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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Lucy_Bloom45 on 2025-05-18 13:46:34+00:00.
I used to work for a middle manager who hated reading emails. Every time we’d send project updates or questions, he’d ignore them. When called out on it, he loudly declared, “If it’s important, PRINT IT and hand it to me. I don’t read emails!”
Alrighty then.
Cue the malicious compliance. I printed every single email I sent him—reminders, client follow-ups, even memes someone accidentally CC’d me on. I’d walk over to his desk 6–8 times a day with a mini stack of paper like, “Per your request!”
Within a week, his desk looked like a filing cabinet exploded. He couldn’t find anything. He started snapping, “Why are you printing all this!?” I smiled sweetly and reminded him: “You told us to.”
Two weeks later, he sent out a company-wide email (yes, really) asking us to only email him from now on.
Guess he learned how to open Outlook.