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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/bigfishbunny on 2024-02-27 05:54:59.

Not very exciting but it was still effective. I used to be the overnight cashier at a large grocery chain that was open 24 hours. I worked five nights a week with the weekends off. The cigarettes were kept behind the service desk, which had a locked half door that had to be unlocked in order to access the area. The key to unlock the door was on a regular key ring and I would keep it in my pocket all night because I had to get cigarettes for customers. In the mornings I would drop the key ring off in the office and it would be waiting for me when I came back in to work the next night. There was another cashier who worked the two overnights during the weekend. He developed a habit of taking the keyring home with him. I would end up having to jump over the counter to get into the area and the daytime employees were pretty annoyed with having to leave the door unlocked all day. After the weekend cashier did this for a month straight, a manager ended up putting the key on one of those large sticks that are often used in gas stations for restroom keys. I felt like a fool having to carry around a big restroom key stick when I was not the one who couldn’t remember to leave the regular key ring in the office when I got off work everyday. I asked my manager why I had to suffer the punishment of another employee’s incompetence and the manager just explain how we have to make sure the key doesn’t accidentally get misplaced or taken home again and the giant stick is a way to accomplish that. That night I purchased a large padlock. I used the padlock to lock the key stick to the front of a shopping cart. I then made large signs on poster board that said “Key Cart” and put it on both sides of the cart. To open the door, the whole cart had to be rolled up to the door close enough to get the key into the key hole. It was a bit of a spectacle and a pain in the butt to do. The next night when I came into work my manager was pretty irritated about the key cart. I told him I was just being proactive and that someone could still take the key home even on the stick, but no one would be able to take the key home if it’s attached to an entire cart. It stayed like that for another day and then it was back to its original key ring that I could put in my pocket.