'Don't stop baking until I say stop': Assistant manager berates baker at bagel shop for not cooking fast enough, malicious compliance ensues

It's hard to comply with a manager's orders when their tone is decidedly out of line. Tone is everything in the workplace. If you need someone to complete something for you in a timely manner, be careful about how you phrase your mandate. You need something from them. The last thing you want is for them to resent you and intentionally do a bad job.

Here, we have an assistant manager who took things too far, and it finally backfired in a major way. This was the kind of person who enjoyed humiliating others in the workplace and in the most public way, so it was only a matter of time before they wanted to give her a taste of her own medicine.

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