It sounds like this boss was just trying to cut corners in an area of their job that they simply couldn't afford to take shortcuts in. Suffice to say, after they tell their lab manager to alter some inventory reports, the lab gets a bit of a walkthrough inspection, and things quickly blow up from there. It was really only ever going to go that way.
Check out some more malicious compliance gold with this incompetent boss who insisted on using an errant GPS, and then karma ensued.
If you ever have a boss who rudely insists that you "don't think" while you're in the driver's seat, you certainly have the opportunity to serve up a whopping plate of malicious compliance. Thus was the case with this employee who decided to follow their boss' orders despite being well aware that they drove past the correct exit ramp. Naturally, the boss was not stoked, but clearly had a moment of sobering realization that they vastly underestimated their employee's ability to follow instructions. Check out some more juicy malicious compliance content with this call center that wouldn't give their employee a raise, so malicious compliance ensued.
Man, nothing can bring the blood to a boil like a busy body boss who aggressively insists that their employees do things in the name of the rules that actually only end up hurting the company's efficiency. Clearly this boss had their head in the clouds. Fortunately, the employee on deck was ready to dish out a little awakening malicious compliance to remedy the situation. For some more satisfying malicious compliance, check out this professor who got schooled by their students.
Well, that professor got exactly what they asked for. Sometimes, as a student you encounter a teacher who seems to carry on in such a way that indicates they're the one who ultimately needs to be schooled. Fortunately, these students had their wits about them, and happily, maliciously complied. Can't imagine that the teacher was too stoked about the outcome.
Every now and again you come across a company that clearly doesn't deserve the employee that they have under their belt. This is a clear, glaring, painfully obvious example of such a situation. Let's just say that the company in question certainly doesn't seem to enjoy the aftermath that they very well brought on themselves.
Man, nothing's quite as grim as the moment that anyone realizes they're working under an incompetent manager who is inevitably going to put the company in hot water, if they continue onward in their mindless ways. Well, this boss certainly sounds like they never should've been put in the position of power that they were to begin with. Fortunately, the employee working under them had the mindful presence to not obey (dumb) orders, and managed to keep the company in compliance when it was all said and done.
Anyone who has ever muddled through a difficult existence in the service industry knows that there are many days filled with irrational, entitled, generally insufferable customers that refuse to treat their fellow human beings with anything remotely close to decent behavior. Well, this guy certainly got just the kind of clap back that he was rudely asking for, after having an emotional implosion when the restaurant wouldn't serve him past closing hours. Check out another glorious tale of malicious compliance with this call center employee who wasn't given their rightful raise, and what they did as a response.
Call centers sound like they can be quite the soul sucking kind of establishment to work at. You regularly deal with irrational and unwarrantedly enraged customers that just refuse to recognize that there is in fact a human being on the other end of the call. And then you throw into the mix a company like the one we have in this story of malicious compliance...yikes, indeed. We're just grateful that this particular story has a happy ending for the poor employee that had to deal with a company trying to screw them over.
It's a wonder that people like this are able to end up in the managerial positions that they are. This incompetent manager sounds like they were incapable of making one correct move. It's just one fail after another, and the whole time they're stirring up a fuss about the very problems that they are proactively causing. At least the malicious compliance aspect of this is on point. Check out another incompetent manager who forbid overtime and then had it backfire terribly.
Man, nothing can bring the blood to a boil quite like having to take orders from a boss that clearly doesn't know what they're doing. In this case, we have a ship captain who sounds like he'd exhausted all of his ability to care about much of anything on the ship. The guy refused to listen to his deck crew's warnings, and ended up living to regret that like none other. Poor guy missed out on a bonus that he'd easily have been rewarded if he'd just slowed down and been a little more openminded.
Sometimes, even if you're being a respectable and agreeable customer you end up coming across someone on their job that's clearly just having a day. Normally, it's on you to play nice and be as accommodating as you ca to their foul mood. Customer service ain't easy, and anyone that's ever worked a customer service job will confirm that for you. But, when you have a dude like this barista, you might end up caving in and playing around a little bit. We can only imagine the expression on this dude's face.
Man, nothing quite sinks the spirits like when you realize you have a nasty neighbor next door. We're all just trying to coexist reasonably peacefully, but some neighbors make that seem like an unattainable reality. Take this neighbor for instance. Grandpa tried to have a simple chat with the dude, and the dude proceeded to be nasty, and shove Grandpa's considerate kindness right back in his face. Well, Grandpa pulled off quite the successful long con from there.
All kinds of toxicity and pettiness can come to the surface when ex lovers are muddling through nasty breakups. This particular scenario involves an angry ex wife who demands that her ex removes all of his stuff from their storage unit. He proceeds to do just that, but it would seem that his ex wife was not ready for him to take the request completely to heart.
Sometimes, even the experts need to get humbled. Take this teacher for instance. For whatever reason they insisted on trashing an art student's hard work. Well, that opinion went on to be disproven after the student's work ended up being selected amongst over 190 other pieces of art. Good for them!
Man, this turned out to be quite the wholesome tale of malicious compliance. If anything, it wasn't really malicious at all. Steve gave Jim the opportunity to work with the kind of setup he wanted, and Jim ultimately learned that the original way of doing things was the far better way to operate. And then, when it's all said and done, Steve ends up giving Jim the extra bit of money, and letting him get back to the kind of work he learned that he wanted to do. If only the world had more bosses like Steve.
Man, you've got to hand it to this delivery driver for just leaning right into an otherwise infuriating situation with a Karen, who seemed to have left her common sense in the car. Wonder if she really meant what she said about the store "losing a customer", or if she'll be right back in a couple days when she thinks everyone will have forgotten about her entitled brain fart.
