r/Maliciouscompliance [Regret Intensifies]

welcome to our slash malicious compliance where a teacher gets more than a bargain for our next reddit post is from i'm not sure so in high school i worked as a certified nursing assistant at a local nursing home i only worked on the weekend because my parents wanted me to focus on school during the week anyone in the health field knows that you cannot work with the elderly when you're sick because some elderly people can die from the common cold when i was 17 i got really really sick i got sick on a tuesday with a light cough and by friday i was going into 10 minute coughing fits the next monday was labor day and my regular doctor's office was closed all weekend my parents decided that we couldn't wait until tuesday and we went to the er i had a bad case of bacterial pneumonia for those who don't know regular pneumonia usually results from a bad case of the flu or another illness but a perfectly healthy person can walk by another person with bacterial pneumonia who sneezes and breathes it in it's extremely contagious i was admitted to the hospital and hooked up to tubes turns out i was also dehydrated from being so sick around midnight i realized that i needed to call in sick since i wouldn't be able to work the next three days so i called the nurse's desk and told the rn on duty that i've been diagnosed with pneumonia and i won't be able to work this weekend and most likely the weekend after due to the possibility that i'll still be contagious she told me if you wanted to work a three-day weekend you shouldn't have volunteered to work you can't fake a cop to get out of work in the real world sweetheart then she hung up i asked my dad what i should do he took my phone and took a picture of me in the hospital bid then we got a signed note from the doctor and took a picture of that he then told me to email those to the director of nursing for the facility he did that and also told her what they are in and told me the thing is at this facility any calls to the nurse's station are recorded to protect the facility from lawsuits or protect the residents from negligent caretakers what she said to me on that phone call was on record when i returned two weeks later i learned that she'd been suspended for eight weeks without pay for negligence why do i have a sinking feeling that that nurse is also the type of person who thinks that people who wear masks are sheep our next reddit post is from a non-farts a lot so for this post it's important to know that a genogram is like a family tree but with extra symbols for example you might use a beer bottle to represent an alcoholic father and lines connecting each person the type of line dictates the type of relationship close smothering distant estranged abusive etc i studied social work in school and i found myself doing three genograms over the course of my schooling one for intro to social work one for sociology and mental health and then another in my last year i have some not fun family history and trauma and so these assignments were never my favorite but my teachers for the first two didn't pressure me to disclose more than i was comfortable with and i wanted to be vague one of those teachers even said that i could do a fictional family the last teacher did not see one thing we learned was that bringing up a client's trauma outside of a therapeutic environment can be harmful we were pursuing a bachelor's in social work so we're not qualified therapists during intake and assessments we learned to tell clients that they don't have to give us more details than they wanted to there's a whole host of reasons behind this but i'll spare you the lecture i brought this up in class after the teacher assigned us an extensive genogram with an accompanying five-page essay on what we learned about ourselves a third of the class expressed the same concerns the teacher's reasoning was you might be doing this with your clients and you shouldn't ask them to do anything you wouldn't do yourself the teacher also didn't give an answer when we asked him if therapy resources would be provided if this brought up any student's past trauma that they wanted to talk about oh and of course he added this will only be shared with me and is 100 confidential unless you choose to share my family is literally nobody else's concern and i don't want to share any of my deeply personal business with this guy the assignment didn't bother me as much as the hypocrisy of it all i said between class assignments and therapy this will be my fifth genogram could i turn one of those in and be given an alternate assignment but he wouldn't budge he said that i didn't need to disclose anything that i didn't want to but he followed it up with but i expect you to take this assignment seriously and when i turned in a rough draft with about as much information as i was willing to disclose he said that it wasn't detailed enough alright douchebag it's show time i have a lot of family trauma that is not mine to disclose and i rarely ever disclose it at least not with anyone who would ever meet my family my family is embarrassing enough but definitely not as bad as some but i put every single nasty detail in my genogram and wrote about it then the following week the teacher asked if any students would like to share their genogram if they're comfortable my hand shot up i'll spare you the details but i basically gave the class a content notice to allow anyone to leave who may be triggered this is a common thing in social work school and then i just shared all of it all the relationships and why they're screwed up and why i hate my dad and why my sister resents my mom and all of that a cheery smile on my face the whole time the teacher uncomfortably thanked me for my bravery a few students shifted in their seats feeling uneasy others smiled then my friend volunteered to share she didn't like the assignment either but she's not