‘I should get a bump in pay too’: Worker asks for 20% raise, boss says to get another offer he can match, worker maliciously complies

Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor

Jan 2, 2024 8:00 AM EST

This manager has no business arguing with his employee; he asked for it. After the employee discovered that the new hire would be getting paid 20% more than their current salary for doing the same job, the employee sat their manager down for a talk.

This thread was posted to Reddit's r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit by u/inertzero. Let's just say that the initial conversation about getting the same raise did not necessarily go as planned. OP figured things would go in their favor given the fact that they had been working at this office for three years. Unfortunately, however, OP's manager had other ideas. He said that if OP could get another offer from somewhere else that would prove they are worth this raise, then the manager would match the offer. Cue malicious compliance! OP followed their manager's "orders" and ended up at a far better job earning an even greater salary and a much more manageable workload. We love when these tales of workplace drama have a happy ending.

Keep scrolling below for the full play-by-play. After you're done, check out this post about an engineer's petty revenge against their incompetent nepo-baby coworker.