'She refused to pay, and stopped answering my calls': Web designer creates website, pivots to malicious compliance after entitled owner won't pay the bill

Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor

May 11, 2023 11:00 AM EDT

This website designer took malicious compliance to a new level with this stunt.

There's often a lack of appreciation for the arts, whether you're a painter, dancer, writer, or filmmaker. Even for this person, a web designer who created an entire website for a client, the task went unappreciated. As u/shady_emoji shared to r/MaliciousCompliance, they were a college student trying to make a few extra dollars when they accepted a gig designing a website. This client wanted her website to show off the "best interior design service in London." The OP created a nice site for her, but then she suddenly ghosted this person. So sketchy!

This is some of the finest malicious compliance we've seen for the sheer brilliance this person had in getting back at the client. Who knows how many sales she lost from the resulting malicious compliance? The OP will probably never know the full scale of the damage they did to this stingy client.

Next up, this influencer thought she was so clever, but the small business she stiffed disagrees with her.