My manager once authorised every member of the team, except myself and them annual leave. We are customer facing. I stood up around noon, was asked if I was getting a coffee. Nope, I don’t get paid for the next hour. It’s called lunch…left her to it.
I remember one of the Civil service departments told they were to come to work every day despite a third of all their office space having been sold off. They came and sat on the floor in the corridors and sat 2 to a desk. No work was done.
I have a work phone with no life on it and a life phone with no work on it. Makes it far easier to switch off, literally and I get more done when I am working because there are no distractions.
There is nothing malicious about not working out with your working hours in a location where the manager has said you are not allowed to work. It is simply “Compliance”.
If the manager considers this malicious, the manager needs to consider why the manager considers it this.
Irrespective. It doesn’t track in this example, as the compliance is not malicious, it’s simply compliance. The employee is doing as they’ve been asked.
I dont have my emails on on my phone and refuse to do that. Sure someone can call me, even zoom message me if they like, but I'll be fucked if I'm answering and delaying with emails on a phone outside of work hrs.
got hauled in to management once for leaving at the end of my REGULARLY scheduled shift during an xmas rush. so i just told them i didnt blame them for what they were doing. the look on their face. worth the job lol.
Yonks ago as psych student nurse on a general med ward,9pm time to go home. Ward sister,‘where are you going’Told her it was home-time.?She got rattled & said ‘you go when I dismiss you’. With that, to the astonishment of the other Gen nurses,put on my coat & left saying,time is time! Boundaries
The free pay hours clocked up by U.K. NHS Nurses runs into millions if not billions of £s of non paid work! Generosity of Spirit by Nurses exploited… no overtime ....
Double edged sword that. So if they cave in and said “ok, you can work from home”. Would that mean they would look contact them out of hours and expect them to pick up? Just being devils advocate.
Many IT jobs will contact you outside of your regular hours regardless, like if there’s an outage or something. If that’s something companies want to have the option to do, they need to accede to the worker in other areas (like working from home sometimes)
When we got forced back to the office I loved the management optimism that I’d be more productive despite honing my shirking skills at the office and the field over 40 years.
I did far less work than I did working from home. 😈
Good for them. Trust is at the centre of all good relationships, not least at work. If trust is taken away as a formal measure, that’s unfortunate. But if that’s the way the powers that be want to play it, so be it.
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Some managers really do want the cake 🍰 and the cherry on the cake!
It’s inspirational… which says quite a lot about my aspirations.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MaliciousCompliance
Stories.
If the manager considers this malicious, the manager needs to consider why the manager considers it this.
'Malicious compliance' is a Reddit thing. Have a look you're going to like it.
“Can you show me where, in my contract, I signed this?”
“Any other duties does not state at any time stated by my line manager.”
It's all about trust. This post shows where trust lies and it's not with management. Managers assuming everyone else is as untrustworthy as they are.
I did far less work than I did working from home. 😈
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There are emergency situations in certain work roles where some contact may be necessary - but this should be exceptional.