malicious compliance

23 Work posts for the employees who need a meme break to get through the workday (August 5, 2024)

Isabella Penn

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Students get terrible teacher fired by doing exactly what he says: 'He was fired later that day...'

Brad Dickson

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'How could you not foresee this?': Manager forbids security guard from letting visitors enter office without his approval, guard complies, causing manager to miss important meeting when he fails to answer his phone

Bar Mor Hazut

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Micromanager enforces strict tracking of team's work days, all 30 employees maliciously comply by submitting extra detailed breakdown: '[The] data is lost in a heap of unusable data'

Ben Weiss

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'Get your priorities straight... NOW': Teacher ditches work after getting berated by an insensitive boss so that he can attend to his injured wife in the hospital

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Employee flips the script on micromanager's 'constructive criticism', prompting a humbling retraction

Sienna Varady

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'[I was] tired of an old man hanging around my house': Entitled landlord insists on bothering tenant, tries to take back his property

Remy Millisky

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Manager told to stay and finish report works 20 hours and gets the next day off and a huge payout: 'Stay until it's done'

Brad Dickson

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Fast food worker warned never to talk back to supervisor again, malicious compliance ensues: '[But] I promised that I would never talk back to [you]'

Ben Weiss

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‘Short staffed? No problem’: Management implements major changes to tourist attraction employee roles, chaos ensues when staff is unaware of standard procedures

Lana DeGaetano

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'Turn my service off, RIGHT NOW... Ok.': Customer demands their service be disconnected immediately, customer service rep complies

Brad Dickson

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'The new owner has made some questionable choices': Baker tries to explain simple math to business owner, owner rejects their logic

Remy Millisky

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'Staff... mutually agreed to give this person exactly what they asked for': Micromanager creates strict new rules for employees, sparking a "great resignation"

Remy Millisky

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‘[One] was just my beard…’: Employee uses annoying company policy as a chance to troll managers with ‘stupid’ pictures, gets exempted from policy

Elna McHilderson

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'Young girl, please. I know what fuel my car needs': Taxi driver insists he knows how to fuel his vehicle and pays the price for his mistake

Remy Millisky

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'Won't fix your buggy software? Fine, pay our bills': Company scrambles after realizing they're being constantly overbooked by an app

Remy Millisky

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