she was assigned to.

I called up Lexa and asked her if I could switch with another bookseller (who liked working in Kids) that also just clocked in. Before waiting for an answer (yes, partially my fault), I asked the bookseller if she would be cool switching with me. Lexa, hearing me ask this question, yells over the phone, “NO! YOU WERE ASSIGNED TO KIDS, SO GO TO YOUR SECTION!”

I replied with a simple, “Okay.”

I go to my section, and as expected, it’s a disaster. Books on the floor, kids running around, toys strewn about - it was exactly what I anticipated.

I got right to work on recovering messed up shelves, making stacks of the books to return to their proper locations, and picked up toys/trash. I was a man on a mission.

Wouldn’t you know it, but apparently there were some shelves and furniture that needed to be moved around.

I get a call on my store phone. It’s Lexa, and she needs my help with said task. Mind you, there were enough people on the book floor to help if she also left the back office to get it done. Her tone was much different, and she sweetly asked if I can leave Kids to go help with the project.

Well, Kids is a mess. I was diligently working just to keep up with the unrelenting entropy due to the Saturday afternoon crowd. Could I have helped? Sure. Did I have an excuse not to? Sure did.

I firmly replied, “Sorry, I’m busy in Kids.” Nothing more, nothing less.

The shift ended, and we went go to the break room post shift. Lexa talks to all of us and mentions how we need to remember to work as a team. Her demeanor was mildly sheepish, and she avoided making eye contact with me. I sat there, staring right at her with a dumb look on my face, pretending I don’t know she’s indirectly talking about me. I did find out from a couple of friends she did help out which required her actually doing some work instead of hiding out.

We never had any run-ins after that and she moved a couple of months later. In any case, I worked my assigned section like she told me to.

On the bright side, I cleaned up Kids and organized it so well that the Kids lead thanked me the next time we worked together.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Lonely_Metal755 on 2024-05-13 07:59:40+00:00.

I worked at a cafe in a big shopping centre for a few months between jobs I actually liked. The manager was a nut and liked to throw her weight around.

Every evening she’d tell me to clean the coffee machine and get ready to close up. Every evening once I was done, she’d ask me to make her a coffee ‘for the road.’ I’d have to make it and then clean everything again.

I offered to make it for her before I cleaned the machine but she complained that it wouldn’t be hot enough.

I received a better job offer and was looking forward to one more week before leaving. However, the next night she wanted her coffee after we’d already had to stay back and I definitely wasn’t getting paid overtime. Everyone had left 30 minutes before. I had had enough.

I took care to spill coffee grounds everywhere, use as many utensils and jugs as I could and just make a huge mess. As I handed her the coffee I told her ‘I quit.’ The look on her face was priceless as she realised she’d be the one cleaning up.

Worth being poor for a week!

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/katielynn493 on 2024-05-12 19:51:14+00:00.

I was working a closing shift at McDonalds and at the end of the night (this night in particular, I was in grill) It was getting late and we were slow so I started minimizing what we had in stock and was going to cook the rest of the food to order for the last half hour of my shift. The closing manager came up to the table to see what I had and told me to fill the trays because we aren't closed yet. I tried to explain to her what I was doing and she didn't listen to a word I said. So I did what she asked. I turned back on the second heated cabinet and told the person I was in grill with to do what she said and fill the trays. He looked at me confused and I told him that she wanted the trays full, she can deal with the waste at the end of the night. So thats what we did, we filled the trays up with food as if it were lunch rush since thats what she wanted. At the end of the night, I emptied out all the full trays into a bucket and gave it to her with her sheet to fill out with how much waste we had and she tried to make me count it. I told her, "I am not closing manager. It is your job to count it. Have fun" and finished closing down grill. Oh she was pissed. The next day, my GM asked what had happened and I told her. All she said was never to do it again. I never worked a closing shift with that manager after that.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/M0Savage on 2024-05-12 11:33:10+00:00.

Twenty plus years ago I was working at a commissary (think grocery store) on an army post. I worked in the produce department and one our duties was to make fruit and vegetable trays for customers one order.

I started out making them pretty much like everyone else. Celery in this spot, cherry tomatoes here, broccoli like so. One day and officer's wife asked if I could make a vegetable tray but she wanted it a bit fancier. I love to cook and wow people with my knife skills. I slided things thin and layered them and pretty soo I had something that looked like it belonged on a wedding buffet.

Of course other people saw it and they wanted something similar. So I became the veggie and fruit tray guy.

My supervisor and I didn't get along very well. I would stop what I was doing and take a customer to the products they were trying to find or I'd go in search if I didn't know where exactly, especially after a reset. For some reason my supervisor didn't like it. She didn't see it as going above and beyond, she saw it as abandoning my duties.

Anyways one day she told me that I couldn't make the trays anymore unless I followed the book which she handed me. No more fancy trays because "it took too long". It took me the same amount of time as anyone else making a regular tray.

I cracked open the book on my break and I smiled. You want by the book? You get by the book.

The next tray I made took four hours. My boss almost went berserk. I told her that with each, individual fruit or vegetable I had to wash, sanitize and rinse them separately because that was what the book says. and with eight different fruits or vegetables I had to spend about half an hour filling and draining the sink each time as to not cause cross contamination.

I transferred to a different section shortly after that.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Defiant-Lion8183 on 2024-05-12 11:00:35+00:00.

Disclaimers

1. No one will be hurt by the MC following. The “users” involved have 20+ years experience doing the thing and this is a tick and flick document.
2. The document itself is a compliance document taken from a full evidence pack that should only be used in full and only by qualified Assessors. This is legislation related to.

