'I revoked her status completely': Facility manager removes a clients' special access card, grants her entry to just one room

Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor

Jul 28, 2023 5:00 PM EDT

"Everything that happens and goes wrong, is my responsibility," this facility manager wrote about their encounter with an irritating client.

Key cards are pretty great inventions. Although, if you recall, the first round of major hotels to use keycards were kind of a disaster. In the mid 2000s at some point, hotels began switching from manual keys to key cards. The walk from the pool back to the room was brutal, especially when key cards were in their infancy. While on vacation as a young kid, I have vivid memories of being in a wet bathing suit after swimming, freezing cold and dripping water on the floor, as my parents were repeatedly denied entry to our hotel room. We had to take a soggy trip to the lobby to get new cards, and even those key cards were finicky at best.

And, looking back, there were several occasions where key cards let my family into the wrong room entirely. Like, we were in room 401, but we had tapped the entrance to room 402 by accident, and we were let inside! Of course, once we noticed other people's suitcases and mussed up beds, we hightailed it out of the room. But it was a really unsettling revelation that maybe these cards were more like master keys than individual keys.

These days, key cards work like a charm, both at hotels and other places they're used, like many businesses. Except for this one woman at this manager's building — her card is not going to get her access for much longer.

U/ImThe1Wh0 shared their story of malicious compliance, and it's a good one. Check out the entire tale below, plus commenters who added their own awesome stories. Then, this person really wants to block their boss's phone number — because they're sick in bed and their boss will not stop bombarding them with messages.