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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/LanceAdams-vCISO on 2024-03-08 02:43:38.

I work in IT for a manufacturer… A global organization with offices in more countries than not in countries. 30,000 employees globally.

Our really good CIO who was technical enough to “get it” and smart enough to realize that a global organization needs global people from all areas with wide ranges of skills… He retired abruptly. He led us very well through the uncharted Covid waters and we did well.

His replacement was named, and was a high level Financial guy about 2 years ago. Many of us knew what this meant, there are some very accurate memes and colloquialisms about Fiance guys destroying IT. Just around his 1 year anniversary he announced that we must return to the office and used the same emotional appeals about collaboration and “missing something” with remote work as the other brain dead executives around then globe.

After a couple of weeks of enforced 2 core days a week for only the office he worked at and the other “corporate office in the neighboring city”. We’re a set of mergers and acquisitions with multiple “key offices”. Anyway after a couple of weeks of this RTO, email was sent about dress code, clean jeans, it would be best to wear company branded shirts or polos. After all IT is on the same floor as the Executives and he’s not going to look good bending the knee if us serfs are dressed in t-shirts. Comments were made on the side by middle management on how this would reflect poorly on reviews and merits…

The Malicious Compliance part… I decided to purchase a 4 pack of high vis polo shirts… Bright yellow, bright orange, teal green, and grey…each with reflective striping. For the last year I have worn these shirts every core day. We are afterall a manufacturer, our corporate office is attached to a manufacturing building where HiVis is required, along with hard hats, hearing protection, safety boots… We take our safety seriously and I applaud that.

Today my manager let me know that both the CIO and the Sr Director that I report into after a few layers of yes-people have commented that my shirts are not liked. My manger said that it’s totally up to me what I do, but he strongly recommends picking my battles and not wearing those shirts any more.

So I leave with this … I’m writing up an ethics complaint now. … But what should I wear next week’s core days? I’m thinking about showing up in my suit and nod to those two cowards who can’t even say something to me directly. Thoughts?