r/maliciouscompliance | Multi-Million Dollar Woman VS Technician (A Malicious Compliance Story)

hello everyone my name is Reid and welcome to story time today we are going to be reading some malicious compliance so sit back relax put your little feet up and enjoy the long game I've named this tail the long game since it actually spans over the course of several years leading to the satisfying conclusion also because it's a long story I'll understand if you skip this one for a shorter one several years ago I was in desperate need of a job I was recently released from active duty in the US Army under a medical discharge met my girlfriend who is currently my wife who moved in with me with her two small children from a previous marriage and I was bouncing around from dead-end job to a dead-end job I had very little real-world skills to offer to employers so my options were limited I took a chance and interviewed with a small security company and was immediately hired they liked that I was prior service grilled me with questions only a veteran would know and sent me to work on their biggest contract I was on a site of a massive multi-million dollar construction location a large named oil company was building a new headquarters and well massive construction project doesn't seem like a big enough description as security a bulk of our responsibility was checking and vetting all construction workers and contractors through the gate inspect vehicles for possible stolen property and generally serve as a deterring force to put it simply every day my gate alone would process about one to two thousand cars during my 8-hour shift the site was running 24 hours a day 7 days a week to meet the very tight construction schedule I was only on one of three gates so that's about three to six thousand cars that came on site every day in an eight-hour period massive construction site as a side note that will become very important later in the story each car that came through had to undergo a strict inspection when the driver is first assigned to work on the site then the vehicle gets a sticker and is allowed to drive on to the construction site we would ensure the car has the sticker and then just process everyone's badges through a verification machine all badges passed and the car had a sticker then we would let the contractors on site so they can get to work Morgan there was great all the security we're ex-military so beyond a little teasing about who they served with everyone bonded really well we didn't have sick days or vacation days so when people would call off for personal reasons or illness everyone happily chipped in to make up the lost hours and because of this teamwork our big boss overlooked the call offs and let us make overtime money no write-ups no punishments sometimes we were working 16-hour shifts back to back I spent many nights sleeping in the parking garage in between shifts because it was easier than driving home to sleep a few hours only to come back to work for another 16-hour day we were in outdoor conditions in all weather and were on our feet on concrete the entire time sitting down was a luxury that we rarely saw we couldn't leave the gate for any reason unless we were relieved by a supervisor who would try to come by twice during an eight-hour shift to let you go to the Porta Potty or quickly eat your lunch rain harsh summer heat bug storms yes that's the thing hell you were out by your gate with no protection other than a construction hardhat I know these sound like horrendous conditions but really it was the best job I ever had because of the conditions it was no wonder that 95% of the employees were male we tried hiring females but most would last a few days before quitting those people who did not quit in a few days were lifers and loved the job the problems began about three months into the job one of the supervisors was quitting to go back to school so a position opened up everyone everyone was given an opportunity to apply for the supervisor position I was encouraged by the nightshift supervisor who was the one quitting to go for the promotion because he thought I would be a good replacement for him even though I was the newest officer on the site and had the least amount of experience so I threw in my hat just for laughs two other people applied one was a guy who had obvious seniority the other was a girl one of three on the site who had been in there for about a year we were given a face-to-face interview with the boss we'll call him Jim my interview went well and Jim liked that I was ambitious Jim was also the guy who accepted me on to the site in the first place the next phase of testing was a practice run as a temporary supervisor we were each given a day to be the supervisor in charge Jim was there along with the junior supervisor named Ray yeah that's a good name for him for clarification ray did not want the promotion and was happy performing his regular duties both were present just in case situations occurred that were beyond our ability to handle they were standing by to assist my test day went well I finished all tasks assigned to me and I even managed to handle a minor emergency on my own the other two applicants apparently didn't do too well the senior guy kept forgetting his list of tasks he was given to accomplish and kept going back to the office tasks Jim what he should do next the girl did okay but every time she would check up on the guard she would flaunt around her temporary rank making employees call her ma'am and bragging about how she was definitely going to get the promotion imagine her shock when I was given the position as the new nightshift supervisor to say she was angry was an understatement apparently she was so upset that she didn't get the promotion that she called me on my personal cell