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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/WarmKitten on 2024-10-13 10:03:21+00:00.

This was last year. In hindsight, I feel a little bad for the professor. He wasn't the worst I'd ever had, and he was up against a University which was in turmoil behind the scenes and spearheading an untested new course. That being said, I am paying quite exorbitantly for this education, and he was a right snot about this so, eh.

It was a history course, and one of the assignments was a group project wherein we presented in front of the class. There was a three hour seminar taking place in a lecture hall, the last hour of which was reserved for two groups to go up and present at a half hour apiece. This would involve a Q and A session afterwards, just to keep us on our toes, I suppose.

Professor really emphasized that we pick the week and topic we're going to present in and that's that. It's first-come-first-serve and if you miss your spot you get a 0. Thought nothing of it at the time, seemed fair. Didn't like his attitude, but whatever, right?

Well I won the lottery with the group I was assigned. They were grand lads and a dream to work with. We decided on an advantageous week to present (given our schedules) and we spent the run up fine-tuning this presentation and really getting it to work. We used a stopwatch and everything, we even brought in outsiders to ask questions we might not predict. All was well.

Except we were presenting in week five, and a disturbing pattern had emerged during the seminars in weeks two, three and four. For all his talk about keeping things constrained and everyone working within a schedule, whoever went second was screwed. The first group always ran long and the second group had to make do with, at-most, 20 minutes. You could see the stress on their faces.

So come week five the rest of my group, a little bit more nervous than I am, worries aloud about whether all of our careful planning will be for pot. I decide to throw a hail Mary thinking that the worst I could get is a "no", right?

So I go up right before class stars and ask the prof what are the odds we might go on first out of the two, after all, we're sure we have this down to 30 minutes. The dude proceeds to rake me across the coals in front of everyone. It was a normal speaking voice, but the podium was right by the door, and people were filing in. Tells me not to ask such a stupid question and to go back to my seat. I go back, tail between my legs, pissed off and sit with steam shooting out of my ears for the next two hours.

Sure enough, the other group goes first. And sure enough, they run long. We shoot concerned looks to the professor who is too busy watching the other group to notice. Come 50 minutes in and the first group is just about wrapping up. The guys in my group are silently freaking out about this. Nightmare, right?

That's when the prof stands up, polite applause all around and then says "Well I guess we're finishing early today, huh?"

Like a scene out of a courtroom drama the four of us stand up like a shot and ask what the hell is going on. He can't quite hear us from back, and we're all talking at once so he asks "What's going on?" I charge down those steps like King Kong.

In the same tone of voice, in front of the same door that people were now filing out of, I tell this guy that we're booked for the assignment today and we have something prepared. "W-what!?" Turns out he totally plum forgot that we were presenting today, and that's why he was so mad at my suggestion earlier.

So I tell him we're presenting now, to an empty room, or he's giving us 100.

The poor guy sure did try. Insisted we hadn't signed up this week (we had), insisted that he could schedule us in next week (even assuming two of four of our group weren't away on placement for their teaching degree, we booked for this week as ordered), insisted that he had somewhere to be (not my problem, mate).

Dude just had to wear it. After making a phone call to (presumably) his next appointment, he had to stand there, white as a sheet, and wear it. I'll never forget the look on his face.

So we presented to a lecture hall empty of all but the professor and two students who, I guess, wanted to see more of the show.

We got a great grade, to boot.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/plogan56 on 2024-10-12 18:21:15+00:00.

Ok for context, my cousin goes to this private school that gives out these laptops at the beginning of the school year, these laptops hold the vast majority of their schoolwork and as such have custom software to limit their usage to said schoolwork; because of all these factors, everyone who received one was instructed to pay a $200 security deposit that would not be returned if they damaged/lost theirs.

Onto the story, when the end of their school year came closer and people started returning their laptops, the school started claiming BS damages on the laptops and kept the deposits. Obviously, this didn't sit well with alot of the students and parents who knew good and well there was no damage to speak of and so they began to claim they simply "lost" them and let the school keep the deposit since they weren't getting it back in the first place. As more and more students did this, my cousin included, the school went full dictator mode and claimed to prevent students from grafuatiing if they did not return their laptops, which again went against the signed agreement/contract, and whoo-boy did that set off the powder keg.

Several parents got their lawyaers and filed a case aginst the school for breach of contract and even the media got involved covering the corrupt school's policy, students refused to attend the class for the final weeks, parents were protesting in front of the school lawn, even some faculty and staff quit it was a whole thing.

In the end my cousin told me it ended up settled out of court because they couldn't take the bad PR anymore and part of it was the return of the deposit for the laptop's return; however, she wasn't giving hers back and asked me to jailbreak the software so it worked like a normal one and i did(mostly just had to save her personal data then wipe the software from it).

Ik some of you will comment "it's just $200 dollars, they didn't need lawyers if they were already paying for private school anyway" and to you i say would you be okay being blatantly cheated out of extra money when you're already paying for a service? Because seriously, what did they expect to happen, that's several thousands of dollars spread out among several students(idk the exact number maybe 300) of course they wouldn't just sit back and let you cheat them.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Due-Date-2024 on 2024-10-12 16:36:19+00:00.

I'm a college professor and teach a first year core linguistics unit. Cheating has always been a problem, more so with the advent of AI where some students turn in reference-less ChatGPT word salad.

There are tools that can detect AI written text. It's not definite, but if a piece of text is assessed as being likely AI written, coupled with a student being unable to defend themselves in an oral viva, then it's pretty solid evidence. I submitted academic dishonesty reports for several students. I was hoping to spend a hour or so on call in total with those students and ask them questions about their essays.

I got an email back from admin saying that they would not entertain having oral vivas, that AI detectors give false positives so "unless there is an actual AI prompt in their essay we don't want to hear about it", and that even if they did cheat "It's just a sign of adaptability to modern economic forces".