one to argue with teachers her presentation trumped mine this girl had a really messed up family and by the end she was red in the face and everyone was super uncomfortable the next person to volunteer to share was a girl who was in foster care i'm not even sure if her sharing was malicious compliance but hers was the most uncomfortable to hear she started to cry at the end another student who also grew up in foster care started to tear up the teacher cut us off after that another teacher overheard what happened and the following week we had some serious discussions in class all the students who shared their genogram were referred to the school's mental health center lol another teacher i had a good relationship with checked in on me and i told her what happened i can't tell for certain what went on but it created a stink in their department it's been several years since i graduated but i heard there's now an alternative assignment for the genogram op that's really messed up and i actually felt angry on behalf of you what that teacher did was super unethical and unprofessional and i'm glad he got a dose of his own medicine our next reddit post is from the nep in the mid-2000s i worked for a small printing company our commercial work was on large lithographic machines but we still had office printers and a number of staff who knew a lot about them i don't think a single one of our office printers had been purchased new or even working the owner just bought lots of broken office printers for not a lot of money and then frankenstein them into working ones we didn't often buy printer paper because we just cut leftovers from the factory to suitable sizes for the office overall our office printing costs were extremely low despite the fact that we printed tens of thousands of pages a year i was a general office dog's body among my duties was fielding calls for the director he would never take calls from cold callers and i was allowed to describe myself as whatever job title they wanted to hear to deal with them an office printing management service had gotten our number they were offering a completely managed service where they loaned the machines supplied the consumables took care of everything and you just paid for print great for some companies expensive and unnecessary for us when they first started calling us i kept telling them sorry we aren't interested please remove us from your list or we're a printing company we don't need managed printing services please take us off your list this must have gone on for months and i was getting annoyed that they wouldn't take us off the call list and started spending more time trying to explain to them why it was pointless and a waste of both of our time to keep calling us i explained the information above but the caller was convinced that he could save us money regardless of all of that i guaranteed him that he couldn't as i doubted that we paid more than a penny a page naturally he didn't believe me as far as he was concerned if i was answering the phone i was the office junior no one important answers the phone who had no idea of how much printing actually cost and i was just too stubborn and or stupid to put him through to someone who actually mattered and if he persisted eventually he'd get through to the right person who would reward him with a juicy contract this same conversation was had at least once a week for the next month or two he's desperate to let me set up a meeting besides he says he can take us off the list once you set up a meeting with a decision maker right fine sure you can book a meeting for one of your representatives but i can guarantee it'll be a complete waste of their time i scheduled them a meeting with the office manager me on a friday afternoon when i'm the only one in the office so i won't be too busy and it won't be a diversion the reps arrive i show them into the office and they're clearly thinking that we spend a lot on printing because we have so many freaking printers and i gave them a rough idea of how much printing we do in the office they give me their enthusiastic spiel about all the advantages focusing on the costs they want to sit down with the figures and see what they can save us they ask me if i know how much we spent at the moment i say i'm not completely sure i think it's around 100 to 200 pounds a year nah it'll be a lot more than that with the amount of printing you do is that just the paper no that's the ink and the toner well there's the paper too to be honest we mostly cut down leftover paper from the factory or sometimes suppliers will give us a few cases for free okay right so what about the initial cost of the machines if you average it out after the lifetime of the prints rather than just considering it as a capital expenditure it could make up a significant portion of the printing costs this photocopier for example it's a few years old now and you're looking at about 12 000 pounds to replace it with a similar spec machine so with our service you can avoid that capital expense the owner buys them broken and repairs them most of these printers only cost a few bucks except the photocopier which i think costs 700 pounds right so when you need to replace it i hazard a guess that he'll do exactly the same thing again and the ongoing maintenance costs i just frown at him then there's the cost of lost productivity and down time to consider he's trailing off at this point it's clearly part of his rehearse spiel but he can also see downtime isn't an issue when we bizarrely have more printers than computers there's absolutely no point in us being here is there no i'm afraid not that was repeatedly explained to the guy who set up the meeting but he said that your company won't stop cold calling until we agreed to a meeting so here you are the rep agreed that it was a complete waste of time we had a bit of a frustrated laugh about the call center and he says it's not the