phone she stole my number from the supervisor emergency phone to add to the situation I had not even been informed I got the promotion nothing official had been put out just yet though this is not a direct quote but paraphrasing as best as I can me hello girl how does it feel um who's this what you don't know I thought supervisors are supposed to know everything me very confused you called Opie I think you may have the wrong number I know who I called but don't pretend like you don't know you got the promotion because you're all sexist pigs I got the promotion for cool that promotion was supposed to be mine but I guess since I'm not in the bro club they just gave it to you you don't resign the position to me I'm going to tell HR about all this sexism and you'll all be fired what sexism I got the position by passing the test isn't it sexist to assume you should get the promotion only because you happen to be born a female it isn't that act alone sexist but only men get promoted to leadership positions 95% of the site is male odds are males are going to get promoted sorry you didn't make the cut but none of this is my problem so I hung up the phone and called both Jim and Ray to inform them about the call I was assured that I was promoted they didn't know how she found out and they were going to file harassment on my behalf to HR for her stealing my phone number from the work phone and contacting me with threats and that's where the story should end but oh no fellow readers it has only just begun now would be a good time to get some popcorn and a drink so about two or three months roll by and I'm getting into the role of supervisor girl has since been removed from the site and the employees are really happy that I'm the new supervisor and that the girl is gone things things continue as normal and I begin bonding with my staff I especially bond with a guard that no one liked his name for this story is Victor Victor is a marine veteran he was in the initial invasion of Iraq and developed severe PTSD it makes him very confrontational argumentative and a super-big a hole to anyone who talks to him elect the guy from the get-go and we quickly became close friends every night I would hang out with him between my duties and we would talk I eventually convinced him to seek help from the Veterans Association and go to PTSD counseling he was also going to school to get his master's degree thanks to Ray who convinced him to not give up on his education and would just need to vent sometimes I was that vent he would blow up at me yell and scream and when he was done we would hug it out it was therapy for him and I didn't mind all seem to be going well until one day I came to visit with Victor what I didn't know was that Victor was pulling a 16-hour shift and actually worked the afternoon and the night shift so when I showed up to work he had apparently been there a majority of the day he asked me if I spoke with Jim recently I hadn't apparently Jim didn't show up to work today a few days go by and well Jim mysteriously disappeared after three or four days of his disappearance ray called an emergency meeting with the supervisors in attendance was myself ray and another supervisor from the second shift who is not important and does not require a fictional name the meeting was to try and figure out what happened to Jim we pulled our knowledge together and decided the best course of action was to contact the main headquarters branch to see if they knew something he wasn't answering the phone when we called him so we feared he was in the hospital and no one bothered to tell us when we called we were given the runaround but eventually an HR rep who was friends with Ray spilled the beans Jim had quit the job girl from earlier apparently made good on her threats after she was kicked out of the site she got ahold of a lawyer who began the process of suing the company not only for sexism and favoritism but also sexual harassment as it turned out Jim was a lonely man girl and Jim began flirting and eventually sexting and the idiot used the company supervisors cell phone to do it she not only had copies of the messages but when the company dug into the phone records they had all the evidence needed to see she was not lying there were pictures lots of pictures girl was brilliant evil but brilliant she knew that the old supervisor was going to go back to school eventually so she began flirting with Jim she pursued him each conversation in person she would be flirtatious rubbing him and even having sex with him on the phone however she played coy and made him take charge in the end the evidence looked like he pressured her to have sex with him and promised a promotion in a bout of pillow talk and before anyone knew that the position was going to be open to her in exchange for sex at the time it was roleplay but now it appears like this was all a part of her insurance plan to get promoted for real that was more than enough for the company to do something when Jim caught wind of what was happening he took off this left us without a boss and worse in order to avoid a lawsuit the company rehired girl to her old position replanted her on our site Peter enough money to cover her Mis salary plus a bonus and a raise and promised to get more females on the site and on supervisor positions this was enough to satisfy girl so she dropped the lawsuit as the only form of authority on the site we three supervisors took it upon ourselves to run the site as best as we could until a new boss was assigned to help us or one of us was promoted to the position almost two months went by and girl was a huge nuisance she was constantly calling off her shift at the last minute and since everyone didn't like her no one was willing to cover her shift we attempted to write her up for the situation