Now, this is what I’m talkin’ about!

If you’re looking for a story about someone who was tired of their working environment, so they decided to push back and get creative, you’re in the right place.

Read on and get all the details below.

Return to office you say? Well, if you say so.

“I’m sure a lot of you are dealing with this.

The Higher-ups want us back in the office. It’s extremely unpopular and is being met with a lot of pushback. No one, not me, not my boss, not my bosses boss have been complying.

This sounds brutal.

So there’s this huge conference call where HR is going fire and brimstone on us saying if we don’t go in we show up on this report which with enough occurrences could lead to disciplinary action and termination.

A friend of mine is a bit higher up than I am, and he tells me they’re monitoring this through badge swipes. They came up with some arbitrary number of swipes a person needs to make in order for them to be considered “in office”.

Oh. Ok.

So, you see, I work as a fraud analyst for a massive bank. You need to swipe your badge every time you go to a different floor, as well as entering and leaving the building. But the report isn’t based on dates or times. Only badge swipes.

So I go into the office one day and swipe my badge. But oh no, that coffee went right through me, so I gotta go to the bathroom.

And on and on it went…

Oh, but it’s on the other side of the floor, better cut through the elevators and swipe my badge to get there quicker. Oh, I’m out of water. Gotta go two floors down and swipe my badge to grab water.

And then I had to use the restroom again. Then lunch. Then someone on another floor needed to speak with me. Then, I needed to return a cable I borrowed, but that person was away from his desk. And so on and so forth.

This went on for most of the day. I’m required to be in office 2-3 days a week every week. I’m the only person on the report that’s been in 4 days a week for my team since January.

I’ve been in office twice.”

Let’s see what folks had to say on Reddit.

This person chimed in.

Another individual shared their thoughts.

This Reddit user weighed in.

Another individual had a lot to say.

And this reader spoke up.

Now, this is some impressive malicious compliance!

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