malicious compliance

‘He created a bottleneck and blamed everyone else’: Project manager demands every request to admin assistant get his written approval, then forgets to approve any of them

Bar Mor Hazut

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HOA president demands condo manager turn on the heating for all units, despite tenants claiming it's too hot, resulting in dispute when manager complies: ‘Tenants were furious’

Bar Mor Hazut

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'Nothing like a little chill to match their cold hearts': Retirement home employee teaches neglectful family a lesson by turning down the thermostat to get them to leave so grandma can enjoy her holiday in peace

Isabella Penn

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Boss demands IT employee follow process to the letter, stalling out a project with a major client and causing frantic messages from their boss: 'No ticket = no work. Bureaucracy over brains'

Brad Dickson

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Employee pressured to keep working after not receiving compensation for 2 pay cycles, maliciously complies with boss's orders: 'The work I perform reflects the pay you provide'

Ben Weiss

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20-year-old electronics salesman gets commission for $15,000 sale and then quits on the spot after helping a customer that nobody else would: 'I said only 4 words. "Thank you. I Quit"'

Brad Dickson

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20-year-old electronics salesman refuses to follow boss's orders to scam customers, ends up making company's biggest sale of the year: 'The final bill was over $15k!'

Ben Weiss

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'They ended up giving me a raise': Company moves management overseas to streamline operations, ends up destroying productivity until they rehire the local manager they demoted

Isabella Penn

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Management starts tracking employees' every move and forcing them to stay at their desks, their compliance cost the company $50k: 'We're doing exactly what they wanted - staying at our desks and not moving around'

Ben Weiss

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Micromanager enforces new "performance tracking policy" forcing employees to prioritize phone calls over emails, creating major backlog of work: 'And just like that, [the] policy quietly vanished'

Ben Weiss

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Engineer passed over for promotion for their own direct reports, instead up-skills himself on the job, uses those skills to land a better job with 3x the pay: 'I developed skills on the company dime that got me a >100% raise at another company'

Brad Dickson

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Manager demands construction workers stop using shortcuts to keep an efficient workflow, leading to a backlog in orders when they follow her rules: ‘Hope you’ve got time to wait’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Entitled driver refuses to pay for teen's old car after they total it, falsely claiming it was the teen's fault, teen's parents take driver to court and win: ‘They made three grand on a $300 car’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Straight-A student refuses to do all the work on a group project for her lazy classmates, knowing her lowest grade will be dropped: 'You said do all the work or get a 0%. I choose 0%'

Ben Weiss

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Manager instructs staff to maliciously comply with difficult client by only following their vague instructions word for word, prompting backlash: 'Why are your employees being so unhelpful?'

Ben Weiss

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Insurance company tries to pay car owner for his vehicle at ‘market value’ but lowballs by $2500, so the car owner demands all the required paperwork to prove their offer is market value: ‘I scared them right back’

Lana DeGaetano

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