but she quickly threw it back in our face and threatened to call her lawyer for harassment after all none of the male employees get written up when they call off obviously this is sexism in boys club all over again she pushed her luck too far one day however and severely disrespected one of the oil company representatives during his visit he had her permanently removed from the site when the security company tried to take her side for fear of another lawsuit he said either girl is gone or he'll get another security company to take over the contract the company gave in and moved her to another site but even though girl was now out of our lives forever the absolute nightmare she started was still forming overhead the company finally found a suitable replacement for Jim that was also female to satiate the term set forth by girls lawyer our new boss was named well I have lots of names for that Sea Hag but for now I'll refer to her as Tasha Tasha was a handful from the get-go as the new boss she was working on the site for nearly two weeks before she ever introduced herself to either the second shift supervisor or myself I still worked nights what boss does that two weeks before you introduce yourself to the supervisors it took her another month to eventually meet all the guards the site was busy but it wasn't that big already she was off to a bad start she was also non-military and didn't seem to respect the fact that every guard and supervisor was a military vet most of us served in war zones lived in the dirt and we were very self-sufficient she saw everyone as a brainless meathead who needed constant supervision the term micromanager isn't strong enough of a description to understand the level of hands-on she needed to have and it probably would have been much different if she was improving things or making things more efficient but she was barely able to perform the simplest tasks and made constant poor decisions and just kind of ticked everyone off whenever she was around we three supervisors tried to train her and bring her up to speed with the site but she wouldn't hear any of our advice after about another week or so from her introduction to everyone she began to get worse we started seeing a ton of write-ups flooding across our desks like dozens and dozens for a single employee in the write-ups Wow technically correct were of the most petty things imaginable her favorite was riding up employees for breaking uniform regulations you have a stray string on your uniform write-up shoes dirty her write-up a haircut she didn't like you guessed it right up glasses smudged right up the best was her writing up a guard because his uniform was wet because it was raining outside and we were not allowed to seek shelter because of our duties every gate had a guard shack available it was a small space with just a enough room for a chair in a table to write on it had a small AC and a mini fridge to keep water Gatorades and our lunch cold but no one could use the guard shacks because they were so far away from the gates still within eyesight but we had to physically badge in vehicles and employees and the verification machine was set up next to the gate when you swipe a badge a green or red light flashes and it makes a little beep sound to say whether or not someone is allowed on the property but if you're in the guard shack you can't physically hear the beep reminder this is a construction site nor can you see the lights because the lights face the vehicle so you have to stand there and swipe the badge and physically look at the lights to know whether or not to let someone in also remember the car stickers they were positioned on the windshield so you can't see them from a Shack 30 feet away from the gate and because of the massive volume of cars coming and going there just wasn't any time to walk to the guard shack much less sit down we tried to explain that to Tasha who just didn't seem to care it also became very clear that she was focusing on one guard at a time every write-up and disciplinary meeting was laser focused on one individual eventually that person would get so sick of the harassment that they would quit as soon as they were gone she would focus on another guard the entire site went from a dream job to the most hostile work environment I've ever bore witness to I served 10 years in the Army and served three tours to Afghanistan I served under some of the most idiotic leadership imaginable people who only got promoted because they were in the army so long that eventually they would get promotions ask a veteran they'll understand what I mean and all that time all those dead in jobs with king of the tiny pond managers I used to work for were nothing in comparison to Tasha after two months under her reign 12 employees quit including Rae yes apparently supervisors were also under fire I feel that I'm obligated at this to mention that Ray is the best dang leader I've ever had the luxury of working with even though he was technically under me he was and is the most professional man I have ever known period everyone on the site respected him everyone would have followed him to heck and back everyone loved Ray even when I was promoted above him instead of being petty he encouraged me to do better he trained me and became a role model to myself and many others on the site including Victor remember him from earlier the PTSD guy that no one liked apparently he had two friends in this world me and Ray and now rate was bullied out of his job protip never freaked with a Marine especially one who has nothing left to lose to put into context how bad this really is no one quit the company before Tasha took over some people left due to better opportunities or were new hires who couldn't hack it but overall people had worked on that site since construction