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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Illuminatus-Prime on 2024-05-21 01:08:13+00:00.

A man was hired as my assistant at a tech-oriented business.  He spent his breaks and his lunches getting drunk.  I overlooked his behavior and covered for him because he was going through a contentious divorce.  Surprisingly, he eventually accused me of treating him like crap.  [EDIT]Then he engaged in a profanity-laden rant where he accused me of a lot of illegal, immoral, and unethical activities before telling me to leave him the hell alone.[/EDIT]

(Yes, I now know that I was ‘enabling’ his behavior, but I had once gone through a messy divorce of my own, and I was feeling sorry for him.)

Cue the Malicious Compliance

I stopped covering for him, cold turkey.  It was bad enough when no one could find him because he was passed out in his car, but being passed out on the floor of the men’s room with his trousers around his ankles on Customer Appreciation Day earned him a dismissal.  Of course, he said it was all my fault.  It was not.

The Fallout

Because it was discovered that I was capable of doing both my work and the work of my erstwhile ‘assistant’, I was allowed to work on my own after that, and without any ‘adult’ supervision of my own.