'Messing with people's vacation time': Ultimate malicious compliance story after vacation days are significantly reduced

Best way to make enemies? Reduce their PTO! That's what the new owners of this company learned the hard way after Jimmy's now iconic malicious compliance.

A coworker shared his story via this thread on Reddit's r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit, and let's just say that Jimmy's story is one for the ages. After working at the company for most of his professional life, his 8 weeks of vacation and 2 weeks of personal time were to be put to an end by the new year (and afterward, reduced to 4 weeks). Once he learned that he was going to be training a likely candidate to ultimately replace him, Jimmy took all 10 of his weeks off and, during that time, got a new job. Because he was one of the only people who understood how to do his own job, the new owners were completely screwed.

Keep scrolling below for the full account. For more, check out this post about a freelance worker's revenge.

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