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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/daschande on 2024-09-18 18:26:07+00:00.

Not very satisfying, but MC nonetheless. Years ago, I was working at a corporate chain sports bar. One of the managers famously had “short man syndrome”; where he HAD to be right at all times and didn’t allow anyone to deviate from his edicts.

One day, a server was asking him to go talk to a customer due to our mistake; when asked which person to speak to, the server replied “Table 300, the black guy wearing…” as she was cut short by the manager yelling at her “WE DO NOT REFER TO PEOPLE THAT WAY!!! We DO NOT see race, we DO NOT see color, they are ALL customers at this company! Do you understand me?” Manager was sure to nitpick absolutely everything and micromanage her for the rest of the night.

Fast forward a few weeks, same issue with the same server. Remembering his previous screaming fit, she told him to talk to “The guy wearing orange at table 250.”

It was football season; virtually everyone in the building was wearing the home team’s orange. Manager had to awkwardly ask the customers who had an issue, deeply embarrassing him.

Once he was back in the kitchen, he REALLY laid into the server for embarrassing him before firing her on the spot. The next day, we all verified his previous instructions and her malicious, but correct, compliance; so the general manager was forced to call her up and offer her job back. Manager was not disciplined in any way, but that’s restaurant life.