Brian Lear on WNYC and we're going to wrap up today's show, less than 15 minutes left, with your stories of engaging

in malicious compliance.

What is malicious compliance? The phrase comes from one of

Reddit's most popular communities by that title malicious compliance. It's a

community where people typically anonymously share stories in which they've

conformed to the letter but not the spirit of a request.

Put plainly, the stories typically consist of someone following an arbitrary rule from their employer or the

government or whatever in a way that exposes how dumb the rule is.

So listeners, do you have a malicious compliance story to tell?

Kind of a malicious compliance, true confession, or maybe we should more accurately call it a point of pride, a time when you conform to the

letter of a rule that you thought was really dumb from your employer, maybe your

teacher, maybe even the government, but not the spirit of the request.

I don't know if we're going to get any of these, but if you have ever engaged in what you

recognize from that terminology as malicious compliance.

Call and tell us that story, because otherwise I'm going to have to talk to the end of the show and I know you don't want that.

So 212 433 WNYC, if we have any malicious compliance stories out there, we think we might

get a few.

That's why we're even asking the question

212 433 9692 anyone been on that Reddit thread anyone ever contributed to that

Reddit thread.

Here's an example as we're hoping the calls are going to come in.

Kind of an amusing example from Reddit that some of you might relate to in our age of

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