They finally told me that I should therefore "learn to incorporate AI in my classes". This happened 12 months ago.

Okay college administration, I will "learn to incorporate AI in my classes".

I'm the course coordinator for the core unit. I have full control over the syllabus. I started to use an AI proctoring software for all my assessment and quizzes. This software can use facial recognition and tracks keystrokes and copy-pasting.

I also changed the syllabus to have several shorter writing assessments (i.e 400 words) instead of a couple large ones (i.e 1500 words).

Before you dislike me for ruining students' lives -- this is a first year course. Additionally, only citizens can enroll in online degrees in my country, and they only need to start paying back their student loans if they earn more than $52k a year.

The result?

Cheating has been reduced to a nil in my unit. All forms of cheating have been abolished in my class, including paid ghostwriting -- AI and human.

I was called to a meeting a few weeks ago where a board told me that data analysis showed that a higher proportion of new students in my major are discontinuing their degree, and that this was forecast to cost them $100,000's in tuition and CSP funding over the next few years. They told me that they "fear my unconventional assessment method might be to blame."

I simply stated that I was told to incorporate modern technologies, we are offering an asynchronous online degree, our pathos is to uphold academic honesty, and that I offer flexible AI-driven asynchronous assessment options that are less demanding than having to write large essays.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Eljason79 on 2024-10-12 15:41:23+00:00.

I live in a low lying area next to the intercoastal in Volusia and we got 3-4 feet of surge that stands until the tide falls which takes a few days. At low tide it drains but high tide spits it all back into the street. Rinse and repeat for 4-6 tide cycles before everything normalizes. A lot of us on the street have large low spots in our yards that have to be pumped into the drainage system. My crawl space is probably the lowest point so it all flows and stands unless it’s pumped or dissipates. After a long day of cleanup my wife and I went to have dinner to relax. At dinner my phone starts blowing up with texts from my neighbor to turn my pump off because she can’t walk around her house (the storm drain sits right in between our property lines). I immediately call another neighbor who tells me the drains are back flowing. While I’m on that call I get a text from her that she MOVED my hose to shoot water back under my house and tried to tell me what I was going was illegal. She called 911 and they sent out a firefighter to tell her what I was doing was legal and had to be done. She still proceeds to tell me that I need to consider the neighbors (she is the only one slightly affected by my pumping) and I shouldn’t be pumping water into the street. Malicious compliance time. I move my hose to my side yard that slopes down to her yard before making its way to the street flooding her dirt driveway (80% of which is on my property). Guess whose yard is now flooded and who was told by my police department that she is no longer allowed on my property under any circumstances meaning the only place she can park is on the street which is illegal as it’s an old neighborhood with very narrow roads. Be nice to your neighbors. She is so far over a barrel now I almost feel bad for her.

Update: Thank you all for the laughs and advice. It has truly made my cleanup go so much faster. I’m sorry but I’m still very green posting to Reddit and don’t know how to link it but I posted this in r/badneighbors if you want to see the text exchange while I was at the restaurant and the aftermath when I got home. Y’all be safe out there.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Supermathie on 2024-10-11 19:16:07+00:00.

The Turkish landowner story reminded me of this story from my hometown:

In a report from The CBC, the building that is now the club house was once a machine shop, until it was purchased by Ward, his brother Richard, Tim Panetta, and Randy Beres in 2001.

There's a terrible MC story behind this sale.

The original owner had a garage with a machine shop tucked away, surrounded by trees. He was a car enthusiast and he would frequently work in his shop and invite his friends with their cars to work on them as well.

The neighbours weren't happy with the occasional noise and complained to the city he was running an unlicensed business in a residential area. By the most strict interpretation of the law, he may have been, so he endured a lot of harassment from his neighbours and the city until he got fed up and sold his property (which, IIRC, was one of the remedies suggested by the court).

He sold to the Hell's Angels. Who, shortly thereafter, tore down his house, trees, and paved a huge concrete pad (a good aerial picture is in this article).

The clubhouse became a massive centre of drug manufacturing and distribution in the area.

The neighbours, as far as I know, didn't complain to the new owners. Go figure.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/RagdollSeeker on 2024-10-11 06:34:43+00:00.

In Aydin, Turkiye landowner opens a sex shop after a dispute with neighbours.

“Two years ago, I wanted to rent my shop to an institutional company. Some of my neighbours opposed it stating that they didnt want a busy shop in this area.

After that, I built an awning (I guess he wanted to open his own cafe or something) but I was sued and I had to demolish it with my own hands.

I lost 150K Turkish lira (4500 USD) in that ordeal.

So I decided how to profit from my shop and opened my sexshop named ‘69SexShop’. “

“There is a lot of demand. People are saying they will buy products from us and they are already coming. Many people also want to work at our shop”

“I see this as a service to society providing proper hygiene and safety. We will have only have one customer at our shop, we are opening next week”

Source:

This is just beautiful, this sub personified 😂

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/JohnnyPolite on 2024-10-11 04:09:21+00:00.

I was a cashier in college and a lady and her friend were talking in my line and being dismissive. I rang her up and told her the total. She handed me cash and was 50 cents short. I said “Maam, it’s 50 more cents.”

She rolled her eyes and said “I want to pay cash.” And went back to talking to her friend.

I said “Yes ma’am. Do you have 50 more cents?”

She turned toward me and very slowly and condescendingly said “I want to pay with that cash” and pointed at what she handed to me.

I said “yes ma’am” and hit the cash button and entered the amount she gave me. I politely said “Ok your total is 50 cents. How would you like to pay for that?”

She realized what happened and got a embarrassed and said “I have 50 cents”

To her friend’s credit, she was laughing at her.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Ancient_Educator_76 on 2024-10-11 02:17:42+00:00.

