malicious compliance

Coworker keeps pushing their work onto employee, they take leave and watch the project come to a standstill: 'I went to HR'

Brad Dickson

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Boss forces worker to stay and work late despite having nothing to do, gets paid to read: 'My boss was speechless'

Brad Dickson

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Dad says to dig a hole and don't stop "until I tell you," kid digs a hole over 6ft deep: 'There was a momentary look of shock on his face'

Brad Dickson

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'How my grandpa built the tallest house in town': Homeowner tries over and over to build his house illegally tall

Remy Millisky

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'It was important that her husband not be bothered': Overworked mom decides to stop driving forever after husband chides her for not doing her "responsibilities"

Remy Millisky

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Boss enforces checking emails every 24 hours even when off work, employee maliciously complies and submits OT: 'Make sure you put it on your timesheet'

Ben Weiss

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‘Stop complaining about your neighbors’: Noisy bench-pressing neighbor falls through the floor, landlord pays up after ignoring tenant’s complaints

Ben Weiss

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IT employee maliciously complies to new boss's autocratic dress code: '[I wore] hi-vis polo shirts'

Brad Dickson

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'It felt good snitching... especially since they are lying and stealing from my community': Man calls out house flippers for not paying taxes, gains community support

Isabella Penn

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Corporate agency demands more detailed timesheets, worker charges all their bureaucratic tasks, gets time off as a result: 'They freaked out'

Brad Dickson

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‘One minute more and would have been time theft, right?': Employee hangs up a work call in the middle of his own sentence to teach petty manager a lesson

Elna McHilderson

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Update: 'It was enough to fire him immediately': Food hall managers keep kids and "fancy bigwigs" waiting outside in 90 degree heat

Remy Millisky

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Worker forced to attend boring training, uses instructor's lesson against them: '[He said] I was being unreasonable'

Brad Dickson

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Manager demands to see no more reports of hourly workers arriving late, employee cleverly complies by requesting HR stop sending attendance reports to manager altogether

Sienna Varady

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'[I was] following orders!': Son pranks Dad with malicious compliance, takes instructions too literally by wrapping gravel stones in masking tape

Ben Weiss

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'At this point... we’re making pure scrap': Industrial engineer begs to boss not to run trial with sticky materials, boss insists and costs company thousands

Remy Millisky

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