'You want a one page assignment? I'll give you a one page assignment': Professor makes college student shorten 11-page document, student maliciously complies

Every professor should be careful about how they phrase their instructions.

Here, we have a student who was asked to deliver a proposal for a research paper, so they did their due diligence and submitted an 11-page document as their assignment because there were no specific instructions yet about length. When the professor was taken aback by the length of the student's submission, he insisted that the student redo the assignment and submit a one-page document instead.

Now, the student was well aware that you can use Adobe Acrobat to print multiple pages on one sheet, so you can guess what they did next. The good news is they knew this would be perceived as annoying and ended up submitting that version as a prank while also preparing a legitimate submission for the professor. Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the professor's reaction. For more, check out this post about a hotel worker's own malicious compliance story.