r/Maliciouscompliance Incompetent Moron VS Military Veteran

A star walks into a black hole but doesn't seen phased. The black hole then turns to the star and says, "I don't think you understand the gravity of this situation."

Rules for a successful happy life: 1) Don't mess with the IT guy. 2) Don't mess with the veteran.

Re 1st Story: My freshman year of high school I had a biology teacher who was just... odd. He was the in charge of the school's Adventure Club, basically long hikes, cliff climbing, and nature stuff. I couldn't join, you had to be a sophomore, but he would allow freshmen in his classes to tag along. I went on a hike with them to the bottom of the Hoover Dam (the high school is in Henderson, NV) and the group was like 30 total. The hike down was fine. The hike back, in 110°F of the Arizona desert wasn't as great. A lot of us ran out of water on the two hour return trip, I got heat stroke. But worse was two kids were missing when we got to the pick up point. My teacher pulled a ham radio out of his pack, called the ranger station and informed them of the issue, then told the drivers to get the rest of us home. That was when I found out this goofy biology teacher was also a former park ranger. He refilled his canteen and went right back out. The two lost students were found and brought home with little more than dehydration and sunburn. He was weird, really weird, but he'd be damned if he lost a kid.

Story 2- OP's dad didn't just make sure Mr. Frost never made that mistake again. He also made sure OP would never repeat it

This is not really a major story, but one time at an outdoor bazaar I saw a middle aged veteran wearing a Gulf War army veteran baseball cap at a sticker table. The proprietor lady, completely out of nowhere says she has the right to refuse servicr to anyone, including muderers and oil profiteers such as him. He took it completely in stride and walked away. Only a couple of minutes later and completely unrelated to him, the management of the lot where the swap meet took place confronted her about why she wasnt displaying her peddlers' license whixh was required of all kiosks and stalls. Turns out she didn't pay it for over two months and was illegally squat-selling, so now she's banned. A couple other unpaid stalls from orher sellers also got shut down so it's not like she was being personally targeted. Still, good for her. I hope army guy got stickers from a store that actually values his business. Oops.

Bathroom story: 🤣 Dude released a pressure valve!!! That secretary needs to grow up. People excrete substances from their bodies, liquid, solid and gasses and have since the beginning of the species. What's offensive. I would be more concerned about making employees turn on and waste the water because someone is offended over a natural bodily function, such as taking a leak.

My dad actually had a very similar experience to the story told by the commentor on the last story. He has a degree in computer science, and teaches programming classes. He is well aware that there are places where you can buy and sell other works to students who want to cheat, and apparently, some of his own programs were on those sites. He found this out when he gave a basic programming assignment to his class, and one student turned in a program that my dad wrote (And has used as a teaching example), passing it off as his own. He kept insisting that it was original when my dad gave him a couple chances to fess up, so my dad shut down his whining by saying "I know you plagiarized this because I WROTE IT. And because you refused to be truthful when I gave you a chance to, I will not only give you a failing grade, but also report your actions to the department head and dean." Pretty sure the dude got expelled.

I never understand those phone reps that go: "Nope, sorry, rules are rules!" I work in a field where I'm also regulated by strict rules and guidelines, and my go-to response to those situations is, at *worst*: "I'm not able to do that, but I'll get you the information for someone with more authority than me that might be able to make an exception."

In regards to the first story, I've got my own story to it as well. Not really a Malicious Compliance, but a sign of how you do not mess with the kids of vets. In 7th grade, my Geography teacher was...well he wasn't exactly the best. This guy would randomly punish me for doing even slightly minor things and would constantly make me sit in detention in his class. This was like an every other week thing, and when I told my parents each reason, sometimes they figured I deserved it for being disruptive, but other times they were just confused about what was going on. Both my parents are former military, and my dad served in Vietnam, but my mom was just as much of a fighter as well. One day, when she knew I was in detention, she went to the principal (who had a slight military background and worked with veterans before he became a principal) and TOLD him, not asked him, to come with her to the classroom I was in. She marched down to my Geography teacher's class, barged into the room, and told me that we were leaving. When my teacher tried to stop her, she looked him right in the eye and told him to sit down, shut up, and leave me alone unless it was for actual class. When my teacher asked the principal if that was allowed, the principal merely said "If there's one type of parent you don't mess with, it's a military parent". I never got detention from that teacher again while I was in his class, though that year wasn't exactly great for me considering how I had a mental break down in school.

I've been a Girl Scout Camp counselor briefly and my mom was a Girl Scout Troop leader for 5 years (I was usually the oldest and had to help her herd kittens; it kind of sucked), so I'm familiar with the trials and tribulations of keeping track of kids and I don't think we ever lost anyone, even briefly. The more I think about this Mr Frost character, the more embarrassing of a human being he becomes. The fact that he either literally never noticed, or he noticed and then did nothing. Like, it wasn't even a blip on his radar when he realized that none of the kids had asked him to drop them off at Jon's house? Jon and OP mean so little to him that he didn't feel their lack of presence sooner or later? He never thought, "Oh no, I better turn around to go back for them?" I was 18 and super overwhelmed being a counselor, but I still counted my girls bunches of times in a day. If I left two of them somewhere, it would probably still keep me up at night six years later.