Malicious Compliance

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Fairly_equal_toasts on 2024-10-04 03:45:00+00:00.

Long time lurker, first time poster.

I (F33) live in a regional coastal town in Australia, and used to work in a great little family run cafe. Think great coffee, yum food, beautiful garden courtyard, and mostly wonderful customers.

One summer, during school hols, on a heaving Sunday morning, I was zooming around doing a quick dish run and started clearing some empty mugs from an older lady (60s) with her 2 young grandchildren. She had just received her breakfast and was adding condiments to her 2 pieces of toast.

She stopped me and said “I’m just looking at the menu and I can see that I paid the same price ($3) for each of these two pieces of toast, but … they aren’t exactly the same size”.

I look at her toast and they are both large, but one is approx. 10% smaller than the other, so I assume she’s just making convo and I smile, say “yeah”, continue grabbing items.

She stares at me and says again “they aren’t the same size, but I paid the same for each of them, that’s not really fair?”

I realise she’s serious and start telling her that this is because we use a local, handmade sourdough from a beautiful wood fired bakery baked literally just 7km away. The loaves are rustic not factory perfect. She’s not having a bar of what I’m saying, insisting she’s paid the same price and she wants two piece of toast the same size. This is when my incredulity ends and my petty steps in. Cue malicious compliance.

“Fine, I’ll be back in a couple of minutes”.

I take her toast into my boss (F33), tell her the story, and she’s like “say no more friend, I’ve got it”, proceeds to cuts two equal size slices of bread from the smaller end of a loaf, and toasts them perfectly.

I then have the pleasure of taking two pieces of obviously smaller toast to the lady, and say ‘here’s your two pieces of toast - the same size!’. The look of shock, turn anger, turn embarrassment on her face was absolutely delicious.

You want to behave like a toddler then you can eat like one too.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/MediumSavings4968 on 2024-10-04 00:35:10+00:00.

A quick story about my uncle. So I was telling a story about my Best friend and my dad brought up this funny story. My mother’s brother (who passed years and years ago) was a foodie and a great chef. This guy loved to eat. It was like his calling. Anyways, 

Mom n dad took uncle to a seafood restaurant. Nothing famous nor fancy. They happen to be pilot testing an “all you can eat buffet” Thursday. "All you can eat" are four words My uncle will go all out for. My uncle saw it as a challenge. Its this really all I can eat?

(malicious compliance) Almost immediately as they set their coats down, uncle went to the buffet. Uncle (as dad tells it) heaped on the food. His first plates were of the “try one of these, try some of these”, and so forth. He essentially sampled one of each of the items on the table. Round 2 he does the same sampling .By round 3 he still waltzing to the buffet while poor mom and dad are trying to finish their round 2 and considering desert. Round 3 uncle focusing on his favorites. Mom and dad sat for nearly 2 hours for him to get up to round 7. By then the restaurant had reset the buffet table twice, uncle was focusing on his favorite filets and anything fried. The manager had approached my father and asked if could calm my uncle down. It was a 3 dollar buffet he was loosing profit on at that moment. Dad said “you said it was all you can eat right?”. At the least by then My uncle was done and ready to leave for cocktails. Mom and dad left quietly with uncle with a good laugh. 

The following Thursday uncle was there with his wife and they were sitting down. Now, we had two foodies that loved food. After they both cleared the buffet for the 2nd time they were asked to leave by the manager. The following Thursday and the one next after, my uncle and his wife showed up for the buffet again. The next month the seafood restaurant decided to discontinue the Thursday buffet. 

When the next owners took over 3 decades later, that restaurant they considered bringing back the buffet. When my father overheard that. My father warned them and told them about my uncle. Did they listen? No. By then my uncle was out of the Chef’ing biz and now focused on eating. You should have seen the gleam in my uncle's face when he heard the seafood restaurant brought back buffet lunch. He cleaned them out for a month and the restaurant yet again retired the all you can eat buffet. 

After the passing of my uncle (passed from diabetes complications) Dad had a chit chat with the owners of the seafood restaurant. Dad said to him frankly “It’s safe to run the buffet table again”. They brought back the buffet table that year. My uncle's picture is on the walls of that restaurant. A picture of my uncle, and the tower of plates in front of him. 

When I think of this story I think my uncle is in heaven right now. Maybe in god’s kitchen in front of a stove, either that or the only guy up there dancing with a subway sandwich in his hands.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Sweet_Speech_9054 on 2024-10-03 15:21:39+00:00.

I’m posting this because it was my idea but I didn’t do it.

My coworker has a daughter in sixth grade (elementary school in our school district) and she is kinda popular. He wanted to give her a good birthday party because his other two daughters kinda stopped spending time with him in middle school and he kinda wanted a last hoorah. She chose to do it at a roller skating rink and he went all out, renting the whole place out for the party. She invited most of her classmates and some other friends and family.

After giving out invitations she got a letter to deliver to her dad and return signed. It said that students must invite all students in their class or none at all. This apparently is a school anti bullying policy.

The problem is that some of the students are very problematic. One is a racist kid who has made threats about bringing guns to school. The other has behavior issues and once threw a chair at a group of students, sending two to the hospital for stitches. There were some other students she wasn’t close with but willing to invite in order to comply.

When he told me about this I asked, did you have a security deposit or something on the roller skating rink. He said it was a $200 deposit for damages. I told him to require a $200 deposit from those kids if they want to come.

