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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/bigguy011890 on 2024-02-12 17:05:38.
I (34M) work for a company famous for being anti-union, pro insurrectionist sympathizers, having 2 registers open with lines longer than the Drive-thru lines at Chic-fil-A.
The part of the store I work on is OGP as a dispenser. And during the fall when it's chilly out. We were allowed to wear our hoodies outside. Along with heavy coats in the winter. Last week a rule was implemented saying we were no longer allowed to wear hoodies.
Alright no problem, so I started wearing my heavy winter coat as a substitution which still had a hood. One of my immediate supervisors (let's call her Karen (also not her real name), because the name I originally use to describe entitled customers is Candice. I had a bad experience with her, but that a story for another time). She tells me that my heavy winter coat still violates the no hood rule and had to tuck it in.
I had a better idea because it was malicious compliance time. So I hung my heavy winter coat up and put my beanie on as the only way to stay warm, since no one was allowed to wear any form of winter clothing unless it was hoodless. The first day I saw myself in the two-way mirror, I couldn't help but think about the SpongeBob episode Can You Spare a Dime. Pantomiming myself shaking a tin can asking "spare change?"
Most parents and my Generation will know what I'm taking about with the joke. Anyway back to the story I started going out in close to freezing temperatures and some of the delivery drivers started asking me where's my coat? I couldn't help but be honest when they learned we wasn't allowed to wear either hoodies or coats with hoodies. And they wouldn't make exceptions for cart pushers and dispensers.
This went on for about a week until as of today we got an update on the no coat with hood rule. Now dispensers are allowed to hear hooded coats outside again, when dispensing, as long as a safety is visible.
I don't know what sparked the sudden change but I want to think I had something to do with it when telling our delivery drivers and customers about the ridiculous rule change. Knowing this company would rather donate to keep insurrectionist sympathizers in office over having to pay out a possible class action suit.