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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/SWANDAMARM on 2025-07-11 12:12:04+00:00.
This happened a while ago, but its my favorite and most genius maliciois compliance ive committed
. I was working for a site work/excavation company as a laborer on a pipe crew. I'm not a phone at work kinda guy. I don't like texting all day while at work and I'm not that involved in social media so all I would use it for was to pull it out of my pocket to real quick to check the time.
Foreman I was working with said I can't be on my phone while on the clock. I told him I'm not on my phone I'm just looking at the time. He responded that if I wanted to look at the time to get a watch.
Ok
I went to like 5 pawn shops until I saw a relatively cheap pocket watch and bought the shit out of it. Next work day I overly exaggerated my efforts to look at the time making it look like I was trying to hide "phone use"
Of course my foreman jumped right down my throat, "I told you no phone even to to check the time"
"It's not my phone it's my new pocket watch" I said with a shit eating grin
He seethed as he walked away. Never bothered me about anything else and I went back to my usual crew shortly after and it was no longer an issue.