So a few months ago, as usual my Boss finds a random bit of information that is affecting her KPIs. 30 people don’t have box X ticked off because they’ve been in the company 20+ years and X box was only initiated 5years ago.

So she finds an information pack containing all the requirements to get X box ticked. Pulls a single assessment page with the clear guide that it’s for our team only to sign. Tells me via email to get all 20peoples external leaders to sign it as evidence.

I was very aware this is not the correct way to do this, it’s just the least amount of paperwork. So I did due diligence and took it sideways to the team next to us who handles stuff like this. Their leader authorises it without thinking it through, I explained my hesitation and another leader overhears and also says “if it’s in writing you can action it” with a sly smile. She knew what I would do.

Lightbulb cue MC. I sent the entire email chain unedited and pointed out both Authorisations. Attached the piece of assessment and sent it with the list of names to all external leaders from the official shared inbox and not my own. I sent this on day one of my boss going on leave.

I had 10 emails sent back in less than 30mins refusing to sign it with a big WTF? They cc’d in all relevant people and pointed out how this breaks compliance regulations.

I replied excusing myself from future speculations until a directive from on high came down. 3 days later I start to hear rumblings from the big bosses at head office. My boss still isn’t back and they would like an urgent meeting to discuss process.

Outcome? My Team is now required to get approval from the document control team before any external document is sent out. I’ve happily stopped editing the horrendous documents big boss sends me to send out (she doesn’t ask for edits, grammar check etc). I’m simply forwarding them to Doc Control from shared inbox with her signature still attached. They have been sending everything back slowing the team down by days at a time per task. Since she didn’t explicitly know or ask for me to edit in the past she didn’t know I stopped, therefore is very picachu face why suddenly her docs are all wrong.

Her KPIs are tanking.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/pathofuncertainty on 2024-05-11 11:30:49+00:00.

Many years ago I worked in a locally run store that sold a bit of everything. I was the low paid teenager that carried heavy things to people’s vehicles. While working one day I get called over the radio that a customer needed 12 bags of concrete (80lbs each). I was expecting to see a pickup truck or something similar backed up to our loading area. Instead I saw a small Honda Civic there waiting for me. Thinking it was a mistake, I asked the driver to relocate momentarily as I had someone coming to pick up multiple bags of concrete. Imagine my surprise when they told me they were the customer I was waiting for.

I asked the customer how much they wanted to take in each trip, as I believed the nearly 1000lb of concrete might be too much for such a small vehicle to handle safely. The customer became aggravated and insisted that they were taking it all at once. I quickly ran this past the store owner to make sure I wouldn’t be held liable for any damages. I ran back, apologized to the customer, and began loading the bags. As I loaded everything up the customer made several quips about how “the customer is always right” and that I was too young and naive to understand that vehicles are engineered with a margin of safety.

It quickly became apparent that there was no play left in the suspension, but at this point I just stopped questioning things. I couldn’t fit all of the bags in the trunk, so the customer cleared their back seat and I loaded that up as well. Upon leaving the loading area you could clearly hear things rubbing. As the car went to exit the parking lot it passed over the elevation change between the lot and the road, there was a loud pop of something breaking, followed by scraping.

I could see that the driver was irate in the car. After a moment they got out, looked around and under their car. The guy sheepishly asked for my cell phone, because his had died and he needed to make a few phone calls. A short time later a tow truck came to remove the car, and the guy waited in our lot for nearly an hour until his wife could come pick him up.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/BaronVonFroglok on 2024-05-10 23:18:07+00:00.

My ex roommate moved out of state a few months ago, but left several items at the apartment. He asked me a month or so ago to send him his acoustic guitar. I haven't been able to afford it yet, but I was looking for a way to package it so that it doesn't get destroyed enroute.

He has been an absolute douche the entire time I have known him. He called me a few days ago angry that I hadn't sent it to him yet. I told him I wanted to package it so that it doesn't get destroyed, and I should have enough to send it on payday. He proceeded to get angry and yell at me to just send it in the gig bag.

I'm am so over all of the harassment. I'm about to just slap a shipping label on his gig bag and see if UPS will ship it.

I am trying to do something nice for you, but if you treat me like shit I will do exactly as you asked.

ETA: After reading comments, I will get a quote for the shipping, make him pay me, and then ship it exactly how he asked... I really hope it shows up broken.

I will figure out if UPS will even ship it that way on Monday and get a quote for the shipping cost. I am definitely getting confirmation that he wants me to send it without packaging it. I'll take pictures of me dropping it off intact at the shipping facility.

I'll update the post when he gets it.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/nicomachus on 2024-05-10 19:27:26+00:00.

Owner receives a letter from the city requiring him to screen his boat from view. He hires muralist neighbor to paint the fence to look exactly like the view of the boat. Well done.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Fuzzy_Concept_4606 on 2024-05-10 16:51:29+00:00.

Hi,

Young woman of color who looks like she is in high school but is actually in her mid-20s. I have one major example of malicious compliance as I have been with my current science consulting role at a boutique firm since graduating college. Most of the people at my company have a PhD and/or MS even though this is completely unnecessary for the job. I do not come from a science background, so this does not benefit me either.

It is a bizarre situation as I am given much more responsibility than many people who are older, more educated, and higher in the company than me; management clearly does not want someone who looks like me to be a leader at the company, but they give me the responsibilities of someone higher-up without the title and compensation.

I have been given several reasons as to why I was not being promoted as quickly as others (Side note: I have been promoted several times. My issue is that I am doing more than others in terms of work load and responsibility and am not being compensated for it properly per my current job description. I have just as much/more responsibility than many people above me and am being treated by a different standard.).

