malicious compliance

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’

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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’

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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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Office workers maliciously comply with manager's strict email requirements, forcing the policy to be reversed after a flurry of email spamming: 'The outcome? Inbox mess'

Ben Weiss

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Boss demands employee cover for him during the weekend, employee requests 2 days off in return, then involves HR when boss refuses: 'I will fight for my time off'

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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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'It looks absolutely feral': Homeowner protests an uppity HOA by meticulously following a "native plants only" landscaping rule, transforming their yard into a wild, indigenous North Carolina ecosystem

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Mother kicks entitled family out for gatecrashing her son's private birthday party and stealing food: 'That doesn't matter, my children want some food'

Brad Dickson

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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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'My boss trusts a broken AI bot more than the people actually doing the work': Boss blames employees when their AI productivity tool fails to update properly—why trying to fix workflows that aren't broken might not be such a good idea

Brad Dickson

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Café owner demands bakery lead order more product due to upcoming holiday, ignoring and overriding their knowledge and experience, they comply and then quit when they're blamed for the wasted product: 'So I did it. I doubled my regular order'

Brad Dickson

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Small business owner locks the adjacent daycare out of his parking lot after the manager of the daycare has his car towed for parking in theirs, causing chaos the next day when parents try to drop off their kids: 'I tell you the mayhem was well worth it'

Brad Dickson

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22-year-old retail employee gets her friend and coworker fired when her friend lies to their manager about a "family emergency" to go to a party and tells the manager she will cover their shift: 'My manager called me and asked me why I wasn't at work'

Brad Dickson

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Employee uses obscure employee handbook loophole to take PTO when their boss forbids them from taking it before it expires: 'PTO requests not explicitly denied [...] within 48 business hours are [...] approved.”'

Brad Dickson

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Boss demands employees follow protocol by the book, only to have the entire office shut down after discovering “the book” hasn't been updated in a decade: ‘Nobody noticed because nobody followed it’

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