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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/This_Pattern_4245 on 2025-10-23 02:31:16+00:00.
I’m an admin assistant for a small engineering company. I often help our junior engineers with formatting reports, printing large blueprints, etc. I do it because it saves time, and they always appreciate it.
Our new project manager, Rick, decided this was not efficient and said from now on, all requests must go through him in writing. No casual favors, no helping unless he logs it officially.
So I stopped helping.
For two weeks, engineers were waiting days for simple print jobs and report formatting because Rick never submitted the requests. Clients started calling wondering why deliverables were late.
My boss finally asked what was happening. I pulled up Rick’s policy memo.
Rick had to sit there while my boss read it, looked at him, and said:
Then maybe you should start submitting requests, Rick.
We went back to normal the next day. I even got a coffee gift card from the engineers.