malicious compliance

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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HR intervenes after disagreement over office thermostat heats up: 'My coworker decided 72 degrees was “too cold” even though it literally feels like a sauna to the rest of us'

Brad Dickson

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Temp employee works until 3:00 AM, asks if he can finish work from home, boss refuses, sparking malicious compliance: 'Temps are not allowed to work from home'

Ben Weiss

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New IT manager tries to "fix" working hours to accommodate different time zones, backfires majorly as employees point out labor law violations: 'Turns out the manager made a mistake here'

Ben Weiss

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Company refuses to give employees raises unless they have a competing offer, employee provides a fake offer letter, resulting in a $45,000 raise: ‘Don't mind if I do’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Essential employee resigns during meeting with "huge" client after being denied a raise and getting another job offer mid-meeting, client cancels contract: 'I accepted their offer, contract in my email within 5 minutes, digitally signed it within 10'

Brad Dickson

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25-year-old construction employee costs company $20,000 after 34-year-old boss refuses to listen to her: 'I'm telling him no... I was perfectly within my right to do so'

Remy Millisky

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Entitled high school students refuse to help teammate with their group science project, teammate decides they would rather fail than do the project alone: ‘The most satisfying failing grade in my entire life’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Boss brags to essential contractor about firing contractors without notice, essential contractor quits with 10 seconds of notice in return, leaving the company scrambling to pick up the pieces: 'Hey, thanks for everything, this is my last day!'

Brad Dickson

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Boss enforces strict no-overtime rule, employee clocks out on time and freezes steel mill operations with 2-mile-long parked train

Isabella Penn

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