It worked, the kids obviously weren’t going to pay a $200 deposit and the party went off without a hitch.

ETA: the invitations were emailed to the parents. One of the teachers overheard and that’s why they made her invite everyone.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/mdlapla on 2024-10-03 13:06:50+00:00.

Back in my days working for a Big5 consulting company, we were mandated to attend several courses.

The one that relates to the story was called "corporate image" and was about looking the part, being well dressed and such. Being that the company had a "strictly suit" policy, the idea of the course was kind of an indoctrination to the Barney Stinson's school of dressing.

I was having a particularly rough day that day so we could say that my attitude towards the course wasn't the best, and I sat in the back.

The guy in charge (let's call him Corpo) starts the course by showing a video of a guy, wearing flip flops, bathing suit, t-shirt with surfer logos, badly trimmed beard and ponytail explaining some technical stuff in the most boring way, stuttering and showcasing a poor knowledge of the subject.

After the video finishes, Corpo asks if we think that the guy is a good communicator and that the message got through. Everybody says no, Corpo asks why. People starts saying that he doesn't look the part.

Then Corpo asks me. I reply: "because he's boring as a white wall and doesn't know the subject well enough".

Corpo doubles down: "don't you think that the way he's dressed has something to do with it?"

I say: "if he's good, knows his stuff and communicates well, we could be fully naked for all I care".

Everybody laughs, except Corpo. Corpo starts a full 15 minute rant about how looking the part, how wearing a suit is the most important thing because it makes someone believable and trustworthy and bla bla bla.

I interrupt him once to say "lawyers are among the most untrustworthy people on earth and they all wear suits" he continues his rant by saying that "nobody would trust a lawyer without a suit" and bla bla bla.

OK, so this is how we roll, suits are the most important thing and this is how you expect us to reply. Fine, I will comply.

Fast forward to later in the course. He shows footage of Steve Jobs and Steve Ballmer talking, engaging with the audience and being, generally, well regarded as good spokepersons, while wearing their typical outfits, which, guess what, are not suits.

When the QA about the Steve's videos start, I say "They don't look trustworthy, two of the top 20 rich people in the world and they wear something that I can buy for like 40 bucks at any shopping mall? where are the suits?"

Corpo by then is kinda furious with me, but I've managed to engage the rest of my colleagues into my side of the equation so we start arguing who's more trustworthy, and if the brand of suit goes directly proportional to the trustworthiness of the guy.

Examples go from Pat Riley with his Armani suits to Don Corleone with his taylor-made ones. Corpo has lost the class, and everything ends prematurely when someone asks "wait, are military suits trustworthy or not?", Corpo gasps thinking where the conversation could be heading and dismisses us ahead of schedule with a "OK, you've all passed this course, I think we'll end it here".

TLDR: Corporate baboon tries to equal wearing a suit with being a good and trustworthy spokeperson, it backfires spectacularly.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/MinervaJB on 2024-10-03 02:40:46+00:00.

I used to work on the retentions department of an ISP back in the day. While many people called genuinely wanting to cancel their phone service, just as many knew that retentions was more than that. The ISP, let's call them RedPhone, had two different departments. I worked on Retentions 1, where we did a lot of fixing bills and offering small discounts and slightly cheaper phones to customers who said they wanted to leave. Retentions 2 was for customers who were in the process of porting their numbers, and the worst thing they offered was a 50% discount for a couple of years with a decent phone for free.

This happened roughly ten, maybe 12 years ago when roaming was straight up highway robbery.

Let me introduce you to "The Executive". I got the call, I did my little introductory spiel, and I immediately discovered this guy was the most entitled POS I'd ever had the displeasure to speak to. He said he was a very important executive who travelled a lot for work, but the bill he got was ridiculous and I had to solve it or he was going to cancel his service. I muted him - so he heard nothing, but I could still hear what he said, and while I checked his account, I could hear him gloat to his girlfriend that he's getting the bill credited because he knows how to play the system.

And he was an a$$hole, but he wasn't wrong. This guy was a pro at playing RedPhone. He had the highest phone plan the company offered, which was around 90 euro at the time for one line, but paid 30 euro per month because he had discounts from both departments stacked on top of each other. His plan allowed him to get what at the time was a super expensive phone for basically nothing at Retentions 2. He'd gotten the super shiny customer status and the super shiny customer service line (which usually meant a customer was averaging a 300 euro monthly bill) despite his 30 euro ARPU because he complained about how the delocalized customer service sucked.

He was also not wrong about his bill being ridiculous. He'd visited several EU countries, got a 600 euros bill, called customer service, and said he had not known that roaming was so expensive, no one had warned him when he told us he was travelling overseas. The company had a policy that the first time a customer complained about something, we could refund them, particularly if the complaint was that the customer had not been informed about extra charges. So the rep informed him about roaming costs and refunded him all of the roaming charges, leaving the bill at 30 euro.

Second month comes around, he kept using the phone overseas, got a 1500 euro bill. He calls customer service, they tell him they can't refund him again. He says he wants to cancel his account then, and gets transferred to me.

He was demanding that we credited his roaming charges again, because if we can do it once we can do it again, and also because roaming prices were abusive (he did have a point there) I told him I couldn't do that, so he wanted me to open a claim and escalate it. I refused again because there was no one to escalate to, he wasn't going to get that credited. He insisted he wasn't hanging up until I escalated the issue because he wasn't informed, and if I kept the call going for much longer he was going to charge the company for his time because he was a busy man.