This story isn’t what you think it is. Well, Now it is, I suppose.

I’ve written many MCs about my adult life , teaching, running a drive thru, you name it. Though I’ve referenced growing up with my father , this is the first time I’ve written about him directly. There has to be a statute of limitations on speaking I’ll of the dead. If these balls could talk.

Anyway, I’m about eleven years old in Germantown (the projects of Quincy) Massachusetts living with my father. Any time I’ve asked about my mom I got shot down with a “ she’s a crazy b#tch”. My father had many vices. Tobacco seemed to play the biggest role in our lives and in keeping him relatively sane. Cigarettes lined up like a Clash of Clans skeletal army, warding off the much bigger , much more formidable beasts that lie ahead. Individually, a cigarette holds minimal power, yet a million times more power than none. This sad mathematical fact is what brings us to this story of the most malicious of compliances.

When my dad ran out of the money he got for SSI and SSA, cigarettes became a problem, even in the late eighties. He would have me “bum cigarettes” from the neighbors. Some neighbors were generous. Some told me how vile it was for a father to send their child to get cigarettes. Some threw chicken bones at me. If I only had the wherewithal to reply “ ma’am I’m eleven “. Or at least duck.

When it got really bad he had me walk the town looking for cigarette butts that still had some tobacco left. This was a disgusting activity that I eventually got really good at. And really sick of.

One night he sends me off on another tobacco mission, but I’m in the middle of a game of monopoly I’m playing with Chewbacca, starscream and megatron, and it’s about to get good. I argue to the point of my dad throwing throwing a handful of shit#ty coins at me , yelling in his raspy post-thyroidectomy voice “don’t come back until you have cigarettes I can SMOKE!!!”

Enter MC

As blood trickles down my face, dripping onto a few dirty coins I managed to retain from their violent travels, I wonder what other crimes these coins have been complicit to. What have you done, little dime!?

I was done. With all of it. As an eleven year old I had very little cards to play, but one of them landed right in my lap.

I walked in the dead of night, directly up the unnamed dirt road my dad used to drive me down whilst sitting on the hood. Back when I was a few years younger. When I was his type. Am I ready to do this?

I keep walking, seeing many cigarette butts and even an un crushed pack, ignoring them all as I walk to the fire station. I know there’s a pay phone there, and this time my dads gonna pay.

I look down at my coins, my bloody dime, and call my Aunt Stella. She told me earlier this year that anytime I needed help, call her. My Dad always insisted I don’t do this, or ever call her for anything, because “all she wants to phuqqing do is rat me out and see me in jail so SHE can keep u!” Sounds like a plan. When she picked up she knew right away, but explained in way too much detail what happened the last few months and then years, even including the SA from my dad back when he was still into me. If these balls could talk. Anyway, I cried and tears well up even now remembering how it all just flowed out of me like a river of garbage falling over me.

I knew this was gonna be big trouble if I didn’t have the cigarettes and I told her. She risked her life driving to us, pack of cigarettes in her hand as she picked me up and told me to stay in the car. Even through the closed windows of a Chevy nova I could hear her yell “here’s your fucking cigarettes, I’m taking op!!”

The saddest sh*t was that he took the cigarettes and turned around no argument. He didn’t even fight for me . I don’t even know why, to this day, I even wanted him to. Aunt Stella did what I knew she would; call the cops on him and take me in. He went to jail then eventually out of state after kids kept coming out of the woodwork who were his victims.

I never looked back.

Who am I kidding? I looked back every day since.

TLDR- my dad said don’t come back without getting cigarettes. I got him his older sister and a couple next little metal bracelets too.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Individual_Ad_9213 on 2024-10-10 21:58:37+00:00.

"Just tap there," said the cashier as they ignored me and the cash in my outstretched hand and as they pointed to the credit card machine. After a few seconds of being told, repeatedly, "Over there, papi," I took them up on their word. I slapped the money against the card reader and said, loud enough for everyone around me to hear: "Hey, this machine isn't working; maybe if I try sliding it through....nope, still not working. Maybe you can do better."

The other customers had witnessed how rudely I was being treated. They burst out laughing when the cashier finally looked at me and grabbed the money out of my hand. A few more cash paying customers imitated me, laughing at that cashier's increasing upset.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/golf-lip on 2024-10-10 21:49:44+00:00.

For context, i work at a Hotel with 1 maintenance engineer. Not a large hotel, so 1 is enough. Any regular day, he insists i call him about maintenance work rather than putting in a work order so he can just fix it and not have to go close out an order on the computer. This leads to me calling 4-5x a day. I call him for things like broken a.c.'s, hanging up a picture frame, cabinet door falling off. If its something easy like a lightbulb or clogged drain, i just fix it myself. Recently he took 2 weeks off work for a surgery. I tried to figure most things out myself, and only called him if i really needed assistance. Instead of 4-5 calls a day, i called him maybe 4 times the entire 2 weeks to let him recover and rest. I tried to fix most things myself and figure it out to not bother him.

When he comes back from his vacation, he sees something was installed incorrectly. A shower wall shampoo holder. I put it on the wall but did not grout it. He responded by saying, "if you want to do my job, let me know and i'll go elsewhere" and was generally petty for the rest of the day. Okay. I wont do your job for you.

Lightbulb out? Call. Phone unplugged? Call. Remote out of batteries? Call. Toilet not flushing? Call. Drain clogged? Call. Probably called over 20 times.

Do i know how to fix these things? Of course. But i don't want him to leave, so i'll let him do his job.

Edit:

1. It is a 3m sticky strip on the back of a plastic mount. He is upset i didnt caulk it. No major harm done or tons of work to be undone
2. We do track maintenance requests to see history and identify recurring problems to catch issues. He just prefers i call him rather than going online to check and close them because he isn't tech savvy. So im doing both.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/MooseyBee on 2024-10-10 21:43:42+00:00.

