malicious compliance

Shopper outsmarts Kohl’s with their own Black Friday return policy, ending up with a full refund, extra store credit, and a $100 gain: ‘They didn’t budge so I did exactly what their policy allowed’

Etai Eshet

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15-year-old student fails geometry test on purpose, then panics when he realizes he night not pass the course: '[His] mom demanded I give her son a retake with multiple choice options'

Ben Weiss

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New York compliance manager drives 6 hours round-trip during his vacation to do 1 minute of work: 'The owner... warned Dan that the next mistake would cost him his bonus'

Remy Millisky

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Hotel night auditor automates 8-hour shift into 1 click, spends shift eating free food and watching TV shows: 'The GM did say he didn't care how I did my job, just do it... so I did'

Remy Millisky

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Postal service damages man's package filled with honey and demands he return it as evidence for a claim, man returns it swarmed with bees: ‘Chaos erupted’

Lana DeGaetano

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Post office destroys rare honey jars that a father planned to send to his daughter, they refuse to compensate him, so he sends them a bee-swarmed, honey-soaked box to the post office days later: 'I warned you not to open the bag'

Emma Saven

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Remote consultants forced to work off old computers, they get even with management by slowing their pace down: 'There really is no way for us to go quicker without quicker laptops'

Ben Weiss

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Automotive product planning employee gets promoted and boss fired by booking wheels and tires as checked luggage when boss tries to blame him for a misdelivered shipment of wheels for a photoshoot: 'He had no one else to blame'

Brad Dickson

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Industrial truck driver demands machinery operator load materials onto the truck that exceed the limit, refuses to listen to instructions, operator complies: ‘Who am I to tell you what's good for your truck?’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Employee gets boss fired by successfully taking care of a last-minute product shipment to Europe that boss had neglected: ‘He had no one else to blame for his mess-ups’

Bar Mor Hazut

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‘You could see the moment he realized he had caused his own mess’: Micromanaging manager reaps the consequences of his actions, forces him to become more hands-off

Elna McHilderson

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Bartender runs into entitled regular customer who never tips outside of work, she accidentally gifts him $81: 'The way I look at it? All those lost tips and the money she just gifted me was just karma'

Ben Weiss

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Store manager demands employee organize products by specific planogram, leading employee to take all their popular items off the shelves: ‘Stop being a helicopter manager’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Home seller forced to leave smart home devices behind, despite insisting to buyers they won't work anymore, leading seller to mess with the system: ‘I thought to have fun with it’

Bar Mor Hazut

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IT demands employee submit a separate ticket to get access to each folder they need, leading employee to submit hundreds of tickets within an hour until they give in: ‘Stop winding up IT’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Shipping coordinator quietly compiles evidence of boss’s mistakes and gets him demoted after he blames her for delays she didn’t cause: 'A month later, he resigned'

Isabella Penn

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