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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/SpeedyTheQuidKid on 2025-05-11 08:31:16+00:00.

Small malicious compliance, with a bonus story about my doctor.

Back in early 2020, I was working a job in a daycare/preschool. Miserable work honestly, I’ve long since left, tbh teaching wasn’t for me. But this location, ugh: long hours, always frantically busy, kids walked all over me, 10 minutes to an hour for lunch depending on the day, and chaotic. I’m usually pretty stoic, but there were a number of days where I’d cry in my car at the end of the day. In my year there, I watched around 12-15 people leave - one fired, one retired, and all the rest quit. Massive turnover rate.

Now at the point of this compliance, I’d almost been there a year. After a professional dev day with teachers from sister schools, I woke up and felt a little extra tired. Almost checked my temp just in case, but didn’t feel sick yet. Drove my 40 minute commute, and by the time I got there I was exhausted. Just completely sapped. But because it’s a school there are legal staff requirements, and we were constantly understaffed, so I felt like I had to try.

Maybe 30 minutes in, a student asked me to read a story to them. And my response, so tired, was to say “I can’t, but you could read it to me?” as I put my head down on the desk lol. My co teacher finally called up the office to make them call someone else in, and I was able to leave and rest.

Wasn’t better the next day either though, so my boss made me get a doctor’s note. I was obviously sick, she’d seen me exhausted, but sure, fine, I’ll go.

After doctor checked my blood pressure and temp, I explained symptoms and was told I either had the flu or mono - literally did not run a single test, so I doubted this - and then they said I should stay home for two weeks.

I was texting my dad about it afterwards cuz it was weird they didn’t test, when my boss called to see if I’d gotten a note yet. Barely out of the appt, you’d think she could have waited for me to call, but whatever. Told her they gave me two weeks and she sounded pissed about it lol.

(But, I was a good bean who didn’t want to make my coworkers lives hell for two weeks though, so I went to get a second opinion, and got it down to a week. Probably would have been ready by day 3, but fuck, I had an excuse for a week, and that felt pretty reasonable to me, so, I was gonna use it.)

Bonus story

Now I hadn’t been to my doc in a while, don’t get sick often, but I vaguely remembered that my dad had stopped seeing him for some reason. Turns out that was because he had gone homeopathic, no longer licensed to practice medicine, hence them not running any tests and just guessing.

After the “diagnosis” they prescribed me 3oz of hyrdoxil silver (might be misremembering the name, something similar but basically its water that may have touched water that may have touched water that may have touched silver at some point lol), and sold it to me right there in the office for $127 or so. Fucking ridiculous on its own, but here’s the fun bit: they gave me a list of how to use it. You could put it in your nose - like the told me to do - but you could also put it in your ears, your eyes, your water…and, you could also take 3oz - again, that was $127 - and hold all 3oz, 3 times a day for 20 minutes, in your vagina. Apparently. I’m not sure whose anatomy let’s them hold liquid like that lol, but if you needed a clue that this was ineffective nonsense, that was it.

Never found out what my sickness was even after the second opinion, but since they didn’t know what it was and it was late January 2020, I’m going with covid. Coworkers and students alike were calling out sick for weeks, so it was something we didn’t have immunity to, for sure.