Years ago, a friend of mine was working as a research assistant in Germany. German is not her first language, but she was trying her best to learn it.

For one study, she meant to ask the patients to come to their weigh-ins and blood tests without having eaten anything. The German word for "shy" is schüchtern. The German word for "unfed" (literally "empty") is nüchtern. Of course, it wasn't detected by the spelling checker. And guess who made that small error in her emails to the patients?

You can imagine how shocked my friend was when her patients showed up and began joking with her; oversharing tiny details from their day, telling her about their bowel movements post-operation, and so on. Fortunately, it was only a handful of the hundreds of patients that she emailed who teased her about not being "shy" and everyone else who commented on it was kind.

Definitely a lesson well-learned :-)

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Poolofcheddar on 2024-10-10 16:04:21+00:00.

We had this coworker on our team. The best way to describe him is to use a Homer Simpson line: “everyone says they have to work a lot harder when I’m around.” Projects given to him usually were: not completed correctly, not entirely completed, or not even worked on at all. 

He violated security protocols, gave out equipment to other departments, and would occasionally disappear for hours. He would always have someone else to blame for his problems: contractors, staff in other departments, but the last straw for the rest of us was when he tried to throw his own team under the bus.

We all knew he was skating by because we’d fix his mistakes to keep everything else running. And admittedly, it’s hard to get fired from a state job. But after blaming us and having to hear about it? That was the last straw.

So the rest of us on the team stopped helping him, and we stopped fixing his mistakes. He wasn’t making obvious mistakes before. Now they were obvious.

The mistakes were piling up - and fast. We would collaborate with him only down to the bare minimum. He had no reason to blame us if our contributions to a project were completed and his weren’t. 

And then came the kiss of death: he took a week off. With him not around, everything that piled up started getting completed by the rest of us. New tasks were completed on top of that, and on time. Even my boss could not ignore the simple fact that the place ran smoother without him around. After he returned, everything started piling back up again.

So we came into work a couple weeks ago and it was announced that he had “left the organization.” Not one person was surprised. The thing that amazes me about this whole thing is that nobody coordinated it. None of us hatched a plan. We all just individually decided that enough was enough. You wanted obvious? You got it. 

It is impressive how much it takes to get fired for some people. My last two jobs both featured a teammate who essentially collected a paycheck and did nothing in return. At least my manager here had the balls to do what was needed. It’s also amazing that in the end, there’s less work to do with him gone because tasks don’t need to be done twice anymore.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Cabaj1 on 2024-10-10 09:14:38+00:00.

This happened 8-ish years ago. My school contains around 800 students spread over 6 years (12-18). In my school, there were 2 other people with the same first name as me (let's call it Peter). All 3 Peters were in the same class by pure coincidence.

We all followed the same language class & our normal teacher was replaced for a month by someone new to teaching. At the end of that month, we had to do a group presentation (+ powerpoint) about a piece of literature. We could make our own groups & we have decided to do a presentation together with all 3 Peters because we were all friends.

A week later, she realised she did not know our names and decided to do a minor addition to the presentation. We now have to add an extra slide to the powerpoint with our first name + opinion. So we did... With only our first name... All written the same way.

For some mysterious reason, we all had the same grade.

edit: fixed translation.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/DirtyDuckman53 on 2024-10-09 18:42:46+00:00.

One of the credit unions I am a member is offering a special offer on 6 months CD. The catch is that it has to be “new money”. Nothing from a current account.

So a few weeks ago I withdrew a significant amount from one of my accounts there and moved it to another Credit Union

Walked in with “New Money” today. Bought the CD & immediately following removed the same amount plus some ( interest) from a CD that had just matured…….see where I am going?

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Sigbac on 2024-10-09 17:59:33+00:00.

I have learned so much from this sub and now Im putting it all to use. I hope this is the right sub for this.

So it's my birthday month, and while some stores offer their fidelity members / people with club card certain items (like the garden store let me pick out a little potted plant, perfume store gave me a free little travel size perfume etc) some stores only do a discount code, and only if you make a purchase (which is wild to me, Im in France and normally it's just a small free item no obligation, no strings at all just come in the store and pick it out)

For examole, I ordered some wooden Advent calendars for my kiddo to make while on the upcoming school break, and after I placed the order suddenly I get a "birthday" 5€ off my next purchase when I spend 20€ email. No problem, I had set my delivery for pick up in store so I just returned and rebought the items with the 5€ gift. Perfect. Thanks Reddit for the idea by the way

But the malicious part comes from the tack store. I got a gift card there and actually have had my eye on a some things for my horse so I went in, and saw that I have a 20% coupon on all items, but only starting next week, it's store wide. So I see the items I had wanted in the color I want, and there is only one of each item left, I ask if they will restock or can order me some if they happen to sell out before the sale. (this is common, they can order anything from their catalog so it's not rude to ask) cashier says no. Ok..? I ask if they can put items aside or if I can call in advance to see if it's stocked. No. This is so weird to me, Im thinking I have slighted this person because normally the sales representatives have no problems holding items for 24 hours. But she states company policy, and says she wont do it. Ok, that I can respect. So I ask about their returns and how long I have to return an item and what conditions...30 days? Super. I bought the items, and next week when my voucher becomes valid Ill be able to return then rebuy them. She actually smiled when she understood, we are both respecting company policy and its my perfect way to insure the items are stocked, plus now she can legitimately order more for her location.

Ahhhhhh compliance

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/RadRacer513 on 2024-10-09 15:07:04+00:00.