Before my most recent promotion which took 2 years to get, my previous supervisor (also a WOC, but older and with a PhD) told me that I was being treated differently by higher ups at my company based on my age, gender, and lack of education. Although my work product was “perfect,” she said that I was being judged on how I “appeared at first” and “interacted with coworkers” (even though I have friendly relationships with all colleagues, she likely meant that I was too outgoing). She said she wanted to perform an “experiment” with me. She said that maybe I would be promoted if I started putting more effort into my appearance (side note: I am a confident, charismatic person who [respectfully] does not need to put any more effort into her appearance. And even if I did, it is not her, or anyone’s, f*cking business). She said I should wear “tighter” clothing.

So I maliciously complied out of spite. I went from business casual attire that was the standard at my office to full-on business attire. I also never wore makeup to work and wore a full face of makeup everyday for months. While others wore athletic t-shirts, sneakers, and hoodies, I wore dress shirts / dress pants and pantsuits. My pastel-colored pantsuit REALLY caught peoples’ attention, and people would continually ask, “Are you going somewhere with a client?” I would always reply, “No. I received feedback that I need to put more effort into my appearance.” That shut everybody up real quick.

My former supervisor apologized after a week and said she shouldn’t have said that. I kept up the act out of malice for a few weeks after. And I got the promotion a few months later.

P.S. I know this is a massive HR violation (among many others not discussed above). I do not have an in-house HR rep and my company contracts a third-party. I am afraid of retaliation and I do not want to report anything because it will make my job worse than it already is. I know my worth and have been job searching for over a year since this occurred. I am approaching the final stages of interviews for several positions.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Knowledgefromwork on 2024-05-10 02:03:28+00:00.

So this happened about 7-8 years ago in a busy Australian public hospital . We were having the busiest day in radiology when one of the admin staff comes asks about a patient getting a scan today. I explained to her as she knows we are fully booked and are really busy . I note the referral asking for a scan to be done in the next 4 weeks . It was routine follow up and has no clinical Urgency as per the request .

She says the patient is demanding it today . I tell her once again non urgent scans can’t come ahead of life threatening illness and trauma we need to scan . The admin staff returns five minutes later saying the patient is causing quite the scene and states” he’ll wait all day if he has too “ . I have two options . Option one - call security and come kick this man out or comply with his demand .

I tell the admin he can have his scan but he might literally wait all day . This was about 10am.

Come 12 pm the chief radiographer comes and sees me to say there is man complaining about a two hour wait. I explain the situation and say if I get ten minutes which I won’t I will scan the patient . The chief radiographer sees the waiting irate man and offers to book him in a few days time . The patient reiterated that he wait all day if he has too . The chief radiographer advices it’s his choice. He is informed that if he has an appointment he would likely not have to wait long . Come 3 pm we get another complaint from him which we ignore . Again he is offered another time later in the week. He refuses to book in. Come 5 pm I hand over to the afternoon shift in charge and explain about our waiting patient . We move the patient from the outpatients waiting room to the inpatient waiting room where it is bedlam. He again is offered another appointment and told the wait is now about two hours .he says he has waited this long he might of well wait some more.

Trolleys and wheelchairs are going every which way . He sits down and suddenly the situation dawns on him how busy we are with sick patients. You could just see it in his face. The next day I find out our irate patient Waited until 730 pm and was rather sheepish when brought in for scan and quite apologetic.

Patient demands non urgent radiology scan and say he will wait all day for it and he does .

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/powderedtoastsupreme on 2024-05-09 22:00:30+00:00.

I worked as a writer and editor for over a decade, and in that time I had my fair share of bad bosses—like anyone. But there is one that completely takes the cake. I worked for a large media company that had dealings with a number of other companies and subsidiaries ranging from publishing to fashion to sports to tech. You name it, they did it. How our writing department worked was each writer would have specific areas that they would write for, kind of like how journalists have “beats” they cover. So if you were assigned to the fashion arm of the company or one of its partners/subsidiaries, you wrote or edited everything for that arm.

I worked for this company for about a year and a half before a new manager was hired. She was the second in command of our department. Part of her and our department director’s job was to update our internal style guide when necessary. For those that don’t know, a style guide is a reference document for how to either refer to things or how to format things for the company/partners. Before her tenure as manager, this was only done maybe once or twice a year, and the changes were relatively minimal since the style guide was very well established in the company and had been in place for a number of years. After she came on, it was being updated at least once a week, if not multiple times a week. It legitimately became an obsession for her.

Aside from the general annoyance of keeping up with it, it didn’t take long for me and my coworkers to reach the conclusion that our new manager didn’t have the faintest idea what she was doing. Each new version had more and more glaring errors.

At first, we all ignored these changes, giving her the benefit of the doubt and hoping, albeit naively, that these new directives were mistakes. That was until people started getting reprimanded for not following the style guide. I was the first to get a one-on-one, closed door talk.

One of the departments I wrote for was sports, and she had seen that I had not been following the new rule of how I was to refer to the men’s and women’s teams I covered. Truthfully, I had willfully ignored it hoping that it was just a mistake. To my horror, however, it appeared my new writing manager didn’t understand basic grammar. You see, the change she implemented removed the apostrophe from “men’s” and “women’s”. So, for example, if I was covering “men’s basketball”, I was to refer to it as “mens basketball”. Her rationale was that the men didn’t own the team; therefore, it should not be possessive. Apparently, her understanding of the English language didn’t evolve past grade school explanations.