At this point I'd been working there long enough that if you were nice or even normal I would try my damndest to help you, but if you were a d*ck? Sorry, can't do, get lost. Customer refuses to hang up, I can hung up. This guy, though? He'd gone past being a d*ck into total c*ntwaffle, and I was pissed off. I couldn't be a d*ck back, but he'd been f*cking around and I could make sure he found out.

So I told him that okay, since he was so insistent I would open a claim to refund him the 1500 euro bill, and muted him while I opened the claim. The a$$hole was again gloating at his girlfriend about how clever he was because he was going to get this bill refunded too. Meanwhile, I was copypasting the notes from the previous month's claim, where the rep had written: "I've informed customer of roaming charges in all the countries he told me he could be visiting (list of European countries)". Also, stacking discounts? Very much not a thing. He had to spam the Retentions 1 call centers with calls until he got a newbie lost enough to apply another discount over his Retentions 2 discount.

And he had not read the terms and conditions of the accounts, but I had. Trying to defraud the company was grounds for service termination. I got the claim number, flagged down my supervisor and told her to please send it to headquarters in the daily report so fraud could examine the account.

I told the guy that the claim had been opened, but also that since it was obvious he was trying to abuse the company's policies, the claim had been flagged to be reviewed by fraud and it was likely his account would be terminated. He went from entitled to worried in two seconds and asked me to close the claim. Sorry, dude, can't do, you wanted a claim open, now it's open.

Yes, the customer was fired.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/weepninnybong on 2024-10-02 18:19:48+00:00.

Happened over a decade ago, before workplace chats were a regular thing.

My boss at the time was an old timer, I’m pretty sure he was past his retirement age. No grudge against that. He was very good at most aspects of his job, just set in his older ways.

Often I would have to call a meeting with our colleagues in Japan with him included. For various reasons, he would get upset if I scheduled these without talking to him first about his schedule even though his calendar showed him as free. He insisted that I have this check in directly with him in his office. The problem is, he wasn’t always there.

So what I would do was just send him an Outlook meeting invite to just him and him alone for the time I proposed to have this meeting. It was convenient because I was already looking at his availability in outlook. He could accept if he works and then I could update the meeting with everyone else needed.

He sees this and hollers at me to go to his office. He’s a pretty big loud dude so everyone in my vicinity hears. He proceeds to ream me out for not doing what he asked. I’m sure he didn’t understand that he was the only one on the invite and he wasn’t appearing to decline the meeting in “front” of anyone. I tried to explain but then proceeds to say under no circumstance should I book a meeting with him without chatting with him in person.

Sure enough a day or two later a very important meeting request comes through for that afternoon with some higher ups and he’s not around for me to talk to as it was later in the day. My manager’s number two who heard the minor fiasco above takes me aside and says “I know what he just yelled at you about but I think you should just book that meeting”. He didnt even need to be there, it was just proper for him to attend. Needless to say, I didn’t, quoting what boss man said and that meeting never happened that day. I vaguely remember him losing a few points for not being able to have this meeting, but nothing nuclear.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Novel-Year-240 on 2024-10-02 12:55:04+00:00.

I work from home, and my home is a studio apartment. My workplace has a no pets policy. I thought that it would only apply to bringing pets to their office. I didn't know that it would also apply on zoom calls when working at home.

I got an official strike for breaching that policy when my dog was in the background of a zoom call. My dog was simply sitting still in the background. The only place where I could hide my dog out of view was in the bathroom.

No worries Pete. I got a still image of dogs in a dog park, and set it as my zoom virtual background. My dog was as usual sitting behind me, but out of view this time.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/runnerdan on 2024-09-30 22:29:02+00:00.

People asked, so i'm sharing a story from 20 years ago:

I was a developer for a large financial services company and, because we lacked many tools, I was usually tasked with building various tools, scripts, reports, etc. to help automate the environment and really just worked around the inadequacies of our off-the-shelf tools. At my peak, I probably had around 300 apps and/or scripts in production. Due to the number of asks from leadership and to keep the lights on, I usually booked anywhere from 4 to 10 hours of overtime per week.

After about a year, I got a new boss who decided that she would ensure that I take NO overtime for any reason. She proclaimed that I would ONLY be allowed to 8-hours per day and not a moment more. "No exceptions". I wasn't a full-time employee, so I didn't have any grounds to push back. I usually started at 8, so with my 30-minute lunch, that meant my new hours were 8 to 4:30.

Flash forward to later that SAME WEEK, an upstream system changed their data feed and it corrupted one of our downstream systems. Stuff like this happened often enough that I had translation tools built to resolve any of those feed-related issues, but even then, I still had to spend a few minutes figuring out what changed in order to adjust my own code. Anyway, as the operations have come to a halt, my boss and HER boss are looking over my shoulder as I'm diagnosing the feed problem, which I found pretty quickly, the clock strikes 4:30 and I lock my computer, stand up from my desk, and say "well, it's 4:30. That's my 8 hours. I'll see you tomorrow." and walk out. The look of confusion, rage, and exasperation was just (blows chef's kiss). At this point, all of our overnight backups have stopped and WILL NOT RUN until I resolve things. This means a global financial institution no longer has any data backups being made for that entire night and will be completely screwed if, well, ANYTHING happens.

Flash forward to the next morning as I walk to my desk at 7:56, as I made sure to never be in a situation where I could be called out as coming in late, my boss's boss is waiting for me. He directs me into his office and very calmly says "Moving forward, I'll manage your time sheet and you can take as many hours as you need."