Worked at Company A for over 8 years, to the point I had no intentions of going anywhere else and planned to retire with them (in ~30yrs) as long as they kept treating me fair. Reviews came up and everyone in my team was given a lackluster raise, even though we had improved the program from years behind on contracts to delivering 2 months ahead. I had taken on tasks that should have been distributed across multiple engineers, but they didn't want to pay extra engineers so they became my tasks instead. After the raises were dished out, my team confronted our manager and told him how disappointed we were. His response was get a better job offer and we'll discuss things.

So I did just that; I found a better job at a smaller company where I would get a 20% raise and less responsibility. Once I had my offer letter I turned it in, along with a month notice of my resignation. Manager wanted to discuss what it would take to keep me; I met with him with a list of all my accomplishments (which he already had from review time) and told him I believe a better raise was justified. I told him 2 months ago, that's what it would have taken to keep me. Today, you have to beat this offer of a 20% raise and less responsibilities. He responded with he can't get anywhere close to that, I should have told him I wasn't satisfied, etc. He then went through the list of my accomplishments and stated how half of them weren't required for my position. Queue compliance #2. I asked for what was required of my position and did just that the remainder of my time there.

Now I've got a better job with fewer responsibilities and better pay, and a boss who doesn't try to gaslight them. Friends in Company A tell me how they still haven't shipped any new product since I left (3 months ago, so now they're behind), multiple people have already left, and the remaining people are looking for new jobs.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/bapeery on 2024-10-09 07:21:15+00:00.

I’ve been working with a home health agency for the better part of 9 months. I work 12 hour days with cases raging from complex to simple.

In that time I’ve worked 11 unscheduled doubles, and 42 additional twelve hour overtime shifts. I have used exactly 2 sick days. 1 for myself and 1 for my kid. I do not call out, I do not show up late, and I don’t do the corner cutting they suggest. I take vacation time on my off days. I’ve saved them on 3 specific occasions from failing audits.

I picked up so much because a) the money is nice, b) I legitimately care about the wellbeing of my patients, and c) they begged me.

You see, the company I work for likes to take on new clients without having enough staff to cover that patient. Then, they freak out and offer bonuses for us to pick up. These are governmentally contracted jobs with big DOE bucks coming in. If they can’t prove the patient is taken care of, they are fined heavily. Too many fines and they’re blackballed from taking new DOE clients at all.

This company is so poorly run, it’s a joke. They have 8 schedulers, but still send mass texts every single day asking us to pick up (these happen all hours of day and night). They often double book or randomly change schedules without informing clients or nurses. They also underpay for my area. Not much, but $4/hr is a big deal. They also won’t respond to your questions, calls, or texts for days to weeks at a time.

I’ve been looking around for a while and found a company that pays more, has good leadership, and they said they’d have me on the ground running closer to home if I just went through their hiring program. I agreed and have been an employee with them for about a month, just no hours worked yet.

Back to my Malicious Compliance.

I knew I’d be out of town for a couple of days and have 9 days worth of PTO banked. I decided to help them out and “ask” for 3 days off. I assumed that would give them enough time to fill my spot. I did this on Sept. 13. The days I requested are Oct. 12, 13, and 14. It’s a mini vacation for my family since I worked all summer.

Monday I received a nasty email about the final day for PDO requests being September 10. I let the manager know I was trying to help them out by giving them time to fill it. She shot back with how “selfish” of me it was to “leave her short handed”. She rejected my PTO requests.

Tuesday I showed up at the office to discuss this little frustration. I mentioned my exemplary work history and intention of making things easier for them. She slammed the table with her balled fists and said. “You will work those days. I don’t care if you have a trip planned to Australia, you’ll be there. If you don’t like it, you can just leave.”

It was her nasty smirk that set me off.

I stood up, took a mint and said “As you wish. I expect all my PTO to be on my next paycheck in accordance with our state’s PTO laws. I hope you can fill the opening on such short notice.”

The look of horror on her face was more valuable than the PTO.

In the past 24+ hours I’ve received 19 voicemails asking if I can come into work because they’re short.

Tonight is my first night with the new company. It ended up being $6/hr more, 48 minutes each way closer to home, and I get paid 40 hours even though I worked 36.

Be careful what you wish for. You may just get it.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Lazy_Bystander on 2024-10-08 20:37:58+00:00.

Obligatory English is not my first language and writing on mobile.

So I am a Civil Engineer that has done my engineering degree specializing in structural engineering. On top of that I did a specializing year in complex studies and design in a renown school in my country after my engineering degree. Dunno if that could give you an idea of my competences, but I was 2nd and 3rd respectively on the rankings for both these schools for a promotion of 120 people. As a consequence you could say, I am heavily specialized.

TLDR : classical first job with classical if you are not happy look elsewhere with a big downfall for the firm.

Cue the end of my studies, I signed a contract for the job I wanted before even finishing my studies. I wasn't rushed, pretty much interviewed for 5 jobs with 7 CV sent and 4 propositions.

The team I joined was 6 engineers including me specializing in existing structures. Think if a bridge or a dam has a crack they call us to come see on site and run calculation to see if everything is fine or not. Fast forward a year I integrated quite well, grew in competence and maturity. After the second, I have gone from the guy asking questions to the guy they came to when people needed answers. All was well, I got raises every year and bonuses with compliments, all the good stuff.

Stuff began to go bad after the third year. At the third year, I was more or less the go to guy for complex project and when people didn't find answers. As such, I asked to move forward from project manager to a more back position we call technical referent. Basically, you keep producing as usual but some of your time is dedicated to standard compliance for the team and answering deeper subject that are passed through the year. It is not something that existed in this firm but exist in a lot of firms here. I proposed this because at the time the team had grown to 12 people. Thanks to my participation in more complex project, we even had grown our sales by 30% in three years, we had raised more people as project managers. As a consequence, with basically two people taking the part I couldn't do when becoming a referent, it became a new possibility. Even my chief and the chief of my chief told me and wrote in my yearly review that a lot of the projects we had at the time were because I was here.

