r/Maliciouscompliance I Tricked Bullies into Failing
Malicious Compliance: Enforcing Rules to Teach Corporate and Student Lessons
Learn how workers leveraged strict adherence to management's inconvenient demands to force procedural change, secure paychecks, and defeat frustrating customer service scripts.
Short Summary
- Management learned that disrupting critical infrastructure during operational hours halts business immediately.
- Employees successfully protected their correct pay schedule by strictly following new, unworkable procedural rules handed down by a temporary boss.
- Customers defeated support agents by escalating requests based on precise legal interpretations found within service contracts.
This summary highlights three instances where malicious compliance—following instructions literally despite counterproductive results—resulted in significant organizational or customer service policy corrections. These examples illustrate the power of documentation and adherence to established, even inconvenient, rules.
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Top Comments (10)
Forgot we changed hours and rslash gonna be earlier for a few days.
Pro tip on the Subscription cancellation thing : If you're to only get a subscription for smething you'll know you won't use after X amount of time : Generate a virtual credit card with the exact amount you need for X month, so whatever they try to do to get more money after the end period, they can't since the card will disappear after you ended up emptying it.
I hate group projects. I swear teachers put the failing students with the passing students purposely, so that the passing students pull up the failing students grade enough so that the teacher doesn't have to fail anyone or have to deal with them the following year.
Fourth Story: Honestly, those other group memebers got what they deserve. If they are this lazy during a simple high school project, they will be far from ready for the real world
i got walmart+ to refund me AND cancel my account with "IM ON A FIXED INCOME, AND NOW BECAUSE I FORGOT TO CANCEL ONE STUPID BILL, I CANT AFFORD TO EAT" which...was honestly true at the time 😮💨
I remember how in 10th I got 5 people to put P.F.chang as an answer on history test. The question is who was the prime Minister of China after ww2, the teacher found it hilarious.
Story 3: Ah yes, brush off concerns about fire safety and tell the person bringing it up to invite the guy who would absolutely validate the concerns and get the place temporarily shut down. The Fire Marshall (and team) always know better about these things
7:53 I work on fire alarm systems. DO NOT EVER piss off a fire marshal. They can and definitely will shut you down if it comes to life safty. They almost have absolute authority to do so for any reason. I have seen what happens if you do piss one off it wasn’t pretty.
In my freshman algebra class I got partnered with the class bully. He sat around and talked with his friends while I did the whole thing. My teacher came up to check on the progress of all the projects, when he came to mine and saw that the bully wrote his name in pencil he said “you should fix that error” so I erased it and turned it in. He got a zero and ended up taking the class again. He knew what I did but he couldn’t do anything about it at the end of the day
7:44 This. I learned this lesson from Comic-Con, and just how underrated the Fire Marshal is. There have been _at least_ two that he personally showed up to, because of over capacity meeting rooms, and the screening of "Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog," causing the convention center to sway. Stone faced, he said he would evacuate the entire building (135k+ people) if SDCC didn't _immediately_ comply with code. We can no longer pretend to gallop in our seats, while singing "Bad Horse." So, any Comic-Con goers irritated at how strict they are about room capacity and the fire exits/walls/doors - it's due to previous run ins with the Fire Marshal, and very real actionable threats.
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Top Comments (10)
Forgot we changed hours and rslash gonna be earlier for a few days.
Pro tip on the Subscription cancellation thing : If you're to only get a subscription for smething you'll know you won't use after X amount of time : Generate a virtual credit card with the exact amount you need for X month, so whatever they try to do to get more money after the end period, they can't since the card will disappear after you ended up emptying it.
I hate group projects. I swear teachers put the failing students with the passing students purposely, so that the passing students pull up the failing students grade enough so that the teacher doesn't have to fail anyone or have to deal with them the following year.
Fourth Story: Honestly, those other group memebers got what they deserve. If they are this lazy during a simple high school project, they will be far from ready for the real world
i got walmart+ to refund me AND cancel my account with "IM ON A FIXED INCOME, AND NOW BECAUSE I FORGOT TO CANCEL ONE STUPID BILL, I CANT AFFORD TO EAT" which...was honestly true at the time 😮💨
I remember how in 10th I got 5 people to put P.F.chang as an answer on history test. The question is who was the prime Minister of China after ww2, the teacher found it hilarious.
Story 3: Ah yes, brush off concerns about fire safety and tell the person bringing it up to invite the guy who would absolutely validate the concerns and get the place temporarily shut down. The Fire Marshall (and team) always know better about these things
7:53 I work on fire alarm systems. DO NOT EVER piss off a fire marshal. They can and definitely will shut you down if it comes to life safty. They almost have absolute authority to do so for any reason. I have seen what happens if you do piss one off it wasn’t pretty.
In my freshman algebra class I got partnered with the class bully. He sat around and talked with his friends while I did the whole thing. My teacher came up to check on the progress of all the projects, when he came to mine and saw that the bully wrote his name in pencil he said “you should fix that error” so I erased it and turned it in. He got a zero and ended up taking the class again. He knew what I did but he couldn’t do anything about it at the end of the day
7:44 This. I learned this lesson from Comic-Con, and just how underrated the Fire Marshal is. There have been _at least_ two that he personally showed up to, because of over capacity meeting rooms, and the screening of "Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog," causing the convention center to sway. Stone faced, he said he would evacuate the entire building (135k+ people) if SDCC didn't _immediately_ comply with code. We can no longer pretend to gallop in our seats, while singing "Bad Horse." So, any Comic-Con goers irritated at how strict they are about room capacity and the fire exits/walls/doors - it's due to previous run ins with the Fire Marshal, and very real actionable threats.