I left that job about 4-5 months later and the entire building was laid off about 2 months after that. Only two of about 200 people weren't laid off and one of those people was the guy I hired to backfill me as someone had to keep all the code running!

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/projecktzero on 2024-09-30 20:18:52+00:00.

So, this happened during appraisal season a few months ago. HR told me that I didn't deserve a good raise because apparently, all I did throughout the year was "bug fixes and improvements." They said I hadn’t delivered many features, and features are what “actually matter” for a raise. 🤦‍♂️

Well, fast forward to now. Since I got the hint, I’ve been focusing on feature development only—just like they wanted. You know what I’m not doing anymore? Improving and maintaining their system. And guess what? Their software is breaking down more and more, becoming harder to use, with all sorts of bugs they conveniently ignored.

HR recently complained, saying things weren’t working properly. All I could do was smile and remind them that “I’m focused on the features now, just like you said.” It's funny how suddenly bug fixes and improvements seem important again. 🤷‍♂️

Maybe this will teach them not to undervalue the importance of maintenance next time.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/alwaus on 2024-09-30 14:35:45+00:00.

Several years ago i worked for a aerospace manufacturing company (you already know this won't end well) as a setup operator.

Meaning my job was to arrive before shift start, usually 3 or 4 hours early, make sure all the 5 axis mills were calibrated, the atc (automatic tool changer) magazines were all loaded correctly and the tooling was in good condition, nothing dulled or broken.

If there was damaged tooling part of the process was removing the carrier, replacing the cutter and resetting the cutter height with a gauge, making it so that the tip of every cutter is in the exact same position for that particular holder every time.

After being there for several years the company eventually gets aquired and new management comes in.

Im there from 3 or 4 in the morning until 1 or 2 pm, sometimes earlier if a new job gets added to the floor.

Schedule works fine for me, i get to beat traffic both ways and the pay is a bit higher due to the differential.

After a few weeks it gets noticed that i constantly leave "early" and always run over on hours so they implement a new policy, work starts at 9am and runs til 5, you have to be on the floor ready to go when the clock hits 9:00.

I try to explain to my new boss exactly why i leave early but hes more concerned about numbers and cash flow than what i actually do there.

So fine, you want 9 to 5, ill work 9 to 5.

Instead of punching in at 4 I chill in my car til 8:45 and roll into the building, wait til exactly 9 and punch then head to the floor.

Roll up to the first haas on the line and hit the E-Stop, which shuts the machine down instantly.

Tell the operator this hasnt been set up yet and they need to wait til its ready.

Head down the line and punch every one i pass telling them the same thing, not ready, go wait.

I start at the end of the line with my platten and gauges and start calibrating the entire magazine, verifying everything in there is in spec and ready to be used.

Get the magazine done and home the probe so the machine knows where it is in 3d space and move to the next, that was about 40 minutes since i took my time.

Meanwhile the rest of the line is dead in the water, nobody can do any work until their deck passes calibration and is certified to use.

Im part way through the 2nd unit when I have my new manager breathing down my neck, why is nothing running, whats going on, etc etc etc.

I sit back on my haunches and calmly explain to him, this is my job, the one that until today i used to come in hours early to do as to not mess with the production schedule. I need to get this done, should be ready to start the line in another 5 or 6 hours boss.

Im told to unlock and get the line moving, no can do, none of these machines are checked and im not signing off on the certification until im done. Anything not certified is a instant QC reject.

Choose: run the line and reject a $mil in parts or let me finish and lose a $mil in production time and i go back to my old schedule tommorow.

The plant got a day paid to do nothing, i got the new boss off my back and he got reamed all to hell for losing a days production.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/P0ssible_extr0ext879 on 2024-09-29 23:54:32+00:00.

TL:DR...Woman wants me to spray 40 feet exactly. Tape measure was acquired

As of the beginning of this year I work in pest control and it has been quite a pleasent experience all things considered. I get to meet some cool people, hear old folks wisdom, and meet lots and lots of doggos and cats. The downside? The rich snobbs and the karens.

I am not a very confrontational person and will always try to find a middle ground where both sides are happy. However, when I am tired or just don't give a crap, I can be a little petty. One such occasion happened around the end of July or August. When we (me and my co-workers) go to service a home, we do service the yards unlike some other companies that will just do interior and foundation of the home. However, since some yards are very large we only go out to 40 feet and spot treat the remainder of the yard. 99% of people are fine with that. This lady who is the star of this event was fine with the 40 feet. I serviced the interior of her home first, and noticed that she was following me around and nitpicking my work. This isn't uncommon but she was being extra rude and it was the end of the day so my patience was nearly gone. When I moved to the outside and began with the yard, she immediatly started yelling at me saying "THAT'S NOT 40 FEET." Our sprayers on a full charge (which mine was) will shoot roughly 25 feet, so I went 25 feet out and was doing a slow walk to cover the 40 feet. I tried to explain this to her but she yelled, "YOU SAID 40 FEET SO IT HAS TO BE 40 FEET EXACTLY!"

40 feet exactly? my pleasure. Without another word I went to my truck, grabbed my tool box, and got out my tape measure and measured out 40 feet. I then did another test spray and wouldn't you know it. I was spraying 50 feet. I turned to her and said "I apologize ma'am, I was overspraying your yard. Let me fix that for you."

She returned inside without another word and I finished up and left. If she did report me, my boss didn't say anything. The one nice thing about her home though was she had a cute dog.

