Manager Demands Employee Turn Phone Off, Shocked When They Can't Call to Notify of Catastrophic Failure

This place of work had a strict "no mobile phones" policy that demanded that phones were turned off during work hours, "no ifs or buts." But the rule, in all of its absoluteness, had no consideration for what should happen in the case of an emergency. In fact, it was pretty clear that "no phones, well, it meant no phones.

This story was posted to Reddit's r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit by u/Super-Monkfish, who shared a tried and true workplace "malicious compliance" tale of overcommitting to a rule.

When an emergency did occur at u/Super-Monkfish's place of work they were quick to listen to their boss's commands and sat and made sure that they kept their phone off and did not use it. Predictably, that meant that the problem was not resolved because no one was made aware of it and the result was a large cost to business for the day of trading.