began five years prior some people had been with the company going on ten years these were the people she was going after and who she forced to quit I had quit smoking for three years and things got so bad everyone started smoking again even myself you would think with as many people quitting that we would have a worker shortage but then you would be mistaken as soon as someone quit the next day the position was filled again but second shift supervisor and myself quickly learned that these people were not ex-military these people were moody had very bad attitudes with other guards and the many contractors we are dealing with on a daily basis they were lazy would often hide in the guard shacks and would never verify whether or not cars could enter the site they were messy both in personality and their surroundings and generally what one would consider horrible employees we called ray to see if he could contact his HR buddy to find out where these people were coming from in here is where the story gets even worse remember when old boss Jim took off well someone had to take the fall for the sex lawsuit that was forming so the company terminated another employee that employee was responsible for staffing the oil company contract he was also responsible for hiring veterans and verifying them remember the questions I was asked at the beginning of the story that only a veteran would know the answers to yep that guy he was gone so unfortunately no more veterans were selected from the hiring pool and sent our way he was terminated because he originally hired Jim as it turned out Tasha the new terror boss was actually in charge of an office building contract in another part of the city she lost the contract to that building and herself and all her guards were now in limbo and out of a job some of the guards were issued two new contracts but pay and security is usually pretty lousy but our job paid very well $15 an hour to start off because the company was supposed to offer it only to ex-military guards due to the site contract I discovered years later that Tasha actually lost the building contract not because the contract ended naturally but because she and her guards were so useless that the building hired other people to do their jobs the person in charge of the contracts was sleeping with Tasha they covered up the contract loss so she can still have a job oh and since military guy got fired during the lawsuit Tasha's freak buddy took over his responsibilities hence Tasha got another site contract a pay raise and was selected only because she was female and sleeping with the contract guy fells that for ironic sexism and it gets better the write-ups and harassment on our site or a ruse to get the veterans to quit their jobs forcing the company to fill the spot with whoever was available due to a loophole clause in the oil company contract it basically allowed the security company to staff open positions with non-military employees in an emergency employee shortage incident and guess who the new lazy employees were yep the old guards that served under Tasha who were so bad at their job that they had lost their own contract but why them because they were requested by name by the largest contract supervisor Tasha one by one I watched my fellow veterans and employees fall under attack and quit only to be replaced by useless people and backstabbing thugs I really could go on there is a ton that happened during that time period but it's well past the time for some malicious compliance I was the next to be targeted and I was the next to quit the malicious compliance unfortunately was not caused by myself initially but by Victor who now watched his second and only friend quit from the job site Victor is my god dang hero after I left I started working for another security company ironically the guy who hired me was Jim my direct supervisor ray we three were back together again and worked for another oil / gas company the pay was awesome and info was shared about Jim getting set up for the fall and whatnot we tried to get Victor to quit his job and join us at the new company but the old marine was on one last mission remember those car stickers well as it turned out Victor had a superpower for whatever reason he was able to spot forged stickers from across the gate okay so forged stickers yep they were a problem the construction site had very limited parking and safety regulations were put in place that only licensed drivers could come on-site the cars also had to pass crazy tests in order to meet the safety regulation compliance the problem is the construction companies and subcontractors often hire illegal workers or people with criminal history or people who just have crappy cars that probably aren't registered or even inspected by the state no one really cared but without licensing they could not drive on site so someone began forging car stickers and selling them to all the people who would not we be able to get them at first they recruit obviously crayon on tape if you glanced at it it was passable but any close inspection would reveal that the sticker was fake if a fake sticker was found regulations stated that the car must be pulled over and a security supervisor would need to be contracted the security supervisor would have to get a hold of the site foreman a supervisor from the fake sticker driver and a police officer would remove the sticker and permanently remove the employee from the site forever now because all the replacement guards were really bad at their jobs the fake sticker business was in full swing they were getting better laser printed on vinyl and nearly indistinguishable from the real stickers but Victor was now on a mission he took a position at the main entry gate and began pulling over as many cars as he could with the fake