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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Russkun on 2024-06-22 21:48:39+00:00.

This is from a decade ago when I was at a soul crushing office job with a fortune 500 company. Corporate loves new ideas as long as it costs nothing and makes employees lives harder. They got on an efficiency kick and were forcing everyone to streamline their processes. I’m sales/projects at a wholesaler using a 40 year old order entry system. There aint much to streamline, and whatever there was I am computer savvy enough to have done it long ago. So I fought this and got under the office managers skin. Well one day they learn about The Knuj (junk backwards) and got on a kick about cleaning up. The office manager went around with specially printed stickers and stuck them to anything that looked unnecessary. We had a lot of hoarders who needed this, but my desk was hit hard. Anything not nailed down got a sticker. Now we couldn’t just ignore them. If we wanted to keep the stuff we needed to write why for each item. I did not have time for this, so I did the only reasonable course of action. I threw out everything with a sticker. Catalogues, open quotes, and the project folder of everything I was working on. It lasted an hour before problems happened. My sales manager needed a file. I don’t have it. It’s in the dumpster. I wish this cost them customers or they failed an audit. But no. After a few minutes of digging through the dumpster my sales and office manager found my files. I wasn’t able to help the search as I ducked out on lunch.