Woman embarrasses horrible boss before maliciously complying with her and quitting.

Everyone dreams of giving their boss a piece of their mind before quitting (if you don't like your boss, I love my boss). Telling them off, putting them in a challenging situation, or embarrassing them are so many ways to make their lives as hard as they made yours. Most people will never get a chance to do this, but every so often, an angel gets their wings.

On a popular Reddit thread on the Malicious Compliance Subreddit, a woman fully throws egg on her boss's face before quitting.

She writes:

My boss (let’s call her K) hated me at my last job. She turned everything into a competition; she mocked me publicly; she took credit for my work; she divulged my personal medical information in front of all our coworkers. She was cruel, and needless to say, I avoided her as much as I could.

So, now that the stage is set, here’s the context. End of 2020, coronavirus blazing, I had just had my first baby. I was a nervous wreck my entire pregnancy, working from home and being extra careful. After maternity leave (which was disgustingly short), I returned to the office with some precautions set in place.

My boss became crueler to me over those first few weeks back and suddenly announced that, regardless of any negative feelings toward it, she had decided we all had to attend this training in another state. Remember that there were mandatory two-week at-home quarantines for anyone returning to my state. Still, my boss thoroughly planned on ignoring those quarantines and demanding we all would return to the office as soon as we got back.

I was carrying a heavy workload and pulling a lot of the weight around the office, and I had some rank. So, I felt entirely comfortable expressing my deep concerns to K, telling her that it was peak covid season and that I had a newborn to worry about now. I said I didn’t feel comfortable going in the middle of a global pandemic and asked if there was a remote training I could attend instead.

She firmly insisted there was no remote training and informed me that I could quit if I were that upset with her decisions. It’s important to note that she insisted on this for weeks, even claiming to have contacted the training organization to make sure. I decided on the spot after that meeting that I would be quitting. But I needed to check my boxes first, which took me a few weeks.

Sometime after this meeting and her continued insistence that there was no remote training, it finally occurred to me to check with the organization putting on the movement and ask them to clarify if there indeed was no remote training. I did, and lo and behold, there WAS - and they had been offering it for months. I asked them to email this information to me.

Now to figure out how to use this valuable information, right? Wrong. As soon as I stepped back into the office, K started fake-empathizing with me out of nowhere in front of all our coworkers. She said she wished she didn’t need to force me to attend this training. So, I said, 'if you feel so bad, let me go to the remote training.'

She looked at me in surprise, and her face turned beet red. Before she could fight me, I read the email with the information aloud to all our coworkers. No one said anything. They just stared wide-eyed at her while she blubbered like a fool.

Long story short, after pulling that fast one on her, I pulled her into a private meeting a gave my notice. She was horrified because, as I stated prior, I carried a lot of the work around the office. But, as she said, I could quit if I didn’t like her decisions.

The internet will throw a party in your honor, OP.

CoderJoe1 says:

She was a lying liar that lies.

StormBeyondTime says:

That image of you reading that email in front of EVERYONE -I'm dying of laughter here. Keep being awesome, and best wishes to you, little one, and the rest of your family.

IceolatedAF says:

This was cute and innocent compliance, but honestly, you would have bitten the snake, first, if you'd have reported her for violating the law and spouting your personal medical info publicly in your place of employment.

That was a cathartic read, OP. I unfortunately love my bosses and would never do anything like this to them.