malicious compliance

'You can't use your phone': Company refuses to let workers without ‘management title’ to use phones; contractor stops working, employees follow his lead, costing company $100,000

Eleonora Bader

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'Want me to work for my "interview"? Will do': Job candidate discovers their free writing sample was used in court case, sues the company that interviewed them

Remy Millisky

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'[I] didn't do a single lab report all year': Teacher changes grading policy, student maliciously complies to get out of doing work

Ben Weiss

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'We want another server now': Waiter ignores customers for hours after they insult staff members

Remy Millisky

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'Win win for [me], not the company': Consultant finagles freebee PTO days when manager insist they work on impossible days

Elna McHilderson

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'Sorry boss, that's a managers job': Boss tells employee not to take on extra work, employee maliciously complies and boss's incompetence starts to show

Ben Weiss

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'He told me to turn [his TV] back on': Cable customer service rep gets even with customer by complying to their demand that they cancel their service

Brad Dickson

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'I had the pleasure of calling them back to tell them': Customer service manager cancels services after customer's accidental reveal

Remy Millisky

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'I can do this in my head': Teacher makes student show his work, tells him it should take up the whole page, cue malicious compliance

Ben Weiss

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'HOA came down to our house to personally ask us to remove the sign': Family devises clever HOA workaround to avoid 24-hour sign rule

Remy Millisky

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'You don't want to SEE these anymore? No problem!': Supervisor tells employee to stop being late, employee relays his words verbatim to HR and now no one ever gets reported late

Elna McHilderson

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'After a week with no electronics, it finally happened': Father takes son's electronics, only to have the punishment backfire on him

Remy Millisky

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'I didn't come in early': Shrewd supervisor gets back at employer by working scheduled hours

Brad Dickson

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'Get back to work': Employer sends employee on errands during their lunch, won't let them eat on the clock

Brad Dickson

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‘No more overtime; Ok, boss': Machines overheat and shut down after demanding supervisor instructs delivery driver to ‘stop taking overtime’, leading to over $10,000 in damages

Eleonora Bader

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'I got it in writing': Manager demands BBQ cook clock-out early to cut their hours, their kitchen goes uncleaned and work goes unfinished

Brad Dickson

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