I have many other stories from just the last 6 months so if anyone is wanting some fun, scary, or downright laughable stories, let me know where I can post them as I am not on reddit much.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Coach-GE on 2024-09-27 12:14:58+00:00.

During a company team building event, a host was conducting the entire thing. He was saying things as an icebreaker to engage everyone. When he asked a question, no one responded so he said “Hey guys, whenever I ask a question, I want you guys to say ‘Eyyy’. Okay?”

Cue malicious compliance.

His next question was “Are you guys enjoying?” “Eyyy!” He was happy that we were engaging with him.

After a while, he asked a serious question: “Has everyone eaten lunch already?” “Eyyy!” He smiles, but looks rattled.

Another serious question: “Does anyone have any medical conditions?” “Eyyy!”

He loses his shit but tried to control himself. Defeated, he said “Okay everyone, stop with the ‘Eyyy.’ Just answer my questions with real answers okay?”

Eyyy!

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Bensprecher on 2024-09-27 13:46:34+00:00.

[Disclaimer: this is my father's story from his college days, but I've heard it many times]

My dad went to WPI (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) in the mid '60s, back when it was still all men. His dining hall was in his dorm, and apparently one year an ambitious new administrator got the bright idea that the place needed more class, and proposed a Jacket-and-Tie-Required dress code policy for dinner in the dining hall. The students were incensed, and the comment period was filled with universal objections and complaints, but the policy was imposed nonetheless.

The students were outraged, and fierce debates raged about how they were going to fight back against this bureaucracatic overreach. Boycotts? Sit-ins? What if everyone refuses to follow the dress code? They can't just refuse to serve the whole student body! Discussion flowed deep into the night.

So, the first meal of the new policy arrives, and the dining hall staff (mostly women) opens up for dinner service. And, their eyes nearly pop out of their heads.

Waiting politely in line, the entire student body have come downstairs, and as required, they are all wearing jackets and ties... and nothing else.

Suffice it to say, the policy was quickly reversed, and no one has ever tried to impose a similar dress code on WPI students since.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Important-Lime-7461 on 2024-09-26 21:13:05+00:00.

Years ago, I worked for a defense contractor doing heavy manufacturing and welding. Every process, fitting, was all documented, when ready to be welded, it was inspected by quality control. We had an inspector would write a rejection report, doing this passed this off to the next shift so he could skip the paper work. Normally, the piece he'd reject was an engineering issue, nothing serious, we would just weld it like normal. So, one day, my partner were stuck with this, and decided to follow repairs procedure. Remove assembly, and do an edge buildup on the piece. We Normally did that with piece in place. This time, we removed it, followed correct procedures and the assembly was ready at the end of our shift for the daytime guys. They pissed and moaned, daytime supervisors were mad, when we come the next night, we were confronted about what we did, and we showed them the correct procedure for the repair work. After that, we no longer were stuck with doing that, that inspector was moved and assembly error was corrected. I enjoyed using their procedures to prove a point. There was no more hurry up games played.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/max7238 on 2024-09-25 19:30:43+00:00.

tl;dr first: had a boss who constantly talked badly about everyone who quit when he realized he wasn't ever going to be in charge, and despite his efforts I followed his orders and made sure everyone knew it was all his own fault.

Background:

I joined this Japanese-based company a few years ago as a "Production Assistant." I wasn't assisting anyone - in production. I was the only American, the only one fully fluent in both languages (still am, still looking for a better line of work), so I ended up helping everyone else in some fashion or another.

Well, I also had to do my own work, of course, but when things shipped behind schedule it was made out to be my fault. I helped our shipping manager send things out and receive them, count, quality check them, weigh the boxes, palatize them, etc. Our sales manager, the man himself in question, constantly asked me to double-check his emails so he sounded more natural and professional, and even had me get involved on numerous occasions to help him save face or placate customers.

Event:

From the time that I started, we'd been struggling to keep time because of inventory issues. These issues were both because our customer didn't keep accurate numbers and neither did we, not just for the parts they sent us for assembly but also for the boxes we used to package the order before shipping. Boxes I used, and only I used. Boxes I was not allowed to order, but had to ask Mr. Sales Manager to order for me.

Well he would forget to order them. And then I'd remind him. And he'd forget again. Only ordering days later.

It happened enough times that our customer finally demanded we count up our inventory. I made an Excel sheet, made it legible in both ENG / JPN, color coded areas of concern... And I also added EVERYTHING we used in the office, from boxes only used by shipping, to gloves, to the parts from our biggest customer as they were demanding we count. Everything got counted, everything was put in that document, and I made sure to include a field of when it was last counted.

Result:

Suddenly we're making good time and getting ahead and I don't have to worry about boxes.

Now, this entire time, Mr. Sales was working on a 20pg document that "proved" our president didn't do HIS job, trying to report him to the JP home office and get him fired. My two coworkers got a glimpse of it and saw there were sections on all of US too, bad-mouthing our work, trying to make it seem like only Mr. Sales was on the up-and-up.

Finally, the JP parent company sends someone. This guy is, unknown to all of us, the son-in-law of the company owner of a family-owned and run company, pretty common in Japan. Well, only I and our shipping manager learn of this, since we ACTUALLY talk to the guy. But Mr. Sales likes to treat him like a goof and poke fun at him. This guy JP sent to us, he carefully plans meetings with us for while Mr. Sales is out of the office, and interviews all of us about what's been up at our USA branch.

