This post to r/MaliciousCompliance by Redditor u/ashit depicts a weird workplace problem where employees in a healthcare setting were told not to use their personal cell phones at all while on the job — even though several employees needed to be available as direct contacts for their kids' daytime caregivers. OP and their colleagues did the only obvious thing — they started directing all personal calls to work phones that had to go right through the frustrating manager in the first place. As you might expect, the policy was quickly reversed.
So wait, taking everyone's phones and saying that every single personal interaction between staff and their families should go through one person... is a bad idea? Who could have predicted this absurd, unforeseen outcome? For another totally dumb work exchange that didn't go so well for the boss, here's the boss who tried to trap an employee in probation and had it backfire.
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