I was honestly pretty dumbfounded at first. But once I got over the initial shock that the second in command of our department didn’t realize “mens” was not a word, I tried bleakly to explain that men is already plural and that a possessive “‘s” doesn’t always denote direct ownership (read: men’s bathroom). She stared blankly at me for a few seconds, and for the briefest of moments, I thought maybe I was seeing the cogs in her head turn. She however, doubled down. Realizing the fight was lost, I told her that I would implement the changes going forward.

Now, here’s where my malicious compliance comes in: We worked for, and with, some very high profile companies, and mistakes were not tolerated for things that were outward facing. Realizing her idiocy could cost me my job, I made a simple request: Could you please email me the exact style guide rule you’re referencing and how exactly you’d like me to implement it, with examples of where I messed up? She looked at me like I was stupid for not understanding what was being asked of me, but she still wrote it all down in an email for me. I also made sure any further style changes were referenced in an email and specifically asked that if there were further changes to please cite how I had done them in the past, along with how she would like them to be done from now on.

Sure enough, within about 6 months of this, I was fired. And at my exit interview, I handed HR a folder containing every written communication regarding the style changes, along with quite a bit of evidence that she was passing off her projects to other members of the dept and changing people’s work behind their back.

She was fired three months after me, along with our department director three months after that. Turned out, my little folder sparked a full investigation by HR, and after interviewing other coworkers in the department, they realized she had done all of it to have grounds to fire people within the department she didn’t like. I just happened to be the first on the chopping block. The projects she was passing off to other people? She was taking the credit for what they were doing to make herself look good. Those changes she was making to other people’s work? HR realized that she was changing things to make it explicitly incorrect. You gotta love software that tracks changes and timestamps and lists the user. On top of all of this, they also discovered that she had, at best, exaggerated (and, at worst, fabricated) large swaths of her resume.

By the time she was fired, I had already found another job in a different department at the same company. It was a good gig, and my new manager wasn’t a complete cunt. Eventually, I moved on from that company, but if anything, my time there taught me a very valuable lesson: document, document, and document some more.

Edit: To address some questions/things mentioned in the comments:

This was ~10 years ago in a U.S. state that has laws that basically state a person can be fired for any reason provided that it isn’t prejudicial (race, gender, sexual orientation, etc). Writers also aren’t exactly top earners. I did well enough to support myself, but legal action would have been difficult to pay for. Not to mention, I was subject to some very strict NDAs because of the company/clients/partners/subsidiaries I worked for and with. Any legal action would have put me at risk of a counter suit. I was happy that justice was served and I had a job elsewhere in the company with good pay until I moved on.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/TheLightningCount1 on 2024-05-09 16:02:12+00:00.

This story is from a few years ago. Its how I helped my sister and somehow got her company to willingly bypass their own idle time requirements.

Her company went work from home after the lockdown and stayed working from home. At first they required an always on camera system but that quickly went away as the amount of unintended nudity that comes from your average household is quite startling.

Then they went with a system that tracks your idle time in teams. The amount of write ups, meetings, group meetings, and eventual terminations for what was the dumbest requirement ever cause my sister to ask for help.

She sent me an amazon link for one of those USB sticks that jiggles the mouse. I told her dont use those as even lazy IT can detect them.

At the time, amazon wasnt selling mechanical mouse turners yet, or at least at reasonable prices, so I looked at building one. I found an STL file for this flowery mouse holder which I modified to be just straight monocolor and 3d printed it. I cut out 1.5 inch circular disk and put it on a weak motor and connected it to a power source through USB.

I set the wheel to spin every 1-12 seconds for a total of 2-5 seconds at a time but ran into an issue. Sometimes the disk spinning would not actually move the mouse.

I found a company that would print stickers at a dollar a sticker if I ordered 5 of them. SO I found this basic pattern of squares and lines crisscrossing each other and had it printed to just under the dimensions of the disk.

I stuck it on there and the mouse turner worked perfectly. I quickly ran into another issue. Since the disk was raised, it quickly got hung up on the mouse with the sticker. So back into design I went and made it where the dimensions were slightly larger for the base and sit it where the disk would be 2mm below the actual mouse.

After printing it the mouse sat on the cradle and the disk spun without touching. The mouse cursor would randomly just move in weird directions at the times the disk spun.

So with that all out of the way I got a free lunch out of my sister and delivered it. It hooked into her laptop's USP port, never being detected, and would turn her wheel decreasing her idle time down to zero.

Within 2 weeks she was recognized as a top performer. She was watching crime dramas with her volume at max until she got a notification that customer submitted a request. In other words, her productivity stayed exactly the same.

So she calls me up and asks if I can make more of those. Thankfully I saved the STL files and could order more stickers if I needed. I told her I could make each one for 25 bucks. The cheapest on amazon at the time were like 50 and it only cost me roughly 12 bucks to make them, which went down to 8 bucks to make them at the end.

She said several coworkers were asking her about it and she said she would just give them my number.

Within a month I had built out 50 mechanical mouse turners. Which was kind of waste as this company only had 32 employees. I miscounted. Sometimes I would meet 5 or more of her coworkers at a restuarant at the same time just so I wouldnt have to drive all over dfw.

Then one weekend I get a call from the CEO of that company. See all of his workers were using these mouse turners, and he wasnt. So when the company published the report on idle times, his was abysmally low.

That phone call was one of the most surreal I have ever had. At first he thought I was one of his employees. I told him I wasnt, I worked for a waste management company. (I dont but I wasnt about to tell him.) He asked me about the mouse turners. I told him that I designed them for a friend, but that person no longer worked for his company. (Again lies. I was protecting my sister, not like he couldnt figure it out but still) He asked if he could get one.

