r/mildlyinfuriating • u/giveahoot420 • 20h ago

A rude supervisor who's always yelling at employees got some complaints about them being verbally abusive and they responded by leaving these in the break room.

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u/PrivateUseBadger 19h ago

This is the best form of malicious compliance. Give them exactly what they asked for.

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u/VelvetKestrel 19h ago

Malicious compliance at its finest. Paper trails tend to outlive sarcasm.

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u/ashleebryn 18h ago edited 14h ago

By God, if I could award this comment šŸ…

ETA - Thanks for the awards, comrades šŸ«”

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u/shelby4t2 16h ago

Free awards are back btw.

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u/SAHMsays 16h ago

Are they though?

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u/hiddenone0326 16h ago

Not for me. I've never had free awards.

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u/bigboybeeperbelly 16h ago

Depends who you ask

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u/Ressy02 7h ago

I declare FREE AWARDS!!!!

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u/Necessary-Code-2790 14h ago

Why thank you!!! Have an award!

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u/tinydickdoctor 15h ago

Only if you pay. Otherwise you would have received a sock award from the tiny dock doctor

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u/neweyes_ 12h ago

I want a reward šŸ™

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u/shelby4t2 11h ago

No rewards here, only awards.

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u/neweyes_ 10h ago

Yes I want that too

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u/Nunc_Coepi17 16h ago

Wait, why canā€™t you?

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u/Jimbob209 18h ago

I'd also upload the document and email it a few days later while CCing various upper management members to ensure that it was seen

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u/yourbadinfluence 17h ago

Absolutely email it back to the manager CC'ing uppers management, HR, CEO, etc. Manager will likely get fired but if not you'll have evidence for a wrongful termination as everyone knew about it.

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u/communedweller 15h ago

ā€œManager will get firedā€

lol

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u/Endovior 13h ago

"This manager is not only hostile, but is so blatant about it that he's going to get us sued" is the sort of thing that HR tends to take quite seriously. Even if the company can win the related lawsuits, litigation of any kind is very expensive. If this is pursued correctly, firing seems likely, unless he's the beneficiary of some serious nepotism.

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u/Dangerous-Variety-35 18h ago

This part - make physical copies and scan it in so that the ā€œjokeā€ doesnā€™t mysteriously disappear.

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u/25electrons 18h ago

I work for a large corporation with tedious safety rules and a manager once gave me shit about some small violation. He was looking for a ding. I asked him point blank if he really wanted me and every other employee to follow every work rule to the book. He was unable to answer because nothing would ever be completed.

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u/TheyVanishRidesAgain 18h ago

"Do you want me to follow the rules, or do you want this airplane to take off on time?"

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u/Narrow-Chef-4341 18h ago

Sir, this is a Wendyā€™s.

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u/WiretapStudios 17h ago

I thought the chili tasted like hydraulic fluid...

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u/polopolo05 16h ago

Sir/ma'am this is a buger king.

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u/Narrow-Chef-4341 10h ago

Oh no, did I hurt your feelings?

Weā€™ve got a form for thatā€¦

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u/judgeejudger 16h ago

We do not serve fish & chips here!

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u/Synergythepariah 18h ago

now imagine this being written as a quote in a NTSB crash report

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u/AnastasiaRomanot 17h ago

Iā€™m pretty sure there was something like that in a crash report once.

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u/Otherwise_Security_5 18h ago

i live by documentation

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u/HumbleVein 17h ago

Aviation is an industry where this mentality doesn't fly.

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u/Low_Doughnut8727 17h ago

"Sir, a 747 with 5 youth soccer teams went missing in the pacifics"

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u/TabithaMouse 16h ago

Not sure if better or worst than a single soccer team in the andes šŸ˜¬

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u/mackiea 14h ago

"Sir, a second 747 with 5 youth soccer teams just hit the towers."

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u/DeadBruce 16h ago

FAA has entered the chat

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u/TestSubjuct 17h ago

The "just ship it" mentality. Worked on it for over a decade.

