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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/pissfilledbottles on 2025-07-11 22:33:21+00:00.
This happened a few years ago but I ran into an old coworker and we talked about this story.
I was working at a Ford dealership in parts, and we hired a guy, we'll call him Paul. For a little bit, he was a fairly decent worker, he learned quick and was mostly doing shipping and receiving freight in the mornings, and running parts to techs.
I began to notice when I was working by myself on Saturdays, parts we received for stock weren't put away, he'd leave them for me to do. This was never allowed as it was the shipping and receiving person's job to do this every morning. He started doing this during the week as well, because he knew I'd end up doing it before I left at night. Finally I brought this up to my boss, and he had a talk about it with him. It stopped for awhile, but then he began doing it again.
I finally chewed him out about it, because I already had a ton to do during the day and I told him parts are just going to start piling up from now on if he doesn't do his job. I walked away after we came to an understanding, or so I thought we did.
Two days later, my boss pulls me aside and tells me Paul brought him a doctor's note this morning that stated he could no longer lift anything heavier than 10lbs due to a back problem. My boss's hands were tied and I was pissed because I knew he did this out of pettiness. For about a week I'd put away all of the heavy parts, flustered about it but I did it anyway.
Until one night he made a snarky remark about his lift restrictions, and it got my gears turning. If he wanted to play this game, I'd play it right back.
Every day after he left, I'd go in the back and start weighing all the parts he left behind that day. If it was 10lbs and up, I'd put it away. If it was under 10lbs, I'd write the weight on a sticky note and leave it there for him in the morning.
After a week of it, Paul started complaining to my boss about what I was doing to him, but my boss had my back. He told him I was simply going off of what his restrictions were, and putting away the parts that were too heavy for him. My boss also found it hilarious.
A few days later he put in his two week notice.