Nate
In this tale of malicious compliance at work, an experienced employee, tasked with managing a room full of unruly, vital dot matrix printers, is informed their role is being eliminated in favor of two disinterested, longstanding company employees. Despite the employee’s diligent effort to train these replacements, the new hires scoff at the lessons, secure in their job safety due to connections with the higher-ups.
On their final day, a catastrophic test run is scheduled: the new hires must run the printer room solo, per the bosses’ directive, and our narrator is explicitly forbidden from intervening. Predictably, chaos erupts as the printer jam and the company hemorrhages money by the minute.
Unflappable, the employee calmly sips coffee and enjoys a book while the workplace descends into a frantic, costly pandemonium—all under the strictest adherence to the company’s own misguided orders.
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