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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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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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College student gets even with 'smug' professor who refuses to give them class notes: 'I came up with my simple malicious compliance'

Remy Millisky

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Northern lights tour employee instructed to guarantee if auroras will happen or not following customer complaints: 'Tours didn't go out... tourists are leaving 1-star reviews'

Remy Millisky

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Insurance company tries to pay car owner for his vehicle at ‘market value’ but lowballs by $2500, so the car owner demands all the required paperwork to prove their offer is market value: ‘I scared them right back’

Lana DeGaetano

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25-year-old construction employee costs company $20,000 after 34-year-old boss refuses to listen to her: 'I'm telling him no... I was perfectly within my right to do so'

Remy Millisky

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‘You can't make me play’: Disrespectful high school band teacher uses teen student's medical absence as a chance to lecture class on ‘selfish band members’, then pettily tries to force the teen to stay in the class, but the teen fights fire with fire

Lana DeGaetano

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Business employees get petty revenge on 6 phone reps who won't stop calling them: 'I explained that we didn't have 500 mobile [phone] accounts'

Remy Millisky

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'I made the mistake of giving 6 months notice': Entitled manager forgets to hire new employee, spends 4 months doing double the workload

Remy Millisky

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Boss demands employee message him when they're finished with a client and before meeting the next one, employee maliciously complies and the boss's demands hilariously backfire: ‘Needless to say, that rule was never mentioned again’

Lana DeGaetano

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‘Severely underpaid’ employee is refused a raise despite above-average performance reviews, so they call out their boss land new job with a 60% pay increase

Lana DeGaetano

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Teen gets back at step-brother and step-mom who refuse to put gas in their shared car: 'I got up at 4 AM... and rode a bike'

Remy Millisky

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UPDATE: 13-year-old maliciously complies 3 times with 7th grade teacher who is the "keeper of the dress code": 'No frays on clothing allowed'

Remy Millisky

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Rental car company tries to charge customer $91 for extra day despite turning in car 10 minutes early: 'If I'm getting charged an extra day, I'm using it'

Remy Millisky

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Employee refuses to continue working in-office on their designated WFH days after their boss scorns them for taking an approved remote work day: ‘[She said] I should think well about my work ethics in the future’

Lana DeGaetano

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