r/MaliciousCompliance I EXPLODED MY BOSSES EMAIL! - Reddit Stories

when your boss wants to be involved and informed of everything sometimes all you can do is maliciously can fly we'll get into that in a bit but first don't think just do when I was a young air force staff sergeant at a deployed location I correctly applied Air Force instruction AFI to a situation that inconvenienced a large group of contractors when my flight Chief a master sergeant verbally reprimanded me for supposedly violating local policy I pointed out that the local policy was unlawful and void on the basis that it contradicted AFI which is the highest level of lawful order that can be given by anyone in the Air Force whereas local policy was an order given by a major the AFI was an order that was given by a general thus the local policy was an unlawful order in so far that it directed me to violate an order given by some superior in-rank to the major now these days afis allow certain levels of command to waive certain AFI requirements but they outlined the level of higher command which must approve the deviation and it's a lengthy process of documentation it's not something that can just be waved willy-nilly by a commander because he or she can't meet the requirement which is what the case was at this particular location anyway I stood my ground and explained the master sergeant Z why I did what I did using not only the AFI itself but thoughtful reasoning as to why my response ought to take precedence over the local policy even if we were to ignore the superiority of AFI he responded with and I quote listen staff sergeant he said staff sergeant in a very condescending tone when I give you an order don't think just do fast forward to the tail end of the deployment I was summoned to his office to sign a document as I approached someone was exiting the room and held the door open for me so I entered that's when he started berating me for entering without knocking he ordered me to Exit the room but this time I was to knock and await instructions before opening the door so I promptly turned around in in verbatim compliance with his directive I knocked on the door and waited to be told to exit he flipped his crap and yelled about how I was being a smart Bud insubordinate and I informed him that I was simply doing as he ordered me to do without thinking as he had previously ordered me to do anyway he issued a letter of counseling which I delightfully rebutted by pointing out that I was simply complying with his orders I got the loc rescinded and we parted ways after the deployment had ended never to meet again I'm now retired and enjoying life but I would occasionally tell this story to my colleagues as a warning about abusing one's rank to win an argument and to ignore sound reasoning yes there are times in the military when one must simply follow the orders that he or she is given but those scenarios are usually restricted to combat and other emergency type settings which the one I described was not in a situation like this where you're under somebody who expects you to work and operate like a Mindless drone but you're somebody that definitely has your own quips and funnies and you don't like to be treated like you're just some mindless worker is that a bad combination in a situation like this like should it be a job requirement that you have to be able to just turn your brain off and go to Mindless drown mode also hi I'm Steven and if you enjoy hearing awesome stories of malicious compliance why not hit those like And subscribe buttons down below that said our next story is wanna fry your own pancakes sure I'm someone who loves to cook and sometimes I make food for my family I cook a lot and I'd say I'm fairly decent at it one morning I Was preparing to make American pancakes when my mom walks in the kitchen she gets excited about the pancakes but tells me to save some batter so that she can fry her own pancakes because she wants them to be perfect my dad usually fries them and he's is a master I've learned from him but my mom has no idea how to fry American pancakes I follow her request and finish cooking the rest of the batter I serve up the pancakes I've made and they're perfectly golden brown and fluffy now it's her turn on the stove and she soon realizes her mistake she can't get the temperature right uses too much oil and flips them way too late hers turn out burnt and flat and everyone else is finished eating by now safe to say she wanted my pancakes in the end I can't help but just think about having a nice stack of fluffy pancakes now thanks Opie our next story is Workforce Commission insists I come in to take a bunch of online tests despite not having a sitter telling me to figure it out several years ago in the wake of separating from my ex-husband I applied for temporary assistance for needy families or TANF which provides three hundred dollars or so a month for a certain number of months to those who qualify I was also applying for SNAP benefit it's WIC and child care assistance which has a six-month waiting list my now ex-husband was a real piece of work he went to prison almost immediately after I left we have three kids together ages 6 4 and 2. I was a stay-at-home mom until this point when I applied to the assistance programs in my area the tant required me to go into the workforce center and apply for jobs there they made me an appointment and I went in with my three kids filed some paperwork and they asked me to come in the next day for around three hours to take some aptitude tests on the computer three hours tomorrow I won't be able to get a sitter this short notice they say we'll figure it out because you can't get Tamp without doing this I shrug and say okay the next day I show up on time with my three kids I sign in and sit in the waiting area a lady comes in from another part of the building to get me she calls my name I raise my hand and start to get gather my children to proceed with her she takes one look at us and says you can't have your kids here you have to sit here and take these tests I said I told you all I didn't have a sitter but they said oh well you have to be here so I'm here she said okay no come with me we're getting your child care assistance right now do you have a facility in mind with open spots I said I think so but I'll need to call and verify that she said do that right now while I start your paperwork so I call the daycare verify the spots and they offered me a job in the infant room she had me come back the next day after I dropped the kids off at the daycare to do the testing even though I'd already gotten a job and she sped along all of the applications for assistance that woman was a godsend during a very trying time in my life now I don't know if she like just personally went above and beyond what she was normally allowed to do or if she had the clearance to do such a thing but thank God for a woman like that who's willing to help out somebody who clearly is trying to get whatever help they can and is at least willing to show up with their kids there with them this next story is I want to be notified about every single critical issue and then he greatly regretted it years ago I ran the daily operations of a mid-size IT company large Enterprise government medical and other facilities would Outsource their I.T to the team I ran we had departments that supported us with finance and sales but all other operations fell under my management I answered to the owner of that company who was great when we started off together but over time grew very resentful and abusive long ago he worked in I.T but nowadays his skills