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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Yellow_Wood_Wanderer on 2025-06-04 19:52:29+00:00.

Update 1: I thought about it and emailed the appropriate muckity mucks so they couldn’t jam me up for not doing my job, and not telling them what was up. I have a whoopsie email chain now. The earliest the issue will be fixed is Wednesday. Aaannnnddd my counterpart in a different office starts vacation tomorrow so I’m not sure who will get stuck with the phones.

Original Post: I thought I would share my in progress malicious compliance at work. A little back story my office is an old residential building converted to a flex space so the interior layout is quirky at best. When I started my ‘office’ was in the space that used to be a closet. To say I had very little work space is an understatement. Fast forward to last week. Remodeling has been done and staff moved around and I have been told I will have a legit office now! Awesome right?! Wrong the decision comes down today no office for me, after I had already moved into said office. I have to swap with a coworker that has an open design workspaces, said coworker does NOT want an office. We are told it doesn’t matter what we want, we have to change. Now cue the malicious compliance…I move desks, but I don’t have an office phone. Well I do, but it goes to nothing. There is no phone line, jack, etc anywhere near the part of the building I am now located. Did I mention that a not insignificant part of my job is answering the phone, and if I don’t the phone starts ringing to all the company extensions. So now we are playing a game called, how long before the people that are ‘smarter’ than me figure out they made a big, big mistake?!