Anyways to become a technical referent, I told them I would need to get some formations to complete my technical knowledge, for which I proposed the subjects myself and even got pricing and contact for institutions. They agreed both in oral and writing but saying it might take some time, but they are interested in creating this position in the firm. You can begin to imagine where this is going.

At the fourth year, becoming more and more essential to the team, I was teaching and testing newcomers, everyone came to ask me questions instead of going to the chief, even the chief came to me. He even told me he didn't even comprehend (technical meaning) some of the technical report and calculations I made. Basically, I became the go to guywhen blocked or all is lost. Seeing nothing happening regarding the formations I asked for and the position, I asked to see someone from HR to discuss my career plan. Well, the HR interview was a dumpster fire, they got my name wrong, never heard of me, didn't get my file nothing so the discussion was rather void and short. To give you an idea, the firm is quite big here for our branch of the trade 500 people with 6 HR people at the time for all of us. Funnily, the HR I saw was the one who recruited me. Came the yearly interview after with my chief, I pretty much said I was beginning to have some doubt about their will to make me evolve. They did gave me a raise a bonus and told me they would do everything necessary to make me evolve as I asked.

Now at my fifth year, 3 people left, 2 for geographical reason to reunite with their family and one because they realized they technically couldn't follow the team and the projects we worked on. Nothing happened for me, I was more or less one of the 2 pillars of our team, but no formations, no evolution no nothing. Even had to fight to get a specialized computer for calculations. Try to run a complex FEM model on a 5 year old I5 with 8Go of RAM all day long and you will feel my pain. Anyway I ask to see my chief, I basically told him it has been two years nothing has been done please do something, anything. After this they asked me for a meeting with the chief of my chief, my chief and a chief from another division. First thing in the meeting, the chief of my chief says : so, I didn't read your file and am not aware of what is asked please explain again. This guy manages 50 people, yes 50. Fine, I explained again. After explaining, I was more or less crushed by two of them for one hour while my chief said nothing. Basically, I didn't make any effort, it is my job to answer everyone, I was asking for too much and stuff like that. To be true, at the tenth minute I shut my brain off. At the end I pretty much told them, if nothing is done I would begin to look elsewhere and many of the team which are looking at this situation might follow. They answered that I should look elsewhere if not satisfied but they will see to meet my demands, which is quite a contradiction.

Cue now 4 months later, where I was more or less treated as if I was sick and I would transmit it to them by the hierarchy. I was told on multiple times the grass is not greener elsewhere, you might not find something better but you might still want to look, and all the nice things you can imagine to keep someone.

I get along with everyone in the team, all (except my chief who was indifferent) were quite irritated with what was happening for me. To note most of them were taught by me at this point with their skills inherited from me too. Well, being fed up with my hierarchy, I did began searching thinking nothing would move. Indeed nothing moved. I sent 5 CVs, interviewed for 3 and got 2 propositions. And accepted one. Before going I told them that even if grass is not always greener elsewhere, you won't keep someone by threatening them and that people might follow what I have done if they are not able to recognize their talents. I got a nice job now more laid back, less hours, 10% raise, more advantages (including a car paid by the firm), national referent for my post and more.

Now the fallout, two people followed me in resigning three and six months later because they lost trust in the firm with what happened to me. From the 6 people left, three told me they would leave because of what happened. From what they said to me, the atmosphere is dead now, they don't have anyone to turn to for technical questions, no fun discussion at the job, no more technical discussions, pretty much a skeleton crew waiting to find better. To give you an idea, those guys are good, tried to recruit 2 of them myself but was refused because it is too far from their family, understandable. I do try to send them jobs offering I hear from and recommend them. When they are gone, the person with the most experience in the division except the chief would have 10 months experience. The medium experience time would be 5 months. They lost big contracts I carried. Some clients called me personally to asked what happened and said they will give them the benefit of the doubt but they told me they didn't trust my chief because he screwed them over in the past. I went back some time ago to say hi, I was told the sales have gone back to the level 5 years ago before I was in the firm (a decrease of 35% at the time in the span of 9 months with 3 resignation). Even my now past chief told me they now don't even try to answer projects involving calculations that seems a bit hard because they don't have the competences with me gone. Now the futur for the division seems hazy because they don't know where to stand because of the lack of competences (complex project, calculations, etc).

This happened quite some time ago now, but happy to get this of my chest. For newly hires and first job people, please, please begin to recognize your worth as soon as you can. It will help you so much to evolve and know when you are being screwed.

Thanks for reading, cheers.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/everybodys-therapist on 2024-10-08 18:49:15+00:00.

This happened a couple of years ago, but I was thinking about it recently.

I worked for a company doing their media design (graphic design, photography, live event AV, video editing, ect.). This company held big events and over my years at the company I was given more and more unrelated responsibilities until I was doing the jobs of at least 4 people. They also never helped pay for any materials so all of the necessary media equipment was paid for out of pocket. All of them had my name on them to make sure that it wouldn't get lost if I lent it out. Over the years I had accumulated a pretty impressive supply through second hand purchases and watching for deals.

By the time I hit my 5th year there I had thousands of dollars in high end equipment that was used for almost every part of the organization's promotion and event production. I think you can see where this is going.

One day I was brought into my boss's office and told that they would be downsizing and had found someone fresh out of college (with no real life experience) that will be taking over my job(s) as well as a few others. I was completely caught off guard. They then had one of the people from corporate follow me to my office to assist in cleaning out my stuff. He specifically said "take everything that is yours. you won't be coming back". So that's what I did.