were outdated and his knowledge was on par with a tier 1 technician but if he actually tried to do the job then the actual tier ones would have easily outperformed him I oversaw a few dozen technicians and we managed it for thousands of companies with each technician closing approximately 150 tickets a day empowered by Automation and their own knowledge since these companies and government entities were responsible for things like actual 911 services running prisons doing dangerous pressure testing in environments with explosion risks and more you can imagine we were routinely receiving tickets that were urgent in fact we had a system clearly defined that dictated exactly what criteria constituted an emergency versus an urgency even with all that in place half our tickets would meet the criteria of being an emergency things as simple as a camera not working could mean not seeing criminals waiting on the other side of a door for example my team lived every day fully immersed in emergency to the point where we were all dead inside we would rise to the responsibility and treat it appropriately but when everything is an emergency nothing is an emergency we regularly heard compliments about how cool-headed and calm we were able to respond to emergencies which was always funny to us because internally we knew it was because we stopped giving a freak years ago but still knew how to be professional over time feedback from co-workers regarding things said behind my back into my face I can only assume the owner felt threatened by me and the way the team looked to me to lead you would give them bad instructions or orders they knew would go against something standard and they would look to me to confirm he accused me of a lot of horrible things got really abusive and would routinely try to tear me down in front of everyone I essentially lived on call 24 7 and would rely on technicians being skilled enough to not escalate to me after hours but it was unavoidable when they knew a choice had to be made and not just a solution provided they would always call to ask which I preferred no big deal it helped me keep clients Happy by choose using options I knew they would want from my experience with their managers sometimes I would be unavailable when they would try to call and as an alternative if they couldn't reach a senior engineer on our team they would finally surrender and call the owner they didn't want to be responsible for bad decisions and I don't blame them calling the owner gave them some Sia cover your butt every time this would happen the owner would always drastically exaggerate the urgency of the situation and treated like it was the biggest case we had in months it was always all hands on deck needed to support him in this crisis that he was creating and so more technicians would get involved and drastically more hours invested than necessary then he would inevitably Pat himself on the back for how great he is and solving this massive emergency use it to highlight why he's around and how the big problems go to him then Circle back to me to rip me apart in front of everyone when once we're all back in the office to show how I'm not managing my responsibilities and how much better he is than myself to quote an old line from a crappy movie to him it was the biggest emergency in months but to me it was Tuesday anyways not to get too boring and rant too much he ripped me in front of everyone took me behind closed doors to yell at me how this one particular emergency could have cost us so much money cost us the customer and it's all my fault I'm tired of his crap so I tell him how it could have been resolved compared to how he resolved it and that he's so unaware of daily operations he has no idea how insignificant this issue was by comparison he assures me that he is aware of every detail going on in this company at all times he's not and that if emergencies are happening then he needs to be notified of them I tell him he's underestimating how many emergencies happen and he's fuming that I'm not not taking his crap he makes a mistake and demands yelling from now on I want to be notified about every single critical issue I ask him if he's fine with me notifying him by email he screams back do whatever the freak you want I want to be notified about every single freaking critical issue from now on so I promised him I will absolutely notify him and keep him informed of everything from here forward he's the boss for anyone not aware a common form of malicious compliance in the IT world is for someone to invest a very small amount of effort into scripting or automating something that causes another person's life to be a living nightmare the boss is old and operates slowly through his day using email he never goes into the ticket system and doesn't abide by any of the policies he screams at people for not following in our ticket system the tickets assigned to him are like entering a graveyard of endless this promises that never happen and constant lies about not seeing that email it takes me all of two minutes to set up a rule that our system automatically sends them an email absolutely any time a ticket is marked critical even if it's done incorrectly and someone more senior corrects it back to a lower status too late email is already sent immediately he gets hundreds of emails for his own existing tickets then thousands more follow for all the other tickets his inbox is so out of control that is lies about not seeing that email are suddenly made real making the situation even funnier he was meeting with a client at their office when The tones on his phone started going off every time he received an email he started texting me not even half an hour after the automated rules creation asking me to turn it off explaining how it's impacting his meeting I ignored his texts and let the rule run long enough that I was sure his inbox was royally screwed and he would have to ask me in person to turn it off instead of apologizing he told me to turn the notifications off in person but also made it clear that I needed to get to work to get things under control clearly it was my bad leadership causing there to even be so many emergencies in the first place if these are all emergencies then why are technicians going home at the end of the day and so on a few weeks after this I had a new job offer that I accepted I didn't even give him notice when I quit I walked in on Monday morning and grabbed two things off my desk one and found him and handed him the keys to the building and looked him in the eyes and told him you know you're a real piece of crap he was fuming but didn't say a word as I walked out the door within a year of me leaving his company quickly began to fail last I saw he only has three people working for him now and he had to sell the building they owned and move into a much more older more shabby one in a different part of town I mean I've heard of Micro Managers that want to stay on top of all these little issues but somebody that's that far out of touch who simultaneously wants to be informed of every little issue and doesn't know how anything underneath them really should operate I mean you could see the outcome coming I mean obviously op knew they had to get out of there this company was in an absolute tailspin and there was no saving it but with that being said that's all the time we have for today now if you want to hear another absolutely awesome malicious compliance story check out that video on the left 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Length: 15min 46sec (946 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 10 2023