'Ok fine, goodbye, go home': Student finishes exam early, teacher makes him stay, he maliciously complies and makes teacher regret their demand

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Nov 1, 2023 4:00 PM EDT

Not to be a rebel here, but some teachers have the most nonsensical rules that are almost begging to be challenged. Sure, there are some understandable classroom policies that make sense, such as rules about phones, laptops, and cheating (the lattermost rule being don't do it). However, when it comes to having to sit around and do nothing just because some teacher told you that you have to, it just feels like a waste of time and energy for everyone involved. It's a waste of the student's time, obviously, but it's also a waste for the teacher who should be directing their time and energy toward far more important matters.

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  • This thread was posted to Reddit's r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit by u/Zorrostrian, and it just proves that these rules are worth questioning. Furthermore, it also proves that sometimes you can creep someone out by just doing nothing. This student was told to stay still despite having finished their exam. He decided to maliciously comply and stare his teacher down until they would come to regret enforcing a silly rule.

    Keep scrolling below for the full story from OP's perspective. For more content like this, here is another tale of malicious compliance in which a student found a loophole in their summer job's payment policy.

     

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    Font - I convinced my teacher to let me leave class 2 hours early by doing...basically nothing S OC For context, I'm attending a trade school right now. The school only enrolls you in one class at a time, and each class lasts 3 weeks. The classes are Monday-Friday, and they're 3 hours long (9:30-12:30).
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    Font - The last two days of each rotation are exam days, and on those days the teachers will usually let you leave as soon as you finish your exams. I'm currently just over halfway done with school, and I have perfect attendance. I could leave class early without permission, but I would have to take an infraction, which would ruin my perfect attendance.
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    Font - So yesterday, we were doing the online final, the written final, and quiz retakes. I finished everything after about an hour, turned my papers in, and asked "so am I good to go?" The teacher, who we'll call Mr. D, said "no, you need to stay until 12:30." Cue malicious compliance. I decided that instead of absent mindedly scrolling Reddit for 2 hours, I would mess with the teacher and hopefully make him regret keeping me there for no reason.
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    Font - This particular classroom is set up with two long tables for the students to sit at, with the teacher's desk at the end of one of the long tables. I went back to my seat, pulled my chair out, and faced it towards him. I sat down,
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    Font - folded my hands over my lap, and just stared at him. I even tried on a subtle creepy smile. I grew up with strict parents, so I knew that I could've easily kept that up for 2 hours if I wanted to. He glanced my way a few times. He started to look uncomfortable. After just 10 minutes, he finally said "oh my god, are you done with everything? All your labs, homework, everything?" "Yes sir." "Ok fine, goodbye, go home. Jesus." I went home and thoroughly enjoyed my victory nap.
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    Font - tisthetimetobelit. 3 days ago My high school had dedicated days for final exams. Each exam day was a half day, and you only yad 2 exams. On this particular day, my 2nd exam of the day was Photography. Even though we had 2 hours for the exam it took me 30 minutes. As a senior with a car, I asked to go home and the teacher denied it. After sitting around for a bit, I decided it was imperative that I see my guidance counselor, which my teacher happily obliged. I hung out with my counselor fo
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    Font - Azsune 3 days ago . My High School had a 2 week exam period at the end of each semester. You get 8 courses a year and 4 courses per semester. Which was pretty much 2 weeks off as not every class had one. The rule was once your finished you leave the class room, by this time you are pretty much adults and they don't really care where you go. They just don't want you in the class disturbing other students. 264 Reply Share
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    Font - yParticle 3 days ago The best takeaway from this is the term "victory nap". 366 ♡ Reply Share
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    Font - Rsquared43. 3 days ago I don't know who's lap you've been sitting on, but every now and then a victory lap can be fun!
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    Font - yParticle 3 days ago What is this high school O? Your time should be your own; you're paying to be there. 4142 Reply Share
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    Font - matt_mv 3 days ago Him inconveniencing you for two hours? "Sorry, that's just how things are." Him being inconvenienced for 10 minutes? "This has to be fixed immediately." Typical power move by the teacher.
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    Font - Petskin 3 days ago Consider a career as a judge, chairman or any other type whose job is to sit behind a fancy table and let people explain all kind of nonsense to you. It's a rare skill to be able to sit and benevolently(?) smile at idiots for hours at end, without fidgeting or scratching yourself or anything the like. Wait - that's (also) the exam supervising teacher's job...
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    Art - butterfly-garden. 3 days ago Victory nap has now entered my lexicon.
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    Font - bluewildcat12. 3 days ago Ooh I've got a fun one! Junior year of high school I was in culinary arts and loved that class and had my required math class, which was useless. I had her end of the day and by that point she was reading off her pre-done projector sheets and literally using the textbook examples.
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    Font - Finals roll around, I've got my A in the class and that particular year the principal offered an incentive that if you met certain scores on the state test you didn't have to take finals. Plus math teacher had a policy where she dropped your lowest quiz and lowest test or you could retake a test. Cool- I'm good to go. So that last day was also post culinary arts final and I'd much rather go snack on the leftovers from our exam then sit in a math class doing nothing so I asked to go. Teach
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    Font - For some reason she could not process that I didn't it and would not let me leave. Even my classmates were jumping in to comment I didn't need it. She finally blows up and goes "fine, leave! I'll just mark it as a zero!" To which I was a brat and responded "okay, and then you'll drop it because it's my lowest score" and walked out.
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    Font - Argylist 3 days ago "He has perfect attendance, but he's a weirdo creep" is not the reputation I'd be looking to garner in my trade school classes.
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