Steve vastly underestimated this employee and how far they would go to carry out their malicious compliance. Also, Todd sounds like a real life wizard.
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Man, oh, man, this military spouse was on a tear. She stirred up all kinds of unnecessary conflict and tension. The best part is she was accusing a woman of cheating on her husband, with her actual husband. There's something to be said of the folks pointing the fingers and playing the blame game, as they themselves might be pulling the sleaziest moves.
School can be hard and regrettably expensive. Seeing your classmates not take anything seriously and still pass can be frustrating when you value your education, like this entitled college slacker who demanded their classmates notes and got denied. Also, if they're trying to be something like a doctor, you'd hope they actually study and know their field. This tutor got so frustrated with a ridiculously lazy student that he went and gave him some answers. Not the right answers, just some answers. Other teachers have wily ways of outsmarting cheaters, like this old professor.
Some things that we all can agree to hate are telemarketers, spam, and convincing scams.The whole "please don't call me back, take us off your list thing" is working less and less these days, so this guy opted to set up a meeting and make an inception style mockery of the whole process. People have their own strategies for shutting down marketing and scam calls, but the effort put into this is awesome.
On one hand, having to call customer service, especially for a telecommunications company, can be a time wasting slog. On the other hand, some customers just call customer service for an opportunity to scream at someone. In this case, this woman would rather scream and demand a 500 MB plan rather than actually listen, so things didn't exactly end in her favor.
Divorce can totally screw people over. Between the exhausting bitterness and legal fees, it's safe to say that people often do not have a good time going through divorce. When this guy started getting requests for tons of information on his business, he went malicious compliance on it and found out exactly what he could legally get away with as a response.
When this employee found himself face to face with a manufacturing company that'd fallen under the unfortunate supervision of a crappy, power tripping manager he resorted to breaking out the "malicious compliance." Specifically, he decided the best way to get back at a manager who seemed bent on making his life so miserable that he'd quit a job he previously loved, was to simply not work as hard. Long story short, without this employee working his ass off, things were quick to fall apart. A solid revenge tale indeed!
