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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/happyguy193 on 2025-07-01 21:03:43+00:00.

This was back in the COVID days. The firm I worked in back then had 2 partners in charge of basically the whole show. One of them was genuinely concerned about covid and decided to create the alternate week WFH groups and rules, you get the idea. Then the other one was a true old school boomer who believed that you’re not working if you’re not in office. The boomer would literally call me back to the office on my WFH days to come back. This was regardless whether I had been to risky areas the days before (i.e. big gatherings or whatnot. I’m not in the States btw and the rules at our area were somewhat nonsensical but still needed to be followed, mask, crowd control etc but u could do ur private parties LOL).

So ofc I gave up and just came daily regardless of shift to the disgust of the other one who actually crafted the rule. “Aye sir, I’m being called back in, can’t fight ur friend there u know”. Obv I didn’t say it this way but I delivered this message to them.

One day I came to the office after having a big gathering with a few colleagues the day before (the people in my WFH grp who didn’t need to report to the office obviously, and they don’t report directly to the boomer so there’s that) and one person from that group informed the office that she tested positive for COVID that morning. So there’s me who wasn’t supposed to be in office but became the harbinger of bad news that morning coz now we have a potential carrier (me) who’d have not been in office had the rule was followed. They literally sent me for some PCR testing the same day and the result came back positive within few hours. The news literally sent them into panic mode as my other colleagues in office that day informed me and I was told to not come back in office for at least 2 weeks (yea, told u so mofos). The guys who sat near me were also told to WFH without exception for a week and to test for COVID again before they are allowed to office.

The COVID itself hit me pretty hard and that was the first time in my life I coughed till my lower back actually hurt. But the satisfaction of knowing I instilled that fear in them was something I grin about to this date. That boomer actually got scared for once and finally shut up about the whole WFH thing. Since then the WFH rule was followed properly till COVID finally waned off itself but that was a fun memory.