first time they've been sent on completely pointless meetings because the call center folks get their commission based on the quantity and not the quality of the meetings they set up they don't bother giving me their quote and i never heard from their company again i actually went through something really similar to this just yesterday i signed up for this website that tracks all your spending because i want to get a better idea of where all my money goes the service is free but they have this additional service that they try to get you to sign up for and ever since i signed up for that site they've been calling me every single week trying to sign me up for my free consulting phone call so after weeks and weeks and weeks of getting phone calls and emails i was finally like fine let's just do it so we scheduled a call and the guy goes through all my finances and talks about options and he's like so if you're thinking about investing some of your money i'd really like to set you down with your wife and go over all of your financial options and i say yeah that's not going to happen my wife's not interested and i don't want to set up another meeting with you guys and he's like well then why'd you sign up for this call then i said because you guys keep calling me and this was the only thing i could think of to get you to stop calling me and he said oh well i wish you told me that 20 minutes ago i was thinking to myself well now both of our time's been wasted our next reddit post is from successful medicine i'm a 30 year old male and the shelter i've been working at for a couple of years now is over 30 years old and is quite notorious for keeping things that way the daily notes are physically kept in binders 80s style punitive measures are imposed on clients in conflict and the electrical panels are labeled with cards that went through a typewriter you get the idea the floor supervisor who's been in that position for over 20 years emphasized that even though jeans were allowed we needed to strictly adhere to the dress code this meant button-up or collared shirts no logos only long pants or dresses no hats unless you're outside no visible tattoos etc in other words dress nothing like the vast majority of the people we serve we're meant to dress the way that they should aspire to dress said the supervisor i was told that other staff including staff above my pay grade have long hated the dress code and unsuccessfully tried to change it for years none of them are bold little douchebags like me though given my previous experience with underserved populations i also knew this was a terrible idea generally speaking what people in these communities lack is financial resources they make up for it in their abilities to read people and navigate emotions if they think you're an authority figure or acting inauthentic many will just outright write you off and for the most part they have a pretty good social and emotional radar the dress code said that men's shirts must have visible buttons or a collar i sewed two buttons near my hip on a plain t-shirt and wore that they said nothing the first time but later they had a meeting where they weren't pointing out anyone in particular and updated that specific part of the policy to prevent me from doing it again next i wore capris after all nothing about pan's length was mentioned either that time the code was updated and we were informed by an email still no one-on-one conversation about it a few months in minor malicious compliances later our workplace gave us logo t-shirts with the institution's name and website on them hooray we thought at least we'll get to be able to wear t-shirts now nope after a week of several co-workers wearing the shirts that they gave us we got an organization-wide email that the shirts didn't comply with the dress code and shouldn't be worn during work hours knowing me as the office ravelrouser several pissed-off co-workers came to me independently to ask how they could rebel enter this story's biggest malicious compliance as a minimalist i had no desire to hold on to a shirt that i wouldn't wear we had no input on the design and colors of the shirts and i simply didn't need it taking up space in my closet the most reasonable alternative would be to return the shirt and explain that so i did co-worker one was moving soon and didn't need an extra thing to pack so she also turned hers in co-worker two's partner hated dark green the shirt's color so he turned his in this happened with 25 different employees with some borrowing others excuses after five days the supervisor had a box with two dozen shirts sitting in his tiny office he actually has to keep them on his desk and i can hear him bumping his hand against him when he uses the mouse three months later they're still there he knows those shirts are an fu that lives in his office he can't donate them to the shelter due to some other ridiculous handbook rule about organizational spending and he bikes six miles to work so driving them home isn't a reasonable option he tried putting them in general office storage but his boss said the shirts are the supervisor's problem since he ordered them currently he's just stuck we know it bothers him but he knows that he can't bring it up since it's his own rules that prevent us from wearing them no dress code changes so far but the top of the year meeting regarding our handbook has dress code on the table three of the people who return their shirts are part of that advisory board of five i'm cautiously optimistic that we'll finally get rid of some of those dumb short-sighted elements of our dress code come february that was our slash malicious compliance and if you like this content then check out my podcast where i publish the exact same episodes also hit that subscribe button because i put out new reddit videos every single day

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Published: Wed Nov 04 2020