malicious compliance

Employee tricks his lackadaisical coworker, Seth, into self-sabotage, exposing that he hasn't been doing his own work and making others do it for him: 'He got lambasted for [messing] up such an important project and was put on temporary leave without pay'

Brad Dickson

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Labourer told "just do your job" while running boss's entire manufacturing operation and doing 4 jobs after the other 3 workers quit, they oblige and quickly put the company under: ‘[In] 3 weeks the company ended up going into liquidation’

Brad Dickson

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18-year-old working her first job takes her loafing coworker up on his offer after he tells her to "do it herself", takes his job after doing his work for him: 'I’m doing it myself now. With a raise'

Brad Dickson

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Boss refuses to read emails, demands employee print them out for him instead, employee complies by making his desk look like a filing cabinet: 'He couldn’t find anything’

Bar Mor Hazut

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'I don’t need to be babysat': Project coordinator gets told to stop reminding supervisor about overdue tasks, only to be reprimanded when supervisor misses a deadline

Bar Mor Hazut

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Supervisor tells team project coordinator to stop reminding him about a deadline, misses it: 'Now he thanks me every time I send a reminder'

Brad Dickson

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'You will do as I instruct you to do': Warehouse manager enforces temperature policy despite warnings from employees, malicious compliance ensues

Ben Weiss

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'We need a doctor's note': Employee requests 3 days off due to burnout, boss demands a doctor's note, doctor demands a full month off

Ben Weiss

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Man sends city officials to neighbor's house after his fence collapses, plan backfires: 'My uncle looked him in the eye and said, "Not my problem"'

Remy Millisky

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'It got so bad that the upper management started an intimidation campaign': Employee gets written up for being transparent about sick time, so he trains 150+ coworkers to exploit the system

Isabella Penn

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New supervisor tells employee not to bother coming in to work if he's even 5 minutes late, he just turns around and goes home every time he gets stuck in traffic, prompting a reversal of the rule: 'I won’t be coming in'

Brad Dickson

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Client accidentally sends engineer confidential documents, yet refuses to believe engineer after they claim to delete them, leading to a security dispute: ‘I didn’t mind escalating it’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Entitled boss forces overworked employee to pause payroll and prioritize new report, maliciously complies, delaying payroll for the entire company: 'You could almost see the steam coming out of his ears'

Ben Weiss

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'You don't sound sick to me': Employee refuses to give in to management pressures not to use any PTO, records conversation with boss to prove their actions are illegal

Bar Mor Hazut

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Entitled resident ignores warnings from neighbor about construction plan, gets massive fine from HOA and the city: '[He] told my husband to mind his own business'

Ben Weiss

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‘He's calling in sick, he's sick’: Boss insists manager's team member is lying about his illness when he calls out sick, is hilariously proven wrong

Lana DeGaetano

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