malicious compliance

'His friends are wheezing from laughter at this point': Customer tries to outsmart store policy, embarrasses himself in front of cashier and friends

Remy Millisky

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'Either do your job or hand in your resignation': Long-time employee calls boss's bluff, leads mass exodus

Remy Millisky

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'If it's not in writing, it didn't happen': Employee uses written communication as defense when micromanaging supervisor's tries to get of them

Brad Dickson

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'The case was hopeless...': Lawyer saves restaurant owner from a rapacious landlord's iron-clad contract

Brad Dickson

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'I saw red, but then I had an idea': Woman engineer punishes her coworkers by agreeing to "get coffee" for them

Remy Millisky

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Construction worker offers former micromanager a job, setting the record straight and teaching him a valuable lesson in humility despite of the claim that he will ‘never amount to anything’

Sienna Varady

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'Look it up': Customer talks himself out of a price-match and has to pay more when retail associate looks it up and realizes it's against their policy

Brad Dickson

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HOA intervenes in fight over limited parking space, enforces new rule to get back at frustrating resident: 'Now [he] has to park his car far from his front door for at least 1 year'

Ben Weiss

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'If they don't respect my schedule, I'm just going to be absent': Manager ignores employee's conflict, employee maliciously complies, manager gets reprimanded

Ben Weiss

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Client humbles micromanager in front of entire team after micromanager tries to teach staff member a lesson in business etiquette

Sienna Varady

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'Guess who woke up to 17 emails from the company?': Team leader pressures employee to work on their day off, demands employee 'write a review by the end of the day'

Remy Millisky

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'We played chicken and won': Startup employees rise up against CEO's new office hours

Remy Millisky

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Group project slackers shocked to receive failing grade, while their hard-working teammates performed well: 'I got an A in the class'

Ben Weiss

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Clever employee beats micromanager at her own play of power, micromanager caves to employees request to work from home

Sienna Varady

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'They lost the $1.2M funding too': Fired employee asked to write instruction manual for their future replacement with "zero experience," so they write it in insultingly simple terms

Brad Dickson

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Mechanic bulldozes entire field, taking down army infrastructure after commanding officer orders him to level field 'no matter what'

Sienna Varady

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