Our late shipments come up, and "my" pattern of shipping late and insulting our biggest customer with my laziness. There's also reports of me being on my phone too much, preoccupied watching videos or listening to music and not working.

I start pulling out the emails, and the inventory I was told to create. I show him the inventory history and my emails asking for Mr. Sales to do his job from before it was made. I show him the ship dates and the differences before and after I made the inventory file.

Fallout:

A friend of mine in Japan is suicidal, and I'd lost contact with him a few times. I decide to go to Japan and help him out, try to live there, but at best I have six months of savings. That means I have to leave the company. I KNOW this guy from JP is going to arrive and all Mr. Sales' delusions of being USA branch president will die... But I couldn't be there to see it. So I went to Japan, spent my six months successfully (friend re-entered college to chase his dreams instead of being a dead-eyed salaryman, he's on the mend), and returned to the US a few months ago.

I get in contact with the company, and they re-hire me. Now that I'm here... I learn Mr. Sales quit shortly after I left, but not before he aired every last thing he had told me would stay between us and take all but a literal dump on my desk. I check my old inventory file. He zero'd it out. The company has been shipping late again, hired a new guy to do my job that's been getting parts returned to fix errors numerous times (something that only happened to me once).

Do they want me to fix any of that? No. Here's a book of local businesses. Call them, drum up customers.

Oh. Okay. Can do! Thanks for the paycheck for doing something so easy that won't ever work, I guess.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/melia04 on 2024-09-25 15:59:44+00:00.

So my bf works at a boba shop and recently his boss has been leaving the place a complete mess the day before he comes into work. Like leaving half eaten food on the sides, not putting boba in the bin or fridge, etc. Today he was told to clean up really well so he is doing exactly that. They have these mats (like what they have in bars, to catch any spills) and usually they just clean the ones that are mainly used because its an actual puzzle to put them all back in the right place. All the appliances and syrups are on them and some of the stuff is pretty heavy. But today he is cleaning EVERY SINGLE ONE. So whoever is in tomorrow, hopefully his boss, is going to have an awful time setting up before they start.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/This_Composer1230 on 2024-09-25 14:28:17+00:00.

Back in the mid 90s when I attended college parking permits were required for all cars to park at my school. The stated requirement was that the permit had to be attached to the windshield with its own backing (the permit had an adhesive backing to use when affixing to the windshield). Taping the permit to the windshield was explicitly not allowed. When I got my permit I took some clear plastic wrap and wrapped it around the middle of the permit, leaving just a sliver of the permit’s sticky backing at the top and bottom of the permit. I then attached the permit to the windshield of my car. Later I got a parking ticket from my university for taping my parking permit to the windshield of my windshield. Of course, I appealed the ticket. When I went to the window to explain how I creatively attached the permit, the clerk said “that’s not what we meant.” I replied, “I don’t care about what you meant. I care about what was written. The permit is attached to the windshield with it’s own backing.” Surprisingly, the ticket was dropped and I never had another issue.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/TurkMcGill on 2024-09-24 18:08:29+00:00.

I’m semi-retired, and my wife suggested I pick up a new hobby. So, I bought myself a lightweight, hand-launched RC glider and started flying it at a local soccer field when no one was around.

Unfortunately, one of my neighbors called an enforcement officer, and he informed me that, basically, all RC devices are illegal within city limits. I did some research and the rule was put in place back in 2016, likely to put an end to noisy, privacy-threatening drones!

Here's the thing, though, only the FAA has jurisdiction over this country's airspace, and they say it's okay to fly in my city. So as long as I'm not standing on land owned by the city, I can fly my drone anywhere I want. So I've been flying it around the neighborhood every day. (I'm doing it safely, following drone rules, and I'm not spying on anyone.)

The neighbor's haven't said anything... yet...

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/ZelaAmaryills on 2024-09-24 17:28:09+00:00.

I work at a little family owned diner has a prep cook.

The slow season is starting but I keep myself busy by helping put away dishes, filling the ice for the drink fountain, checking if the bathrooms need a touch up etc etc.

My boss is one of those people who thinks your the laziest person if you aren't doing something at the exact moment she walks into the kitchen. I happened to be on my phone sending a text to my husband at this time, he is home alone with 2 little 2 week old kittens we found and one has some medical issues. Yesterday I took them to the vet for updated medicine doses since they are growing fast, he texted me double checking a few things since he couldn't go with me. Pretty important and worth a 5 second text right? Not for Sharon the Karen.

She told me to get to cleaning and gave me a few things, I added a few things and she said get whatever I can done. Exactly what I wanted to hear.

She came into the back room to ask me to do something and saw every single thing off the shelves and on the floor. I wanted to bleach the shelves you see, they were very dusty. I asked if she wanted me to leave everything on the floor or toss everything back up and finish another day.

Long story short it's been 3 hours of cleaning shelves and so far the only words I have heard from others is how clean it smells and how it looks brand new.

The best part? Not only do I have a hour left of my shift, not only am I off tomorrow, but I am the only prep cook this shit show has. Tomorrow I am sure they will have fun.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/ConyoParatu on 2024-09-24 15:09:03+00:00.

