There’s no shortage of stories about incompetent managers driving their skilled staff away with terrible ideas about how they should be doing their jobs, and this post recently shared on r/MaliciousCompliance is a perfect example. 

For those who want the TL;DR: basically, OP worked at a sales job where they had a fantastic manager who treated his staff like human beings and gave them the freedom to do their jobs in whatever way worked best for them. As long as everyone was hitting their targets, he was happy—and the staff wanted to do a great job because of that. Unfortunately, the cool boss left the company and of course his replacement was a total micromanaging yes-man for upper management. The new boss forced everyone to go into the office 5 days a week, where sales staff had to cold-call customers instead of building relationships in person. And on top of that, he messed up the workspace vibe with new assigned seating. After a few weeks of plummeting morale, new management held a meeting and essentially told the staff, «if you don’t like the new rules, you can hand in your resignation letter.» Well, all of the old staff who had been with the good manager maliciously complied, leaving the new team with half a staff and no way to hit their targets. 

Keep scrolling for the full story and to see how people reacted in the comment section.