They clearly expected the usual paper box full of some photos and a plant, but instead I had them hauling crate after crate of our media and event supplies to my car. I had a 2004 Ford Explorer at the time and by the time I left it was filled to the brim. With every box that we took out to my car my boss began to get more and more panicked. At one time he said "you can only take things that are yours" and through my sadness and anger I was able to find it in me to kindly tell him that every single thing I was taking was mine and that I kept all receipts if he wanted proof.

The final nail in the coffin was when I told him that I would need access to the arena's AV Booth and the catwalk. I still remember the fear in his eyes. We went and I unplugged all of my cameras that I had been lending to my events team, all of which were clearly marked with my name. I felt like the Grinch just walking around and taking all the random things in the building that had my name on them.

Driving away I was heartbroken that a company I had given 200% to in every way had picked someone younger and fresh out of college to replace me, but I won't lie, the smugness of watching their face as I stripped the place bare was worth it. Looking back on it, that was the worst and most toxic job I've ever had.

The company only lasted another year before they folded entirely and I like to believe that I had a hand in that.

And to think, if they had just compensated me fairly and purchased the necessary things themselves instead of forcing me to provide my team with things, they wouldn't have had to start from scratch.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/ongogavlogian on 2024-10-08 10:57:56+00:00.

A while back, I used to report directly to the CEO of a small startup. As it often happens in startups, things were hectic, and the CEO frequently used my slides and reports for her presentations, which I didn’t mind—until we got a new manager.

This manager really didn’t like the fact that my work was getting used by the CEO without their input. They became hypercritical of everything I did. Fine, I thought—if they want better slides, I’ll keep improving them. And I did, all while working on three major projects for clients.

Fast forward to a few weeks before my impending doom (aka layoff), and suddenly I’m getting feedback that they hated my work. All three projects that I had been working on for three whole weeks were no longer aligned with the company's direction. They were pivoting, they said. I was a bit annoyed, but okay—I moved on and cleared my backlog, including deleting all the slides I had made for those projects since they were "irrelevant" now.

Then came layoff day. Surprise, surprise—during the handover, they came to me asking for those slides. They were pale-faced and desperate. Apparently, someone higher up had no idea I was told to scrap them, and they suddenly needed them for the clients.

I calmly explained that I deleted them after the meeting where the CEO and my manager explicitly said we were going in a "different direction." Their panic set in. They begged me to help, even asked if I could stay on an extra two weeks to rebuild the slides.

My response? "F*** off. You have all the raw data and reports. Make your own slides."

The cherry on top? I later heard that all three clients bailed on their commitments because of how poorly the projects were handled.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/firecracker723x on 2024-10-07 22:21:44+00:00.

When I first got hired I started doing videos for my company because I thought it would help bring in business, for me specifically, but also to the store overall.

For the first few weeks, it was going fine. The staff were telling me how good I was at it, people were commenting that they'd come across the videos in public and on their FYP.

Then we got nominated for an award. Wonderful! They needed updated photos, and I, being a photographer by trade was asked by the general manager to take the pictures. I should've asked for payment, but foolishly did not.

Fast forward a few days and the general manager is demanding the pictures be sent to him ASAP. No thank you, no please, nothing but attitude.

So I decided that I wasn't going to volunteer to do anything out of my job description anymore.

A few weeks have passed and the owner asked me why I haven't been doing videos lately. I said "I haven't been feeling amazing." which my boss heard me say and commented "Well you better start feeling amazing soon."

The goddamn entitlement.

Today my boss walks up to me and tells me he NEEDS 3 videos this week and one of them HAD to be done today.

"A please and thank you would go a long way for my motivation" Boss- "Will you please (said sarcastically) do it so he (GM) gets off my ass?" "He, too, can utilize manners" Boss -"it won't go over that way."

So I smiled and said "k"

A few minutes later I'm on my way to do one of the videos and he walks by and in the most smart ass tone says "thanks again!"

Now, I did what he asked. I made the video. I uploaded it to our shared folder and texted him a screen shot of it in the folder.

Then I deleted it.

When he says it's not there I plan to act dumbfounded- "well where the heck did it go! "

Then I'll show him as I upload it again, and as he walks out I'll delete it again.

I'll play this game all day every day until I die. Fuck around and find out.

And before anyone asks, I'm already looking for another job.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/SnooEagles8908 on 2024-10-07 19:49:18+00:00.

I am an engineer and was contracting for a company some years ago. Part of the work I was doing involved performing the same calculation for 24,000 different cases. This was all done in Excel, and having a formula in 24,000 lines caused the spreadsheet to slow right down and recalculate slowly.

I wrote a piece of Visual Basic that would take each one of the cases and calculate it and then paste the answer in the column but just as values.

It took a while to run, but then it was done and didn't slow the spreadsheet down.

At the client's request we were supposed to deliver all spreadsheets as macro-free workbooks.

I suggested that we keep a working copy in case we ever had to repeat any of it.

I was told "No, save it as macro-free".

So I did.

Fast forward about 6 months and I was no longer contracting for them.

I get a text message:

"Hi. Remember that piece of work you did with the macro?"

"Oh yes."

"We can't find the macro."

...

Yes...because I deleted it, remember at your request.

I suggested that I could come in and re-write it for them.

They said that sounded good.

I said, but I will be paid, right?

To which they said..."No, they just want the macro."

To which I said...nothing :-)

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/KQHele on 2024-10-07 15:13:43+00:00.

I'm a clinical nurse in physical rehabilitation in Australia. I will never forget a lot of our residents (junior doctors) for being brilliant, but one resident I will never forget because he was awful. One fateful Thursday, I overheard him complaining to the consultant and registrar, "It's boring here. There's nothing to do." I know it's not the most high-energy place to be, and it's definitely not for everyone, but I thought that was a little rude and snide, to say the least.