This is where the conversation went VERY weird. See I tried convincing him to give up the idle timer requirements as it clearly wasnt important and only harmed his company. I laid out all of my points for it and pointed out that the ceo of the company is buying a device specifically designed to bypass his requirement.

He would not budge. He was so into his company dogma that he just wanted one from me. I already had a few left over so I told him I could make him one for 35 bucks.

Here is the really screwed up part of the story. See he asked for a full list of my clients, promising that no one would be fired, he just wanted to know how many. I told him that a list would be unnecessary as its every single one of his employees. Literally all 32 excluding him.

His response was to have the company reimburse each employee the 25 dollars for the mouse turners and set it up where his company would contact me each time a new employee started. I said I had 10 left over from the initial batch of ones I made and can just give him those and have him contact me when he runs out.

He agreed.

Well that kind of never happened as a company on amazon made what is basically the same thing I was making for like 15 bucks. Theirs is much nicer than mine was too lol.

So a company set idle time requirements which caused issues at the company. Now the company buys devices for each employee so that bypasses the idle timer.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Loose_Alternative990 on 2024-05-09 13:27:11.

My husband told me a story yesterday about his act of malicious compliance that happened about a decade ago.

In a previous job, he worked 8-4 in an office. Many of his colleagues worked 9-5, so they were still working when he was leaving. When he was about to leave, he'd usually be asked a technical question or asked to quickly glance over something by another member of staff. This was rarely quick and usually had him standing around for a further ten minutes which, on a regular basis, starts to add up.

One day, his manager was going over the monthly time sheets and asked my husband why he'd added 10 minutes on five days across past month. Bear in mind, flexi-time was allowed. My husband explained the situation, referring to the specific problems he was asked to deal with on each of those five days.

The manager told him that the company only works in fifteen minute segments so he can't put down 10 minutes, it would have to be 15 minutes. "However, we can't round it up because that's dishonest," he said. "So just bear it in mind for next time." This was in front of the rest of the office.

That very same week, my husband signs out of his computer at 4pm. Just before he leaves, the manager asks him to explain some of the particulars in an email he'd received from a contractor. My husband asks, "how long will it take?" The manager replies, "just five minutes." My husband then says, "unless it's a fifteen minute problem, I'll have to look at it tomorrow. Is it a fifteen minute problem?"

His manager turns red and awkwardly says it's not. My husband respectfully states that he will put it at the top of his to-do list the following morning and leaves.

One of his colleagues texted him just after 5 and said there was an awkward silence after he'd left and when the manager eventually got up and left to do something, they all burst out laughing.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Diligent-Comfort-191 on 2024-05-06 23:54:23.

This happened a long time ago, in a different century.

I was working for a large multinational firm with multiple sites in the UK. I was usually based in, let's say York, but was sent on a 6 month secondment to head office in London.

Everything was on expenses. The hotels during the week, evening meals and particulatly rail transport to and from London on Monday mornings and Friday evenings.

At this time I was living in digs in York which were charged by the nights I actually slept there, so most weekends it saved me cash to go back home and stay at the parents in Reading (relatively close to London compared to York).

As I was in Reading almost every weekend I asked if I could travel from there direct to the London office instead of driving all the way from Reading to York, just to catch the damn train back all the way down to London, and do the reverse on Fridays. Not unreasonably this was agreed to by my line manager. All was fine for the first few weeks until it was discovered by Finance that another colleague on the secondment had been doing similar to me, but claiming for rail travel to London from her parents house in Edinburgh (a lot further from London than York!).

There was a bit of a stink about the company subsidising her travel home to Scotland at weekends and as a result an edict was issued that said only rail travel claims for York to London would be signed off in the future. I spoke to my line manager about my circumstances and he referred me direct to Finance (I think he knew what was coming and didn't want to be implicated).

I spoke to a senior manager in Finance and began to explain my circumstances, but he just cut me off and said, in a tone that would brook no dissension, that ONLY claims from York London would be signed off. NO exceptions would be made.

As a callow youth I got the message, and thereafter submitted weekly expense claims for flexible return rail tickets from York to London for almost 5 months whilst actually travelling from Reading to London.

I made a surprising amount of money from this, and combined with not needing to pay for digs and meals, I saved enough to buy a nice second hand TVR car after the secondment was over.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/GenX_75 on 2024-05-06 20:48:05.

Back in the 2008 housing crisis, I did some work on the side for a customer's computer system. We got to talking and he had a cheap 1bdrm "Duplex" for rent that was too good to be true. It was a detached garage converted to a 1bedroom little apartment and it was as plain and basic as they come.

The actual house was being rented out and he was charging the full amount priced for the area (which was high) so the little garage conversation was pure profit for the Landlord. I signed a lease for a fixed price that was almost half of what the going rate was for 1bdrm apartments in the area.

It was no frills, plain as can be with the cheapest appliances and amenities possible. Light fixtures from the early 80s, cheapest faucets and countertops money could buy, you get the visual. The elderly landlord and I had an arrangement, I could fix it up so long as I could keep the rent low and he would allow me to pay for the remaining balance on upgrades if/when things broke.

Years go by and I'm still in this 1bdrm garage conversation and making progress on updating the features. Kitchen faucet is gone, new fancy sprayer head faucet with a bar style glass cleaner installed. Old toilet replaced with an water saving tank and bidet installed. 80s lights are gone, LED smart home fixtures installed.

Around 7-8 years go by and my rent is still half of the normal going rate for the area and my landlord is happy with our arrangement. Sadly, he has a heart attack and surgery saves his life. He is no longer able to mainten his active lifestyle and hands the reigns of being a landlord to a property management company.

