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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Timothy_Jor on 2024-03-14 12:08:37.

This is a story from my time in my country’s army. (This could also easily be in the u/pettyrevenge thread)

After I joined the army for my mandatory 9 month service, I was forcibly given the “specialty” of the cook. After some surprisingly harsh training, they sent me to an outpost where I had to do 2 daily services (one as a cook and one as an area observer, while everyone else did 1 to 0 services) for about 50 days non-stop. That meant I was on my feet from 6am to 2:30am every single day, while getting 3,5 hours of sleep every night. Nobody helped me in any way, I did not have nearly enough time to prepare the food properly (they claimed it was not protocol to help the cook) and nobody cared, so naturally I got extremely tired and pissed off.

One day I dared to protest my situation and also report some problems with the kitchen, lack of supplies and the oven itself, and was told to shut up, stop complaining and do my job. So I decided to comply with the “shut up and don’t complain” policy. What they didn’t know was that I had found a trick to turn the oven on, it looked fine but the food wouldn’t cook at all.

The next day I was going to prepare a stuffed vegetables dish for 12 people, tomatoes and peppers stuffed with rice and minced meat. I put it in the oven and waited for 4 hours to (not) be cooked. I casually served the raw food which had become mushy and rancid because it was summertime.

The look on everyone’s face when they tried to eat the first bite was absolutely priceless. They immediately snapped and started freaking out, yelling and screaming in anger like this was a common thing, even though I had never failed a dish before and those arrogant selfish pricks ate like kings every day. I maliciously smiled and told them that I lacked half of my supplies and the recipe was wildly incomplete, while the oven was “malfunctioning”. Word reached the captain who also freaked out but I told him that it was he who commanded me to shut up about the food problems. He said my failure should be reported and I agreed. I immediately called my unit and reported that I was being mistreated, overworked, sleepless and ignored for 43 consecutive days, so this resulted to my failure. The next day I heard the captain was reprimanded severely by our colonel commander for the shitty situation in his outpost.

Of course the next 3 days I did the exact same thing, and I starved the bastards to insanity. Afterwards they were BEGGING me to help me out with the food preparations, but I refused since I complied with “it’s not protocol to help the cook” policy which they claimed in the first place, and kept feeding them disgusting tasteless food under the excuse of a broken oven. They called the unit and cried that I am holding them hostage with the food and I should be removed. The day I was removed 1 week later was the best day of my life.

I haven’t regretted anything and 100% would do it again.

TLDR: I starved an entire military outpost for almost a week under the false pretence of a broken oven because they royally screwed me over for months.