malicious compliance

'Didn't I just sign a paper where I promised that I never would talk back to you?': Fast food worker forced to never talk back to manager after defending coworker, cue malicious compliance

Ben Weiss

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'I revoked her status completely': Facility manager removes a clients' special access card, grants her entry to just one room

Remy Millisky

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'If you want to be strict with the rules, then let's be strict with the rules': Kevin complains about neighboring family's camping setup, family maliciously complies

Ben Weiss

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'Have fun making 180 extra large pizzas': Pizza employee processes prank call orders to get back at boss

Remy Millisky

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'He thought we could increase productivity': Boss asks employee to run overtime math, then completely ignores calculations

Remy Millisky

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'The general manager was inundated with complaints': Inexperienced boss cuts hours, files complaint with HR after boss yells at her

Remy Millisky

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'[I] automated my useless boss out of her job': Boss sneaks out of work to have an affair, employee automates every task she does

Remy Millisky

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'There was nothing stopping him from enrolling in the course': Professor flunks himself and his own grandmother to spite university's rules

Remy Millisky

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'Our place was fined': Overworked employee has to take on incompetent coworker's job, maliciously complies and gets boss in trouble

Ben Weiss

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'My boss demanded I serve all customers': Deli coworkers slice cheese all night just to prove their boss wrong

Remy Millisky

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'Not my job': Jack-of-all-trades employee gets denied a promotion because he works too hard; follows instruction to 'stay in his lane', triumphantly watching the bosses scramble

Jesse Kessenheimer

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'Our productivity plummeted': Employee shares how 'return to office' policy ruined their company

Brad Dickson

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'This looks like a personal print job': Boss makes employees pay to use printer for personal use, employee catches boss breaking the rules

Ben Weiss

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‘I left the payroll tab open; now everyone is quitting': Employees find out coworkers salaries after accountant complies with boss's request to cover the front desk; employees' demand raises, then quit when denied

Eleonora Bader

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'I went full Karen mode': New car haggler refuses to pay for pinstriped vehicle, dealership repaints his car overnight

Remy Millisky

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'I can't say anything. He's in dress code': Employee discovers loophole in strict manager's dress code policy, wears yoga pants to work

Ben Weiss

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