In the office world, the rule “the customer is always right” becomes “the client is always right.” Employees often have to bend over backwards to please their clients. Sometimes they get so entitled, they forget workers might have other work engagements or personal life problems.
This story from a Redditor runswithlibrarians involves that type of client. The author shared their story on the r/MaliciousCompliance group a few months back. The antagonist was a woman demanding to get a call back urgently. What the OP did is a perfect example of malicious compliance. You can read the entire story below.
Some jobs require you to be reachable on the phone to clients for most hours of the day
Image credits: travnikovstudio (not the actual image)
However, even the best employees cannot be reachable 24/7
Image credits: u/runswithlibrarians
It’s a fairly short story, so the commenters had some questions
Most commenters praised the OP for their well-executed malicious compliance
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