'That’s ridiculous, use your brain': General Manager's rude order costs company big when employee maliciously complies

Brad Dickson • Managing Editor

Jul 11, 2023 9:00 AM EDT

Some people are just mean, through to the core. Having one of these people as your boss is always going to be a bad time as they're going to use you as a verbal punching bag, taking their rage out on you repeatedly, time and time again, in order to fuel their unstable, diminishing ego.

These bosses will make a point of making a point by going off at someone publicly—and often—as if doing so makes them somehow more important than the person they're screaming at, rather than making everyone around them scowl.

Really, if you're dealing with this type of behavior at work, you should do your best to find a new job. None of us should have to put up with public humiliation and verbal abuse from a superior for any reason.

But, it's understanding that this isn't always manageable, and needs must; when you have a mortgage to service, a family to feed, and aren't working in a sector, role, or town where jobs are readily available, sometimes you have no choice but to put up with it. If that's the case, maybe you, too, can manage what this worker has… by maliciously complying with your irate superior's unwise and misguided demand.

Read on for this masterful tale of workplace malicious compliance, as originally shared with the popular Reddit community of the same name by Redditor u/savagejimmy85.

Next, see this worker who quiet quit their position after their boss promoted their coworkers over them.