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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Maleficent-Way8694 on 2024-10-17 16:38:54+00:00.
A few years ago now I worked as a nurse in Wales. There was a junior sister there who was an odd woman. She would openly bully a couple of staff members by telling them to do a faster hand over by entering the room several times during said hand over to tell them to be quicker, until she was told that they would be a lot quicker if they hadn’t been made to stop several times during their report.
I didn’t drive at the time so had to take the bus, one early shift the bus was a bit late which made me 5 minutes late to the start of the shift. I was told by junior sister that I would need to take the 5 minutes off my 20 minute coffee break or work an additional 5 minutes at the end of my shift. When I started to voice my annoyance at being punished for something out of my control, I was told ‘your working hours are from 7-30 am to 3-00pm with one 20 minute break’. I chose to deduct the 5 minutes from my already short break as leaving 5 minutes late would leave me late for my bus home.
A few shifts later I was getting on with my work and had a few care plans to rewrite, at the time all notes were hand written, as I had been a bit frosty with junior sister, just keeping any conversations strictly professional I sat down to start rewriting said care plans. Junior sister asked if I wanted a hand to which I replied if you would like to, thank you, to which she picked a bunch up and went into her office. Cue malicious compliance, bang on 3 pm I packed up my things grabbed my coat and made a point of saying goodbye to junior sister, she looked up from her desk and asked me where I was going to which I responded home, she said she was still writing my care plans and would I write a couple so she can get them done quicker, yes, you guessed it, I replied with, ‘ my working hours are from half seven till three, I get no leeway when my bus is late so I will no longer be staying after my shift has finished, I will just hand over any outstanding jobs to the next shift’ to which I walked off, I would like to say the look on her face was priceless, but I had already left the ward and didn’t see it, so worth loosing 5 minutes to not be able to finish my food on my break.