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Malicious Compliance

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/TheoryEcstatic7269 on 2025-06-19 22:17:07+00:00.


Company was bought out. Went from a small company to a larger corporation.

My job title went from everything to Inventory. All the workers learned to come to me for help. New-ish person has a job over these guys. The guys still contact me when they have issues. I explain everything to everyone involved so they know what’s going on

New-ish person gets upset and now there’s a big deal about them going outside the chain of command. I get informally reprimanded.

Ok, now my default answer is “I don’t know”. Guys are asking me, and I say “ask so-and-so”.

“But so-and-so” never answers or tells us to call you.”

“Not my job. Call them.” I’m waiting to see how this pans out. Day 1 has been “interesting” to say the least.

Update. Today was asked:

(question 1) “did customer A approve the job?” My reply: “I don’t know.” (I had assumed so since we’re doing the work). We charged 1/4 of what was estimated.

(Question 2). “Did customer B pay his bill?” My response “I don’t know, you’ll have to ask X”.

I will give more details after a little while. I told the guys that so-and-so has to fail spectacularly.

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