The employee verbally pounces on the company’s grumpiness, responds with malicious compliance, and is grudgingly and quietly fired within hours
They never learn, right?
No, not this time. No, it’s not what you think. As you can imagine, some stories New bosses come into power and just get fired one way or another for doing their thing—the opposite of anything else.
Not even the boss this time. They didn’t hold power, but they thought they had some power. Or at least the attitudes and positions that give them power.
But you never learn not to mess with your employees.
[sigh]
A Redditor recently illustrated how you can work for a company for 50 years and magically be empowered to do nothing if you haven’t been assigned a job or responsibility that entitles you to that authority. And malicious compliance was all it took to get a slap in the face at a reality check.
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They never learn, right? No, not the manager this time, but the employee. However, the message remains the same. Don’t mess with people at work…
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Reddit user u/ProjectGnova recently shared how he used r/MaliciousCompliance to deal with long-term employees by following his one very simple command.
…or they will viciously submit and leave the company prematurely, with just seven months to retirement.
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As you can see, the OP works in an electronics warehouse, and most of the time it’s perfectly fine. But every now and then, a disgruntled company, or “disgusting engineer,” decides to join the corporate crusade. This grumpy person is known to be belligerent and nearly impossible to work with. The upside is that he has only seven months left before he retires.
That was the OP’s plan. At least until they decide to do some inventory work in the warehouse. All of a sudden, he started yelling at the OP, claiming he messed up the palette he was working on. The OP tried to defuse the situation, but it didn’t work as the Engineer’s face turned even redder and ready to explode like an uncut tomato in the microwave.
A grumpy person in the company liked to quarrel verbally. He wanted justice, even if it was unfounded, even if someone touched his palette.
Image credit: u/Project Gnova
While the OP insisted on checking the camera (which the engineer installed himself) for proof, the back and forth between the two seemed to go on for a while, with a grump claiming him.It all culminated in a sulky remark that he had been there for 50 years and nobody told him what to do (he sprinkled the nice words Flanguage). This is where malicious compliance occurs.
“If you have a problem with my behavior, report it to HR or your boss,” said the engineer, and hurried out. knew exactly what they did that’s all.
But he chose the wrong person. The man was calm, calm going in and out, and did what he asked. So he went to HR.
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After one HR visit, the engineer was told to go home…and less than 20 minutes later he was “permanently working from home…”. Within 20 minutes after thatthe engineer’s credentials have been revoked, remote access to the company’s network has been disabled, and his duties have been split among the remaining employees. It is necessary to create a manual summarizing the contents and methods of
You don’t have to worry about 7 more months until you retire, right? In fact, no one should worry about him at this point. bon voyage!
After a quick talk with HR, the company grump ran out the door faster than you could say. anti-establishmentand applause
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Well, people have approved online. They praised the OP for being calm and calm in the face of anger. OP speculation in reply to a comment The engineer’s highly inappropriate behavior may be due to alcohol, as he believes he may have smelled alcohol several times.
Others were surprised that this happened and discussed the issue from multiple angles. People were happy to see HR make the right decisions.
But others have shared similar stories, sadly confirming that this happens more often than expected. This post went viral after winning several awards on.By the way, you can checkout the post for context here.
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But before you do that, feel free to comment any thoughts or stories about malicious compliance, or just compliance, or plain BS stories in the comments section below.