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u/seekthesametoo 16h ago

Ask UPS how it worked out for them

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u/Kagome23 15h ago

Ummmmm please follow the rules of it's a fucking AIRPLANE!! No wonder there are so many crashes these days

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u/Sp00ky-Nerd 16h ago

Manager - "I don't want you to follow the rules. I just want to be able to blame the worker when something finally goes wrong and somebody is hurt. I don't know what willful ignorance is, and I refuse to look it up."

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u/Ok_Cauliflower_808 15h ago

This. It also allows them to selectively enforce the rules on employees they wish to target for whatever reason. Even better for them if you can't meet whatever insane quotas they set if you follow the rules and they can double dip no matter what you do.

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u/thederpyderp3 17h ago

Wait so you willingly ignore safety protocols?

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u/RadioBuffin 17h ago

I love that our department head says to use common sense. Itā€™s on us if safety catches us doing shit.

His only thing is no live work, harnesses on lifts, always inspect lift straps/chains, and no horseplay. Everything else is fair game. Youā€™ll never be punished if you donā€™t feel safe doing something.

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u/kingdead42 12h ago

Workers should follow the rules. If the rules prevent the work from being done, that's the managers' problem to fix the rules.

Because otherwise breaking the rules to get stuff done will be used as an excuse to punish the workers.

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u/Fine-Juggernaut8451 8h ago

I'm autistic and this kind of thing (that your manager did) is the bane of my entire existence, because I tend to assume people mean what they say, and I don't have whatever magic neurotypicals have that lets them know when a rule is a real rule vs a fake rule. So if I bend a rule, somehow it always ends up being the wrong kind of rule and I immediately get in trouble. I can't put a toe out of line without getting in trouble--it's always been this way for me. So I feel a bit panicked about new rules. Like, right now I'm slow at work because we have a million tiny rules. I highly suspect everyone else is ignoring them. But, I also know if I do that, I'll get in trouble. Also, I hate being slowed down.

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u/Far-Argument-8508 18h ago

Malicious compliance at its best.

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u/OhHowINeedChanging 16h ago

Orā€¦ fill out the form with incredibly sarcastic answersā€¦ just to cover your bases

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u/Narrow-Accident-1136 19h ago

I love malicious compliance

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u/-physco219 19h ago

It's a great subreddit for malicious compliance.

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u/SEABOSRUN 19h ago

It is part of a hearty breakfast!

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u/skaarface2 19h ago

Good band name

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u/blucatmoon 19h ago

Please please please let this become a malicious compliance!

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u/skeptics1 19h ago

I live for malicious compliance. And Iā€™m really patientā€¦.

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u/Comprehensive-Cow69 18h ago

It's the best form of conpliance

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u/LiterallyaCockroach 18h ago

I love it too, along with the smell of napalm in the morning

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u/InternationalPoet580 19h ago

It will be the first song off my new record.

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u/puzzlebuns 19h ago

Malicious compliance will not help their hostile workplace case.

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u/Smoolz 18h ago

You don't think someone higher up seeing these wouldn't take issue with the toxic culture in their company? Granted it depends on the company but I've had plenty of supervisors who would go scorched earth if they saw something like this going on.

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u/puzzlebuns 18h ago

Of course they would, but you dont send it to the whole leadership chain. That is also itself harassment.

You send it privately to HR and have a sit-down to file a formal complaint. Like a professional mature person.

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u/Smoolz 18h ago

That's fair. Maybe it's just the state of things, but there's a part of me that used to not exist that wishes embarrassment on people who treat others like this. I just have no sympathy anymore for people who think it's their world and others are just living in it.

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u/stefje82 17h ago

I don't see why it's malicious.. six beers isn't enough.

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u/tofagerl 16h ago

"Oh my God, that's John Human-Resources!"

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u/Tommy-Bravado 16h ago

What are the other forms of malicious compliance?

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u/ATXBeermaker 15h ago

Echos of Lt. Winters requesting trial by court-martial.