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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/LaTommysfan on 2024-07-11 16:00:31+00:00.
I worked at a major consumer products manufacturer as a maintenance electrician. We handled electrical repairs and troubleshooting for the whole factory. The front end department started having production problems and the plant manager was not happy. Now the front end was very dirty and noisy so we as electricians didn’t want to spend a lot of time there, but we took our responsibility seriously and worked quickly to address electrical problems. Well the front end supervisor’s decided that the electricians were the problem and requested an electrician be stationed there 24/7, when the real problem was the lack of mechanical maintenance on the machines and poor repairs by the mechanics. Our boss was absolutely no help and he agreed with the request.
Now on to the malicious compliance, we decided to embrace the assignment with a twist. Since we were required to spend our 12 hour shift on the front end we started a log. We documented every mechanical problem on every machine and brought that log to every production meeting. Pretty soon the production supervisors were getting called on the carpet about the mechanical problems and then they decided that they didn’t need the electrician’s stationed in the front end.