My entitled Regional and District Manager at McDonald's say that they will fire me if I don't leave my break time early and help out with a rush.

But I decided to maliciously comply and get some petty revenge, as I instead threw these rules right back at their face in a way that would make them lose thousands of dollars, all because of some stupid rules that they made.

Here's what happened.

So this happened a few years ago when I worked at

McDonald's. The one I worked in was near a bunch of schools, so most of the staff was high school

kids. As summer vacation started, we began having the trouble of an employee getting a break,

and then spending their break eating their meal and conversating with their friends who were still

working in the kitchen. It was having a seriously bad effect on

productivity, as well as posing quite a few health risks. So our manager finally initiated a rule

that if you were on your break, you couldn't leave the break room until your break was over.

And this went swimmingly until the kids went back to school. We then had a new problem. Short

staffing during break cycles meant our ticket times would skyrocket during rushes.

Management then lifted the rule so that employees on break could clock in early and help out with

a rush. However, the district manager didn't like the implications of employees working shortened or

no break shifts and forcefully reinstated the rule. They also doubled down by saying that

employees who tried to work

during their scheduled break would be written up or even terminated for doing so. And so this is where

our malicious compliance comes into play. And trust me, this is a good one. The date was 420, which is a

day that nobody wants to be working at a fast food place, much less McDonald's. We had been getting

slammed so hard from the

open of the store that we called in extra help from other stores, including the regional and

district managers. As the break cycle began, the management was pleased with the sub two-minute

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