What this boss says goes, so this employee just did exactly as his manager asked him. Some bosses just always have to be right, no matter what their employees say. U/oldman712 shared this excellent tale of malicious compliance , and commenters then shared their own tales below. As the OP wrote, he was a software prototype designer who usually worked with individual clients. He'd save their projects on various terabytes, which the actually bought with his own money! While the OP cared about his…

Tech savvy and tired.

Thank you, computer people.

Someone with at least some computer experience will hopefully get most of these.

Honesty is the best policy.

The revenge went nuclear.