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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/dartiss on 2025-05-29 15:38:21+00:00.
When I first joined a particular company, they had a number of offices in the nearby city. Because they wanted to, essentially, force us to work in whichever office they wanted, they added a line to my contract saying that I could work anywhere in the city.
Years later and those offices have gone - there's just the one. That clause is removed from contracts for anyone else starting at the company.
Then our department gets outsourced to another company. As part of a UK law, which makes transfer of people between companies easier, they have to take my contract as-is. Which they did. They then decided to re-allocate many of the people to other parts of their company, throughout the country, expecting you to commute sometimes hours away. Except me. That part of my contract, still present, meant that they could only send me somewhere in the local city. And they had no other offices there. So I stayed.
Years later, I'm insourced back and the company tries to send me the other side of the country for a few days to work. I tap on my contract once again.
There's something refreshing about being able to use a contract clause, initially added to force me to do something for them, against the company!