Karen Throws Away Expensive Cake, Office Fights Back

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Eric Lund
Oct 8, 2020 5:00 PM EDT

Karen power tripped a little too hard and made a big, unpopular authority flex. It just so happens there were a lot of employees around to maliciously comply with that authority she brandished so haphazardly. Misuse of authority can backfire, like this VP who got canned for pulling rank.

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    Text - r/MaliciousCompliance - Posted by u/NFkappaBalpha 1 day ago You need to check all of our food? Fine. oc L So this happened like 7 or 8 years ago when I was jobbing at a driving service while I was a student. The driving service was one for people with disabilities that could not drive ot walk on their own. Our main office was in the building of a housing/working facility for disabled people. The two companies (our drivers service and the housing facility) were loosely connected as they we
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    Text - We were about 15 drivers at this location and we shared our lunch/social room with about 10 caretakers. Since our schedules were horribly organized, the drivers often had idle time so the social room was where everybody hung around waiting for work. One day my boss, call him Tom, brought cake to work because he became 60. The cake was enormous. Like, a wedding cake could hide behind it twice, I can only imagine how expensive it must've been. At 9 every driver had eaten some pieces and the
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    Text - Then Karen happened. She was something like the security inspector of the facility. So she had authority over the caretakers but no dealings with the driving service. Her job was to watch for potential hazards, organize the caretakers' schedule and generally having an eye on everything happening. When she heard there was cake, she was FURIOUS. She and Tom couldn't stand each other, so she was always trying to ruin his day. In this particular instance, she claimed the cake was a health haz
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    Text - To make matters worse, she doubled down and demanded that every food that was brought into the social room had to be inspected by her first. Cue malicious compliance. Obviously, all the drivers were mad at Karen for upsetting Tom and for throwing away a oerfectly fine cake. So the next day, first thing in the morning, 15 drivefs went to her office. Everyone with his lunch demanding she inspect it. It took her roughly 10 minutes looking at sandwiches and answering questions whether mayonna
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    Text - This went on for the whole week, each day our questions about hazardous foods becoming more dumb and degenerate. On Friday it toon her more than 2 hours to "inspect" our lunch as we would collectively steal her time. Afternoon she said she got the message and that sandwiches got a general OK and not to bother her with it anymore. Fine. The following week we went out of our way to eat anything but sandwiches. Salads, cake, pretzels, normal lunch stuff; everyday there was a line in front of
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    Text - Then at the end of week two of food checking, Tom brought a bucket for lunch. When he entered Karens office to have his lunch checked, like he did every day, and opened the lid of his lunch pot the smell hit everyone in vicinity like a brick to the face. Apparently he had made some unholy mix of garlic, cream, pickles and herring which he called fish soup. It looked like what happens if you leave something dead in the sun for too long, all brownish and sluggy with some green specks in it
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    Text - Tom asked if she didn't wanna check it, since he could imagine the cooling chain could have been broken during transport or some time in the last two weeks. The lot of us drivers laughed so hard, I swear some nearly choked from laughter. This was roughly the time that Karen had to admit defeat. Food checking stopped immediately and the following week Tom brought another cake. Sorry for any typos.
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