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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Mysterious_Title171 on 2024-09-24 03:48:40+00:00.

This happened a few semesters ago where I was taking a course in Urban Design. Everyone was grouped in 3s but one of my group members wanted to join another group with their friend, so I ended up with 1 other person. Not sure why the professor though this was okay, but I wasn’t too worried because I was fairly confident in my ability to do the work. The course incorporated previous studio courses to tie together in a massive topic of urban planning which included architectural design, environmental sustainability, urban infrastructure and historic preservation.

I tried to brainstorm with my partner on which direction we should go. My idea was focused on residentials as housing would address a huge demand here in NYC. However, my partner seemed content on making the project about industrial buildings, so I focused there. We brainstormed on different ideas but got the impression that he just wanted me to take the lead as he mostly agreed while not giving much input.

Weeks went by and I constantly updated my partner on my progress via WhatsApp while rarely getting any update or feedback from him. It annoyed be a bit but I was still confident in my work which was enough to get us through the next check point during our next presentation.

At some point during the semester, I got a really terrible kidney stone. It wasn’t from junk food or a poor diet, in fact, it was from eating too much black beans and chickpeas! A side note, I asked ChatGPT to come up with a healthy dinner plan to give me a list of food which I used to come up with a meal plan that meets my macro needs (see comment for more). I did feel way better with my new diet, but it eventually led me to having my worst kidney stone of my life that put me in the ER. I was on all kinds of pain meds and had to stay there for several nights! But it didn’t end there! The stone was so big that it got stuck. I needed surgery to put in a stent. Don’t look up how they put it in, it still gives me nightmares! I had to wait several more weeks and endure pissing deep red blood daily and having yet another surgery to remove the stent (ugh!) before finally recovering.

Throughout this whole time, I managed to put in some work into my project. I was surprised to learn that my partner did absolutely NOTHING and waited for me to continue my work! Like what the actual fuck?? To make it worse, I learned that he tried to present my work as his own! How can people be like that??

I emailed the professor about my situation. I explained how I’ve did all the work so far and sent him screenshots of the chat as well as my project file which includes all the history logs. The professor reminded me that during the final submission everyone had to put their initials on the slides of the work that they worked on. Ok, got it.

Luckily, I was recovered and ready to present my work. I left out the initials as it wasn’t required for presentation, only for the final submission. I felt the need to see what he’d do. I even tried to cut him some slack and gave him some talking points on the parts I’d allow him to claim as his own, even though it was fully my work. He didn’t. He kept cutting me off during presentation to talk about MY project as if he had anything to do with it. He mostly repeated the same information that I mentioned while not bring anything of value to point out. The final presentation had several judges who were comprised of local professional in high level position within the industry. The conversation was always directed at me, so I had a good feeling that everyone understood that I did most of the work as I knew all of the intimate knowledge of the parts.

Then came the last day to submit our work. The final slides included my initials on every. single. page! Apparently, my partner missed that part about the initials and also submitted an older version of my work. A few weeks go by, and I hit him up asking what he got. I was surprised to learn that actually passed with a C+. He was surprised to hear that I received an A- and promptly said that he’ll have a talk with the professor on why he received such a low grade. Honestly, why are there people like this?? Anyway, not sure if it’s malicious compliance, but I did do everything as instructed and ended up having one hell of a semester. Did I mentioned that I had morphine for the first time during my ER visit? Lmao!

EDIT - Rephrased ChatGPT/food portion :)