malicious compliance

'CEO [told] me to help them with my old accounts or he'll sue me': CEO ignores former employee's warnings about outdated system, leads to decade-spanning malicious compliance

Ben Weiss

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'Don't mess with my gardens': City officials tell family their garden is 'overgrowing,' family brings in experts to protect their plants

Remy Millisky

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'Drop everything now': Manager's micromanaging demand backfires after he interrupts an employee who is busy working on CEO's task

Eleonora Bader

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'Think about whether you want to keep working here': Temperamental boss loses it and gives ultimatum, employee maliciously complies

Ben Weiss

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'I still got [it] for a cheaper price': Cashier refuses to honor "online only" price, dude orders it online right in front of them

Brad Dickson

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'This instructor got such a bee in her bonnet about my boots': Nursing instructor tries to flunk student over their choice of shoes

Remy Millisky

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‘You can do it yourself’: Underpaid employee gets $10,000 raise after taking PTO on a whim, due to being on the brink of being replaced

Eleonora Bader

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'The next morning I had many missed calls': Overburdened restaurant closer refuses to work late, surprises bosses with messy restaurant and their two week notice

Remy Millisky

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'Have fun running the place without me': Coffee shop owner tells manager working 100 hours per week to take time off, manager blocks all work numbers and lets the business fall apart while they're gone

Remy Millisky

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'We outsmarted an ancient Red Dragon': DND players outwit dungeon boss with nerdy malicious compliance

Brad Dickson

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‘His eyes got real big’: Manager demands IT employee stop fixing laptop and work on ‘corporate equipment only’, employee calls up CEO who requested the repair

Eleonora Bader

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'Take it up to my dad, the CEO': Nepo-baby pulls rank on coworkers, they begin to 'plan her downfall'

Remy Millisky

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Update: '[I] woke the CEO up at midnight': Night shift worker calls 200 tech support clients in the middle of the night after boss tells them he 'doesn't want excuses'

Remy Millisky

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'Karen [said] I had no right to do that': Karen throws fit over neighbor's new fence, turns out she was 10 feet over the property line

Ben Weiss

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‘Gears were turning, and I got a trailer’: Complex forces young tenant to pay for parking space she doesn't need, so tenant buys a trailer and rents it out to neighbor instead

Eleonora Bader

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'This is literally hundreds of different customers orders': Nightmare boss tells factory worker to only run machines, worker decides to stop shipping orders for a whole week

Remy Millisky

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