stickers he pulled over so many that his security supervisor Tasha was assigned to be nearby at all times the site had to hire an additional police officer in the site Foreman had a permanent representative at the gate every day Victor was pulling over car after car he started training some of the least useless guards how to do it and what to look for it became a huge nuisance for Tasha but she technically couldn't do anything about it because he was following the site rules to the letter after a month of aggressive crackdown on the fake sticker problem the oil company representatives held a special meeting with Tasha and Victor to plead with him to stop he had single-handedly removed so many construction workers and contractors that many companies were pulling their long term contracts with the oil company construction came to a sudden halt in the oil company was hemorrhaging tons of money to either keep on contractors or find new ones willing to pick up the job where others left off best of all the construction should have been way ahead of schedule so the oil company sold their old headquarters to someone else in the expectation to move into the newly constructed headquarters however incompetent security replacements were not checking vehicles exiting the property and thousands upon thousands of dollars worth of tools and construction supplies were strolling causing massive setbacks then the sticker fiasco caused any progress that was still going on to come to a sudden halt the oil company now had to pay and greatly inflated rent at their old headquarters because the building was sold but they had nowhere to send the employees so the new owners let them stay and jacked up the rent so high that it was causing the oil company to lose massive revenue and stocks were beginning to drop during the meeting Victor only asked one question so are you changing the regulation to state that illegal drivers are now allowed on site of course they didn't change it they couldn't and Victor knew it the meeting came to a close Victor returned to his gate and continued his mission after a few days an accident occurred on site the blame was the drivers but the buck was past a victor who became the fall guy and he was terminated from the security company everyone knew it was bullcrap and that he was obviously the scapegoat but Victor didn't care he waged his war and in my eyes he won so that's the end of the malicious compliance and if you made it this far and then good on you I hope you enjoyed this slice of my life and I leave you with a wish I hope the best of your past is the worst of your future effing I know well let's just read the rest of it if you're still here then you'll be pleased to know there is a little justice in this world Victor left security permanently he finished a school with honors and got his master's degree he also took my advice and sought help for his PTSD he ended up getting 90% disability from the VA and gets a fat check every month he technically does not have to work anymore but took a job as a maintenance supervisor at the local City College he's doing much better mentally and is looking forward to buying his second home we still talk regularly and is considered a very close friend of mine Jim ray and I worked together for a few years at another security company Jim left that company for better pay at a different security company and has only spoken to me once since his departure from what I hear he got married and is doing well ray took over as a contract manager for an even different security company much closer to his residence he is still happily married and adopted his two nephews to raise alongside his son we still talk semi-regularly and go drinking at least once a year with Victor I became a big-time security supervisor at the company and have only recently left due to a political conflict I now am an HVAC technician and me and the wife are doing well and what of Tasha well she was eventually fired for the heck she caused it took years to unravel the drama but eventually karma caught up to her Jim called me once after he left to work somewhere else and warned me that Tasha was looking for a job in a new security company he just denied her application when he realized who she was based on the stories ray and I told him she then interviewed for the position at my company guess who did all the employee hiring this guy I had another officer sent her into my office she walked in all dressed up smiling and ready to do her interview then she saw me her smile faded and she walked out without ever saying anything I then made a call to Ray and gave him a heads-up that she was out there several weeks go by and she walked into interview with Ray he told me that when she saw him she broke down crying she confessed that since she was terminated she has been unable to find a job everyone who interviews her just so happens to be an ex military veteran who used to work on an oil company construction site she was losing her home her husband left her and took her kids he found out about the contract guys she was sleeping with she was living out of her car she pleaded him for a job in ray the most professional man I had ever met was an ex-marine he knew what happened to Victor and about how she threw him under a bus he told her to beat sand and to tell Satan hi from when she goes to heck protip ever mess with a marine I got nothing to say after that story except don't mess with a marine oh that's the only story we have for today if you liked what you heard subscribe for more content like this daily thank you so much for listening go out on your merry way and have an amazing day

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Id: lZU3oPNIn9A

Length: 31min 33sec (1893 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 12 2020