malicious compliance

Manager insists all personal phone calls be directed to them in an effort to stop employees needing their phones at work, predictably backfires: 'No phones allowed at work, tell them to call me directly!'

Brad Dickson

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'Try to pile on more work to increase your bonus? Not gonna happen...': Manager tries to put the work of 12 people onto a 7 person team to get a bigger bonus, supervisor won't let that happen

Brad Dickson

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'I reached a complete breaking point over donuts': New hire forced to buy everyone donuts during his first week, maliciously complies and scares off annoying coworkers

Ben Weiss

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'I'm still gloating over my [win] over corporate Karen': Worker maliciously complies with boss's request to park bike in designated spot, results in six hours of OT

Ben Weiss

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Coworker is dismissive and impolite to new hire, so they take "her" unofficial parking spot

Brad Dickson

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‘Teacher's assistant on a power trip’ expects student to predict exact questions his peers will ask during a lesson, student maliciously complies with 10 pages of hilarious wise-guy predictions

Lana DeGaetano

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'I broke a rewards program': Crafty customer buys 1,400 packages of cookies to finesse massive amounts of rewards points

Remy Millisky

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'I don't want suggestions or help unless I specifically ask': Employee gets awful boss fired by exposing her incompetance

Remy Millisky

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'Don't worry, message received loud and clear': Employee puts power-tripping micromanaging Karen manager in her place by following her orders

Brad Dickson

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Enraged student eagerly complies with entitled professor’s misguided instruction, wiping out three years' worth of research

Sienna Varady

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Freight driver follows management's misguided orders resulting in excess overtime for everyone when they arrive to the depot late: 'The next day no one said a word'

Brad Dickson

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Tech support employee prevents major deletion of client's data despite being asked to remove their subscription, maliciously complies by faking the deletion of data to prove a point

Lana DeGaetano

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'He seems annoyed... I do this to him all day': Bad manager tries to make auto store worker follow unnecessary rule, worker gleefully bugs him all day long

Remy Millisky

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Employee waiting for over 2 months to have new tasks assigned to them by new boss as they maliciously comply to their boss's directive: 'I have nothing to do...'

Brad Dickson

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Hotel employee is reprimanded by GM for ‘excessive use of overtime’ until documented punch times reveal that his middle manager was clocking in 1.5 hours late for every shift

Lana DeGaetano

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'You can either work with me, or I walk': 18-year-old discovers that car dealer won't negotiate car price despite their strong evidence for the asking price

Remy Millisky

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