malicious compliance

Landlord refuses to fix the appliances in the rented house, so renter sells them off to get his deposit back, and he wasted money: 'I still came out ahead because I pocketed about the same as our deposit'

María Cetra

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This high-performing service manager stopped working unscheduled and unpaid overtime after their boss demanded they work to their scheduled hours after they went home early once: 'I'm working my 9-5'

Brad Dickson

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Customer complained that she wasn't greeted at the store, and it made it seem like no one was available to help her, so an employee complied with the demand: 'I proceeded to follow her around the store constantly asking'

María Cetra

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Man demands restaurant server leave him alone on first date, misses out on second date because of lack of service: 'My job is to guide people without being overbearing'

Ally Perry

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Supervisor demands analyst complete report unpaid on a Saturday, analyst logs in just to CC the VP of the company in his reply—supervisor gets reprimanded, analyst gets 3 hours pay: 'After that, no one ever tried calling me outside of working hours'

Brad Dickson

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Statistics professor demands improbable equal effort for 4-student group project—1 doesn't help, all 4 claim an impossible 33% equal share—group invents new math making 132%=100%: 'The professor was confused. "That adds up to 132%, how is that possible?"'

Brad Dickson

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Professor had special rules about formatting in essays and expected every student to follow them, one student complied, but it wasn’t what he expected: ‘By the next essay, the formatting section of the syllabus had basically doubled in length.’

María Cetra

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Woman spends around $500 worth of decorations from store but is followed by employee, resulting in her returning everything she bought: ‘They said that this would look bad on the store for having a massive return. I reiterated that's the consequences’

Olivia Arocena

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Customer gets accused of stealing at a retail store after an employee stared at them for their whole visit, making them want to return their $500 purchase: ' They returned everything very begrudgingly, but I have yet to set foot in that store since'

María Cetra

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Employee gets asked by boss that his “team’s status” remains always available, so he complies, creating a system that did it for him: ‘And it simulated just enough activity to keep my status green.’

María Cetra

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Fitness business owner gets an influencer client who first demanded services for free and then complained when she gained 0.5 pounds in a week, demanding a refund: ‘Post a public statement on your page admitting your plan doesn’t work.'

María Cetra

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Restaurant server maliciously complies with disrespectful people’s crazy demands, gives them exactly what they ask for, and they still complain: ‘She never gets in trouble’

Giuliana Tiscioni

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New manager demands employee dress professionally or “go home” during an office Casual Friday—employee complies, goes home, still gets a full day's pay—HR sides with employee, and the whole team is mad at the manager

Brad Dickson

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26-year-old employee was told by a boss that he has to have a doctor's note to miss work when he's sick, so he started to get 4 days' rest instead: 'They can give me the 1 or 2 days I ask for, or they can give me the week the doc gives me.'

María Cetra

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HR suspends an employee and asks him to leave for playing a joke on coworker, but forgets to notify boss and other departments: ‘My phone [was] called over and over’

Giuliana Tiscioni

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‘Your job is not to coach people’: Boss tells front desk employee to stop helping customers with their mistakes, regrets it when chaos ensues with incorrectly filed forms

Giuliana Tiscioni

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