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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/AaronCorr on 2024-08-07 09:09:47+00:00.
Hello everyone, I'm on mobile so formatting isn't great, also English isn't my first language. Regardless, here goes my story.
Background: I went to university in Germany. A part of my curriculum were courses in sociology and philosophy. A lot of those were marked down as "successfully attended" without getting graded. Usually you proved attendance with a list you signed everytime.
The characters:
- Pissed and Angry: the two professor's assistens, who were probably forced to teach the course
- Me
- the roughly 100 other students
The situation: Pissed and Angry had to teach a course about important figures in sociology. It was already a dry topic, but the real issue was their behaviour. When Pissed talked, you could hear the hate drip from her every word. When Angry talked, it felt like getting yelled at. We hated just being there, but we needed to complete the course.
The first two times, like usual, the list would go round, and we wrote down our names, student id, and email. The third time however the lecture was almost over and the list hasn't gotten to me yet. So I raised my hand and asked about it.
Me: Excuse me, the list didn't get around to us yet.
Angry, very annoyed at the interruption: What list?
Me: The one for attendance.
Angry: That wasn't an attendance list. We needed your names and email to send out the assignment to complete the course.
The assignment was just a three page essay about a randomly selected sociologist. Nothing you couldn't do with just google.
Me: So, there isn't a mandatory attendance?
Angry: No.
I think you can all see where this is going.
Malicious Compliance: I looked at my buddies, they shrugged, and we just up and left. What I didn't see coming was, how almost everyone else saw this as their cue to leave as well. I will never forget the dumbfounded faces of Pissed and Angry.
Aftermath: A while later we got our assignments, finished them, and sent them in, thus successfully completing the course. For the rest of the semester only 3-5 students still showed up so Pissed and Angry had to teach a practically empty class room that could fit around 200 people.
[Edit] typo