'I am fed up': Boss's girlfriend rejects the way employee does her job, employee maliciously complies and quits

Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor

Aug 17, 2023 8:00 AM EDT

It's one thing for your boss to boss you around, as it is literally their job to do that. It's quite another when the person bossing you around is your boss's girlfriend. This bookstore employee came up with a system to manage customer orders that involved a little extra double-checking when each order was processed but ultimately meant fewer phone calls confirming orders to customers, as repeat phone calls were clearly bothering the customer base. Sounds like a pretty good system and the employee had been implementing it long enough to see positive results. Well, apparently, her boss's nosy girlfriend thought otherwise.

She told the Redditor, who shared their story via Reddit's r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit, that the system was a complete waste of time and ordered her to go back to the old system. At that point, OP was already going to leave to move onto something much better (which we assumed also means something that pays much better too). But before OP left, she decided to show her boss's girlfriend just how dumb this idea was. Of course, it didn't take long before customers voiced complaints and the whole organization behind the store fell apart. That's what you get for weighing in on matters that simply do not concern you!

Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the best reactions from folks in the comments section. For more posts like this, here's another tale of malicious compliance in which an employee was denied a promotion because their boss told them they weren't "smart" enough for the position.