I worked for a small startup that was staffed by independent contractors now W2s. After 4 straight years of doubling business our shareholders determined that we needed a proper manager. Manager started Monday strategizing. Wednesday checkins, and Friday wrap up meetings all ranging between 1-2 hours. Things started to feel more corporate but hey company chipotle was nice. This visionary noticed that during the meetings everybody was doing other tasks and mandated that during meetings all focus needs to be dedicated on the meeting. Aye aye captain. Progress slowed further. Somehow we got lazier being watched so he enacted the 14 hour zoom to keep us on task.this kept up for months as we coasted into oblivion. The company closed,and we all now work for our competitor. I am playing Elden ring until I start next month.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Mysterious_Title171 on 2024-09-24 03:48:40+00:00.

This happened a few semesters ago where I was taking a course in Urban Design. Everyone was grouped in 3s but one of my group members wanted to join another group with their friend, so I ended up with 1 other person. Not sure why the professor though this was okay, but I wasn't too worried because I was fairly confident in my ability to do the work. The course incorporated previous studio courses to tie together in a massive topic of urban planning which included architectural design, environmental sustainability, urban infrastructure and historic preservation.

I tried to brainstorm with my partner on which direction we should go. My idea was focused on residentials as housing would address a huge demand here in NYC. However, my partner seemed content on making the project about industrial buildings, so I focused there. We brainstormed on different ideas but got the impression that he just wanted me to take the lead as he mostly agreed while not giving much input.

Weeks went by and I constantly updated my partner on my progress via WhatsApp while rarely getting any update or feedback from him. It annoyed be a bit but I was still confident in my work which was enough to get us through the next check point during our next presentation.

At some point during the semester, I got a really terrible kidney stone. It wasn't from junk food or a poor diet, in fact, it was from eating too much black beans and chickpeas! A side note, I asked ChatGPT ~~to come up with a healthy dinner plan~~ to give me a list of food which I used to come up with a meal plan that meets my macro needs (see comment for more). I did feel way better with my new diet, but it eventually led me to having my worst kidney stone of my life that put me in the ER. I was on all kinds of pain meds and had to stay there for several nights! But it didn't end there! The stone was so big that it got stuck. I needed surgery to put in a stent. Don't look up how they put it in, it still gives me nightmares! I had to wait several more weeks and endure pissing deep red blood daily and having yet another surgery to remove the stent (ugh!) before finally recovering.

Throughout this whole time, I managed to put in some work into my project. I was surprised to learn that my partner did absolutely NOTHING and waited for me to continue my work! Like what the actual fuck?? To make it worse, I learned that he tried to present my work as his own! How can people be like that??

I emailed the professor about my situation. I explained how I've did all the work so far and sent him screenshots of the chat as well as my project file which includes all the history logs. The professor reminded me that during the final submission everyone had to put their initials on the slides of the work that they worked on. Ok, got it.

Luckily, I was recovered and ready to present my work. I left out the initials as it wasn't required for presentation, only for the final submission. I felt the need to see what he'd do. I even tried to cut him some slack and gave him some talking points on the parts I'd allow him to claim as his own, even though it was fully my work. He didn't. He kept cutting me off during presentation to talk about MY project as if he had anything to do with it. He mostly repeated the same information that I mentioned while not bring anything of value to point out. The final presentation had several judges who were comprised of local professional in high level position within the industry. The conversation was always directed at me, so I had a good feeling that everyone understood that I did most of the work as I knew all of the intimate knowledge of the parts.

Then came the last day to submit our work. The final slides included my initials on every. single. page! Apparently, my partner missed that part about the initials and also submitted an older version of my work. A few weeks go by, and I hit him up asking what he got. I was surprised to learn that actually passed with a C+. He was surprised to hear that I received an A- and promptly said that he'll have a talk with the professor on why he received such a low grade. Honestly, why are there people like this?? Anyway, not sure if it's malicious compliance, but I did do everything as instructed and ended up having one hell of a semester. Did I mentioned that I had morphine for the first time during my ER visit? Lmao!

EDIT - Rephrased ChatGPT/food portion :)

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/femalemechanic92 on 2024-09-24 00:49:14+00:00.

OG post:

SO we had the meeting with my area manager and my boss. My boss tried to paint me as an insubordinate little girl. Ugh...

My area manager wasn't having that and went through the video footage and talked to everybody that was there that day. He talked to my boss and I separately.

End result: the bogus write up was shredded and removed from the system. My boss is no longer allowed to ask me to help out up front because he can get off his lazy ass and do it himself (area managers words), I am to be in the shop and if I have nothing to do I can help out other techs or empty the oil drains, and the cleaning duties are to be distributed evenly between everyone on staff.

Hope this was result everyone wanted.

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/alchemistgamer on 2024-09-23 17:11:58+00:00.

I have always hated mowing the lawn. At the same time, I don't want to be that neighbor so I do my best to stay on top of the lawn. However, while I started out strong this summer, I had a series of medical issues that left me in a state that mowing was a bit too much than I could handle. Add in a few other excuses on the few remaining times I could mow, the lawn was making me look like I was the neighbor I didn't want to be. I decided I'd pay someone to mow for a change and then pick it back up once it was back under control.

My first mistake was when the company I contacted had advertised a one-time cut but when calling to schedule service, notified me they have a three-cut minimum. I should have backed out then. I didn't.

The first mower showed up and cancelled the mowing claiming my lawn was 100% over 23" and as such for excessive height and proceeded to list that they'd charge me a 500% markup for the service. The photos taken were of the few higher points in the lawn (all my front yard) with a tape measure you couldn't read the numbers off of. I was annoyed to say the least and I tried to originally cancel here but hit with the whole contract bit. So I told them I'd mow it and I'd just use them to end the season and take it easy. I actually only mowed the front lawn and even then, not the whole lawn. Miraculously, two weeks later, the mower that showed up did the whole lawn and somehow didn't see the back yard, that I left untouched, was a problem.

