It’s not a good feeling when you don’t think you get the credit you deserve at work.

In fact, it’s a major bummer!

And this person knows all about it…

Check out what they had to say in this story from Reddit’s “Malicious Compliance” page.

Don’t Call Me & I Won’t Call You.

“The Setup.

Maybe 90% of our activities were routine, and most everybody could handle them; but that last 10% involved critical subsystems that were complex and difficult to work on. Those were my responsibility.

Co-workers would work themselves into corners before calling on me to get them out. They would get credit for the call, and I would get bupkis. “You were not the on-call guy, so you get nothing.” Fine.

Cue the malicious compliance.

Things changed in a hurry…

It got to the point that if I was not on-call, I would log my status as “Out of the Area” and switch off my phone. When I stopped covering for co-workers, productivity dropped.

The ungrateful and selfish on-call guys would either take an entire shift to solve a problem, or pass it along to the next on-call guy. This happened from one late Friday night to the following early Monday morning, so when I walked in the door while switching my phone back on, I could smell the panic.

They sent me out on-site right away, and even though it took a few more hours to solve the problem, I got the credit for it.

The Fallout.

It all worked out in the end.

A couple of years later, a layoff removed the slackers from employment, and I was left to train the remainder. From then on, we were a tight crew that handled most problems without having to call in for support, even from IT.”

Reddit users spoke up.

This person has been there.

And another individual spoke up.

Some people don’t know how good they have it at work until things change.

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