malicious compliance

Boss demands IT send "detailed daily reports" for everything little task they do on the job, IT sends an 87-page novel in response: ‘8:02 AM: Logged into system’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Employee's access to software gets revoked by IT, so they send IT a list of all the tasks they need to take over: ‘Within 30 minutes, the decision was reversed and I had my access back’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Outside hire production manager declares 'No Overtime! No exceptions!' production stalls costing the company $120k: '[He] lasted about 3 months [after that]'

Brad Dickson

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'What on earth is happening?': Manager demands employee participate in the team group chat, employee complies, sending random messages in every language but English

Bar Mor Hazut

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'Talk about a hot mess': Fabrication shop accountant reveals a car manufacturer's money-grubbing scheme after they gripe about a $250 price difference on an invoice, halting production until they pay up

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Coworker convinces clueless new boss to give her a fellow teacher's job because it pays $1.5k more, can't handle it: 'She's getting my 1.5K stipend now, but I no longer have to deal with extra meetings, extra parent phone calls, miscommunication, etc.'

Brad Dickson

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HOA fines homeowner $4,032 for nonsense violations, neighbors’ collective malicious compliance costs them more than they bargained for: 'I took off 2 days from work and prepared'

Isabella Penn

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Boss refuses to acknowledge employee's two-week notice, refusing to discuss it further and acting like they aren't leaving: 'She's still assigning me projects for next month. Still scheduling me for meetings three weeks out'

Brad Dickson

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New micromanager demands "detailed" daily reports, IT technician drowns them with every unnecessary detail about their day: 'By Friday, my “daily report” was 87 pages long. Times New Roman, size 11, single-spaced'

Brad Dickson

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Self-confident new boss threatens to fire employee, employee fires him instead, getting old managers involved: 'He was stripped of the team leader's role in customer support and was begging not to be let go'

Brad Dickson

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Harvard PhD graduate insults his roommate's “lesser college” degree, then gets exposed when he struggles to figure out how to use the new can opener: ‘I’d find mangled cans in the garbage’

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Business employees get petty revenge on 6 phone reps who won't stop calling them: 'I explained that we didn't have 500 mobile [phone] accounts'

Remy Millisky

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Entitled passenger purchases a second seat for more space, ends up demanding a refund after learning the flight is nearly empty: 'Of the 150 seats, there are AT MOST 30-40 people on the plane!'

Ben Weiss

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22-year-old employee teams up with 30 coworkers to enact payback on micromanager for making them log every detail of every task: 'Data [was] lost in a heap of unusable data'

Ben Weiss

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Boss demands employee stop taking advantage of their flexible hours and end workdays at exactly 4 pm, then takes it back after realizing the effects on company output: ‘He admitted he was wrong’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Boss demands employee send him pictures of all transactions and deposits they make, employee complies, causing boss's phone to lag: ‘He has to spend a lot of time deleting those thousands of pictures’

Bar Mor Hazut

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