Accountant Assembles The Avengers Of Trivia Knowledge, Righteous Victory Ensues

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Oct 10, 2021 3:00 PM EDT

Everyone only has so much that they're willing to put up with, when it comes to someone's toxic BS. It sounds like the villainous VP of HR in this tale of malicious compliance was on quite the ego-riddled, power trip. Well, all that bullish behavior certainly ended up backfiring for them. Let's just say that the heroic employee in this story made it their mission to assemble a star-studded cast of trivia phenoms, that went on to absolutely dominate at the office trivia event. 

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    Font - r/MaliciousCompliance u/MN-goldengirl · 1d + Join 2 3 1 Show 'em how smart the accounting staff is at trivia games? Okay, boss! L At the turn of the century, I worked as an accountant for a major sports team. The owner hired a new VP of Human Resources who immediately fired the Chief Financial Officer. The CFO's duties were shifted down the accounting staff, and we were a small staff of six. We were swamped. At the same time, the new VP of HR organized an all- staff trivia contest between
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    Font - When the VP of HR saw that no one from accounting had signed up, he called another accountant and me into his office. He insisted we form a team and participate in the event. We explained how incredibly busy we were, pointed out the deadlines we were facing, and told him how many hours everyone in the department was working. His face turned red. He stood and pointed a finger at me and said, "This is not a request. This is mandatory. You WILL attend the trivia contest, and you WILL show th
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    Font - "If we've got to do this..." she said with an evil grin, "let's REALLY do this." I nodded, catching her meaning. She was a highly educated, brilliant person who was well versed in politics and current issues. I'll call her IvyLeague. My talent is a bizarre memory for odd and normally un- useful factoids.
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    Font - The trivia teams had to be three-player, and we decided to recruit another co-worker who knew sports statistics to the point of being overzealous. I'll call him Sportster, and he was the perfect fit because we knew they'd have a lot of sports trivia in the game. We pulled him aside and went over our plan with him. We would show 'em how smart the accounting staff was, and we would do it as fast as possible so we could get back to the piles of work waiting for us. He was all- in!
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    Font - On the day of the trivia game, all staff met in a bar in the empty arena. Ironically, the VP of HR was called away on an HR emergency, so he didn't show up at all. There was an open bar, appetizers, and a few of the sports team's players and broadcasters attended. The other trivia teams represented ticketing, guest services, operations, security, marketing, broadcasting, IT, the foundation, etc. I would estimate nearly 200 people were there. They were all drinking liquor and filling up on
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    Font - The game was structured so two teams would play each other while the rest of the staff watched. When a team lost during a round, they were immediately out of the competition. It started as a fun event, with laughter and teasing between departments. During the first round, our team easily and fiercely trounced the competition. The three of us stayed deadly serious and focused throughout the game. IvyLeague was superb at answering the classical knowledge and politics questions, Sportster co
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    Font - We won the competition, were each awarded a small plastic trophy, and we left immediately, going back to the piles of work awaiting us at our cubicles. That evening, I worked quite late, quietly plugging away. Our middle-manager accountant was in his office working and probably didn't realize I was still there. Someone stormed into the area and went right to the middle-manager's office. "What the trivia thing?" It was the VP of HR. happened at The middle-manager talked about how IvyLeague
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    Rectangle - I didn't wait to see their reaction. I just sat and got back to work. In the ten years I worked for the organization, there were no more all-staff trivia games played. 2.2k 194 ↑, Share
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