This company is as shady and money hungry as they come. They get a percentage of the monthly rent for their role in taking over the Landlords duties. They IMMEDIATELY hate me and my rental agreement from the start. The month they take over, my rent goes up the maximum limit of 10% plus 5% the cost of living increase for 1 year.

I'm not happy with this as this is a significant bump in my costs. I suck it up but as a silent protest, I stop making upgrades to the house that first year.

The 12 months later exactly, I get a notification that my rent will increase another 10% plus 5% cost of living increase. This is yet another blow to my finances but I can't really complain as my rent is still well below the average cost for the area.

Another 12 months and another 10% plus 5% cost of living followed by another the following year. This whole time I had been saving a good portion of my paychecks as a downpayment for a house but these rent hikes were hurting my ability to set aside money for this purpose.

My landlord was not happy with the Property management company he hired but couldn't get out of his contract because they were doing maintenance and facility repairs like clockwork.

Covid hits and I had been in this place for 12 years by this point. My rent was still under the average for the area but not by much. Seeing as this was now just a crappy 1bdrm apartment, I was looking for houses to buy to get me out of this rent gouging arrangement I was in.

Right at the peak of the Covid scare in 2020, a pipe burst in the kitchen and floods the floors ruining the crappy cabinets, the carpets and the furniture I had nearby. I had renters insurance that covered most of the costs to what I had lost. Not the nicest furniture, but my couch was a total loss, my desk, entertainment center and my speaker were severely damaged.

In comes Property management to assess the repairs and gut out the damaged wood and carpets. I offer to pay for the upgraded wood and countertops as well as request hardwood floors. Nope! They deny my requests. I offer to do the work myself as I'm fairly handy, again denied with an actual written letter stating im not to do ANY WORK or maintenance on the apartment.

I contact my landlord who has his hands tied because this was the arrangement we had. I'm at a loss of what to do because this Property management company is not setting me up with a temporary place to live. Doing all the work while I'm working from home to watch my possessions. There is a literal door sized hole in my wall as they spend two weeks fixing all the damage.

They throw out my upgraded faucet (which was undamaged and worked perfectly fine), the upgraded sink, the light fixtures the tile work I had done, the bathroom faucet (which wasnt even part of the floor damage). They then removed an outlet originally part of the apartment to save on costs. I was pissed at them and complained via letters, via phone calls and talking to the maintenance supervisor.

It took 2 full months to do all the repairs and at the end, they sent me a notice that my rent was going up due to some loophole in the "neglect" the apartment was in and not reported. I was done with this bullshit and I pooled my resources, called in all the favors I could and found the house i wanted.

I gave 30 day notice to leave at the end of my lease along with an invoice of ALL the repairs I made to the appartment over the 12 years I was there. I attached a copy of my original lease agreement, a copy of all photos I took of before and after repairs I made, a bill of the costs, and a request of a refund of the past 6 months of additional rent hike due to "neglect" like they stated in the letter.

I had a running talley of with all the receipts, work performed and the cost of not being allowed to live in motel during the work being performed to over $9700. At the same time, I submitted all this to the courts as I knew they would contest all of it.

My landlord was on my side during the court hearing, giving testimony he in fact allowed me in the rental lease agreement that I could do my own repairs. I won within 4 hours and awarded $4700 (the judge removed all billable hours I included). Judge was harsh to the lawyer for the property management saying his client must obey the law and put a tenant up for housing during construction.

Nearly 4 years later, I finally got my lump sum including penalties and late fees which totalled up to $7500. Sadly my old landlord passed away and his properties passed to his son who immediately fired the Property management company some time early last year.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/DRHORRIBLEHIMSELF on 2024-05-06 18:19:57.

Happened this morning when walking my dog at the municipal park. It has a skatepark, playground, tennis club, softball fields, and to note -- a disc golf course.

With disc golf, some of the holes tee off and end near the foot paths that take you around the park. While there are signs in the general area that serve as a warning, people are usually aware of the disc golfers.

Anyways, I'm walking my dog and I see a group of golfers playing thru and they're throwing at a hole (that cage thingy) that's about 20 feet from the path. I stop just in case anyone over throws. Also, it's fun to watch.

I'm standing there and some grumpy old man is walking from the pickle ball courts at the tennis club to the parking lot. He has to walk up the path that I stopped at. I try to tell him, "sir, you might want to hold on, there's a group of..." he immediately cuts me off with, "out of my way, don't tell me where I can walk!" and trudges through without looking at his surroundings.

I just look at him as one of the discs sails long and connects with the side of his face and clocks him off his feet onto the wet grass. I see the coast is clear now and make my way to the parking lot. He's dazed and now angry and yells at me, "why didn't you warn me?!"

I looked at him and replied, "You told me not to tell you where to walk." Then proceeded on my way as he tried to get up and get his bearings while still cursing at me because all of that was me fault apparently.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Defiant-Lion8183 on 2024-05-06 12:16:46.

So I am a fiend for excel spreadsheets. Absolutely love them and even bought an extra extra wide monitor for home so I can see them in all their glory. My Boss keeps telling me that she's an "advanced excel user", she can run macros, she can do pivot tables, she knows formulas. Not once have I seen her create or manipulate a spreadsheet in the 6 months I've worked for her.

So I had a Template on our Teams chat that we used every week, it was automated to within an inch of its life to tell us about the companies health. We've been using it for the last 4 months after I was given approval by the boss to make it live, gave her a tutorial and everything. This was for the admins to all see it and I'd only need to update the raw data once a week instead of send it manually to who ever wanted it on a given day (Up to 4 times a day usually).

