Supervisor told me to stop reminding him about an overdue task. So I stopped, and he missed the

deadline. I work as a project coordinator. Basically, I just keep track of whatever everyone's

supposed to be doing and make sure that nothing falls through the cracks. My supervisor, James,

is fine at pretending he's on top of stuff, but the dude forgets everything unless someone's reminding him.

So I usually give him a heads up when things are due. Like last week I said, hey, just a reminder

that reports to you Friday. He looks at me and goes, I don't need to be babysat. I know what's on my

list. All right then, you got it. So I keep my mouth shut. No reminders, no check-ins. I let him be

the expert. Friday comes, nothing. Monday morning, he's suddenly in panic mode, because the director

is asking where the heck the report is. He turns to me like, why didn't you remind me? I just said, well, you told me not to.

Now he thanks me every time I send a reminder. I guess we're back to babysitting, but at least he

asked nicely. Okay, a few interesting things in this story. Now, I've never worked in like a big

company before. So I don't, I don't really know that a project

coordinator whose job literally is just to coordinate was much of a thing. But it does seem like

a glorified babysitter. And I would say that that seems unnecessary. But then clearly it's not,

because you have people like this that aren't capable of keeping up with the work they have to do.

I mean, I would have thought that that was like a quite important part of your role, not just obviously doing the work itself, but also knowing what work you need to do and when.

But I suppose a project coordinator, obviously that does more than just babysit, does make sense.

But him then saying after this not okay I need to

be more diligent with with my deadlines and knowing what I've got to do for when but actually okay

look you remind me in future is that not a bit poor I don't know it's different for me you guys

let me know in the comments down below but if I forget a deadline that's on's on me. Like, I've only got myself to blame. I don't understand, really, but fair enough. Good malicious compliance. That is what I will definitely say. I think the term babysitting here is confusing me. I think that's the thing because, like, the idea of a project coordinator, I completely understand. But the idea of somebody going over to someone and saying, hey, just reminding you, you've got a deadline on Monday, I don't really understand because I think you should be able to do that. But yes, not babysitting project coordination. Of course, that makes a lot of sense. I'd quite like it, to be fair, if somebody kept on top of everything that I needed to do. I do struggle with that sometimes. I also struggle with

waffling. Let's carry on. Now for our third malicious compliance story. I should cancel on my end.

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