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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Bacon-pot-luck on 2025-04-21 06:23:42+00:00.
A few years ago, I worked as a copywriter at a small PR agency run by a tyrant of a boss—let’s call her Marcy. She was all about control. One day during a strategy meeting, I pointed out a huge flaw in a campaign that could have cost our client major money.
Her response?
“You’re not paid to think, you’re paid to write what I tell you.”
Cool. Got it.
From that point on, I followed her instructions exactly. No suggestions, no edits, no heads-up when things were obviously going sideways. Just pure, flawless compliance.
Within two months, two major clients left over tone-deaf campaigns—ones I had tried to fix but was explicitly told not to.
Guess who got blamed? Me.
Guess who kept receipts? Also me.
I forwarded my “just doing what you told me” email chain to HR. Turns out, this wasn’t the first complaint. She was “restructured” out of the company three weeks later.