Clever manufacturing plant worker plans a 20-person meeting that no one attends, then gets even with the no-show employees: 'Management had a fit'

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  • Worker at a manufacturing plant, as shown by a model.
  • Have you ever used malicious compliance to deal with ridiculous work rules? How did it turn out?

    Working in a large manufacturing plant and needed to change a testing procedure. I was the expert and knew. exactly what was needed. so I updated the procedure and sent it out with an effective date to start and management -
  • had a fit. "You can't make this change without input from all the different users!" "You need to have review meetings to gather input!"
  • Model depicting a plant worker who is holding a 20-person meeting alone in a conference room, smiling broadly at the successful plan.
  • OK so I scheduled a big - review meeting and invited over 20 people from different groups and levels of organization - And NO ONE showed up!
  • Sent the new procedure back out with note that stated "All those who attended the review meeting agreed with making the changes." And implemented the new procedure. Everyone was - happy multiple managers apologized for
  • missing the meeting but were really glad I had taken the time to get everyone'a input.
  • 2 plant workers review their work together in front of machinery, as subjects depict.
  • Give it up for some successful malicious compliance!

    AJRimmer1971 I love how management don't question management-speak. All in attendance! Well played.
  • Other people then shared their stories

    BurningJointUSA I work in logistics. I was told to focus "all" of my efforts on "the metrics", which are basically customer concerns that come to me from the company's online customer
  • portal, because the responses are timed and tracked by management. Customers cannot call me directly, all phone calls come from corporate personnel who are dealing with
  • customers concerns in their geography that overlaps in some way with my geography. So I stopped answering my phone. It saves me a ton of time and I haven't missed a single metric since then. I haven't
  • answered the phone in over a year now, and I've heard management in my facility complaining about the increased volume of calls they're having to handle themselves.
  • It's weird that they haven't caught on but since they don't track phone calls as part of the metrics, and they told me to focus all of my efforts on metrics, I don't think they ever will.
  • This person had a plan!

    Come And GetYourPug The micromanager's rule that lasted an hour: My new manager tells me I'm "wasting" too much time on informal requests, and that
  • she must now approve all requests no matter what medium (call, chat, etc) they come from. I tried reasoning with her because we're talking like 40+ requests per day!
  • But she pulled the "I'm your manager..." card. Alright, say less! The VERY next request was an IM from the COO. She's in a meeting and needs something.
  • "I'm sorry, per <manager> I'm no longer allowed to accept requests like these. Please reach out to her to make this request." All I got in response is "I understand."
  • Wouldn't you know it, I get an email about an hour later saying I can go back to "using my best judgement" for informal requests "for the time being."
  • Why would he do this?

    Only-Original9409 Not me, but a fellow teacher. When admin said everybody had to wear a photo ID at all times, he put his baby picture in it.
  • Teacher discusses lesson with students in a depiction by models.
  • Log EVERY task, they say? Careful what you wish for!

    GagOnMacaque Once they told us to log time on every task. So we did.
  • Someone somewhere was having a rough time with the mountain of data we generated. After only 2 days we were told to stop.

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