Micromanager boss insists reliable employee finish urgent project by ‘strictly adher[ing]’ to company manual, so the employee takes his sweet time and purposefully flops on deadline

Reliable employees know what's needed to get the job done. That's why when micromanagers try to dictate their every move, they retaliate the best way they know how: Malicious compliance.

Malicious compliance is quite easy. The only thing you have to do is take every piece of unsolicited advice literally. After all, if an entitled, know-it-all boss thinks that they know what's best for efficiency, then you believe them (or at least, act as if you do.)

The user/employee who posted this next story was assigned a big project with an end-of-day deadline. The employee's boss made sure to crack a wise-guy comment, stating that the employee must "strictly adhere" to the company manual. So, instead of carrying out his work in a reliable, "common sense" manner as he always does, the employee takes his sweet time striving for perfection and purposefully misses the EOD deadline. He was just following orders, right?

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