Have you any stories of malicious compliance?

[SpikyCoconut]

I like that story about the firefighters who were required to wear certain equipment, they knew they didn't need it, so they all wore it, but on their backs instead of their fronts (so it was pointless) but they'd technically done as asked so nothing could be done about it.

I remember working in a restaurant once as a teen, you were ordered to wear badges. One colleague wore two. Everyone else had about 30 of them but we had to buy them ourselves and colleague's argument was that he was wearing badges, as asked of him...

Another one I found is of two soldiers who were commanded to “paint the whole room white” by a superior who they didn't like, who was mean to them.
They painted the entire room white including the lights, furniture, windows etc...

(That one is a bit of a stretch, to be fair. He'd said the ROOM, not everything in it too)!

This will be a fun thread! 🤣🤣

I remember wear pink day at work for charity. One guy took it so seriously and literally wore everything pink. Socks, pants (yup he showed us, borrowed wife’s nail varnish, the works…

that's amazing!

I'll see if I can find any more.

I've remembered another one that I did, but not sure if it really counts.

My Dad is a bit of a 'dictator' in how he operates. One day me and my ex volunteered to help him clear out an old storage unit full of junk and rubbish.

We were grafting away and my Dad was shouting this and that put that there not there and 'don't put that there, it'll fall!' etc. We were a bit 'eye rolly' but ultimately got on with it and got all the stuff into large rubble bags. My Dad, in the middle of this knocked over a huge can of (very 'gone off') paint that proceeded to go everywhere. Of course we can't point out his misgivings so we just carried on with what we were doing-then I came across a 'Wet Paint' sign.
Given that moments before he had 'told me off' for placing something or other in the 'wrong' part of the unit or the rubble bag, I placed the sign right on top of the wet paint.

He did not find it amusing, but we did!

https://www.reddit.com/r/MaliciousCompliance/comments/1f2c7u3/the_mop/

This one is awful but also so funny 'an emotional support rotting mop'.