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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/wanderlustwonders on 2024-01-18 19:52:39.
I was browsing another sub that’s heavily against a grocery chain in Canada, and it reminded me of the 7 years I spent working as a cashier at a grocery store throughout high school and university summers.
My boss was and still is the store owner at the store I worked at and he was incredibly hated but also feared because he was so mean. His own son worked there and disliked him.
But in front of customers he was as fake as can be.
Anyways, he was always enforcing the tiniest things like during Christmas time, he wanted the Christmas hats drooped around the numbers of the tills instead of on our heads. I sometimes took them off and wore them and he would aggressively pluck them off my head and berate me when nobody was around, that kind of thing.
For the malicious compliance… the store used to charge 25 cents per plastic bag used (back when plastic bags were a thing) — one time a customer was a friend of the owners so he told me not to charge them, “it’s on the house for any friend of ours!” he said as he slapped me (a tiny 16 year old girl at the time) on the back.
Well, the next customer had seen the full exchange and when it was his turn he said “hey, I’m a friend too, right??” as a joke and I decided sure, you’re my friend now, and didn’t charge him.
After that I never charged for a plastic bag again because all paying customers are friends of ours. I always felt like it was my little fight against the owner to just give these bags away for free.
Granted now that I’m into environmentalism, I feel like giving them away for free probably made the store buy more due to demand etc etc., but I was a teenager and my MC felt good.