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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Great_Palpatine on 2024-06-01 07:25:59+00:00.

When I was in the military, I worked in an office. This office has several rooms; my superior and his superior (“Big Boss”) work in the same room, but I work in a room several doors down.

For context, Big Boss had a certain way of doing things, which was admittedly a little weird sometimes. But he really hated it when people changed the way he did things.

I always knew this, and so I always just left Big Boss to his own devices. (The easiest way to make Big Boss happy was to literally just give him what he wanted, doing the most unimportant and minor things just the way he liked it, but that’s a story for another day.)

Now, superior and Big Boss often have differing ideas and different ways of doing things. And superior really doesn’t like it when I contradict him. For context, a few months before this incident, we had just had quite a major structural adjustment in preparation for a large military operation. Superior wanted to lay out things a certain way, I disagreed. My disagreement made my superior very angry (because I should not be questioning him), and he told me not to question his judgement of how things should be laid out in our office again.

One day, superior asks me to move the table out of the room when Big Boss wasn’t in.

The MC:

Me: “Are you sure Big Boss would like this?”

Superior: “Just do it and stop asking so many questions!”

Me: “Okay then.”

*Moves table out of Big Boss’ office

Cue several hours later:

“Who moved this table out of my office??!!”

Big Boss’ voice can be heard several doors down.

The dressing down could be heard several doors away. Big Boss could be heard going off on my superior too for several minutes.

After that incident, my superior gave me (less) of that “just do it” attitude until I left the military.

Edited to now include a bit more context for MC.