‘I engaged in malicious compliance mode, and it cost him’: New boss costs company $6,000 following employees' malicious compliance, boss gets demoted

New jobs can be as exciting as they are challenging, but when you enter as a new manager, and you have a hotshot complex, this can be disastrous for a company and its employees. This boss in particular, who we'll call Steve, made especially unreasonable demands on his employees, essentially alienating them. Steve demanded that his employees come to an unnecessary in-person meeting out of state, on extremely short notice.

Because it was so unreasonable, the employees knew what they had to do. They decided to maliciously comply, which cost the company (much thanks to dear Steve) $6,000 dollars out of budget. See, the employees knew the rules inside and out. They realized they were entitled to overtime, a breakfast allowance, a lunch allowance, a dinner allowance, and so on… no wonder it ended up costing so much. This ultimately led to Steve's demotion, which the employees were overjoyed at.

To understand the full extent of what happened, scroll down below and read for yourself. For more stories like this, here are some funeral home owners that made it their mission to upset their new neighbors, leading to a series of unfortunate events (for them); AKA, petty revenge.

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