The next mowing day came and went and no one showed. So I reported it and cancelled the mowing through the app. Despite cancelling, someone showed up the following day. I'm annoyed and I want out so I go into the app and try to cancel my service again. It looks like the service was cancelled and I saved screenshots.

Then, today, I get a message saying my mower is on the way. Here's the thing. We have had a drought for the last month or so, its the end of the season and my lawn hasn't grown even a half-inch in the last two weeks. I am, beyond furious at this point. I wait until the guy shows up, I talk to him. He's a great guy. He's a contractor for this booking company (which is what I thought was the case). He tells me he gets this all the time. He lets me know he's going to send a message to the company. I felt bad his time got wasted, but there wasn't much I could do about that.

An hour later, I get a message showing I'm rescheduled for tomorrow. I'm done. So I call them up and after speaking with one agent, I get to the escalation team. He tells me my service is cancelled, but I still have one mowing as per the contract. We go back and forth for a bit and he won't budge. I ask him if he would schedule snow removal in the middle of summer so why should I schedule mowing when it isn't needed? Nothing.

"Fine. Schedule me for June in 2047."

"June when, sir?"

"June 4, 2047. I'm sure I'll need my lawn mowed then."

"We can't schedule that far in advance."

He's insistent it has to be this or next year. But I keep pushing. And I remind him, that I agreed to a three cut minimum and no where in any of the conversations did the company specific a restriction on when. So I wanted to schedule it on June 4, 2047 and he needed to schedule it happen.

"One moment sir while I talk to support."

I wait for another few minutes and then he comes back. "Your service is fully cancelled. No one is coming out."

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/alchemistgamer on 2024-09-23 17:11:41+00:00.

I have always hated mowing the lawn. At the same time, I don't want to be that neighbor so I do my best to stay on top of the lawn. However, while I started out strong this summer, I had a series of medical issues that left me in a state that mowing was a bit too much than I could handle. Add in a few other excuses on the few remaining times I could mow, the lawn was making me look like I was the neighbor I didn't want to be. I decided I'd pay someone to mow for a change and then pick it back up once it was back under control.

My first mistake was when the company I contacted had advertised a one-time cut but when calling to schedule service, notified me they have a three-cut minimum. I should have backed out then. I didn't.

The first mower showed up and cancelled the mowing claiming my lawn was 100% over 23" and as such for excessive height and proceeded to list that they'd charge me a 500% markup for the service. The photos taken were of the few higher points in the lawn (all my front yard) with a tape measure you couldn't read the numbers off of. I was annoyed to say the least and I tried to originally cancel here but hit with the whole contract bit. So I told them I'd mow it and I'd just use them to end the season and take it easy. I actually only mowed the front lawn and even then, not the whole lawn. Miraculously, two weeks later, the mower that showed up did the whole lawn and somehow didn't see the back yard, that I left untouched, was a problem.

The next mowing day came and went and no one showed. So I reported it and cancelled the mowing through the app. Despite cancelling, someone showed up the following day. I'm annoyed and I want out so I go into the app and try to cancel my service again. It looks like the service was cancelled and I saved screenshots.

Then, today, I get a message saying my mower is on the way. Here's the thing. We have had a drought for the last month or so, its the end of the season and my lawn hasn't grown even a half-inch in the last two weeks. I am, beyond furious at this point. I wait until the guy shows up, I talk to him. He's a great guy. He's a contractor for this booking company (which is what I thought was the case). He tells me he gets this all the time. He lets me know he's going to send a message to the company. I felt bad his time got wasted, but there wasn't much I could do about that.

An hour later, I get a message showing I'm rescheduled for tomorrow. I'm done. So I call them up and after speaking with one agent, I get to the escalation team. He tells me my service is cancelled, but I still have one mowing as per the contract. We go back and forth for a bit and he won't budge. I ask him if he would schedule snow removal in the middle of summer so why should I schedule mowing when it isn't needed? Nothing.

"Fine. Schedule me for June in 2047."

"June when, sir?"

"June 4, 2047. I'm sure I'll need my lawn mowed then."

"We can't schedule that far in advance."

He's insistent it has to be this or next year. But I keep pushing. And I remind him, that I agreed to a three cut minimum and no where in any of the conversations did the company specific a restriction on when. So I wanted to schedule it on June 4, 2047 and he needed to schedule it happen.

"One moment sir while I talk to support."

I wait for another few minutes and then he comes back. "Your service is fully cancelled. No one is coming out."

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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Inner_Radish_1214 on 2024-09-23 17:10:40+00:00.

Bosses and upper management constantly refuse my PTO. Shit lapses and expires come next summer, so I'm not particularly stoked about how difficult it has been to use it.

I recently got real sick. Shitting all day, puking for the rest of it, etc. Boss refuses to submit any sort of PTO to make up for my missed hours. Says he expected me to call out while I had a river of steaming fire coming out of my rectum. I called him ASAP:, within an hour of my shift starting.

That's cool bro. My company has a severance payout policy. I just won't show up at all for the next few days, get laid off, and now you owe me a couple thousand instead of a couple hundred. Crazy.

Update: HR emailed me this morning with an option to regin and they said they'll cash my PTO out next check. Hell yeah. Fuck you.