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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/algloglo on 2025-05-15 07:37:54+00:00.

A few years ago, BigCorp (heavy industry) launched a spinoff to develop an industry-specific IT system and after a year I got recruited from a competitor. I was in sales, so I was supposed to be given a company car. I was informed that as there was a unavoidable delay between ordering a car and having it delivered, the spinoff would immediately provide a short-term rental car, which was a very expensive workaround but the company cares about its employees blah blah blah. OK for me.

After the usual training at HQ, my boss told me to order right away a company car at the relevant BigCorp department. However I noticed that all my coworkers, some of them being there since the launch of the spinoff, still all used short-term rentals. How bizarre… So I downloaded the relevant documentation and quickly catched a glitch: one of the necessary validations from BigCorp could not be given in the spinoff (different organization and different chain of command), so I went back to my boss and it went like this:

-“Boss, I was about to order my car but I read the process and…”

-“IAM NOT INTERESTED IN THE PROCESS! (yelling!) I TOLD YOU TO ORDER YOUR CAR, SOOOOO (yelling stronger!) ORDER-YOUR-CAR!”

Cue Malicious Compliance. I ordered my car, never received it, and all the team drove over-expensive short-term rentals until BigCorp cut its losses, shut down the spinoff and fired everyone.