This same doctor, only a day or two later, was asked to rechart a prn (as-needed) pain order for a patient who was having a lot of pain for acute gout. We had already had to contact the Emergency Department Medical Registrar (we call them the ED Med Reg for short) overnight the night before for a phone order for her pain relief as there were no spaces left on her last prn order and, at the time, we did not have a doctor on call overnight at the campus I work at.

Instead of recharting the order, the resident (who, remember, was apparently so bored and had so little to do that he complained both the registrar and the consultant about it) instead chose to write a sticky note telling the nurses to "just call the ED Med Reg for a phone order if she has pain overnight" and stuck it on top of the patient's previous prn pain relief order. It would have taken him less time to rewrite the order. Not to mention as if the ED Med Reg doesn't have enough work to do in the literal Emergency department!

Seeing that note as the night duty nurse on charge and remembering that snide little remark of his made my blood boil. But it was, of course, nighttime and long past the resident's knock-off time. So when the poor patient inevitably had pain overnight, I had no choice but to call. The ED Med Reg just so happened to be the same doctor as the night before and, rightfully, was a little confused (and slightly annoyed) we were calling for the same phone order two nights in a row when surely the treating team should have written a new order during the day.

He asked whether we had asked them to do so, and I told him about the sticky note and even read it to him. I remember a beat of silence on the other end of the phone before he said, "Right." Before giving me the phone order. I thanked him, apologised for having to disturb him, and went to help my patient.

When I came on the next night, lo and behold! The resident had written up a new prn order. In fact, we never saw a sticky note like that again, and prn orders were rewritten in a timely manner. I don't know if that doctor ever got spoken to about his smug little sticky note, but I like to think he got a good talking to. Just because my patients aren't in ICU or ED doesn't make them and their health unimportant! They're still in hospital and deserve proper in-patient healthcare!!

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/RevolutionFriendly56 on 2024-10-06 19:12:25+00:00.

MBA, Master in Business Administration.

More often than not, those who possess such a degree are neither masters of anything, nor business savvy. Unfortunately, MBAs often possess enough fluency of buzz words, jargons, and acronyms that they fool many HR departments into believing they bring tremendous value. Their perceived value is often far greater than their actual value.

The company I work at was recently acquired. It was a profitable company with a great culture. This all changed when the new owners decided our company was absolute shit, and needed to be fixed with "structure, hierarchy, and order". A new CEO came on board, fired all the old managers, and hired someone with an MBA to manage the department I work at. The CEO is keen to "turn things around", and to ensure we obey, submit, and kowtow.

This new manager, Bob, is a company-man who came from the acquiring firm. Instead of understanding the who, what, when, where, why, and how of every person and processes, he began his reign of terror by ruling by fear, whether it's accusing us of inefficiencies and laziness (e.g. why aren't you staying later like everyone else), nitpicking our work, to micromanaging things he has zero understanding of.

He loves preaching about MBA management techniques, leadership, standardization, metrics in matrixes, AI automation, and anything that sounds good on paper. Note the term "preach" because that's all he does. He does not execute or lead, he just talks and "manages", but fails to understand.

Because of who Bob is, we all have become yes-man to his every will. We keep our head down, nod and smile, His fluent command of endless buzz-phrases, acronyms, and bullshit has us so awed, we mostly just sit and stare in silence. The highlight of every meeting is that he would talk to the very last second of the allotted time. But whenever a meeting somehow ends earlier than the allotted time, he would tell us "I'm giving you some time back". This implies that he owns our time when we're here.

Because Bob wants to be the center of attention, he's asked us to involve him with everything.

A hands-off manager who just loves taking credit for our work and micromanaging us, wants us to involve him in EVERYTHING? You bet we will comply.

From that day onward, everyone in our department asks Bob, in writing, for his thoughts on just about anything, from simple approvals to his input on complex design of processes he has no understanding of. Even for items that does not require his action, we CC him in order to keep him in the loop. Every correspondence, even with vendors about basic stuff like updating credit application details, will involve Bob.

Because Bob loves meetings so much, we invite him to talk at length in meetings about trivial matters that absolutely have no real-world consequences. We talk about everything he wants to get involved in. We know how much he loves listening to his own voice.

There is something so magical about being able to manipulate a manager into inundating ourselves with so much pointless papertrail, processes, and meetings. Not only does it ensure the manager is aligned in our day-to-day (so he would be responsible if something goes wrong), it makes the manager feel good about doing something, and it makes us feel good about doing nothing much at all.

TLDR: we complied with our managers' obsessive need to be in control, we created meaningless work for all of us, we kept the manager so busy with emails we're all doing nothing much, and as a result, everyone is busy and become unfireable...

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Prestigious_Store_22 on 2024-10-06 12:51:11+00:00.

When I was working at the gym many years ago a friend of mine came in to work out.

It was a slow time of the day, so very few people were working out and the gym was a small one.

The area was split in two parts, divided by a fairly large U-shaped bar.

One quarter was filled with a few benches, dumbbells and barbells, and the other area was filled with machines.

My buddy was a really nice guy, but tended to overestimate his abilities.

Recently he surpassed the magic milestone of a 100 kg bench press and his plan for this day was to repeat this.

I am very aware of his abilities and asked him if he wanted me to spot him during his bench press.

It’s always recommended to use a spotter when bench pressing with weights nearing your maximum.

He said: “No, I feel really strong today, so I don’t need a spotter.”

I asked: ”Are you sure?”

“Nope, I really can do this so I don’t need your help for this.”

I offered to spot one more time but, he was very sure he could do it without me spotting him, so I went to the other side of the bar area and just waited.

It did not take long and I heard some groaning and puffing and eventually he shouted my name, asking to help him.

So, like the good friend that I am, I hurried to the other side of the bar where I found him with the barbell on his chest, very helpless.

I laughed for about 10 seconds and then I removed the barbell from his chest.

We had a good laugh together after this and he never learned.