Sometimes you have to maliciously comply to show what’s really going on. 

When a company lays out a policy, they might not immediately know the consequences of that policy. They’re only thinking about the bottom line, not the human toll. But the human toll is real. Sometimes workers end up feeling the brunt of the pain because their managers failed to think about how a top-line decision might affect them. That’s what happened here, in this story from the Malicious Compliance subreddit. When your employer asks you to track all your non-billable time, that’s a pretty big ask. It’s also an ask that is not necessarily built on trust. They’re probably asking you because they don’t fully trust that you’re using company time in the way that you should. So it makes sense that you might bristle at the task. The employee in this story certainly did, and they were going to make sure that their employer knew that.