Took out about 6 hrs work a week having it set up like that. Well the boss told me to take it down because a different department who hadnt seen it, was worried about personal data when one of the admins told them about it. There isnt anything like that in there, and anything that isnt open access is password hidden anyway. Our IT team has to be formally requested to add a new member to our teams chat, the spreadsheet is password protected, the tabs are password protected and the whole company is locked down hard anyway.

So boss orders me to take it down and delete it "Run a fresh one for anyone who wants it".

So I explained there wasn't anything in it that was "personal or private data", but got told nope delete it.

Tried to explain we use it amongst the admins every day and it has all these built in features/tables etc.

Nope delete it.

So I did. The fall out? Read on

Cue today Boss says to me her big boss meeting is presenting figures to the executives tomorrow. She starts quoting figures that are wildly out from the true numbers, I questioned where they came from and she shows me a Frankenstein report that is saying the exact opposite of what she thought. Run by someone not even in our department... I tell her the accurate grand total and show her how I got there with a simple table and some screenshots I had of the original shared spreadsheet. She asks for access and I tell her its been deleted.

I explained why and even showed the meeting notes where she had approved its use after viewing it.

She denies any knowledge of it, but wants it back. I said It would take me 2-3 days to make it again due to my workload increases.

I saved a copy of the template, but no way am I telling her that. This will give me breathing room to get the backlog out of my queue while she thinks I'm working on it. Let her sweat through that Executive meeting knowing every figure is wrong, no ones saving her ass in this team anymore.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Blitz-Dublone on 2024-05-06 09:28:31.

First the classic english is Not my native language and am writing on mobile.

About the middle of the Last year I needed a surgery. Had a inguinal hernian which needed ro be fixes. I tell my Coworkers that i will be sick for Like 3-4 weeks, they are fine with that. I that the Head of the Laboraty, he's fine as well. Now to quickly Tell my Boss or so I thought. I started: Hey Boss, just want to tell you something about some sick days ... She interrupts me, Boss: Oh, you don't need to Me: See the Thing is ... She interrupts me again: Listens, i don't really Care about sick days, got it ? Now go away ! Me: Okay, Boss

This was the last day of work before the surgery. So after the surgery, still a bit dizzy in the head, I take my cellphone and call my Boss. Me: Hey Boss, Just wanna let you know i won't come for the next 3-4 weeks. I just had a surgery Boss: What ??? You NEED to tell me those Things. It is very important that I know such Things. Blah, blah, blah ... Me (with all the calmness i had): Well Boss, i tried to tell you that twice. After the second one you said that you don't Care. Silence Silence Silence Me: Boss ? Boss: Get well soon (Hangs up on me)

I think in the future she will listen to Things about sick days 😅

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/6mac17 on 2024-05-05 20:39:10.

A 3 weeks ago I was walking my dog through the neighborhood (planned community, so pretty big) doggo did his business and I being a decent human being picked up said poo. A couple houses down from me was a dumpster on the street. As I walked by I threw the poo away. The homeowner promptly came running out the garage and started screaming obscenities at me for using his dumpster. I apologized and said no disrespect meant I just saw a dumpster and thought it wouldn’t be a problem. Homeowner continued yelling at me demanding I jump into the dumpster to fish the shit out. He then said he would call the sheriffs, not wanting to cause a stir or take law enforcement resources away from what was needed I jumped in grabbed the shit out, and saw that there were hazardous materials in the dumpster that were illegal IE paint, paint stripping, fluorescent lights, and other chemical materials. I asked the homeowner if they were doing any fun renovations. At this point he had calmed down and said yes just finishing an ADU as well as adding two extra rooms and bathrooms. At this point I noticed that there were no postings on the house that this was ok’d by the city and county (LA County and the city I live in requires permits to be posted on the garage door/front of the house denoting that the construction is permissible). Now after being yelled at for throwing a bag of dog shit away in a dumpster that had hazardous materials in it on a house that was undergoing unsanctioned construction, I did what any NIMBY neighbor would do, I called city and county code enforcement explaining the above situation and what I saw in the dumpster, I didn’t say anything about the additions.

Cue 2 days later I am walking the doggo on the same route only to find code enforcement and sheriffs in the garage with the homeowner loudly discussing the non-approved additions.

About a week after seeing the sheriffs and code enforcement, I was walking the doggo on the same route and came across a neighbor of the homeowner that had the dumpster, we started chit-chatting and the neighbor said that the last week had interesting with county code enforcement citing the homeowner for non-approved construction, non-code, plumbing, electricity and not getting permitted approval for adding an ADU, to top it off they were also cited for dumping hazardous materials.

Long and short of the story, don’t get pissy when someone is throwing their dog shit away when doing non-approved additions.

Edit 1 - some comments are saying this isn’t malicious compliance, I forgot to add our community recently switched collection providers for trash collection and we have all gotten notices to follow SB 1383 and report instances where this isn’t being followed. Gotta love NIMBY Jesus on Suburbia towns

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/WordWizardx on 2024-05-05 01:48:41.

Was reminded of this story today about my in-laws. When my wife was a kid, my FIL joined a bulk warehouse club (like Costco) and came home with a giant case of split pea soup mix. My MIL then proceeded to make and serve split pea soup for every meal until the case was empty, which my wife remembers taking about six weeks. FIL did no more grocery shopping at the bulk warehouse.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Knowledgefromwork on 2024-05-04 01:21:45.

So this happened 20+ years ago and it still makes me laugh. I’m an Australian radiographer who was working in the UK NHS. There was this older radiographer Susie who told me she hated locum radiographers and particularly hated Australians. Sadly I was guilty of both.

