malicious compliance

‘If you think you can find a loophole, think again’: Software developer maliciously complies with new boss’s strict 9-5 hours, team productivity tanks

Ben Weiss

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Boss makes team work extra weekend shift, Data Analyst makes sure he's there: 'You also need to be there for the sign-off'

Brad Dickson

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'As I handed her the coffee I told her I quit': Manager demands that employee makes her coffee at the end of every shift, employee finally snaps

Ben Weiss

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'Double malicious compliance': Two supervisors tell airport valet not to listen to each other

Remy Millisky

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'Scam me out of $1,000? It's gonna cost you $1,000,000': Contractor gets back at shady businessman who tried to scam them

Brad Dickson

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Employee uses their manager's own incompetence to end their career: 'My show of assertion crumbled the empire of fear'

Brad Dickson

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Flexi-time employee gets chewed out for 10 minutes of overtime, maliciously complies the next time their boss needs them to stay late: 'Policy is policy'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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'I sat around doing nothing for the last 2 months of my job': Quitting employee stops being assigned work by petty boss

Remy Millisky

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32 remote employees buy device to bypass CEO's silly idle time requirements, now the CEO wants one too

Ben Weiss

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'So I stopped taking vacations': Security guard discovers company only pays them for 1 hour per day while using vacation time

Remy Millisky

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Guy impolitely demands bartender cut his burrito in half, he gets what he asked for: 'I think he got the point'

Brad Dickson

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‘Is this a joke?’: Micromanager demands to be notified whenever work-from-home employees step away from their desks

Sienna Varady

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'[We're] making him think a huge ad campaign is live': Scorned marketing team dupes CEO into thinking he has his dream ad campaign

Remy Millisky

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'She was fired': Boss tries to get writer fired, they've been keeping a paper trail and flip the script

Brad Dickson

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'He wanted to see every line of code in this project': Company CTO accuses freelancer of "faking" project results

Remy Millisky

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'It is exactly as she wanted': Designer gives nightmare client the "ugly" website design she insists on, then refuses to change design

Remy Millisky

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