Boss Insists on Precise Lunch Breaks, Employee Forced to Be Less Efficient to Comply

An employee who had been going out of their way to take care of an inefficient task during their lunch break was reprimanded for going over their lunch hour. When they informed their boss what they had been doing, they were met with a stone wall of stupidity and indifference. This left them with no option but to do the task in the usual inefficient manner, thus extending the overall time away from their desk.

Redditor u/The-Golden-Ranger shared this story to the r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit. You might have already figured this out… but it's a subreddit where people share stories in which they maliciously comply with an authority figure's directions.

In this story, u/The-Golden-Ranger explains how they used to take care dropping off the companies bank deposit on the way to their lunch break. They walk past the bank anyway, so it's simply a small matter to stop in on the way to grabbing their food.

This worked well until their boss pulled them up for taking longer than an hour for their lunch one day. When u/The-Golden-Ranger explained what they had been doing to their boss they were met with a blank stare and realized that they might as well "have said nothing because I was once again reminded that I have 1 hour for lunch."

Now, u/The-Golden-Ranger happily spends even longer away from their desk when they leave the office again after their lunch break to take the company vehicle to the bank to make the deposit.

Sounds like a win to us.

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Posted by Brad Dickson