I have a couple of malicious compliance stories that I'm happy to share depending on how they go down. This one is from a few years ago when I was at university.

One of our compulsory classes was a work experience one. You had to do a month work experience and write an essay about it. You also had to write an essay about yourself.

I found this class completely pointless (for me personally). I could understand it if you were an inexperienced teen that never had a job, but I had okay proof I could work.

After being refused a class transfer I was told to make the essay the essence of me, show them who I was by the work experience coordinator.

The work I produced had quotes from various terrible films, comedians (think Frankie Boyle, Ed Byrne and so on) and was a scathing put down of the module. All properly referenced etc so that it had to be marked.

For a few weeks, silence.

I then received an email from the work experience coordinator & the head of my department for a meeting.

I sit down in the meeting and they quietly pull a copy of my printed essay out with red circles everywhere. The work experience coordinator was very irate and frazzled, essentially shouting that my work was an insult to her module and that she wanted to fail me and do it again.

I smiled and told her I had simply showed them the essence of who I am.

The work experience coordinator refused to talk to me during the meeting after that. I was told by my head of department that the essay made them worry about me mentally but it was a reflective essay and was properly academically referenced. Much to the coordinators chagrin.

As a result I had passed the module, but was on academic probation for the rest of the year and was also urged to get counselling.

TLDR: was told to write an essay and show who I was. Showed who I was and coordinator tried to fail me. I passed the class.

I may post the malicious compliance that occurred during my second year tomorrow.