malicious compliance

Upper management tells store employee to ‘become less loud’, backfires hilariously when employee starts frightening customers by being too quiet: ‘I need a bell’

Lana DeGaetano

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Employees find themselves with no work for months after boss demands they submit all their tasks for approval, then refuses to approve any of them: '[We] get paid to do nothing’

Bar Mor Hazut

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‘Make it work, or I’ll find someone who can’: New CFO forces senior compliance officer's hand to fire half his team, company loses $500K because they needed the employee they fired to close the deal

Lana DeGaetano

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'Boss made a rule... and soon changed his mind': General manager instructed to carry 2 phones and "not mix things," boss soon regrets it

Remy Millisky

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'I annoyed... him every time he set foot in the office': Bookstore worker forced to work in the dark after lazy boss won't replace broken lightbulb

Remy Millisky

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'A $200k mistake': Employee gets fired, costs their boss and the company $200k, employee is rehired with a raise and promotion

Brad Dickson

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Update: '[This] gave me the perfect opportunity to strike back': Hotel front desk worker refuses to speak Spanish when work denies their language bonus

Remy Millisky

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'I chose not to mention that': University professor lets student fail himself after he never attends a single class

Remy Millisky

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Customer demands refund for 20 minutes of internet downtime caused by their own mistake, customer service rep maliciously complies: '[That's] a little under 2 cents an hour'

Brad Dickson

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Cable company keeps charging for disconnected service, customer gets even by making 8 repeated callouts to his residence on their dime: 'After 8 tech support visits, finally they got the message'

Brad Dickson

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'It is a mad dash for last minute appointments': Auto shop employee gets back at impolite customer by making him wait hours

Remy Millisky

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'You're not capable of doing my job': Micromanager takes 3 months sick leave but refuses to let employees take over, they comply, resulting in manager drowning in work upon her return

Bar Mor Hazut

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Factory workers denounce the 'Wall of Shame' in the workplace, showing up for mandatory headshots in CEO attire: 'I barely held in [my] laughter'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Micromanager demands workers track all actions, they drown him in endless data: 'The real data was also there, but it was practically unusable'

Brad Dickson

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'Sorry, sir. Just doing what you asked me to': Photography newbie insists that his camera is broken, ignores photoshop employee's advice

Remy Millisky

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'She was mortified, caught in the act': Employees Share Satisfying Revenge Stories of What Happened to the Office Food Thief

Isabella Penn

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