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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Notaswordmaster on 2025-04-23 10:18:33+00:00.

This is starting to be a long time ago now. I was working on IT support for a municipality, traveling around and fixing incidents and fulfilling requests. My team was at the office a varying amount, but I would say 80-100% traveling between tasks.

As many who work in offices probably have experience from… the kitchen is always a mess. Coffecups and plates just laying around. We had even bought an industrial dishwasher, either easy to load trays. One for plates, one for bowls, and one for cups and glasses. But people are stupid/lazy, and put things on the bench or in the wrong tray.

So a genius found out that we need a rotating «kitchen duty» plan. So everyone has 1 day where they are responsible for the kitchen. This wasn’t a kitchen for making food. So it was basicly just a coffe machine, fridge and microwave.

The list came out. And I saw my team on the list. So I immediately contact the ones responsible and explain that my team is traveling most of the day. We are rarely at the office, and usually grab a lunch while traveling, so we shouldn’t be on the list. They reply that «everyone will be on the list».

So again raise the issue that we’re not at the office…. And I get a reply saying we’ll just have to come to the office to take our responsibility.

Here my malicious compliance kicks in My day comes up. So i go to the office, turn on an audiobook. And take my place in the kitchen. Whenever someone came into the kitchen to place something on the counter I would make a noise, pointing to the trays. If they put it wrong, I would point to the PICTURE of where to place the thing.

I did this for 7 hours that day.

I got some questions about my workload. In which I replied I had a lot to do. But I had kitchen duty, so wouldn’t be able to go out to any of the incidents.

After the second time I did this, and the big boss asked questions, the list was finally changed, and my team was removed! :D

The person responsible for the list still thought it was unfair that we didn’t have to do kitchen duty :p