malicious compliance

Manager gives employee a formal warning for following a protocol she created: ‘I wrote a detailed breakdown of every single violation’

Lana DeGaetano

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Boss demands employee respond only to ticketed requests that follow the process "no exceptions," employee complies and ignores boss's urgent messages: 'I stopped answering his Slack messages'

Brad Dickson

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Boss demands that employees remain at their desks and tell him what they're doing every time they get up, they comply and message him so often that he is forced to reverse the order: 'Last week I sent him 9 messages in one day'

Brad Dickson

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27-year-old calls out boyfriend for telling how to act in front of his friends: 'He literally told me to be myself and then shushed me when I tried'

Ben Weiss

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Stubborn HR training lands grocery store employee some extra cash: ‘My time is my time, and I'm getting paid for it’

Lana DeGaetano

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Employee uses loophole in company's half day policy, ends up working just one hour a day every Friday: 'Half days entirely depend on the set lunch time? Alright then!'

Ben Weiss

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Teen dishwasher maliciously complies with clueless boss's new rule, boss apologizes to teen: 'I actually really appreciated his reaction that day'

Remy Millisky

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Tax office rejects employee's work lunch deductions and claims they can drive home to make lunch, so the employee claims a larger deduction for mileage to and from work: ‘"Very well played..."’

Lana DeGaetano

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Boss refuses employee expenses because one receipt is over by £0.03, ends up owing £250 when they resubmit their expense sheet according to company guidelines: 'I found all the extras'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Guy becomes HOA president to "dismantle it from the inside" despite entitled board member's failed attempts to stop him

Ben Weiss

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Shopper outsmarts Kohl’s with their own Black Friday return policy, ending up with a full refund, extra store credit, and a $100 gain: ‘They didn’t budge so I did exactly what their policy allowed’

Etai Eshet

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15-year-old student fails geometry test on purpose, then panics when he realizes he night not pass the course: '[His] mom demanded I give her son a retake with multiple choice options'

Ben Weiss

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New York compliance manager drives 6 hours round-trip during his vacation to do 1 minute of work: 'The owner... warned Dan that the next mistake would cost him his bonus'

Remy Millisky

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Hotel night auditor automates 8-hour shift into 1 click, spends shift eating free food and watching TV shows: 'The GM did say he didn't care how I did my job, just do it... so I did'

Remy Millisky

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Postal service damages man's package filled with honey and demands he return it as evidence for a claim, man returns it swarmed with bees: ‘Chaos erupted’

Lana DeGaetano

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Post office destroys rare honey jars that a father planned to send to his daughter, they refuse to compensate him, so he sends them a bee-swarmed, honey-soaked box to the post office days later: 'I warned you not to open the bag'

Emma Saven

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