malicious compliance

Corporate agency demands more detailed timesheets, worker charges all their bureaucratic tasks, gets time off as a result: 'They freaked out'

Brad Dickson

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‘One minute more and would have been time theft, right?': Employee hangs up a work call in the middle of his own sentence to teach petty manager a lesson

Elna McHilderson

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Update: 'It was enough to fire him immediately': Food hall managers keep kids and "fancy bigwigs" waiting outside in 90 degree heat

Remy Millisky

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Worker forced to attend boring training, uses instructor's lesson against them: '[He said] I was being unreasonable'

Brad Dickson

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Manager demands to see no more reports of hourly workers arriving late, employee cleverly complies by requesting HR stop sending attendance reports to manager altogether

Sienna Varady

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'[I was] following orders!': Son pranks Dad with malicious compliance, takes instructions too literally by wrapping gravel stones in masking tape

Ben Weiss

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'At this point... we’re making pure scrap': Industrial engineer begs to boss not to run trial with sticky materials, boss insists and costs company thousands

Remy Millisky

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'He came into the job knowing absolutely zero about what we did': Clueless boss causes entire department to be terminated

Remy Millisky

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Resident hides neighbor’s trash can to prevent sanitation workers from having to empty it as 'punishment' for taking out the trash after hours, neighborly dispute ensues

Sienna Varady

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IT worker charges 16 hours to 2 hour job when management instates new painstaking time-logging system: '[The] client refused to pay'

Brad Dickson

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Worker denied 2 days of leave because of strict policy, follows same policy and gets a month off instead: 'It was a great month'

Brad Dickson

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'Good luck paying [your] employees!': Guy refuses to fix payroll problem until he gets paid more, 50 workers walk out

Ben Weiss

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Clever job candidate outsmarts potential employers who post fake job listings to collect free assignments, getting them to pay thousands of dollars in compensation

Sienna Varady

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'Red flags start appearing from the very first minute I arrive': Startup hires employee for impossible project, then vows to cut their salary in half

Remy Millisky

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‘Fix your mess’: IT worker skillfully complies with micromanager, puts in 16 hours on a two-hour task, resulting in client's refusal to pay the hourly rate

Sienna Varady

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'I made him too insecure': Guy dumps girlfriend after she scores higher on IQ test

Ben Weiss

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