Susie generally tried to make my life hard but regularly failed to succeed. All the staff liked me and I throughly enjoyed the work and the people I worked with.Susie also did her best to avoid doing any activity at all. She was disliked by nearly all in radiology including the supervisor.

One Friday afternoon at a work meeting the supervisor radiographer informed us all,that a new pain clinic service would start Monday in the operating theatres and a radiographer was required to go for 4-6 hours each Monday.

Now most radiographers I know are not overjoyed at doing theatre work.You stand around in a lead gown for hours pressing a button occasionally. Some love it, but I think it’s ok sometimes. Susie quickly yells outs “ I’m definitely not doing that make the Aussie go. He is getting paid enough.”

Everyone stopped and looked at me and I just said sure no dramas. Come Monday I attended theatre at 9 am and met the loveliest pain specialist and his nurse. They made the whole day great. Here is the thing but , I would do a case and than the pain specialist would say he didn’t need me for the next case and could I go to the the tea room and wait .

I actually spent most of the day in the operating theatre tea room eating biscuits, drinking tea and reading the newspapers. I would generally come down from theatre about 2 pm where I would be met by the supervisor radiographer who would tell to take my lunch hour plus my morning tea break . I would return about 330pm just in time for my afternoon tea break then actually do some work from 4pm to 5pm.

Meanwhile Susie has been assigned to the general x-ray department doing ward work . Slogging away all day .

This went on for months until I moved on . The last week I was there, the supervisor radiographer sent another radiographer to theatre for pain clinic and it was discovered what my working life on a Mondays had entailed. Susie was livid and demanded she should go to pain clinic but the supervisor reminded her she had refused previously. Ps sorry for any grammar etc on a phone with fat fingers

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Alconen on 2024-05-03 17:46:30.

So when i was about a 13 year old little shit, i went to the supermarket to get myself something to drink.

There was only one cash register opened and a que had formed, i was in the back with one person in front of me and one person in front of them putting their stuff on the counter. Eventually a second register was opened and the girl said:" next one in line step over here, please." The person in front of my line was finished packing groceries and was about to pay, the guy in front of me had only a few items, and i only had a single can of energy drink.

I stepped over to the next register and this guy steps over behind me and starts instantly flipping his shit about how he "was first, and im stealing his spot". This is an adult man against a 13 year old.

Being the naïve 13 year old i was, i was 90% sure this adult wasnt gonna beat up a child, so i told him to calm down and if he just asks normally i will let him ahead of me, he doesnt want to, so i refuse to let him go ahead of me and turn around to pay for my SINGLE CAN OF ENERGY DRINK. Que more raving from kevin.

At this point some big burly security dude steps over to check out whats happening, so kevin starts raving at him instead. After he was done i was asked what was happening, and i told the security guard that the man was indeed ahead of me in the previous line, and if he had just asked nicely i would have let him go ahead of me.

The security made the lunatic calm down, and as kevin growled out the words: "may i go ahead of you?" in a dejected voice. My response was:" of course sir, go right ahead."

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Sea_Thanks_7677 on 2024-05-03 13:29:32.

On mobile, not a native speaker. I do not consent to this story being used outside Reddit.

When I was a teenager, my extended family (my parents, sister, me, aunt, uncle, cousins, all in all eight persons) went on our annual multi day cycling tour, but due to bad weather we had to reschedule and ended up renting an apartment in Ticino (Switzerland) that had enough beds for all of us, but only one shower. (It's not that easy to find accomodations for eight persons in high season, so this was the only option).

So one late afternoon we came back from a long day cycling the steep mountains around Lake Maggiore. We did a couple of hundred (maybe even thousand) meters of elevation difference in a very humid climate that day, so you can imagine, all of us were REALLY sweaty and REALLY hungry.

I probably should add that this was long before e-bikes were a thing. We did those cycling vacations every year, going back to when we kids were in elementary school, always those two families who were really close and yes, we were (and are) crazy when it comes to cycling...

To prevent fights, we always settled on an order for the shower as soon as we got back to the apartment. I was supposed to be third in line, but my aunt insisted I gave her my shower slot bc she "needed to be finished sooner than me". As most of the days the adults were cooking dinner and we all ate at the apartment, this made sense to me as I figured she wanted to get a shower before starting to cook.

As soon as she was in the shower, I found out we were supposed to go to a restaurant for dinner that day, so there wasn't any reason for my aunt to jump the queue other than she was last in line and probably figured there wouldn't be any hot water left for her.

I tried to get in the shower next, but my sister, cousins etc. insisted that I lost my spot by letting my aunt jump the queue and had to wait until all of them were finished. Everyone was in a hurry as we all were really hungry after all the cycling and we wanted to leave for the restaurant as soon as we could.

Cue malicious compliance: While I was waiting to finally get into the shower I secretly snacked on a packet of nuts to soothe my hungry tummy and patiently waited my time. When I finally got in the shower, I washed my long hair, used conditioner, rinsed again, made sure to put on lotion after showering and finally blow drying my hair. Like really thoroughly blow drying my hair (even though it was hot outside and I really didn't need to blow dry my hair). By that time my family was banging on the bathroom door, trying to make me hurry up, as everyone was really hungry. When I finally got out of the bathroom my family gave me sh*t for taking so long and making them wait when they were starving. So I told them that my aunt had tricked me out of my slot in the shower line and that none of them were willing to let me shower earlier - what did they expect when they made the only person who wore their hair long shower last?!

Well, they always made sure I was one of the first to shower after that. On every vacation!