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I was about to make malicious compliance my new religion until I came across this example of it going the exact opposite way it was expected. Maybe it’s time to give up on our mischievous endeavours and turn back to old, regular, direct communication. When something like this backfires, we get two problems where there used to be one.

Manteinance employee maliciously complies with his manager's new rule and in an unexpected turn of events, his manager loves it: 'As you can tell from the title, this did not go how I was expecting'

Some things we can only figure out in retrospect. People often act in ways we deem incoherent and irrational, and only after everything ends can we see the underlying motives for their behaviour. Becoming too close way too fast with someone might be a cause for concern.

Resentful manager goes from bonding immediately with new server to sabotaging her every move: 'Looking back, it suddenly made a lot more sense why she seemed to go from friendly mentor to treating me like public enemy number one'

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I think there is something to say here about a road paved with good intentions, but anyway. Sometimes we analyze a situation and come up with the best solution we can think of, and we end up breaking something that was steadily functioning. The key to success might be communicating our plans to fix the thing instead of doing it as a surprise, but well, everybody makes honest mistakes, and it even feels unfair to call a situation like this a mistake.

Employee spends months thoroughly organizing communal folder in secret, only to wind up causing office chaos: 'I’m sitting here, staring at the perfectly organized, color-coded, and searchable directory I created, terrified to say anything'

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Anonymous Company Survey Accidentally Leaked By HR to the Entire Company

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Guy who started his own business starts behaving like he forgot what it's like to be an employee: 'The things he asks of me after hours and on my personal time... you'd think the guy never worked for anyone in his life'

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Remote Worker Reprimanded for Not Being Performative Enough on Slack Despite Stellar Output

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Texas employee receives $2,800 bill from former boss for quitting within 12 months of completing the training program

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Manager wastes company resources building a case against an employee he personally dislikes, ends up getting put on a PIP himself

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Employee calls out lazy coworker in public for constantly making other team members correct her mistakes: 'There is no “we” in this. She is going to fix her own problems'

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Update: Boss denies employee's July PTO request because it aligns with her vacation, employee refuses to cancel her trip, finds better job at competitor

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'I had such high hopes for this company, but now I just feel disgusted': Job candidate left stunned after business manager spends 95% of the interview bad-mouthing his coworkers and colleagues

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Company cuts employee’s salary by $18K after he moves to Austin despite identical performance: “The only thing that changed was my zip code”

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Employees spar over better office seat after entitled coworker refuses to compromise: 'I did try to make it fair, but he shut that down completely'

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Engineer complies with manager's insistence to never stay past 5:00 PM by pausing an imminent project at the end of the day: 'Greg had explicitly told me to leave even if the building was on fire'

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Tech startup doomed to fail after 4 employees concoct plan to quit together before the end of the quarter: 'It feels good to know [our CEO] has no idea'

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'I will personally see to it that you never work in this city or this industry again': New manager threatens employee due to "insubordination," employee records the meeting and gets the manager fired